Monday, March 9, 2015

Emergence 2015: Ross Siegel, Stories Behind The Story: Reaching Your Audience in a Multi-platform Age

Ross Siegel, Director of Development at Maker Studios, provided an extensive introduction to Multi Channel Merchants, companies like Maker Studios that assist up and coming YouTube stars with their brand and assist major brands understand the heavily saturated landscape that is YouTube. Ross started out by defining that every song, video clip, short film, and 30 second cat video has a defined...

Emergence 2015: Glenn Urquhart, Evolve Your Transmedia

Glenn Urquhart, GROUP CREATIVE DIRECTOR, LIFESTYLE CHANNELS - FOXTEL. Keynote: "Evolve your Transmedia" While rather a difficult keynote to follow (Mr Urquhart you could win the award for most words spoken in a single minute), I did manage to write down a few key messages about producing transmedia campaigns. Glenn promoted the simple rule of understanding the traditional conventions of...

Emergence 2015: Lee Hunter, Marketing Innovation @ Google

Lee Hunter, Head of Marketing and Innovation at Google Asia Pacific, just delivered his keynote speech "Innovation at Google", an inspiring talk about the technological discoveries and projects that Google has produced in the past few years and the reasoning behind why they produced those projects. Lee defined an important question - what is marketing innovation? Marketing innovation is thinking...

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Launching The Angry Man Series

Its been a while since I've produced anything - 3 years to be exact - but creating The Angry Man Series has been a great way to step back into this role I love. Capping that off has been the experience of launching said series just last week March 3 2015 at 6pmWST. The launch was always going to be a tricky event for us...