Breaking and Entering Advertising Podcast

Will a Master's degree help you break into advertising? Will it help you thrive in advertising long-term? What about portfolio school? Or what about an MBA? These are some of the questions Shachar Meron and Richard Pieczynski answer in this episode. I decided the Master's in Strategic Brand Communications was the perfect plan for my career. Shachar is the program's academic director, and Rich is a...

Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Is back. Recently, Observatory and sister agencies MMI and Vitro merged under the Crispin banner to create an integrated creative powerhouse. Brendan Shields-Shimizu is the Chief Innovation Officer at Crispin Porter + Bogusky. We talk the new Crispin. We talk about meeting Morgan Freeman. LA Advertising. And branded entertainment. Links: Connect with Brendan: here Connect...

Rafa Donato was listed as Creative Person of The Year. He's the Chief Creative Officer of DAVID Miami. He would be a long-haul truck driver if he weren't making award-winning creative advertising in Miami. Regardless, he will help steer your career direction to a place of success and fame and great ads. He's done so for years while working on Burger King, Coca-Cola, Faber-Castell, Mondeléz, and Da...

Ken Bates is a Copywriter at DDB Chicago. He's worked on brands like Miller Lite, Coors Light, Skittles and others. He wants to make ideas that are "stupid good" and make you feel something. We both share a passion for helping students break in and thrive in advertising. He's a walking librarian of the best ads, the best advertising professionals and advice for aspiring advertisers. Seriously, che...

Jess Clifton is the Head of Brand and Marketing Advisory Media. Monks and Founder of FemalesFWD. Jess is an experienced executive leader who successfully navigates the complexity of modern marketing, brings order to chaos, and builds brands through culture and experiences. That's someone who we want to learn from! And learn you will do if you listen to this episode. You will learn how to break int...

Jay Towns broke into advertising one year ago. He is a Creative at DDB Chicago. He learned about advertising late in his senior year of college. Once he discovered advertising, he was able to break in only a few months. I will let him explain how he did it so fast in this economy. I learned a lot from Jay, and I know you will too. Links Connect with Jay: here Connect with us: here Win a Crowbar to...

Marketing science is punk… It’s anti-establishment. It challenges the stories marketers tell themselves and pursues the empirical truths of the craft. Byron Sharp and the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute champion this thinking. They carry the torch for evidence-based marketing and continue to make discoveries that push marketers to become more scientific and greater skeptics of the world around us. If you...

Emery Barnes is a New York City-based Brand Marketer. He's a first-generation Liberian-American and Chicago native with an untiring passion to seed culture into brands—through music, sports, and art. At 27, Emery has produced campaigns for brands such as DoorDash, Michelob ULTRA, Samsung Global, Coca-Cola, P&G, Trolli, Fisher-Price, and United Airlines, and has worked at some of the largest and mo...

Here it is. Handpicked by Greg Hahn himself, the Blue Crowbar award-winning campaign. The Blue Crowbar goes to the single best campaign submitted. Best in Show. We asked the nation of aspiring advertisers to fix the perception of Dasani Water.  And this team did that so beautifully. They came up with "Tap Map."  People love to call Dasani tap water, and they’re right — it is just tap water. But th...

Becoming a most-wanted marketer is hard as it is, let alone building a most-wanted brand.  Josh Ingram breaks down how you accomplish both.  At his Strategic Consultancy Most Wanted Co, Josh and his team intersect brand, innovation, and performance to do just that, build brands that are most wanted. We discuss how finding your own formula is key and how there are more parallels between the recordi...

Business Insider named Gerry Graf "The Most Creative Man in Advertising," Newsweek called him one of the "New Don Drapers." Gerry gets transparent with how long things took him to achieve his accumulated success. Let's just say he's won every award in advertising. I don't have all day here. He details the process he went through to get his first job and then how we can all expedite that process to...

Sometimes all it takes is a few Tweets to get noticed. Robyn Frost worked incredibly hard on her portfolio and developing her craft. Today, she is an art director with a thing for words. She is currently haunting the halls of Pereira O’Dell San Francisco. She tells us her story and advice, including how she moved to Chicago from London to make ads and how a Tweet sparked it all. Links: Connect wit...

