The A-List Podcast

The A-List Podcast

A podcast about breaking into the advertising industry featuring the best in the business. Sponsored by AdHouse Advertising School

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June 20, 2023 37 mins
🎙️ Get ready for a dose of pure inspiration! 🌟 In this episode of ALP, Tom Christmann speaks with creative, hip hop artist and activist, Roshmond "Sum" Patten, Creative Director at creative agency GLOW. 🔥 Discover how his unique journey from music journalism to advertising has shaped his creative prowess and provided a fresh perspective in the industry. Sum comes from a long line of educators and graduated from Morehouse Colle...
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This is the A-List, the podcast that asks the world's top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, our host Tom Christmann talks with Mike Manheimer, Chief Marketing Officer at Postscript.io. Mike ditched his pre-law plan to join a software startup where he learned every aspect of marketing before a random meeting on an elevator led to his CMO job at SMS company Postscript. If you want to le...
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May 1, 2023 46 mins
In this episode of the A-List podcast, sponsored by Adhouse Advertising School, Tom Christmann talks with Jaime Cabrera, Group Creative Director on Hyundai at Innocean USA in Los Angeles, California. Jaime’s focus at Innocean is what’s called “Experiential marketing”. It’s sometimes called "engagement marketing" and “event marketing". Encompassing everything from car shows to virtual in-car experiences, experiential is a marketing...
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February 6, 2023 52 mins
Another week, another A-List, the podcast that asks the world's top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. Sponsored by Adhouse Advertising School. Hosted by Tom Christmann, Executive Creative Director at Catch+Release and one of the head #adnerds at Adhouse, where zoom classes start FEBRUARY 15. <
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January 31, 2023 58 mins
Hello and Welcome to the A-List Podcast, the podcast that asks the world's top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. Sponsored by Adhouse Advertising School. Hosted by Tom Christmann, Executive Creative Director at Catch+Release and one of the head adnerds at Adhouse. In this episode, recorded in the fall of 2022, you’ll hear Tom's chat with Matt Vitou, Executive Creative Director at Mother in New York Ci...
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July 5, 2022 61 mins
SPONSORED BY ADHOUSE ADVERTISING SCHOOL. AD CLASSES TAUGHT BY WORKING AD PROS ON ZOOM. ADHOUSENYC.COM ----- Hello and welcome to The A-List, the podcast that asks the world's top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. This episode is a conversation between host Tom Christmann and Micöl Rankin, ACD and very first creative hire at Majority, an agency co-founded by Shaquille O'Neill, Omid Farhang, Asmirh Davis...
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June 17, 2022 75 mins
Lisa Topol is a big believer in kindness. As she likes to say, “Good things follow it.” So it’s not surprising that she recently took the job of Managing Partner, Executive Creative Director at Oberland, the industry’s leading purpose-driven ad agency founded by Bill Oberlander and Drew Train. In this episode of The A-List Podcast, Tom Christmann talks with Lisa about her over 20 years in advertising, which started when the late C...
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May 15, 2022 67 mins
------ What are you doing this summer? Why not up your ad game by taking a class at Adhouse Advertising School? Classes are taught by working ad pros live on zoom so you can take them from anywhere. You get ten weeks of classes for just seven hundred ninety nine dollars. You’ll practice turning briefs into brilliance every week and you’ll meet some new friends along the way, including special A-List guests that can help you break i...
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April 21, 2022 67 mins
What are you doing this summer? Why not up your ad game by taking a class at Adhouse Advertising School? Classes are taught by working ad pros live on zoom so you can take them from anywhere. You get ten weeks of classes for just seven hundred ninety nine dollars. You’ll practice turning briefs into brilliance every week and you’ll meet some new friends along the way, including special A-List guests that can help you break into you...
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March 3, 2022 44 mins
Hello adnerds! And welcome to another episode of The A-List, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, Tom Christmann -- ECD at Vayner Media and co-dean at Adhouse Advertising School -- speaks with Analisa Goodin, Founder and CEO of Catch & Release. After art school, Analisa started taking on side gigs to fund her art. One of those gigs was helping Goodby...
