Mack Unhappy with Addys

Greg Mack, president of Taylor Mack, the Fayetteville advertising firm, said his company wasn’t notified of the deadline to enter the regional Addy awards. But Mack said he did receive an e-mail from Alice Walker of Creative Marketing and Advertising Concepts in Springdale asking him to buy tickets to the banquet.

Mack said he isn’t impressed with the regional Addys because of the number of awards given out.

“It’s mind boggling,” he said. “It’s just silly. If you enter enough stuff, you’re going to win a bunch of them. I think I’ve just been blacklisted. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean somebody’s not out to get you.”

Mack said the entry fee for the Addys is $40.

“The whole thing is to get as much money as they can,” he said. “On top of everything else, you have to pay 40 bucks to go over there and have cold chicken and rubber green beans.”

“I did prove to him where [the call for entries] had been e-mailed to him,” Walker said. “I think Greg Mack just wants to complain.”

“She didn’t prove anything to me,” Mack said. “They did not notify us.”

Walker said Taylor Mack isn’t a member of the advertising federation, so she wasn’t required to notify Mack of the call for entries.

This isn’t the first year Mack has claimed his company was left out of the Addy loop. As it has done in previous years, Taylor Mack had its own awards ceremony this year. Mack calls his awards “the Caddys.”