At the Utah ADDY Awards (AAF) last week, the BYU AdLab won the Student Best of Show, a Judge’s Choice award, and 20 ADDYs – 8 Gold and 12 Silver, representing a mix of senior and junior comms students. These awards represent a lot of hard work from our students. As a side note, we saw many of our former

From One Club: “Young Ones has gathered top talent, from rising stars to established executives, from around the world to judge our 2024 Young Ones Student Awards. Our jurors will review thousands of entries from hopeful students and recent graduates to determine who deserves to be recognized as a Young Ones Student Award Winner across our four competitions– ADC, One

BYU Advertising Students Gabe Bori and Eli Wright have been selected as AAF Most Promising Multicultural Students for the class of 2024. The 50 selected students will participate in a four-day industry immersion program in New York on February 4-9, 2024. The program will include professional development and personal branding workshops, the “Building Bridges for Our Future” Awards Ceremony and Luncheon,

Comms advertising students, via the BYU AdLab, have once again secured all three finalist nominations for the Student Emmy in TV Commercial/PSA.  Incredibly, all three of the nominated projects were directed by the same advertising student, Remington Butler.  Congratulations to our advertising students and their mentors on this excellent achievement! See the TV spots here: LYFT – We Don’t Judge, We Drive IMAX

Professor Jeff Sheets has been invited to serve on the 2024 Clio Awards Student Jury. Clios is one of the most prestigious international advertising awards shows. Clio’s mission is to: celebrate bold work that propels the advertising industry forward, inspire a competitive marketplace of ideas, and foster meaningful connections within the creative community.

Advertising students Destinee Neville and Adam Sheets have been named finalists in the 2023 Coca-Cola Refreshing films competition placing them in the top four of almost 1000 entries nationwide from 60 Coca-Cola partner universities. Their commercial script for Coca-Cola was selected for consideration to be aired nationwide as an ad during the trailers at Movie Theaters across the country. They

Advertising strategy track students had the opportunity to take part in a New York experiential trip in mid-October.

The One Club’s Global College Rankings highlights the top ten advertising & design schools of 2023 and has ranked BYU in the #2 spot. Jeff Sheets and recent graduates Annabelle Peterson and Gwynie Bahr were interviewed by the One Club. Check out the interview here.

Recent Adlab graduates Taylor Ballard, Tanner Jackson, Morgan Capener, and John Starkweather have a winning entry in the CommArts 2023 competition, earning them a spot in the 2023 CommArts Advertising Annual (not yet published for 2023). Their winning entry, the NBA All-Star project for the Utah Jazz that was featured on NBA.com, can be seen HERE. Several other Adlab students also