Priority Marketing received a Gold Angel Award and Silver Angel Award for excellence in public service advertising from the American Advertising Federation (AAF), District 4, which includes Florida and all of the Caribbean.
The Fort Myers-based firm’s winning entries included advertising campaigns for Lee County Legal Aid Society and the Early Learning Coalition of Southwest Florida. Priority Marketing was the only Southwest Florida marketing firm to receive an award and among just nine firms in the district to receive multiple awards in the 2024 competition.
The AAF’s American Advertising Awards is the advertising industry’s largest and most representative competition in the U.S. Its mission is to recognize and reward the creative spirit of excellence in the art of advertising.
“Our aim is always to help clients reach their goals, but there is a little more satisfaction when delivering outstanding results to our nonprofit and charitable partners,” said Priority Marketing President and Chief Creative Office Teri Hansen, APR. “If a nonprofit’s events and campaigns are successful, that means our community will grow stronger as a result.”
The firm’s 2024 Angel Awards include:
Gold Angel Award
- Category: Public Health & Safety
- Client: Lee County Legal Aid Society
- Entry: Roadmap to Residency: Lee County Legal Aid Society Helps Youth Achieve Citizenship
- Goals: Increase visibility, public awareness, community support and participation in a new effort to assistant immigrant children and teens as they establish a pathway to legal citizenship.
Silver Angel Award
- Category: Organization or Cause Promotion
- Client: Early Learning Coalition of Southwest Florida
- Entry: Easy as 1, 2, 3: Early Learning Coalition’s Free Florida VPK Campaign
- Goals: Increase awareness of coalition’s services and the benefits of VPK, and to drive enrollment in the VPK program.
AAF’s District 4 is a network of professionals that represent all disciplines of advertising at all levels. The organization’s goal is to inspire, inform and educate advertising professionals, mentor advertising students, monitor legislative issues, recognize excellence, promote public service causes and help build the economy.
“The advertising industry in Florida and the Caribbean continually champions the charitable causes in our communities,” said AAF District 4 Governor Stephanie Herndon. “It is an honor to recognize and celebrate the agencies that use their talents to create artful and compelling campaigns to support these impactful initiatives.
