AAF District 10’s Post

🏆 14 categories, 100+ subcategories, and countless ways to be recognized for your devotion to creativity - at the annual Ad Black Sea Competition. 🏄 To learn more about this year’s contests, deadlines and requirements, swim over here: bit.ly/4cqM9LY

EBI In the Energy Sector...

How do you convince an artist who has never worked with brands to trust their spirit and take a leap? You build it authentically with them, that’s how.

Cannes Young Lions 🦁 Inspiration and dedication are key ingredients to success in this competition, and participants must truly embody the spirit of creativity and teamwork. See below insights & tips on what it takes from the young media lions competitors. 🇨🇦

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EBI In the Energy Sector...

😬Tonight in a closed session I'll be sharing the fckup that almost cost me everything with the latest cohort of Startmate Manager fellows. Committing to a fckup night as a speaker is an odd mix of stoke and dread. As a founder you are always pitching to customers, investors and new team members. That responsibility never ends so when someone asks you to speak at an event with smart and passionate leaders and tell them some the biggest mistakes you've ever made the intuitive safest bet is to decline. But counter-intuitively by accepting and by turning up and sharing these fails you get at least two big wins: 1. You remind yourself that those epic fails are part of how you got to here + 2. You encourage those around you to not fear failure enough to make it the reason you don't do that thing. I learnt this thanks to some OG mentors back in the early Muru-D and Fishburners days with Mick Liubinskas Ben Reid Annie Parker Alan Jones Murray Hurps and many more with my first start-up Lime Rocket. The culture of failing fast and learning faster is one of the most counter intuitive but under valued pieces of kit you can have so any chance to share that spirit with other founders is a good investment. I can't wait to hear some epic fails too from generous leaders, founders and investors like Isis Nair Natalie Robinson Hiam Sakakini 🤜🤛 #startupaus

A quote I say to remind myself to keep grounded is, “Don’t do it for the applause, do it for the cause.” But sometimes I still feel so grateful when our team acknowledges what we’ve built. This time the award is one of Ad Age's Best Places to Work. The award means a lot to me because 2023 was a crazy year with so many things happening. My partner and good friend Jeremy Beyt recapped our year in a recent post here: ➡️ We held four sold-out Assembly Required conferences with over 500 civic and business leaders coming together to enrich our community and bolster economic growth in our home city, Baton Rouge. ➡️ Shipped 65 projects for global non-profits, education innovators, economic development pioneers, and values-aligned businesses across technology, healthcare, insurance, and entertainment. ➡️ Earned a National Addy for our work producing the Opportunity@Work Tear the Paper Ceiling website, which served more than 1.3 million people seeking to learn more about the campaign in 2023. ➡️ Launched Aisle3, our in-house production company led by Philip Roberts. In its first year, Aisle 3 shipped 22 film + animation videos and traveled 9,028 miles to capture client stories. Visit aisle3.tv. ➡️ Opened an in-office creator studio led by Khoi Nguyen that will empower every contributor at ThreeSixtyEight to share their expertise and client stories regularly in 2024. I am particularly excited about this endeavor because we have so much great work we have yet to share. ➡️ Continued to develop our technology expertise through strategic partnerships such as our Webflow Enterprise Partner status. In fact, Timothy Ricks was invited to speak at this year’s Webflow Conference in San Francisco. ➡️ Began productizing our service offerings to meet the needs of our clients at every stage of their journey. More coming on this in 2024. ➡️ Overhauled our operation within ThreeSixtyEight to reduce creeping inefficiencies that might slow down the work or drive undue costs. Our Director of Ops, Kara Pitre, has developed a new pod-style model designed to give the team more focus, efficiency, and impact in 2024. ➡️ Expanded our local network of civic and business leaders by joining strategic boards and initiatives across the city, sharing in the conversation around workforce development, education reform, and community engagement. ➡️ We also had plenty of fun, flying our team to Oklahoma City for a 3 day retreat, hosting a summer family-day, attending industry conferences, and taking plenty of time to share a meal together TSE-potluck style. In fact, we ended our year last night with one final company holiday/karaoke party. None of this could happen without the essential ingredient - our people. Thank you TSE for being an amazing place where we can show up to do some of our life’s best work while being together as a team that truly embodies core values. We're excited to keep building something we're all proud of. #bestplacestowork #adage #culture

🎬 We love to see iGaming companies using video to connect their brands, team members, clients and customers. Check out the latest episode of What's NEXT? from NEXT.io, going BTS on the judging process in their illustrious iGaming IDOL awards. 👏