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February 5, 2022 65 mins
Hey #adnerds! Welcome to another episode of The A-List, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, our host Tom Christmann talks with Jason Bagley, a freelance creative who spent 16 years working at Wieden & Kennedy in Portland. Jason's origin story is full of insight and humor. You'll hear how he landed his dream job (replacing Jeff Kling who had written ...
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January 27, 2022 71 mins
Hello, #adnerds and welcome to another episode of The A-List, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. Tom Christmann has been busy starting his new job as ECD at Vayner Media and being co-dean at Adhouse Advertising School. (And getting COVID) (he's okay now). But he promises to start dropping episodes more regularly, starting with this conversation with Cameron Day, a...
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October 25, 2021 62 mins
Hey Adnerds! It's time for another episode of The A-List Podcast, sponsored by adhousenyc.com. This episode, host Tom Christmann talks to Pete Favat, Creative Chairman at Deutsch LA, which describes itself as "a data-inspired, culturally shaped creative studio." Pete started at Wunderman in New York, but really fell in love with advertising on a trip to LA for his first TV shoot, which ended up winning awards. Today, he works at a...
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September 2, 2021 62 mins
Hello, fellow #adnerds and welcome to The A-List, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, Host Tom Christmann talks with Hannes Ciatti, former founder of JohnXHannes and current founder and Chief Creative Officer of Alto New York, a creative company for courageous brands. Hannes has made some iconic work over his career. He made Misty Copeland go viral...
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August 20, 2021 52 mins
This is The A-List, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, Tom Christmann, freelance copywriter at tomchristmann.net and co-dean at Adhouse Advertising School, speaks with David Esrati of The Next Wave in Dayton Ohio. David is a true #Adnerd in every sense of the word. He’s also a disabled veteran, a politician, and an activist and self-described truth...
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July 15, 2021 61 mins
Tom Christmann talks with Gavin Lester, CCO of Zambezi (zmbz.com) n independent agency in Culver City, California. Tom and Gavin discuss going from art to advertising, Goodby vs. BBH, the making of Levi's "Odyssey" (directed by Jonathan Glazer) and so much more. Tom can be reached at tomchristmann.net. Gavin can be reached at gavin.lester@zmbz.com. And the whole thing is sponsored by Adhouse Advertising School (adhousenyc.com) whe...
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May 11, 2021 50 mins
Hello and welcome to the A-List, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, host Tom Christmann talks with Danny Gregory. Danny is the founder of Sketchbook Skool and the best-selling author of several books on creativity. But before all that he was in advertising. They talk about how Danny got in, but also how he got out to start his own business teaching...
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March 8, 2021 56 mins
In this episode of the A-List Podcast, Tom Christmann, creative for hire at tomchristmann.net and one of the Head Adnerds at Adhouse Advertising School, talks with one of the baddest women in advertising, Eva McCloskey. Eva didn’t go to college, but that didn’t stop her from finding herself as a VIP media liaison for John Hancock at the Salt Lake City Olympics at the ripe old age of 21. Or becoming one of the founders of The Barba...
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March 1, 2021 58 mins
Hello Adnerd. This is the A-List Podcast. The podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. Your host is Tom Christmann, creative for hire at tomchristmann.net. And one of the Head Adnerds at Adhouse Advertising School. Today you’ll hear Tom's conversation with Sariah Dorbin, Executive Creative Director at Quigley-Simpson, an independent, female-owned agency in Los Angeles that un...
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February 21, 2021 59 mins
Welcome to another episode of The A-List Podcast, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, Tom Christmann chats with Bianca Guimaraes, Executive Creative Director at Mischief. Bianca was born and raised in Brazil and started her career in advertising in São Paulo at age 18. At 22, she bought her first pair of winter boots and moved to New York without a ...
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