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

230+

submissions in 2022

60

Bridges awarded in 2022

30+

agencies, nonprofits, professionals and students entered work

270

attendees in 2022

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

Hey, Trend-Setter! You need to deliver cutting-edge commercials and content, but your creative vision is jeopardized by pesky budgets and looming deadlines. Pfew! It’s exhausting. But your creative is brilliant, and belongs with production nerds like us. We’re producers, directors, editors and midnight-oil burners too. At home or abroad, we’ll assemble a dream team of production pros and orchestrate all the moving parts, because your best ideas deserve our best people.
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

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.
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.

Past Shows

Reminisce on past Richmond Show themes and winners.