These glamorous awards are tough to get.

They are awarded by some of the world’s largest and arguably toughest advertising competitions. Entries come from all 50 states and numerous countries around the world. Agencies big, small and gigantic compete for award honors, facing hard core review by top level creatives drawn from the ad industry’s most influential and respected organizations. That’s what makes these awards so cool to win.

In total for 2006, MDS Advertising won 19 awards out of the 23 entries it submitted to these prestigious national and international advertising competitions—earning nine Tellys; two Summits; three Addy awards and with their most recent win, five Davey Awards.

The Telly Awards

This global competition honors the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, video and film productions; web commercials, videos and films.

Since 1978, the mission of the Telly Awards has been to strengthen the visual arts community by inspiring, promoting, and supporting creativity. The 27th Annual Telly Awards received over 13,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Telly Awards recognize the finest in creative work and winners include the most prestigious agencies, production companies, in-house creative departments and TV stations in the world.

Judges review entries against strict standard of excellence; entries do not compete against each other. Smaller companies and organizations and multinational companies vie for recognition under the same standards for the sleek Telly statuette, a trophy hand made by the same firm that produces the Oscar and the Emmy Awards. All Telly judges are past winners of the Silver Telly— the competition’s highest honor, and are top industry professionals who can expertly exercise the historical standards of the Telly competition.

The Telly is the largest and most prestigious award of its kind. It receives entries from all 50 states and 30 countries around the world –a truly global and diverse competition.

Silver Telly Award, 2006
Excellence in Film/Video
Sales
MPC Corporate Video DVD
Client: Montecito Property Co.

Bronze Telly Award, 2006
Excellence in Film/Video
Sales
Sales DVD - Biltmore
Client: Montecito Property Co.

Bronze Telly Award, 2006
Excellence in Film/Video
Corporate Branding
Client: Montecito Property Co.

Bronze Telly Award, 2006
Excellence in Film/Video
Multimedia
Sales DVD - Biltmore
Client: Montecito Property Co.

Bronze Telly Award, 2006
Excellence in Film/Video
Copywriting
Sales DVD - Biltmore
Client: Montecito Property Co.

Bronze Telly Award, 2006
Excellence in Film/Video
TV Spot/Editing
West Palm Beach :30 Spot
Client: Montecito Property Co.

Bronze Telly Award, 2006
Excellence in Film/Video
Internet Media/Real Estate
West Palm Beach Spot
Client: Montecito Property Co.

Bronze Telly Award, 2006
Excellence in Film/Video
Internet Media/Editing
West Palm Beach Spot
Client: Montecito Property Co.

Bronze Telly Award, 2006
Excellence in Film/Video
TV Spot/Real Estate
West Palm Beach
Client: Montecito Property Co.

The Davey Awards

Small firms. Big, beautiful ideas.

Big agencies don’t have a corner on great creative; in fact, some of the freshest, biggest and best creative comes out of small organizations. Honoring that creative is what the Davey Awards is all about.

The Davey Awards is an international competition for smaller firms and agencies; it recognizes high-level creative excellence in advertising, marketing, design, film/video/media, graphic design, and commercial art and photography. Silver, gold and best of show awards are given in six mediums in an annual competition that brings entries from smaller, elite creative groups across the world.

The Davey is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IACVA), an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a ‘Who’s Who’ of acclaimed media, advertising and marketing firms. IACVA members include execs from top companies such as Yahoo!, MTV,The Ellen Degeneres Show, HBO, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and Wired magazine.

Silver Davey Award, 2006
Corporate Identity, Logo
“Eat Shamelessly”
Client: CHOMP!

Silver Davey Award, 2006
Film & Video/ Corporate Image
“Corporate Pitch” Corp. DVD
Client: Montecito Property Co.

Silver Davey Award, 2006
Film & Video/ Sales
Biltmore Sales DVD
Client: Montecito Property Co.

Silver Davey Award, 2006
TV Commercials/ Real Estate
30 Sec. West Palm Beach DVD
Client: Montecito Property Co.

Silver Davey Award, 2006
TV Commercials/ Editing
60 Sec. West Palm Beach DVD
Client: Montecito Property Co.

The ADDY Awards

The ADDYs have been described as the world’s largest and arguably toughest advertising competition.

With over 60,000 entries annually from media of all types, creative by all sizes, and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world, this is the ad industry’s mega competition in the U.S. and abroad. The competitions move up through levels and face hard core review by creatives drawn from the ad industry’s largest professional organization, the American Advertising Federation.

The glamorous awards are tough to get; first because the ADDY competition is an industry judged competition; top pros from the ad world review and judge for absolute top creative, applying standards of premiere creativity and secondly, because entrants compete head to head despite their relative size, location and budget. Agencies big, small and gigantic compete for local, regional, national and international awards and the ADDY’s distinctive Gold, Silver, Bronze and International Addy trophies.

Bronze Addy - Regional, 2006
Packaging Campaign
Client: CHOMP! Cookies

Silver Addy, 2006
Packaging Campaign
Client: CHOMP! Cookies

Bronze Addy, 2006
4-Color Annual Report
"UTIMCO 2005 Annual Report"
Client: UTIMCO

The Summit Awards

Recognition for going beyond the expected.

The Summit Awards organization is committed to furthering excellence in the international communications industry. Its rigorous awards competitions are dedicated to recognizing companies and individuals whose work reaches past what is required. The competition draws high interest from creatives in a spectrum of countries from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, and Japan, North and South America and others.

The Summit organization has established itself as one of the leading arbiters of communication excellence. The Summit’s competitive awards program attracts top entries from companies and individuals from 50 countries on five continents in this truly global ad industry competition. Summit Award judges utilize rigorous evaluative criteria and blind judging processes designed to keep things anonymous in the interest of keeping creative excellence the sole standard of merit; its competitions seek to reward only those firms truly deserving of special recognition. These elegant and hard-earned trophies are tough to win. Of the 4,000+ entries submitted from around the world, the number of awards is strictly limited; fewer than 7% of all entries may earn either Bronze or Silver Summits; while 85 to 88% of all submitted entries receive no recognition. Only one gold award is give in each category and only when scoring qualifications are met; only five Best of show awards are made.

The Summit Awards organization conducts the Summit Creative Awards and the Summit Marketing Effectiveness Awards.

Silver Summit, 2006
Excellence in Film/Video
"Corporate Schmooze"
Client: Montecito Property Co.

Bronze Summit, 2006
4-Color Annual Report
"UTIMCO 2005 Annual Report"
Client: UTIMCO

Bronze Summit, 2006
Display/POP
"Door to Door Display"
Client: Mosquito TEK