Team Awards

The Ivy College of Business received second place in the website category at the AMA Iowa’s 2024 NOVA Awards. The selection is based on the strategy and execution of website development and design, app development, landing pages, and search engine optimization (SEO). The NOVA Awards honor ingenuity, creativity, and innovation in the marketing industry.

• We Are Ivy! – Ivy College of Business Website – new website.

Administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), the dotCOMM Awards is an international competition honoring excellence in web creativity and digital communication. Entries come from corporate communication departments, public relations firms, digital shops, advertising agencies, and freelancers —so the competition is high. The team won four awards and three honorable mentions.

Platinum:

• Faces of Ivy – video.

Gold:

• We Are Ivy! – Ivy College of Business Website – new website.
• Congratulations to our Amazing Graduates! – video, event.
• Be a Force for Success – Earn Your Graduate Degree at the Ivy College of Business – video, creativity, original music.

Honorable mentions:

• College Students Answer Business Trivia! – video, short form.
• Cultivating Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs – The 2023 CYstarters Program – video, YouTube.
• Get Involved | Join a Student Org! – video, motion graphics.

The college earned a silver award in the website category for the 2024 University and College Designers Association Awards. Judges evaluated 950 entries, awarding a total of 220 awards: 25 gold awards, 63 silver awards, and 132 awards of excellence.

• We Are Ivy! – Ivy College of Business Website – new website.

The college received four awards in the annual Hermes Creative Awards competition, an international competition for creative professionals. The team also received one honorable mention.

Platinum:

• Fall 2023 Ivy Magazine publications/magazine.
• Fall 2023 Ivy Magazine – writing/publication overall.

The Gold Award is presented to those entries judged to exceed the high standards of the industry norm. Approximately 22 percent of entries were honored with a Gold Award.

Gold:

• Christopher Sayon feature article – Fall 2023 Ivy Magazine – writing/publication article.
• Faces of Ivy – digital advertising, video ad, or pre-roll.

Honorable mention:

• Undergraduate Student Services wayfinding sign – advertising/other.

The college received three awards in the 2023 annual Hermes Creative Awards competition, an international competition for creative professionals. The team also received two honorable mentions.

Platinum:

• Fall 2021 Ivy Magazine – publications/magazine.
• Graduate Programs Viewbook – publications.

Gold:

• Ivy at Dusk – photograph.

Honorable mention:

• We Are Ivy – video.
• Reach New Heights – digital marketing campaign.

The Viddy Awards is an international competition honoring video excellence in the digital world. It is administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP). Two videos produced by the Ivy College of Business received national recognition in the 2023 competition. There were more than 2,500 entries from the United States, Canada, and 22 other countries.

Platinum:

• We Are Ivy – video.

Gold:

• Faces of Ivy – video.

The Ivy College of Business received two awards at the AMA Iowa’s 2022 NOVA Awards, including the honor of being named Marketing Department of the Year.

• Marketing Department of the Year – The award application outlined recent goals, which included marketing efforts that led to the Ivy MBA being voted Best MBA Program in Des Moines for the second year in a row, the full-time program being ranked #47 in the nation, and the launching of the “We Are Ivy” brand campaign, among others.
• Making a Name for Myself in Supply Chain Management – This award-winning video was a targeted campaign to recruit students to our nationally ranked supply chain management program. Organizers had this to say about our video: “The judges liked the personal and clever approach to capture students’ experiences and make it easy to relate to those applying for school.”

Awards were announced virtually due to the global pandemic.