It’s time to come together, share our ingenious creations, and explore the World of Tomorrow. Join us on February 15, 2025, to celebrate the best of creative brilliance and get hyped for what tomorrow has in store for us, World’s Fair style!

The American Advertising Awards Competition is the advertising industry’s largest and most prestigious competition, attracting over 40,000 entries in local American Advertising Federation (AAF) club competitions. Our local AAF club, known as AAF Oklahoma, hosts the first of a three-tier, national competition that honors the outstanding contributions of advertising practitioners.

Winners move on to the district level, then the national level for the opportunity to elevate your agency as one of the best in the nation.

AAF Oklahoma’s tradition of service to the advertising industry and to the community continues as its members endeavor to reach new heights through education, advocacy, and professional opportunities. Averaging more than a thousand entries and representing dozens of agencies from the OKC, Tulsa, and Wichita Falls, TX area, the American Advertising Awards competition has achieved status as a “must-attend” industry event.

We invite all professionals and students in Oklahoma and Wichita Falls, TX to participate in the 2025 American Advertising Awards.

The deadline to submit entries is Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.!

Judging for all Professional Entries will be conducted in-person but all professional entries still only need to be sent virtually. No physical drop-offs will be accepted for Professional Entries.

If you need to check the status of your AAF Oklahoma membership, please contact Michele at info.okcadclub.com. To learn how to become a member, click here.

Be sure to check out our new Local Only category, Trailblazers, that’s unique to this competition.

Gold winners will automatically move on to the AAF District competition and AAF Oklahoma covers the entry fee. Silver winners may choose to enter the District competition if the entrant pays the district entry fee by 12:00 p.m. on March 14, 2025.

Questions? Email: okcaddyawards@gmail.com.

Entries must be submitted digitally.

All ADDY winners are asked to physically drop off entries at Candor, in OKC by February 13, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. to be featured in the student art show at the gala.

Size: one 11×17 or 12×18 poster print or board per entry

Label: Name of artwork; student name

Student Drop-Off Address:

Candor

729 W Sheridan Ave,
Oklahoma City, OK 73102
M-F | 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

AAF Oklahoma covers the cost to forward all student Gold-winning entries to the district competition. Students may advance their Silver winning entries to the District competition for an entry fee payable by the student by 7 p.m. CT on March 14, 2025.

If you have any questions or comments please email okcaddyawards@gmail.com.

Don’t miss out on the event of the year! See below for table and ticket options.

Contact Scott Munz for table reservations by February 12, 2025.

• 405-948-6737 / SMunz@okstatefair.com

Gala Table Reservations + Gala Individual Tickets

• Early bird prices: Reserve anytime between September 11 – January 29
• Full prices: Effective between January 29 – February 12

AAF Oklahoma unites Oklahoma’s advertising, marketing, PR agencies, in-house marketing departments and freelancers.

The club also invests in students and young professionals through scholarships.

• Three $2,000 scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students through the JAC Awards.
• One $2,000 Jeanie Ruedy Commercial Art/Graphic Design Scholarship to one undergraduate student majoring or minoring in advertising, commercial art, or graphic design.

Our exclusive sponsorship packages offer considerable publicity and reach for organizations seeking to connect with Oklahoma’s top advertising influencers. Show your love for AAF Oklahoma by supporting the 2025 American Advertising Awards gala.

Sponsorship Packet: Coming Soon

AAF Oklahoma will host the People’s Choice competition during the 2025 Gala.

An out-of-region panel of judges will select five nominees. Each gala attendee will receive a complimentary voting ticket, with additional votes available for $10 each. The winner will be announced at the conclusion of the gala.

Entries for AAF Oklahoma’s Local Only category, Trailblazers, can be in any media format, regardless of whether or not the work was published. Here’s your chance to unarchive that design that your clients thought was “too much” or show off one of your clever and perfectly timed, yet non-business-related, GIFs that only got to shine in your team’s Slack channel.

Entries will be judged on a variety of factors that include one or more of the following:

• Breaks the design rules
• Visually captivating
• Unique combinations of fonts, colors, images

In this category, rules are meant to be broken!

*REMINDER* Local Only entries cannot advance to the district or national competitions. 

Orders and checks must be received by March 12, 2025. No order will be accepted after this date.

Duplicate medals and certificates will be available for pickup on March 12, 2025.