CLIO Best Hispanic Market
date: label: date made
content: 1987
notes: label: Description
content: In 1987, advertising woman, Sara Sunshine won the first Clio Award given for work in the new category of the “Hispanic Market.” Sunshine won the award for a Pepsi commercial titled “Drummer,” that she wrote while at Siboney Advertising in New York. By the time, she recieved this reconition of her work, she was a seasoned veteran of advertising and one of the earliest women to hold a leadership role at Hispanic agencies.
label: Description
content: Sunshine began her career in advertising with Publicidad Siboney in Havana, Cuba in the 1950s and then immigrated to New York where she joined the newly-formed SAMS, Spanish Advertising and Marketing Services, in 1962. The fledgling agency, created by Luis Diaz Albertini, had four staff, all Cuban refugees. At SAMS, Sunshine quickly assumed all of the duties of chief creative officer and then some, from writing copy and directing art to producing radio and print advertising. She even did market research. She would later co-found Siboney Advertising in New York and then join Bravo Advertising in the late 1990s. The Clio Award testified to her creative work but it also symbolized the rising importance of Latino/a consumers and Hispanic advertising as a unique field in the United States.
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content: The Clio Awards date to 1960, when American TV and Radio Commercials Festival awarded the first ones for outstanding advertising in broadcasting. The golden statuette, reminiscent of Hollywood’s Oscar but designed in the late 1950s by African-American graphic artist and advertiser, George Olden. In later decades the award would become known as the “Oscars of advertising.” Advertising has always been more than a way to communicate and sell things; since its earliest years, it has also been a commercial art form and a craft. Awards such as the Clio have been important ways for advertisers to judge and reward the most innovative, effective, and creative work in the field.
topic: label: Subject
content: Latino
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content: Work and Industry: Retail and Marketing
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content: Advertising
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sara Sunshine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0209.15
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0209.15
label: accession number
content: 2015.0209
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper-alloy (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: golden (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 6 5/8 in; 36.83 cm x 16.8275 cm