It has been almost two months since I started interning at Maiden Media and it’s been a wonderful experience so far. For those of you who might want to intern at Maiden, here’s a short list to summarize what I’ve witnessed there: Interns are treated as employees- no getting anyone’s…
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The Experiences of Temple Advertising Students
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Getting cozy in Old City
Maiden Media is a new resident to Old City Philadelphia. The agency originated in Princeton, NJ and made the move to the city of brotherly love just this past summer in hopes to grow from the many opportunities Philly offers. Being located in NJ, their clients were from the area…
First Day
Yesterday was my first day at LevLane. It made me realize something. And that was my passion for creating, tinkering on ideas late into the night never wanting to stop. Sitting with blood shot eyes and mindless fingers putting it together as carefully as a surgeon. I was Dr. Frankenstein,…
PHL17 Internship – "Hey! That's my bus!"
After doing a sales internship with PHL17 this summer, I decided that TV is an interesting industry and I wanted to give the creative department a try. This semester, I was fortunate to join the creative team during a logo and name change, which meant lots of new outdoor ads.…
Measuring Success
Since I’ve been at Harmelin Media, I’ve been able to work on different phases of a media plan Today I was able to measure how successful a media buy was for a specific client. I really enjoyed working on this, maybe because I thought the client was an interesting one,…
Halloween at Cities2night.
I have been interning at Cities2night for about a little over a month and we just successfully completed our big promotional event for Halloween. The event was a scavenger hunt and it took place at 8 different bars on South St with a grand prize of a gift certificate for $250 . It seems…
Single Most Important Thing I Learned At My Internship:
Know everything. If you don’t know it, go learn it. I feel like it is a common misconception that once you leave university, you don’t need to learn enough. People think they are prepared for the workforce and jump into a job. Advertising is the exact opposite. Of course you’ve…
LevLane: Social Media
Because social media is becoming such a widespread medium for advertising, I have been doing quite the bit of research on how to reach clients and consumers via social networking. The main client I have been doing this for is Beneficial Bank, one of LevLane’s biggest clients. Although I don’t…
Try it out.
After interning for a handful of companies, it was important for me to actually choose an internship in my senior year that I would enjoy. I had previously interned for a major production company, a small agency, and some other businesses, and although I learned a great deal from each…
“Pick Me: Breaking into Advertising and Staying There” Book Review
There are many different ways to break into the business of advertising. Know someone, that knows someone, that knows someone important Have a kick-ass portfolio and/or resume that would have any recruiter salivating to have you Stalk a recruiter Get internships Go to more networking events than there are days…
When Should I Get an Internship?
The most common question people have when starting a career in any field is, “When do I get an internship?” Some people will tell you to wait until your junior year. I say, “Why wait?” If you have an idea of what career path you want to take, start finding…
My _____ : Round 2
We all used Myspace. It was our first foray into the world of social media… “EXCUSE US! Don’t forget about Friendster! WE ushered the way for Myspace….” Oops, sorry Friendster. 2003 feels sooo long ago. Please don’t be mad. So as I was saying, Myspace, even though it wasn’t the…
