Kansas City Ad Club Awards Delivered

Over 800 Advertising professionals filled the Bartle Hall Ballroom last Saturday for this year’s Addy Awards.  A total of 112 first-place gold awards were handed out by the Kansas City Ad Club.  Represented in the ballroom were twenty-three area agencies and businesses that had hoped of of walking away with an award.

• Landing the most first-place awards was Barkley, with 23 gold awards, as well as Best of TV and Best of Radio, both for producing ads for Sonic.

• Meers Advertising took home Best of Show and Best of Print awards, both for its client Wink, as well as 15 gold Addy awards.

• Bernstein-Rein won 13 gold awards, while VML took home Best of Interactive in addition to 12 gold awards.

• RushWade2 won 11 first-place awards, followed by Muller + Co. with seven gold and Creative Consumer Concepts with six.

• Blacktop Creative received five first-place Addy awards, followed by 1Blood Creative with three.

• Winning two gold awards each were Sullivan Higdon and Sink, Two West and Willoughby Design Group.

Who said advertising isn’t growing in the Midwest?  Congratulations to all of the recipients and applause goes to the Kansas City Ad Club for such a superb and glamorous evening.  ( I didn’t make it, but I saw the pictures)