Our Top 5 Ads: From the Cannes crop
By Jen Brewster. So many great ads and so much great work. The world of creative advertising is bursting with creative ideas and production talent read more …Continue reading Our Top 5 Ads: From the Cannes crop
By Jen Brewster. So many great ads and so much great work. The world of creative advertising is bursting with creative ideas and production talent read more …Continue reading Our Top 5 Ads: From the Cannes crop
By Marcus Honesta. Throughout our lives there are defining moments in time. Moments in world history that either change the face of the way we read more …Continue reading ON THE DAY OF THE GREATEST MEDIA EVENT IN MANKIND’S HISTORY: WHERE WERE YOU?
By Dorothy Thompson. Being part of a generation that grew up with his voices as part of our lives, it’s only fitting that on anniversary read more …Continue reading SPEECHLESS: THE ANNIVERSARY OF AN ICON – MEL BLANC
Filmmaker Mick Soiza is based on the East Coast of Australia, working on commercials, music videos and branded content. As well as directing several clips read more …Continue reading THE BEST IS YET TO COME: Interview with director Mick Soiza
By Lachlan Phillips, CEO of Ad Robot. We all know TV. It’s that rectangular window through which we see all our hopes, fears, dreams and read more …Continue reading Telling Tall Tales: What Instagram’s YouTube killer means for your brand
By Marcus Honesta. Well as the silly season creaks and groans to its inevitable and final Cristal hangover. And the floating gin palaces have set read more …Continue reading WHERE HAVE ALL THE GREAT YARNS GONE?
By Marc Prichard Procter & Gamble, CBO. What if we all became agents of change by using creativity to accelerate gender equality? I want to read more …Continue reading WHEN THE WORLD’S LARGEST ADVERTISER’S CHIEF BRAND OFFICER SPEAKS — AGENCIES BETTER LISTEN
By undercover reporter, Jay J. Low. Cannes, shit. I’m still in Cannes. Every time I think I’m going to wake up back in my own read more …Continue reading Cannes 2018: Behind the velvet curtain – Part 2
By Brittaney Kiefer (For Campaign) When recognised leaders at an early age decide to do something completely different; get out of the business, and embark read more …Continue reading BEN PRIEST SAYS GOODBYE: HIS PARTING WORDS ON CREATIVITY, ENTERTAINING THE MASSES, AND AVOIDING OBSCURITY.
By undercover reporter, Jay J. Low. With Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity already underway, we sent intrepid reporter Jay J. Low to the French read more …Continue reading Cannes 2018: Behind the velvet curtain – Part 1
By Dorothy Thompson. Just when you thought thing couldn’t get any stranger at Arnty’s HQ in Ultimo, (your ABC) things have take a peculiar and read more …Continue reading HAS ARNTY SLIPPLED HER MOORINGS? (YOUR ABC CANS AN INTERVIEW ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ORGAN HARVESTING
by Brass Tacks Production Design. “In film and television, a production designer is the person responsible for the overall visual look of the production. Production read more …Continue reading SHORT FILMS: THE IMPORTANCE OF PRODUCTION DESIGN
By Marcus Honesta I had that check the calendar, was a Christmas? It’s certainly not my birthday. But what could it possibly be to bring read more …Continue reading JAMES SUTHERLAND STANDS DOWN FROM CRICKET AUSTRALIA: FINALLY!
By Dorothy Thompson. Historically the date 6 June has bought us many special and memorable events. June 6 started bright and early for many young read more …Continue reading SEX AND THE CITY – TWENTY YEARS ON.
By Megan Graham for ADAGE. Oh dear, perhaps they’ll ask for the Knighthood will back. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more absurd read more …Continue reading SORRELL “STRENUOUSLY DENIES” ALLEGATIONS HE USED WPP FUNDS FOR HOOKERS AND GOOD TIMES!
By Marcus Honesta. On the eve of one of the greatest media events ever, whilst enjoying my morning tea I was struck by the thought; read more …Continue reading ON THE EVE OF DON & KIM’S SOIREE, WE THOUGHT WE MIGHT OFFER SOME ADVICE
By Marcus Honesta. According to the King James Version of the New Testament John 11:38-44. “On the forth day, Jesus cried with a loud voice, read more …Continue reading HE BACK!! SORRELL’S SET TO REIGNITE CAREER.
Advocating on behalf of female directors for equal opportunities in the film and television industry, Free The Bid Australia is launching an Intensive TVC Directing read more …Continue reading Free The Bid launches two-day intensive TVC directing workshop in Sydney, July 21st – 22nd
In memory: By Mike Canavan BBS Australasia. This morning I received the very sad news that one of the old guard; one of the greats read more …Continue reading REST IN PEACE GRAHAM “WOODY” WOODLOCK.
By Jen Brewster. Hello again, dear friends. I hope you have all recovered from last Friday’s AWARD Awards and the ongoing celebrations that saw many read more …Continue reading SIMPLY THE BEST: Our Top 5 Ads
By Dorothy Thompson. The court of social media is now in session. All appearing before the court will automatically be found guilty. That’s the way read more …Continue reading SOCIAL MEDIA INJUSTICE CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM
By Marcus Honesta. Whilst flicking through a number of articles written by eminently well-informed and reliable commentators this week, I was struck by a very read more …Continue reading IN A WORLD OF LIES AND SPIN: WHOM CAN YOU TRUST?
By Brass Tacks Production Design. The built environment is more than just a background, it serves to aid the film’s narrative. Assigning personality to your read more …Continue reading PRODUCTION DESIGN: How Stuart Craig helped take Harry Potter from page to screen
To promote improved child safety strategies and techniques for parents, Goodoil Films director Justin McMillan and Byron Studios have teamed up to release provocative film, read more …Continue reading Justin McMillan unveils powerful campaign for International Missing Children’s Day
By Jen Brewster. Hello dear friends! Are you all looking forward to the imaginatively titled AWARD Awards on Friday this week?I have all of my read more …Continue reading SIMPLY THE BEST: Our Top 5 Ads
By Mike Canavan, CEO BBS Australasia. You often hear a mournful and somber marketing or PR spokesperson at a hastily convened press conference proclaiming: “the read more …Continue reading CELEBRITIES BRAND ENDORSEMENTS: THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN WEIGHING UP THEIR VALUE.
By Gideon Spanier, Campaign Magazine. As WPP faces break-up calls in the wake of Sir Martin Sorrell’s exit, the agency holding company model is under read more …Continue reading THE FUTURE OF THE AGENCY MODEL IN A POST-SORRELL ERA.
By Marcus Honesta. Very few things seemed to monster the big tech giants Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram Amazon & Uber. They blithely bluster forth, repelling read more …Continue reading IS THE TAX RORT UP FOR THE TECH GIANTS GOOGLE FACEBOOK ETC?
By Clara Chong, Director at Main Course Films. With over 8,000 submissions from 90 countries, My RØDE Reel has not only become the world’s largest read more …Continue reading INSIDE THE DIRECTING PROCESS
By Jen Brewster. This week’s choices for our top 5 favourite spots are solid. Solid as… THE ROCK. Regardless of what you think, let it read more …Continue reading Simply The Best: Our Top 5 Ads