| | | | | First Things First | | March 3, 2020 | By Jess Zafarris and Jameson Fleming |
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| Coronavirus Updates: Facebook and Twitter Pull Out of SXSW | |
| | Twitter announced Sunday that it was suspending all noncritical business travel and events, which included CEO Jack Dorsey’s scheduled return to South by Southwest, due to coronavirus. The company notified employees that the suspension would remain in place “until the World Health Organization or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deem it appropriate to step back from pandemic precautionary measures, or when a vaccine becomes available.” Facebook followed Twitter's lead, pulling out of SXSW and limiting travel by employees. It comes on the heels of Facebook's decision to cancel its F8 developer conference, which was set to be held in May. Local residents of Austin, Texas are pressuring the city to cancel the conference, fearing travelers could bring the virus to the city. As of late Monday, more than 25,000 people signed a petition to cancel the conference. A number of cancellations took place on Monday: Read more: See a full list of cancellations and impacts. Related: The major holding companies made decisions on how they plan to address concerns over the coronavirus. Some networks like Dentus Aegis and Omnicom Group have already closed offices after employees contracted the virus. The others have restricted travel, especially to "high-risk areas," and some have instituted quarantine periods for anyone who has traveled to areas where the virus has been identified. See the full list of actions taken by the holding companies to protect their employees.
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| | Adweek Promos and Events | Meet the Industry Leaders Talking Artificial Intelligence | |
| | Are you interested in artificial intelligence's role in chatbots, entertainment, customer experience and your marketing strategy? You can't miss Elevate: AI on March 19th in NYC - an entire day of sessions with industry leaders on the future of advertising. Last tickets available. | |
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| Agencies Share Their In-Office Sustainability Efforts | |
"As an experience marketing agency, our efforts are three-pronged because we are thinking about sustainability in our offices, our fabrication facilities, and on site at events. At all 30 of our offices, we have enforced a robust recycling plan that includes electronics, and have moved to either reduce or eliminate single-use products. Our fabrication and graphic production facilities in the US, China and Europe identify and utilize environmentally friendly materials and inks, and we’ve upgraded our facilities to energy-efficient LED lights." —Otto Rosenbusch, svp, operations, George P. Johnson Experience Marketing "Here are some outcomes from our Green Team initiatives that we implemented in the summer of 2019: - Composting – We are composting about 100 gallons of waste each week or 5000 gallons per year.
- Can/bottle reduction – We installed our Bevi machine in July 2019 and since that time we have saved 13,152 cans/bottles of water.
- One-time use plate/flatware removal – We hold roughly 10 cookouts each year, plus probably another 10 full-staff meals. From these meals alone, we have saved several thousand plastic forks/spoons from going to the landfill.
- Single-use creamers – Since the middle of 2019, we no longer use single-use creamer containers. If even half of the 160 people in our building were using one creamer before, that’s 2,400 fewer containers going to the landfill per month.
- Centralized Trash – We no longer have individual trash receptacles in offices and work stations. Each employee brings his or her own trash to the multi-stream collection locations around the office. The result is that more trash is being appropriately sorted. In addition, the centralized collection locations saves our cleaning crew about 10 hours per week."
—Scott Chapin, COO at Marcus Thomas | | | |
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| AMC’s Kim Kelleher on Her Move to TV and the Power of Consistency | |
| | Anyone who knows Kim Kelleher knows she keeps it real. So, it comes as no surprise to many of us in the media and marketing world that Kim is a big believer of authenticity and consistency, or in other words, embracing her whole self. Recently, Kim made the leap from publishing to television, with a few stops in digital media (and support from her “girl gang” along the way). Here, Kim shares some of her valuable learnings, all of which are worth leaning into. | | | |
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| | Featured Jobs | FullContact Denver, Colorado | KKR & Co New York, New York | confidential New York, New York | Illinois Public Media WILL - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois | Expensify San Francisco, California | | |
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