Fall MASMI Advertising Challenge Winners Announced

By SU Public Relations

SALISBURY, MD---Making winning ad pitches for multinational companies like Perdue Farms takes practice. Just ask the competitors at this year’s Advertising Challenge, hosted by Salisbury University’s Mid-Atlantic Sales and Marketing Institute (MASMI).

The event included four contests: print and video advertising, audience choice print, and elevator pitches.
Din Djedovic of Parkville, MD, received $500 for his first-place finish in the print ad competition. Runners-up included Camila Esquivel-Goelkel of Montgomery Village, MD, in second place ($300), and Hailey Hall of Milford, DE, in third ($200).

Hall topped competitors in the elevator pitch session, adding $500 to her prize, and earned $100 for the print ad audience choice award. She was followed by Lauren Wunder of Westminster, MD, in second ($300), and Mark Chatkin of Westminster, MD, in third ($200).

Gwenyth Weeks of Ocean City, MD, earned the $500 video advertising first-place prize. Morgan Haupt of Hagerstown, MD, followed in second ($300) and Chatkin in third ($200).

This year’s product sponsor was Perdue Farms. Finalists were tasked with creating a print and video ad about the featured product, Sea Creature Chicken Nuggets, and pitching the same, to Perdue Farms CEO Kevin McAdams.

For more information about MASMI programs, visit the institute’s website.

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