Industry Quick Links for the week of February 11:
Twitter: 126M daily users, revenue of $909M in Q4
Twitter disclosed its daily active user numbers for the first time, revealing the platform hit 126 million in the fourth quarter, a 9.5% increase from the same period in 2017.
Each month we spotlight one of our corporate members giving you the opportunity to get to know one of the many creative companies in our membership. This month we spotlight Blackbird Digital.
Tell us a little about your company and your role there?
ADDY judging is just around the corner, January 25-26, 2019. Don’t forget, the deadline to enter is January 15, 2019. You can enter here.
Let’s meet this year’s judges:
Ted has been doing promotional motion graphics design work since 1995.
What does your professional head shot say about you? You’ll want to go here to read more. Michael Cavotta is a professional head shot photographer and certified personal brand strategist and now, all AAF-Cleveland members can receive a 10% discount on a professionally photographed head shot.
On June 28, 2018 Virginia Marti College of Art & Design, 2-year trade school founded in 1966 officially transitioned into The North Coast College (TheNCC), a 4-year institution of higher education. TheNCC now offers Bachelor Degrees in Art & Design Management, Fashion Merchandising, Fashion Marketing, Graphic Design, and Interior Design in addition to their Associate Degree predecessors.
The AAF-Cleveland Student Connection is now accepting applications for its scholarship program through February 8, 2019. The Student Connection has given away over $370,000 in scholarship dollars to deserving MarCom students. In order to apply you must:
Be attending an Ohio college or university, either 2 or 4 year school
Be majoring in a MarCom discipline
Be graduating in 2019 or 2020
Have a minimum 3.0 GPA
Download the application here
We’ll be open for submissions on November 1, 2018 but we strongly suggest you read through the 2018-19 ADDY Rules and Categories which can be downloaded here. There are a few new and updated rules and categories for this year:
New Categories
Public Service
22B – Campaign
Blogs & Digital Publications
44A – Digital Publication – Single
44B – Digital Publication – Campaign
Film & Video
85A – Cinematography – Single
85B – Cinematography – Campaign
Sound
88C – Music With/Without Lyrics – Campaign
90A – Sound Design – Single
90B – Sound Design – Campaign
Rules Changes
Elements of Advertising
Digital entries can be uploaded and will not require a physical entry
Apps, Games & Virtual Reality
Apps and Virtual Reality entries will be judged using a digital (video) summary of 3 minutes or less, which must be digitally uploaded by the entrant (not a URL).
