Advertising Week 2005 facts & figures

The recent Advertising Week 2005 organizers have released some key preliminary facts & figures. More than 500,000 unique voters participated in the Yahoo!-administered poll for America's favorite icons and slogans, won by Juan Valdez, the GEICO Gecko, GE's "imagination at work" and Hallmark's "When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best." 14,000 users have tapped Infinity Broadcasting's pod casts of Advertising Week 2005 keynote & panel content . . . logging on for an average of 90 minutes.

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-- The 2005 Fluid Battle of the Ad Bands generated 50,000 for VH1's "Save the Music." The money generated by the Advertising Week live music event will be used to purchase musical instruments for public school children in New York City and New Orleans

-- Panasonic, which along with Yahoo! and Infinity, is a Gold Tier Advertising Week Corporate Partner, has donated 1 million in on-going media to the Ad Council via their Times Square Astrovision Video Board

-- 6,000 registrants attended 62 distinct free keynotes & panels throughout Advertising Week 2005

--300 NYC high school students from 13 schools throughout the five boroughs participated in "Advertising Futures" - a program which united 13 advertising agencies with 13 high school classes to develop and present a campaign focused on teacher recruitment. Later this Fall, The New York Times will run the top three ads, including the winner produced by a team from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School.

-- Special events, awards shows, screenings, conferences and other activities conducted by the Advertising Week Organizing Committee were extraordinarily successful measured by attendance . . . Among those whose Advertising Week programming met or exceeded projections were The Advertising Club's opening day "Stars of Madison Avenue" luncheon which sold out the famed Rainbow Room; a two day conference conducted by the National Advertising Review Council; a four-day breakfast series conducted by Advertising Women of New York; a screening of original short-films conducted by the Association of Creative Editors; a first-ever conference on account management conducted by the American Association of Advertising Agencies; and an exhibit & reception conducted by the Advertising Photographers Association

The third edition of Advertising Week will take place September 25 - 29, 2006.