Online Entry
& Judging Portal
Don't have an account? Choose an entry category below to begin. Logged in users may also click these to submit additional entries.
Returning Entrants: click here to access your past submissions or select a category from above to make an additional entry.
Judging for the American Advertising Awards will be conducted online.
In some categories, entrants are allowed and/or required to upload additional digital examples of an entry. This is intended to provide more appropriate content for the judges.
Please carefully follow all online submission guidelines provided within the entry system, to ensure that your work is properly represented during all three tiers of the American Advertising Awards competition.
A night of legendary advertising, live and on stage:
The 2025 American Advertising Awards
🎸 Enter the American Advertising Awards
If you've ever been called a rockstar on LinkedIn, this is for you.
Never been called a rockstar? This could be your big break.
Submit your latest hits, and compete on stage for advertising greatness. It's the 2025 American Advertising Awards, and you won't want to miss it.
Enter now.
🎸 The submission process
We are accepting entries from November 08, 2024 through January 18, 2025 at 11:59 pm.
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).
🎸 Judging
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)
From the entire entry pool, the judges also select a winner of the Mosaic Addy, given to the submission in any category that best exemplifies a spirit of diversity and inclusion. Learn more about the Mosaic Addy.
🎸 The gala
Everyone's a VIP at our awards gala.
Save the date for February 27, 2025, where we're turning up the volume on the commercials to celebrate winning work at The Roxy at Mahall's!
🎸 Entry fees
If you are one of AAF-CLE's corporate members, contact Executive Director Amanda Terman to request your coupon code for special discounted entry fees.
Not a member yet? Join AAF-CLE now to get discounted entry fees, plus discounted gala tix and other benefits all year. Sign up on our website.
| Single | Campaign | |
| Member of AAF-CLE | $90 | $135 |
| Nonmember | $145 | $195 |
| Student | $25 | $25 |
