Advertising Students Collect Ad Awards

Winners Move on to Regional Competition

Every year, VCU’s undergraduate advertising students enter their work into top creative advertising competitions. The students have been garnering increasingly more recognition in recent years, receiving acknowledgment from some of the top student competitions.

This semester alone, students have won a total of 17 Addy Awards, including Best of Show and four Gold and 12 Silver awards. The work originated as a class assignment in Assistant Professor Bridget Camden’s senior-level classes.

Next, the award-winning students will compete against the local winners of the American Advertising Federation District 3 ADDY winners from Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. All entries that receive gold and silver ADDY awards on the district level compete for national recognition, the third and final tier.

Previously, VCU’s advertising students have also been recognized by the New York One Show, the annual Richmond Show and in publications such as CMYK magazine, the top trend-setting advertising publication in the country.