ANDY Awards
The ANDYs Go To Bangkok
The ANDYs Judging has always been an intimate experience for global creative leaders on the Jury, staff, AD Club Board Members and Partners. We strive to create a unique environment that fosters thoughtful discussion and ensures full immersion into the work entered into the show. It is well known that the Jury has a long…
Read MoreGreat ideas are killed every day. The 2017 ANDY jury will stop at nothing to save them.
Lawyers? Focus groups? Last minute client feedback? If you’ve ever had an idea die an unnecessary death, the 2017 ANDY Awards call for entries is a must watch. The humorous, animated campaign, out of Deutsch’s New York office, mocks the stereotypical PSA-style campaign with an industry twist; because while we support fighting to save the…
Read MoreBravery isn’t an extraordinary feat; it is doing the right thing.
Latest Redefining Bravery hits home on the importance of social justice in media. The first person to cross the Brooklyn Bridge was the woman responsible for building it. Emily Warren Roebling, the first woman engineer helped connect Manhattan to Brooklyn in 1883, just a few short years before the ADVERTISING Club of New York was…
Read MoreFormer AKQA Execs Rei Inamoto and Rem Reynolds Open Business Invention Studio
Just a little over a week after they departed from AKQA, the agency’s former Worldwide Chief Creative Officer Rei Inamoto and New York Managing Director Rem Reynolds have partnered to open a yet-to-be-named “business invention” studio. The company will be independent and will focus on design, technology and digital transformation, said Mr. Inamoto. So far,…
Read MoreBravery is Good Business.
Our Redefining Series brings inspirational content, a shared experience through personal stories, and empowers the industry to believe in brave ideas. These personal stories let us peek into the industry’s most respected creatives and marketers to what inspires them, what moves them, and what propels them to show up and do the important, innovative and…
Read MoreWin the GRANDY, Win Them All!
This tagline was first coined by Mark Waites of Mother, London while he was serving as Chair of the International ANDY Awards Jury a few years back. We had long advised our entrants to test work in our show, since we’re the first out of the gate, but he took it a step further taking…
Read MoreY&R Staff Worldwide Make McWhoppers in Adorable Video Celebrating Major Ad Award Win
Originally Posted on Adweek. By Tim Nudd Y&R New Zealand’s celebrated McWhopper campaign took home the highest honor, the Grandy, at the 52nd annual International Andy Awards on Tuesday night. And Y&R staffers from around the globe celebrated in a fun (if not very healthy) way—by making their own handmade McWhoppers, as seen in the…
Read MoreThe Age of Advertising Creativity in a Time of Disruption
By Charlene Weisler Originally Posted on MediaVillage. We are entering the age of advertising creativity and while it may feel disruptive and challenging, it is also exciting and inspiring. That was the message yesterday from the Ad Club’s Media:Now conference. As with other parts of the media industry, agencies are experiencing transformative change. It is…
Read MorePulling back the curtain on the Andys judging
By Gina Grillo Originally Posted on Campaign US. The president and chief executive of The Advertising Club of New York gives a behind-the-scenes look at the judging process of the 2016 International Andy Awards The International Andy Awards jury recently embarked on its annual weeklong journey to determine the bravest, best work our industry has…
Read MoreANDY Awards judging: Malcolm Poynton enters the arena in Seville with the world's top creatives
Originally Posted on Campaign Brief. Malcolm Poynton, Cheil’s Kiwi expat global chief creative officer, gives CB an exclusive review of the ANDY Awards judging, held last week in Seville, Spain. Seville, Spain, Home to Plaza de toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballeria de Sevilla, the world’s greatest bull fighting ring. And home to the…
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