The Richmond Show

The Richmond Show brings together creatives from Richmond and surrounding areas to celebrate their exceptional talent and hard work.

Creative professionals and students are encouraged to submit work for judging in the Advertising Show, the Interactive Show, the Design Show,  the Production Show, and Student Show. We also take this time to recognize outstanding individuals and award them with the Women In Advertising, Creative Excellence, and Ad Person Of The Year awards.

Quick Facts

Richmond Show Stats

210+

submissions in 2023

60

Bridges awarded in 2022

30+

agencies, nonprofits, professionals and students entered work

250

attendees in 2023

Winners Gallery

Take a look at some of the award-winning work from past shows.

Judges

The Richmond Show judges are intellectually diverse leaders with renown across the impact industry. The judges expertise spans across issue areas such as LGBTQ advocacy, racial equity, climate justice, mental health, gun control and so much more.

Adam Cote

Freelance Creative Director
Adam Cote is a creative director, writer, video director and editor with over 15 years of experience at places like Arnold Worldwide, MullenLowe and Sapient. After starting his own creative studio, he’s created traditional, video and experiential work for brands like Visa, Boston Dynamics, BMW, Marriott, and Coca-Cola. His work has been recognized by D&AD, New York Festivals, Cannes Lions and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

John Carlson

NiRey Reynolds

Director of Creative Impact, North America at McCann
As Director of Creative Impact, North America at McCann I work along with the Co-Chief Creative Officers of both North America and New York primarily supporting the creative department by organizing and nurturing creative ideas. I am also the liaison for awards and creative industry initiatives. As a personal advocate for these initiatives, I am a Senior Producer for D&AD Shift with Google. An industry-led night school program for new creatives. Shift creates an accessible space for self-made talent to learn from and connect with the industry, establish a network and find job opportunities. Prior to these roles, I was the Education Manager at The One Club for Creativity, the world’s foremost non-profit organization recognizing creative excellence in advertising and design, producing The Young Ones Student Awards, and heading the Education department. Born and raised in New York City, I attained a Bachelor's degree from Loyola University New Orleans before returning to New York to earn a Master's degree in Branding and Integrated Communications at City College.

Lap Le

Lead Designer at Media.Monks
Lap Le is based in Los Angeles, CA. He currently is a lead designer at Media.Monks and teaches in the graduate program at Otis College of Art and Design. Previously he has worked for Virginia Commonwealth University, Nickelodeon, Syfy, and Wow Huh.

Sponsor

Interested in sponsoring the Richmond Show? Talk to us about the opportunities.

Half Page Sponsor

Spang TV

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Quarter Page Sponsor

Arts and Letters Creative Co

Arts & Letters Creative Co. is an independent creative company working in advertising and technology with clients such as Dicks’s Sporting Goods, Google, ESPN, NBC News, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Zola and more. Founded in 2017, the creative company approaches problems with both the agility and speed of the most successful tech companies combined with the creative and strategic rigor of the best advertising agencies. Arts & Letters has been recognized as a “Standout” on Advertising Age’s A-list in 2023, one of Outside’s “Best Places to Work” three years in a row, and Adweek’s “Fastest Growing Agencies.” For more information, please visit www.artsandletters.xyz.
Quarter Page Sponsor

Wildfire

Wildfire is a full service agency that specializes in providing big agency ideas and results delivered at the speed of culture and change. Wildfire is a skilled team of strategists, writers, designers, developers, and problem solvers. Together, we are a community of thinkers and doers united by the drive to leave it better than we found it. Whatever we find “it” may be. We solve cross-discipline challenges, ensuring that our work will grow your business while we lower your blood pressure.
Cocktail Sponsor

Fable Branding

Fable is a full-service branding agency providing strategy, design, advertising, and digital services to clients in virtually every category.
Cocktail Sponsor

RVA Happy Hours

RVA Happy Hours is Richmond, VA's #1 guide to happy hour. Since launching in August 2019, we've connected hundreds of thousands of people looking for happy hours and other food and drinks specials with businesses in the greater-Richmond area through our happy hour directory, social media, and blog.
Cocktail Sponsor

Tagline Distillery

Refine Your Brand. The Tagline Distillery serves up one intoxicating brand essence at a time. No mixers. No ice. No olives. You'll get the pure, refined distillation of who you are and what your benefit is to others. Neat.
Cocktail Sponsor

The King Agency

We’re The King Agency, a seasoned advertising agency based in Richmond, Virginia, with offices in Atlanta and Virginia Beach. For 25+ years, we’ve been helping businesses turn their companies into brands. We’re a team with big-name experience and little room for ego. We’re made up of people just like you. Dog people, cat people, night owls and early birds. We’re strategists, media experts, social butterflies, artists and writers, good friends and generally nice folks to be around. We’re Your People. At the end of the day what we all have in common is professionalism, hard-work ethic and a commitment to building brands through smart advertising.
Exit Table and In-Kind Furniture Sponsor

LaDiff

LaDIFF is Richmond, Virginia's premier furniture store offering a wide selection of modern furniture for living, dining, bedroom, outdoor, & more!
Exit Table Sponsor

SBDigital

Founded in 2013, SBDigital is a full-service progressive political strategy and advertising firm. We provide our clients with the creative edge needed to win tough campaigns and provide them with the highest level of service and attention, making high-quality digital advertising accessible to campaigns both up and down the ballot. Our full-service advertising team are experts in digital advertising, targeted email, list building, website design, social media management, and email fundraising. Our principals have proven track records winning tough races and helping campaigns develop and deliver consistent and compelling messages rooted in real values and real people.
In-Kind Production Sponsor

BES Studios

BES Studios is one the region's top award-winning Film, Broadcast, and Commercial video production companies. Boasting a 3,500 square-foot broadcast studio with cyc wall, a team of visionary and dedicated producers and directors, award-winning cinematographers and crew, and imaginative editors, animators, and audio recording engineers, BES has a tradition of producing outstanding, award-winning commercials and films.
In-Kind Photography Sponsor

On Three Photography

On Three Photography, a lifestyle, event, and product photography business, is co-owned by first generation Americans Wing Ong and Kegham Hovsepian. Wing is first generation Vietnamese American and Kegham is first generation Armenian Palestinian American. Both have traveled and photographed countries throughout Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. It’s their diverse experiences and open perspectives that helps them achieve their goal of capturing the culture of brands and individuals and telling their story through impactful imagery.
In-Kind Voiceover Sponsor

Paul Schmidt Voiceover

Paul Schmidt is a voice actor and VO business coach based here in Richmond. His experience includes clients like Apple+, Daltile, Cisco, Yahoo, Anthem, The Ad Council, EY, GE Appliances, Lenovo, Delta Airlines, Mondelēz, Paychex, Merck, Deloitte, McKesson, and hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses. He can be heard in national, regional, and local commercials, Hollywood feature films, corporate and branded content, explainer videos, e-learning and corporate training, medical narration, and more. For more information and demos, check out paulschmidtvo.com.
In-Kind Printing

Richmond Printing Service

As a full service printing company, Richmond Printing can handle any printing task, as well as bindery, trade show displays, and variable data printing.
In-Kind Decor

Sonder Event Co

Romanticize the every day, celebrate the big ones. For the madly in love couple and creative business. The Richmond Wedding Planner.

Past Shows

Reminisce on past Richmond Show themes and winners.