Ayanna Jackson joined AAF Omaha members and guests via a Zoom webinar gathering on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 for an engaging interactive conversation examining why there is a need for diversity, equity and inclusion in advertising. Ayanna lead this open conversation about racism, prejudice and unconscious bias. Read More
‘The Viewing Vortex’ shared the latest on new and unexpected viewing trends in 2020, an updated breakdown on how to approach video and television audiences and the latest options for buying ‘watchable’ advertising. Read More
On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 Yeosh Bendayan joined AAF Omaha presenting a webinar “Introducing Your Clients to Branded Podcasts.” More than 25 attendees tuned in to gain insights from Yeosh’s expertise in Branded Podcasting. Read More
Morning Consult and the American Advertising Federation discussed new data examining how brands can navigate this tumultuous and troubling time by driving situation-sensitive, yet purpose-led growth. Read More
On April 16th AAF Omaha offered our members and the advertising community a virtual AdBites Zoom webinar. Our keynote speaker David Campbell, President and COO of Chernoff Newman shared his insights on Crisis Communication presenting from his home office in Columbia, North Carolina to 47 of or members and professionals from the Omaha advertising community. Read More
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak the AAF Omaha Breakfast and Tax Solutions “Let’s Talk About Tax” event was held as a webinar. Read More
On Saturday, February 22, 2020 the Nebraska advertising community came together to celebrate the best advertising created in Nebraska during the American Advertising Awards | Nebraska ADDYs Show 20/20 Creative Vision. This year in Nebraska the American Advertising Awards competition had more than 500 professional and student entries. Read More
This year during AAF Omaha – Meet the Pros 2020 the federation hosted more than 150 students, professors and young professionals. Our next generation of advertising professionals learned “You Don’t Have to Go Far to Get Far.” Read More
AAF Omaha’s Holiday Party was held on December 17th at the Field Club of Omaha. More than 75 members and guests gathered for the annual celebration to Celebrate the Season. Read More
You can always say something nice, but it’s more fun to ROAST ‘em.
On November 7th AAF Omaha hosted the seventh annual “BOOM! ROASTED.” The event gave attendees the chance to be a little less-than-nice to Omaha’s Mr. Nice Guy Mike Compton, Executive Vice President at Renze Display. Read More
Thank you to our corporate members from OBI Creative for hosting AdConnect or as we called it on May 9th Nueve de Mayo Thirsty Thursday. Our Membership team plans AdConnects quarterly. AAF Omaha invites you to attend these networking events to Connect. Network. Relax. with our members and area advertising professionals.
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Ryan Soutter
Director of Sales Engineering, Verzion Media
ACT – Ad Creative Tech
With several emerging technologies furthering the advancement of immersive experiences in advertising, the creative possibilities for marketers are endless. On April 16th Verizon Media’s Ryan Soutter took us for a journey through the new reality of XR and how to prepare for the fourth industrial revolution as we approach the 5G era. Read More
AAF Omaha celebrated 58 years of hosting Meet the Pros on February 18 & 19. With loads of new content for attendees we presented new speakers this year along with more professionals from more categories, plus internships and scholarships for students to apply for. Meet the Pros 2019 was where aspiration met inspiration. Read More
The inaugual ON Brand conference held on July 26, 2018 was a great success thanks to the Omaha branding community and our generous sponsors.
n Tuesday, May 8th AAF Omaha welcomed Ashton Gary from Goodway Group. Ashton spent nearly 10 years working in digital media planning and strategy for dozens of brands. Now as a director of account strategy at Goodway Group, he helps agency clients at all levels – from multinational to hyperlocal – leverage the right campaign touch points based on their needs. Read More
