Our amazing creative students have won 14 ADDY Awards at the 2024 AAF District 10 competition. This is more awards than any other school in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana has won!
What’s even more impressive is that our students won as many awards as all the students from the University of Texas system, Texas A&M system, University of North Texas, Texas Tech University, and Texas Christian University put together!
The ADDY Awards are organized each year by the American Advertising Federation (AAF) and is the advertising industry’s largest and most representative competition. There are three tiers to the competition: local, district, and national. Each student who won Gold or Silver at the district level is now moving on to compete at the national level.
The winners of the national competition will be announced in early May and awards will be distributed at the AAF ADMERICA Conference in Salt Lake City later that month.
We’re so proud of our students and can’t wait to see how they do in the next round!
The full list of Student AAF District 10 Winners can be found here.
SMU AAF DISTRICT 10 ADDY WINNERS:
SPECIAL JUDGE’S AWARDS
Acorns (Special Judge’s Award in Copywriting) Maddie Otero & Morgan Martinez
Amtrak (Special Judge’s Award in Video) Timothy Chae and Blake Lyster
GOLD
Skout’s Honor Pet Odor Eliminator / Helena Hargraves
Truth Initiative / Spencer Hogan, Bella Mac and Allie Weinstein (Art Direction)
Truth Initiative / Spencer Hogan, Bella Mac and Allie Weinstein (Poster Campaign)
Amtrak / Timothy Chae and Blake Lyster
SILVER
Mountain House Camping Meals / Emma Clarke
Fender / Kailyn Sawhny and Helena Hargraves
Insomnia Cookies / Ross Yenerich
Seedlip / Callie Oden and Emma Clarke
FTND Pull Back From Porn / Tyler Chapman (Cinematography)
KILZ Primer / Spencer Hogan
Acorns / Maddie Otero & Morgan Martinez
HONORABLE MENTION
Venmo /Juan Silva & Kaitlyn Blan
FTND Pull Back from Porn (TV Advertising) / Tyler Chapman