American Advertising Awards

Celebrating creative excellence, this is the industry’s largest contest.

2027 entry details coming soon

Please read the rules and follow all instructions carefully:

Submitting is easy. Just follow the prompts, upload your work, and arrange payment. When you're done, email your manifest to us.

A few tips:

Eligibility: Before submitting, double-check the rules to confirm that you and your work meet the contest's eligiblity requirements.
Categories: Be sure to select the correct category. For example, in the Professional division, a Magazine Advertising Campaign should be entered in cateogry 012C, but a Newspaper Advertising Campaign should be entered in category 013D. See the rule PDF for a full list of categories.
Digital assets: All work is submitted digitally. No hard copies are required. Some categories may request or require multiple files. Follow all instructions carefully!
Desktop vs mobile: The submissions portal may be easier to navigate on desktop (not mobile).

Our rockstar judges rate all submissions on a standard 100-point scale. To maximize impartiality, the judges are all from outside of our market, and judge's view the assets without seeing the entrant's info.

Based on the scores, the judges award:

Best of Show (for the top creative of the night!)
Gold ADDYs (to the top ~10% of entrants)
Silver ADDYs (to the next ~12% of entrants)
Judge's Choice (1 from each judge)

Everyone's a VIP at our awards gala.

Save the date for March 4, 2027, where we're turning up the volume on the commercials to celebrate winning work.

This special local judge's choice award honors work that best exemplifies a spirit of diversity and inclusion. If you're already entering the show, there's no extra application necessary: All work submitted in ANY category automatically competes for the Mosaic addy, too. So if you have work that demonstrates an understanding of and sensitivity to the needs of a diverse audience, submit to the American Advertising Awards today.

Congrats to the 2026 Winners

Congratulations to our 2026 ADDY winners in the Local, District, and National rounds of the American Advertising Awards:

Local Round

Congratulations to all the winners of our 2026 Local contest, who were selected from nearly 200 fantastic submissions!

Brokaw Inc. wowed our judges with their work for Lakeview Cemetery.

See the full list of Local winners here.

District Round

Our Local winners advanced to the 2026 District round, where several Cleveland competitors earned regional recognition:

Best of Show ADDY

Brokaw Inc. “Post-Post Retirement Campaign” for Lakeview Cemetery

Gold ADDY

Brokaw Inc. “Post-Post Retirement Campaign” for Lakeview Cemetery
Brokaw Inc. “Humans Over Human Trafficking” for The Collaborative to End Human Trafficking
Fizz Creative "Mugsy Packaging" for Mugsy Bakes
Flexjet "Chairman's Club Invitation" for Flexjet
MarcusThomasLLC, "What the Puff Campaign" for BUILT

Silver ADDY

Ninety6 "Dr. Rick Therapy" for Progressive Insurance

National Round

Winners of the District round advanced to the National round, where Cleveland's Brokaw Inc. was honored among the very best of the best in the nation:

Brokaw Inc.

Congratulations to Brokaw Inc. on winning a National Gold ADDY in the category of Integrated Advertising Campaign - Local - Consumer for “Post-Post Retirement Campaign” for Lakeview Cemetery

Check out Brokaw's winning work here

Photos by Rustin McCann