August 01, 2016
The unique contributions internal agencies and creative teams make deserves recognition, wouldn’t you agree? Well, how does winning the In-House Agency of the Year Award sound? I bet it would sound pretty good to your team; imagine how great it would sound to your clients! (I’ll give you a moment …
July 25, 2016
Last week, IHAF’s Associate Director, Emily Foster, and Business Development Manager, Kate O’Callaghan, facilitated a webinar on “Optimizing Your Membership.” This 40-minute session gave members and non-members a closer look at all of the programming and benefits IHAF has to offer.
IHAF members …
July 18, 2016
IHAF’s biggest event of the year is right around the corner—the IHAF Annual Conference & Awards Show. The IHAF program team is hard at work lining up top speakers, topical breakout sessions, and the most opportunities to network with other in-house teams. This year’s conference honors the Game …
July 11, 2016
“The best way to stand out is by blending in.” That’s just one of many quotables imparted by this year’s IHAF Huddle facilitator, ChRiS Gomersall, as our regional discussion group series came to a close last month. In fact, ChRiS had the hundred or so people who attended our Huddles in Boston, …
July 01, 2016
By now, most in-house agencies have looked for ways to leverage workflow and DAM systems to help them run more efficiently. Many are even on their second- or third-generation solutions. At the same time, others could benefit from taking a step back and thinking more-broadly about how these tools …
June 13, 2016
Tomorrow marks the first of our Huddle regional discussion groups—facilitated by leading expert and former Instagram and Facebook executive ChRiS Gomersall, CEO of ATOMIZED.
ChRiS is a problem solver. In fact, shortly into his tenure at Facebook, he spotted a problem his clients were having …
June 06, 2016
This month marks the start of our annual Huddle discussion group series—one of IHAF’s most popular events. These half-day sessions are ideal for in-house agency leaders and individual contributors alike. This year’s Huddle focuses on the rise of Omni-Channel Marketing and the challenge of keeping …
May 23, 2016
Over the years, we have seen the inevitable—rising fluctuations in ad spending across online and offline media. And just when we seem to have digital figured out, we are confronted by more programmatic, bots, non-viewability, and fraud reporting.
Well, this is not a silver bullet blog post on …
May 16, 2016
Two expressions often come to mind in my day as a creative recruiter: “Time kills all deals,” and “Numbers don’t lie.”
Right now, with a strong economy, unemployment around 5% and great candidates getting snapped up faster than you can say “You’re hired,” some organizations find their job reqs …
May 02, 2016
I met IHAF Board Chair Mark Gibson late last year at the 2015 HOW Design Live Conference in Chicago. Mark was attending the conference in support of IHAF and two members of his in-house agency at State Farm Insurance creative team who were presenting a session on how to increase influence in house. …