The BYU AdLab celebrated the Greatest Hits, Vol. 20 ( a nod to 2023 being our 20th year anniversary of the Lab), as we hosted our annual Sundance Recruiting Fair with over 30 recruiters from top ad agencies from across the country coming out to visit us in person at the Sundance Resort (our fist in-person recruiting vent since the

The BYU AdLab had some tremendous success at the One Club for Creativity’s 2022 Young Ones Competition. The School of communications was well represented winning 62 total awards over three competitions, The Young Ones ADC Awards, The Young Ones One Show, and the Young Ones Portfolio Award. 

The BYU AdLab took first place in District 12 for the AAF National Student Advertising Competition for their campaign for Meta Quest 2. The judges were very impressed and commented that team BYU kind of blew them away with how awesome the presentation was and they could put it in front of a client right now. 

BYU AdLab students, Madison Hill and Andrew Rhee were recognized as two of the top 50 Most Promising Multicultural Students in the country by the American Advertising Federation (AAF), and were hosted for a virtual NYC conference with mentoring, networking, workshops, agency visits, recruiting and an awards gala.

The BYU AdLab has received all three nominees in the Student Emmy for TV Commercial/PSA from the College Television Awards. This is a remarkable feat to sweep the nominees all from one program

Advertising Students in Jeff Sheets Comms 398R class were invited to compete in an International Advertising competition in South America, called La Pieza, sponsored by Universidad de Desarollo in Santiago, Chile. The briefs were set to tackle some of the world’s largest social issues and this year’s briefs dealt with: Inequity in childhood education, the global climate crisis, and digital addiction.

The School of Communications via the BYU AdLab just won an AICP Student Commercial Award! for Sparknotes – In Summary, Short. https://www.aicpawards.com/show/summarized  In addition, the BYU Adlab had seven other entires on the shortlist. Congrats to students: David Hulme, Naomi Winders, and Hayley Christensen!

Comm Arts Advertising Annual Shortlist https://www.commarts.com/content/files/competitions/Ad21Shortlist.pdf The shortlisted projects are: iRobot – Never Go Back EJI – Know Us Ford – Life’s Journey Nivea – The In-Between Carhartt – The Hands That Feed You