Accolades from the biggest and brightest.

These glamorous awards are tough to get. MDS is competing in 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 is what makes these awards so cool to win.

In the last couple of years, MDS Advertising won 37 awards in these prestigious national and international advertising contests, garnering nine Hermes awards, which included four platinum wins. We are proud of all these awards, but prouder still of the results the award-winning work has produced for our clients. We highlight some of our winning creative below.

Latest MDS Win

2010 Gold Pixie Award

Excellence in Motion Graphics
"Helmets to Hardhats Online Interactive Media"
Client: Iron Workers Union

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, 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.

Bronze Summit
3 Landing Pages
"Recruitment Campaign"
Client: Iron Workers Union

Gold Summit
Best Idea Never Produced
"Billboard Campaign"
Client: FrickinFood.com

Silver Summit
4/Color Consumer Product/Service Brochure
"Coco Bay Estates Brochure"
Client: CR Development Group

Gold Summit
Radio spot
"Mosquito Buffet"
Client: Mosquito TEK

Silver Summit
Radio - Best use of humor
"Mosquito Buffet"
Client: Mosquito TEK

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

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

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

The Pixie Awards

Honoring outstanding creativity in motion graphics, effects and animation.

The world of moving pixels has been magically transformed in just a few short years by highly innovative software and the people who create “pixel magic.” The Pixie Awards honors outstanding work in the fastest-growing area of the moving pixels industry, including Motion Graphics, Effects and Animation.

The Pixie Awards is sponsored by the American Pixel Academy, a coalition of professionals and educators in the pixel media. David E. Carter, Executive Director of the academy, is also the founder of the Telly® Awards and American Corporate Identity, and edited the Creativity Annual. Judging is done by professionals who have excelled in the moving pixel fields of animation, motion graphics and effects.

Gold Pixie
Excellence in Motion Graphics
"Helmets to Hardhats Online Interactive Media"
Client: Iron Workers Union

The Hermes Creative Awards

This international competition for creative professionals focuses on the concept, writing and design of traditional materials and programs as well as emerging technologies. Hermes Creative Awards recognize outstanding work in the industry while promoting the philanthropic nature of marketing and communication professionals.

Judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.

The prestigious Hermes Platinum Award goes to those entries deemed to be among the most outstanding entries in the competition. Platinum awards recognize the highest level of excellence in terms of quality, creativity and resourcefulness.

Platinum Hermes Award
Annual Report
2006 Annual Report
Client: UTIMCO

Platinum Hermes Award
Brochure
Coco Bay Estates Brochure
Client: CR Development Group

Platinum Hermes Award
Photography/Other
Coco Bay Estates Brochure
Client: CR Development Group

Platinum Hermes Award
Magazine Ad
Company launch double-spread
Client: Realty Austin

Gold Hermes Award
Video/Sales
Coco Bay Estates Sales Promotion
Client: CR Development Group

Gold Hermes Award
TV Spot
"The Smile Expert" 30 sec. spot
Client: Dr. Jack Siegrist

Gold Award
Radio Spot
"Mosquito Buffet" 30 sec. radio
Client: Mosquito TEK

Honorable Mention
Website overall
Coco Bay Estates website
Client: CR Development Group

Honorable Mention
Writing/News Release
"MDS Transforms Client's Message"
Client: Montecito Property Co.

The Telly Awards

This global competition honors the very best 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 standards 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.

Bronze Telly Award
Sales Promotion
Coco Bay Estates Sales Promotion
MPC Corporate Video DVD
Client: CR Development Group

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bronze Telly Award
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
Direct Mail to Customer
“Save Yourself from the Beast”
Client: Revenue Cycle Inc.

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

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

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

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

Silver Davey Award
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 of 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 second, 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
Packaging Campaign
Client: CHOMP! Cookies

Silver Addy
Packaging Campaign
Client: CHOMP! Cookies

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