"Gettin' things done and makin' a difference." That is what Professor Scott Hamula is all about. He is a Professor and Chair of Strategic Communications at Ithaca College. Over the past 24 years of teaching, he has earned the AAF's distinguished educator award (the MVP of ad ed) and a 1st place finish at the National Student Advertising Competition. It's worth noting Ithaca College has less than 7...

A podcast host way better than us. Colin Daniels is a digital editor at Adweek and the Host of the Young Influentials Podcast. He is someone that will make you feel welcome and laugh and will teach you a whole lot. He is wise beyond his years, or maybe that's just his elite skincare which he hints at on this show. From influencers to C-suite executives, Daniel sits down with some of the most influ...

Join us as we interview top advertising lecturers and professors, sharing their tips and insights on building a successful career in advertising. This week, we have a special guest: Ed Russell, a 25-year veteran in the advertising business and professor at Syracuse University. Ed has worked on nearly every product category in every global market and has even written Leo Burnett's international tra...

Effectiveness & Inspiration.  The currency of every brand manager, strategist, and strategically minded creative.  This week we are lucky enough to be joined by James Hurman, Graduate of Strategic Planning, Entrepreneur, Author, Founder/Co-founder of Previously Unavailable, Tracksuit, AF Drinks, Toothcrush, and Champion of Marketing Effectiveness. If all his accolades don’t say enough, you’ll have...

Class is in session. Professor John H. Murphy is an Emeritus Professor of Advertising at the University of Texas at Austin. John is the 2021 recipient of the Distinguished Advertising Educator Award. He has over 40 years of teaching experience at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has inspired a generation of advertisers and mentored many notable leaders in the industry. In this must-hear...

Jeff Sweat makes advertising agencies famous. Jeff Sweat is the founder of Sweat + Co, a PR consultancy focused on advertising. As an ex-journalist, content marketing pioneer, two-time novelist, and agency PR veteran, Jeff has learned it's not enough to tell a story—you have to create a story worth telling. He teaches us all about the communications, PR and marketing arms at every agency, how to b...

Learn from Dr. Jason P Chambers, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Associate Professor of Advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. In this episode, Dr. Chambers shares his insights on the importance of diversity in the university system, within the college of media at UIUC, and in today's advertising industry.  As an expert in advertising history, Dr. Ch...

The VP of Creative at Pinterest.  Xanthe Wells leads all creative, concepting, design, experiential, writing and content for Pinterest advertising. Previously, Xanthe was Senior Director & Global Executive Creative Director for Google Devices & Services. At Google, she won a Grand Prix in Cannes for Real Tone on Google Pixel while leading agency partnerships with Wieden + Kennedy,  Swift, GUT, Dro...

Looking to make your mark in the advertising industry?  Today's episode of ADjunct is a must-listen. We're joined by Jay Waters, senior instructor and advisor for the University of Alabama's top-ranked student-run advertising agency, who shares his valuable insights on how to succeed in the business.  From building a standout portfolio to networking and staying up to date on industry trends.  Roll...

Gianna Prudente is all about Keeping the Balance.  Specifically, how Gen Z can keep the balance with work and life and everything in between.  As an Associate News Editor at LinkedIn, she helps young professionals (like you) navigate the changing world of work with her newsletter and content.  With over 42 newsletters released, she shares what she has learned from her work experience and the hundr...

From the mailroom to head of account.  Tim Hendrick has 22 years of teaching experience as a San Jose State University advertising professor.  He also has two decades of advertising experience working at both agencies and on the brand side.  I think he might have one or two things you might be able to learn from and apply to your advertising break-in journey.  We talk about pursuing a master's, po...

Cooper Colvig hosts this week's Breaking and Entering episode. This week he interviews Harsha Gangadharbatla, Professor of Advertising and Faculty Director in the Office of Faculty Affairs Harsha has an incredible way of inspiring his students to jump head-first into marketing and advertising. Cooper was one of them. While building the foundational critical thinking skills needed to be successful...

We have the boss of FCB on the show.  Tyler Turnbull is the Global CEO of FCB.  It took him only eight years to become a CEO in this business, starting as an intern.  Now he's the Global CEO. Not too Shabby.  Tyler talks with us about FCB at the international level, explaining his vision for growth, and we get granular on how to break into an FCB agency locally. Hear his advice on how to rise the...