Advertising Award Winners

Contact

Debora Cheney
Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian, and, Head, Library Services to the World Campus/Penn State Online
814-863-1345

or Your Campus Librarian

Related Guides

Advertising

Advertising Media Plan

Finding Advertisements

Advertising: History and Archives

Websites

Clio Awards
- Worldwide competition in advertising, design and communication
- Clio Archive
  - Search previous award winners by:
    - Year (1960-present)
    - Medium
    - Advertising agency
    - Credit name
    - Advertiser/product/service
New York Festivals
- Creativity in advertising recognized internationally by peers
One Show
- Best work in print, radio, television, design, interactive, new media
Advertising Educational Foundation Advertising awards exhibits includes:
- 3AF Awards ("best and brightest” Asian American advertising)
- AME Awards (premiere marketing strategies that work - 2006)
- Effie Awards (recognizes ads contributing to a brand's success - 2007)
- Images in Advertising (best representation of LBGT community - 2007)
- Multicultural Excellence Awards (outstanding multicultural advertising campaigns)
- OBIE Awards (outdoor advertising’s greatest honor)
- Radio-Mercury Awards (rewards effective and creative radio commercials)
- The Good, Bad & Ugly Awards (bestows accolades on advertising representing women - 2007)
Coloribus Festivals & Awards Global advertising archive from AdMe Group, LLC
- Over 45 award/festival websites
American Advertising Federation Addy Awards
- Pittsburgh Addy Awards
  - Conducted by the Pittsburgh Advertising Federation
  - Recognizes creativity in all media areas
The Webby Awards
- Leading international award for internet excellence
- 1997-current

Books/Videos

Search the Penn State Library CAT, or LionSearch (searches Penn State CAT and selected databases)

Videorecordings related to Advertising Awards
Use the following search terms (by topic) in the CAT to find similar titles:
- Advertising awards
  - Clio awards (2001-2002, 2005-2007)
    - Features winners of this annual award
  - The New York Festivals: ... international advertising awards (1996, 1999, 2003-2006)
    - Awards for design and print advertising
  - Epica book: European advertising annual (1993, 1997-2003, 2009)
    - Creative achievement in Europe
  - Advertising works: papers from the IPA Advertising Effectiveness Awards, Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (2004-2008)
    - Awards financial effectiveness
    - Provides analysis of best selling campaigns
    - Includes CD-Rom with award winning advertisements
- Advertising campaigns
  - Print casebooks. Best in Advertising (1975-1978/79)
    - Showcases print and TV ads
  - The New Advertising: The Great Campaigns From Avis to Volkswagen, Robert Glatzer (1970)
    - Compilation of famous campaigns
    - 1949-1970
- Commercial art
  - Print's best logos & symbols 6: winning designs from Print magazine's national design competition, Caitlin Dover (2000)
    - Winning graphic designs
  - The One Show (1992, 1998-2002, 2005-2009)
    - Celebrates successful ad campaigns
    - Benchmark in advertising annuals
- Best Advertising
  - The 100 Best TV Commercials - And Why They Worked, Bernice Kanner (1999)
    - Celebrates most artistic, successful commercials
    - International representation
  - US Ad Review: the Best American Print Advertising (2008)
    - Highlights best in American print advertising
    - Only advertising reproduced in color included
- Additional titles of interest
  - Mad Ave: Award-winning Advertising of the 20th Century, Jackie Merri Meyer (2000)
    - Best representations from each era/decade of 20th century
  - The 100 Greatest Corporate and Industrial Ads, Fred C. Poppe (1983)
    - Outstanding corporate advertising

Databases

Communication & Mass Media Complete
- Comprehensive resource of scholarly journals and other periodicals related to communications and mass media, most containing full-text articles
- Good source of information on communication issues on a worldwide scale, from a variety of publishers, research institutions and information sources
- Directs users to location of full-text articles, or prompts for articles that can be obtained through Inter library loan
Business Source Premier
- Full text database of periodicals, trade publications and scholarly journals
- Covers all business disciplines
- Includes over 75 advertising trade publications and journal titles
Academic Search Complete
- Multi-disciplinary database with full-text periodicals, trade publications and peer-reviewed journals
- Includes monographs (books), reports, and conference proceedings
- Many articles in PDF format