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FROM THE PRESIDENT
On behalf of the American Advertising Federation of Toledo, I want to congratulate each one of the 2022 American Advertising Award winners and entrants! We are honored to recognize and showcase northwest Ohio’s creative talent in a variety of advertising, marketing, and public relations categories.
In mid-January, we received 121 professional and 20 student entries from agencies, businesses, and individuals throughout the Toledo area. Due to our virtual competition, we were able to invite judges from outside of our surrounding area to evaluate each entry. Thank you to Brenda Cortes, Producer at The Distillery Project located in Chicago, Illinois; Marshall Shorts, Principal Consultant at Artfluential located in Columbus, Ohio; and John Topacio, Group Copy Supervisor at Evoke Giant located in Seattle, Washington. We greatly appreciate the time they took evaluating each entry.
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Congratulations to Kim McBroom, Director of Sales and Marketing at Bionix, for taking home the most prestigious award of the evening, the 2022 Silver Medal Award. This award recognizes Kim’s outstanding contributions to the community while further advancing the industry’s standards, creative excellence, and responsibility in areas of social concern. Kim will join a remarkable group of Silver Medal Award winners that represent the Toledo creative and advertising community.
An additional congratulations goes out to our Mosaic Award winners: Tisha Mays, Mosaic Educator award
From the President
SALLY STEARNS
winner for the aMAYSing Kids Broadcasting Media & Membership Program; Glacity Theatre Collective, Madhouse, and Monty Cole, Mosaic Champion award winners for the Sons of Toledo film project; Michael Perdue, Multicultural Talent in Advertising Content Creation award winner for the LFTF Show, and Urban Sight, Mosaic Alternative Media Form winners for the Glass City River Wall.
Lastly, I want to thank our sponsors for this year’s event. These businesses included Show sponsors Hanson Inc. and MadAveGroup, Gold sponsor Madhouse, and Silver sponsors Thread Marketing Group and Level 2 Audio. H.O.T. Graphics did all the printing for the event and Ashley Vetter Design put together the remarkable creative. This year’s show wouldn’t have been possible without the support from all of you!
Speaking of support, I’d like to shout out students from Penta Career Center and instructor Russ Grycza, who took over producing the show this year. Corey Channell was exceptional in shooting and putting it all together with assistance from fellow classmates Carsyn Tussing, Olivia Willis and Em Brook, along with AAF Toledo board member Spencer LeGros.
The competition doesn’t end tonight! The Toledo American Advertising Awards are just the first phase of a three tier, national competition. All of this year’s Gold winning entries will compete in one of 15 district competitions. The District American Advertising Award winners will then move on to the third and final tier of the competition—the national American Advertising Awards! Good luck to all of the Gold award winners who will be moving on to the next phase!
