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Hard to believe it but our summer is coming to an end. We had such a great batch of interns this year who are a testament to the future of our industry and we’re so excited about it! We asked them to send us their advice to aspiring industry professionals stemming from their own career or…

By: Samantha Kafka, intern at Havas Health Advertising undergraduate at the University of Florida: @Samantha_Kafka As a fellow intern, I understand how real the struggle can be finding an internship in the advertising industry. It is no secret that it is very competitive, especially for the paid internships at premier agencies. Unfortunately, there is no…

By Brian Havig, Copywriter, gyro New York Originally posted on Fortune While attending a session on travel by the Advertising Club of New York’s Vertical Series, three marketing experts from TripAdvisor, Celebrity Cruises and Hawaiian Air discussed trends they are seeing as 2016 approaches. As the second half of the year unfolds, here are four trends…

Last week, we celebrated our 2015 Ad Person of the Year, Brad Jakeman, President, Global Beverage Group, PepsiCo, and it was truly an unforgettable night. Mauro Porcini of PepsiCo, Andrew Robertson of BBDO, Sophie Kelly of The Barbarian Group and Cindy Gallop of IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn toasted – well, mostly roasted – Brad’s accomplishments and…

by Laurel Rossi, outgoing Chairman of the Board of Directors The past 2 years have been tremendous growth years for the ADVERTISING Club of New York, marked by our distinction as the bravest organization in the industry. We set an industry leadership agenda for the club that includes our diversity initiative and our ability to…

With awards season well underway, industry conferences occurring all over the country and vacations planned with family, summer in advertising can be chaotic. We wanted to ask some of our Leaders how they keep their teams creative and inspired during the summer months, and if they have any fun, company-wide initiatives or activities only the…

Last month, JWT celebrated the launch of the new book Risk/Reward: Why Intelligent Leaps and Daring Choices Are The Best Career Moves You Can Make by Anne Kreamer. Risk/Reward is about what it takes to have a successful career and attract/retain modern talent in the 21st century. It’s inspiring, motivating, and explores how embracing intelligent risk is an…

We hare thrilled to announce that this year’s winner of the YP Speed Networking Instagram Contest is Megan Hillbert, Marketing Senior Analyst at Verizon! The AD Club’s Young Professionals (30 years of age or younger) is a group of ambitious, philanthropic and outgoing professionals, who come from all areas of advertising and marketing, and who…

Last Wednesday, we heard from our wonderful moderator Joseph Jaffe, Co-Founder & CEO, Evol8tion, along with three impressive startups Enplug, Graphika and SLED Mobile who pitched their companies to our wonderful panel of industry experts. The panel included George Smith, Director, Global Beverages Group at PepsiCo; Lauren Fleischer, Global eCommerce Brand Manager, Mondelez International; Lynn Power, President, J.…

Excited to share that our friends at The FORTUNE Knowledge Group and gyro have just released a groundbreaking global study that shows how culture has taken the lead as the primary driver of long-term business relationships. Five hundred global execs (director level or higher) were polled last month, and the key finding they found was that decision…