Melinda Geertz and David Brown to chair IPA Business & Agency Leadership residential course
Advertising Council Australia is delighted to announce that Melinda Geertz, CEO Leo Burnett Australia, and David Brown, Managing Director Noisy Beast, will chair the 2021 IPA Business & Agency Leadership residential course at The Cullen in Melbourne from 2 to 4...
Words of planning wisdom from Iona Macgregor
AdSchool’s Advanced Strategic Planning course gets underway in Sydney on 22 April. We were lucky enough to get some time with Iona Macgregor, Strategy Partner at Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney, who is this year’s course facilitator and who generously shared some of her...
Meet Alex Wood, AdSchool Advanced Strategic Planning Melbourne course facilitator
AdSchool Advanced Strategic Planning is the essential course for experienced planners to expand their skillset and make a stronger impact as strategists at a senior level. This year we’re delighted to welcome Alex Wood, Brand Experience Director at BWM Dentsu as...
42nd AWARD Awards jurors announced
The Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association (AWARD) has today announced the full line up of jurors for the 42nd AWARD Awards.A total of 90 leading creatives from Australia and around the world will be tasked with selecting the 42nd AWARD Awards winners in...
2021 Effie Awards Call for Entries opens
Advertising Council Australia has today launched the 2021 Australian Effie Awards, issuing the marketing community with a challenge to demonstrate its resourcefulness, resilience and the power of great advertising in the teeth of the COVID pandemic.ACA CEO Tony Hale...
Learn to love/hate research
AdSchool’s Core Strategic Planning course is a ‘must do’ for planners and strategists at the beginning of their career. This year’s team of course lecturers is made up of some of Australia’s most respected and experienced planners and strategists, including Fran...
Reshaping AdSchool Advanced Account Management
BMF General Manager Paul Coles is one of Australia’s true leaders in the client service field. Paul has been instrumental in reshaping AdSchool’s Advanced Account Management course for 2021 and here he shares some of his insights with us about the upcoming course and...
AWARD School: ‘bloody challenging, incredibly rewarding’
AWARD School is back for 2021 and is shaping up to be better than ever. Advertising Council Australia caught up with National AWARD School Co-heads Mandie van der Merwe and Jack Nunn to find out what’s ahead this year, and why all aspiring creatives should apply for...
Revamped AdSchool gears up for 2021 with stellar line-up of lecturers
AdSchool, Australia’s most respected advertising education resource, returns in 2021 with a comprehensively refreshed range of courses led by a stellar line-up of ad industry leaders providing a combination of in-real-life and online lectures, workshops and mentoring...
Planning for 2021 and Beyond
ACA recently caught up with APG Co-Chair Ben Hourahine, Strategy Partner at AnalogFolk, for a chat about his take on what 2021 holds for the Australian planning community. ACA: What’s your perspective on the future of planning in Australia? Ben: Australian...
‘Enter Raw, Exit Ready’ AWARD School kicks off 2021 enrolment campaign
Australasia’s most acclaimed course for aspiring creatives, AWARD School has kicked off its campaign for 2021 enrolments with a new theme: ‘Enter Raw, Exit Ready’. The campaign is rolling out across multiple channels in the lead up to AWARD School 2021, run from March...
Youngbloods pitch for Gruen glory
Once again this year Youngbloods Australia were invited back onto ABC TV’s Gruen to compete for Pitch glory. However, unlike Youngbloods Gruen pitches in previous seasons, it wasn’t to be the traditional battle between VIC vs. NSW. Due to the COVID restrictions placed...
Planning community looks beyond COVID
It’s been one hell of a year right across the industry and few would argue that planners have faced massive challenges. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Advertising Council Australia chatted with Account Planning Group Co-Chair Kate Smither about planning in the COVID...
Communication is the key: Cornel Ozies
Filmmaker Cornel Ozies’ landmark documentary Our Law focuses on the Warakurna Police Station in Western Australia, the first Indigenous-run police station in this country. It’s a compelling story of how an initiative based on mutual respect can address the issues of...
ACA WA reaches out to uni students
Advertising Council Australia has recently been conducting a number of university presentations in-person and online in Perth to help promote advertising as a career of choice and to guide students to the best pathways to “Break into the Exciting World of...
Introducing something else…from AWARD
By Jonathan Kneebone, Writer/Director, The Glue Society on behalf of the AWARD Committee It was on a work trip to Hong Kong that a few of us from Glue Society discovered the most difficult product you could ever think of to advertise. Sitting innocently enough on the...
2020 Australian Effie Award Winners Announced
The Monkeys named Effective Agency of the YearBMF awarded Grand Effie for ‘ALDI Good Different’ - ALDI AustraliaALDI Australia awarded Effective Advertiser Award for the third consecutive yearFive Gold Effies awarded overall The Monkeys has been named Effective Agency...
42nd AWARD Awards launches Call For Entries
The Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association (AWARD) has today announced its Call for Entries for the 42nd AWARD Awards. The deadline for entries is December 11. Last year saw a significantly expanded list of eligible categories and an overhaul of the AWARD...
Ready! Fire! Aim! Whatever happened to Strategy? APGWA & ACA present an evening with Jon Steel
The Account Planning Group WA and Advertising Council Australia are proud to present an intimate evening in Perth with legendary strategist Jon Steel who will share his compelling insights into the past, present and future of strategy. Over four decades and across...
AWARD School 2021 Application Workshops – insider tips, tricks and ammo!
The AWARD School Application Workshop is a comprehensive session where industry leaders will take you step-by-step through application tips, tricks, ammo and insider information. Essentially everything you need to know to give you a great shot at submitting the best...
Youngbloods get set for big year ahead
A rejuvenated national strategy to better empower young people in advertising is one of the key priorities for Youngbloods National Co-chairs Linh Diep and Matt Bladin in the coming year. They recently chatted with us about their upcoming plans. When Matt Bladin...
AWARD School National Top Student Oli Nicholson says: Just Do It!
When WA’s Oli Nicholson was crowned 2020 AWARD School National Top Student earlier this month, it was obvious to everyone watching our Facebook Live virtual ceremony that she was blown away with her win. Since then, she admits it still hasn't completely sunk in, but...
Meet Your AdSchool Lecturer: David Warren
With 17 years’ experience of marketing, brand and communications strategy, freelance strategist David Warren has established himself as one of the most effective strategists in our industry. AdSchool is excited to welcome David...
The challenges of running an ad agency during Stage 4 Lockdown
With Melbourne and much of Victoria still dealing with the harsh realities of Stage 4 Lockdown, running an ad agency presents huge challenges. But Belinda Murray, Managing Director of BWM Dentsu Melbourne, says there are also opportunities and surprises to be had....