Tampa Ad Agency Dunn&Co. Wins Best Of Show, Leads All Agencies at the 2023 4th District AAF ADDY Awards
AAF Florida and Caribbean district honors agency with 24 Awards.
TAMPA, Fla., May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Dunn&Co, a leading full-service advertising agency and production company, today announced that it won 24 total ADDYs at the AAF Fourth District 2023 ADDY® Awards, held Friday, May 12 in Orlando, FL. The American Advertising Federation Fourth District represents all of Florida and the Caribbean. This is the sixth time in the past eight years that Dunn&Co has been recognized with more awards than any other agency in the State of Florida or The Caribbean. Their awards haul includes the overall Best of Show award (the third year in a row that the agency was honored with this award) for their Meat Menu campaign for Smokey Bones restaurants. They also won two Charlie awards (Best of Category award) for the Meat Menu campaign, one in the Out-of-Home category and the other in the Cross-Platform category. Of its 24 awards, eight were awarded Gold in their respective categories.
The award-winning work was created for a variety of media, including TV broadcast, outdoor, online video, website, radio, digital and multimedia campaigns. The American Advertising Federation recognized the agency's work on behalf of clients Smokey Bones restaurants, the Tampa Bay Lightning, the island of Bonaire, and Lazy Mountain Brewery.
"We're delighted to have clients that allow us the freedom to explore unchartered territories," said Dunn&Co. President and CCO Troy Dunn. "This provides us with the confidence to reach for thinking that might usually be prohibited. We're extremely grateful for this recognition, and winning the Best of Show three years in a row, against the entire state of Florida and the Caribbean, is amazing. To my colleagues and clients, thank you for pushing us so that we might get this far."
The AAF ADDY Awards is the nation's largest advertising competition, with more than 60,000 entries annually. The ADDY Awards is the only creative awards program administered by the advertising industry, for the industry. The AAF 4th District comprises 21 local federations throughout Florida and the Caribbean.
Dunn&Co.'s winning pieces will now move on to compete on the national stage of the American Advertising Federation Awards, which will be held in St. Louis on Friday, June 2, 2023.
About Dunn&Co.
Dunn&Co. (http://www.dunn-co.com) is a full-service advertising and marketing communications firm whose US headquarters are housed in a century-old former cigar factory near Tampa's historic Ybor City. Dunn&Co. provides award-winning marketing and creative solutions for clients worldwide, including GE Healthcare, The Tampa Bay Lightning, Baxter Healthcare, Smokey Bones, Grow Financial, the State of Florida, Mellow Mushroom, Abbvie, Nextera, Sabal Trust, Checkers, and Lazy Mountain Brewing Co.
About the ADDYs
Attracting nearly 60,000 entries each year nationwide, the American Advertising Federation's (AAF) ADDY Awards have become the largest and most comprehensive advertising competition. The ADDY Awards originated in the 4th District in 1960 and became a three-tiered national competition in 1968.
Sponsored by the AAF, the awards honor excellence in advertising and cultivate the highest creative standards in the industry. Each year, the competition begins with contests in the nation's more than 200 AAF member clubs, where entries must be submitted and judged to be eligible for the ADDY process. Local winners proceed to 15 regional competitions, and those winners advance to the national finals.
Proceeds from the ADDY Awards program on all levels of competition go back into the industry through the work of the AAF and its members, especially in the areas of advertising education and public service advertising.
Media Contact
Bri Wagner, Dunn&Co, 1 813-350-7990, [email protected]
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