Awards

Berman and Company has received dozens of national awards for its creative and cutting edge work. In fact, our campaigns have been featured in 16 college textbooks as examples of compelling issue advocacy advertising.

  • 2010:
    • The American Inhouse Design Awards
      (Presented by Graphic Design Magazine)
      • Eleven Awards
    • 7 Pollie Awards
      (Presented by the American Association of Political Consultants)
      • Silver: Billboard
      • Silver: Best Use of Humor, Radio
      • Silver: Best Use of Humor, Television
      • Bronze: National Public Affairs, Radio
      • Bronze: Best Use of Humor, Radio
      • Honorable Mention: Best Use of Humor, Television
      • Honorable Mention: Best Use of Personality/Celebrity, Television
    • Aegis Awards
      • Four awards for issue advocacy television commercials
  • 2009:
    • 15 Pollie Awards
      • Including:
      • Gold, Silver, and Bronze: Best Use Of Humor in a Public Affairs Campaign
      • Silver: Print Ad
      • Silver: Best Use of Humor, Radio
      • Silver: Best Use of Humor, Television
      • Silver: Best of Bilingual Television
      • Silver: Best Use of Personality
      • Bronze: Best Use of Humor, Television
      • Bronze: Radio Ad in a Public Affairs Campaign
      • Bronze: Full Page Newspaper
    • Aegis Awards
      • Three awards for issue advocacy television commercials
  • 2008:
    • Bulldog Public Relations Awards
      (Presented by the Bulldog Reporter)
      • Gold award in the Crisis Communication category
      • Silver award in the Issue/Cause Advocacy category
      • Bronze award in the Crisis Communication category
    • Pollie Awards
      • Gold: Magazine Ad
      • Gold: State and Local Negative Television Commercial
      • Silver: Billboard
      • Silver: Bus Ads
      • Silver: Magazine Ad
      • Silver: Website
      • Bronze: Magazine Ad
      • Bronze: Television Commercial (National Issue Advocacy)
      • Honorable Mention: Radio Ad (Humor)
  • 2007:
    • The American Inhouse Design Awards
      (Presented by Graphic Design Magazine)
      • Seven Awards
    • Bulldog Public Relations Awards
      (Presented by the Bulldog Reporter)
      • Gold award in the Research Measurement category
      • Bronze award in the Research Measurement category
    • Aegis Awards
      • Four Awards for Issue Advocacy Commercials
  • 2006:
    • Pollie Awards
      • Silver: Issue Advocacy Website
      • Silver: Television Commercial (Humor)
      • HM: Television Commercial (Humor)
      • HM: Television Commercial (PSA)
  • 2005:
    • Bulldog Public Relations Awards – All for “BMI Body Mass Index or Bull Malarkey Index”
      • Overall Grand Prize (the highest award given in this competition)
      • Gold award in the Crisis Communications category
      • Gold award in the Issue/Cause Advocacy category
      • Silver in the Personality/Celebrity category
    • Mercury Professional Communication Awards
      (Sponsored by MerComm)
      • Silver (second) Award for Identity Redesign – ABI logo redesign
    • Telly Awards (Commercials)
      • Bronze Award – Salad Line
    • Astrid Award
      (Sponsored by MerComm)
      • Bronze Winner for Design Excellence – Obesity Lawyers Campaign
      • Bronze Winner for Design Excellence – EPIonline.org
    • Addy Award
      (Presented by the American Advertising Federation)
  • 2002-2004:
    • Bulldog Public Relations Awards
      • Gold award in the Crisis Communications category
    • Pollie Awards
      • 1st Place Billboard/Outdoor Ad
      • 1st Place Magazine Ad
      • 1st Place Television Commercial
      • 1st Place for Best Use of the Internet
      • 3rd Place for Newspaper Ad
    • Telly Awards (Commercials)
      • 4 Bronze Awards




  • The Bulldog Awards are a distinguished honor in the public relations industry, judged annually by a blue-ribbon panel of journalists and PR professionals.

    The Pollie Awards recognize outstanding creativity in advertising, awarded by the American Association of Political Consultants, a bipartisan organization of political professionals from the local level to the White House.

    The American Inhouse Design Awards honor in-house design excellence, and recognizes in-house designers within corporations, media companies, nonprofits, educational, and government institutions.

    The Aegis Awards are the video industry’s premier competition for peer recognition of outstanding video productions and non-network TV commercials. Berman and Company earned four awards in 2007 for commercials covering economic education, traffic safety, labor union radicals and union organizing.

    Telly Awards, founded in 1978, are the premier awards honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions. Berman and Company received four awards in 2003-2004 for issues on food bans, litigation, and responsible alcohol consumption.