AARP's Integrated Communications & Marketing (ICM) team has won awards in a variety of categories and disciplines, from publication design and branding, to media relations and digital. Here is a sampling of the organizations that have recognized our stellar work.

1. Integrated Communications & Marketing
has won awards in a variety of
categories/disciplines, from publication
design and branding
to media relations and digital.
Here is a sampling of the organizations
that have recognized our stellar work.

2. The Folio Awards recognize excellence in magazine editorial and design
across all sectors of the industry.
Best Single Article
AARP the Magazine Dec. 2016/Jan. 2017

3. AARP earned an impressive 36 MarCom Awards, one of the world’s most-respected creative
competitions, honoring excellence in marketing and communication.
Gold Award – Special Event: AARP Block Party Branding

4. Award of Excellence – Magazines, Journals,
Tabloids: Design & Layout
AARP The Magazine, August/September 2016
Grand Prize Award – Design & Illustration
AARP Bulletin: 2016 Redesign
The APEX Awards honor
publication excellence in
print, Web, electronic and
social media.

5. The American Graphic Design Awards reflect the increasingly expansive ways in which graphic
design shapes business and society, products and services, commerce and culture.
AARP has earned awards in multiple categories, including internet design, publication design,
newsletters and infographics.
Newsletters + eNewsletters
AARP The Girlfriend

6. The Content Marketing Awards program is the leading awards program recognizing all
aspects of content marketing, from strategy to distribution, from design to editorial.
Best Digital Publication – Design
AARP the Magazine’s Special Health & Wellness App

7. The Cinema in Industry Awards are specifically designed for the non-theatrical market,
a broad arena of production work that trains and explains as well as entertains.
2016 John Cleese Comedy Award – Effective Use of Humor in a Production
2016 Gold Award – Personal Statement
AARP “Over 40? No Donuts for You” Video

8. Clarabridge Diamond Award
AARP Voice of the Consumer
The Clarabridge Customer Experience
Champion Awards honor organizations
that go the extra mile when it comes to
Customer Experience.
The MarCom Awards salute the creativity of
marketing and communication professionals.
Gold Award – Media Response
AARP in National Healthcare Debate

9. In 2017, ICM was the proud recipient of more than 65 National Mature Media
Awards honoring the nation’s best marketing, communications, educational
materials, publications/editorial, and programs produced for older adults.
Gold Award: Graphic Design
AARP Bulletin June 2016
Gold Award: Mobile Resource/Mobile Application
AARP Magazine Sally Field Tablet Edition

10. AARP is the recipient of several awards sponsored by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts,
dedicated to recognizing the rapidly evolving nature of traditional and interactive media.
The Communicator Awards honor excellence in marketing and communications,
and the W3 Awards salute the power of web creativity.
Communicator Awards
Award of Excellence – Integrated Marketing
Own Your Age Sweepstakes
W3 Awards
Gold Award – General Websites
Non-Profit
AceYourRetirement.org

11. The Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative professionals involved in
the concept, writing and design of traditional materials and programs, and emerging technologies.
Platinum Award – Trade Show Exhibit: 2016 AARP National Book Festival

12. The Nautilus Awards honor and promote print books that inspire and connect
our lives as individuals, communities and global citizens.
Silver Award – Aging Consciously
Disrupt Aging
AARP Books
Silver Award – Aging Consciously
Downsizing the Family Home
AARP Books
Silver Award – Social Change
Where We Live: Communities
for All Ages
AARP Books