One Minute Brief of the Day:
Advertise #MerryCritmas with @Father_Critmas
Today we've got a special One Minute Brief to advertise our latest #MerryCritmas campaign at merrycritmas.com. We'd like every single person who reads this to pledge to roast a portfolio or have their portfolio roasted by a top creative in the industry. All you have to do is click a button on the site to give the gift of your time this Xmas.
Tweet your ads to @OneMinuteBriefs @Father_Critmas and sign up to get involved at merrycritmas.com. And SHARE!!!! We want as many people as possible in the creative industry to be involved!
Prizes:
- A book crit with @Father_Critmas
- Copy of the @OneMinuteBriefs Book
- Copy of the @AgencyQuotes Book
About:
What do
creative directors in New York, London, Ottawa, Munich, and Manchester have in
common? For the first time ever, the answer is Merry Critmas - a festive
campaign encouraging ad agency staffers to give a book crit this December.
The idea
is simple - Save a turkey, roast a creative at merrycritmas.com
Visitors
to the website pick a side, choosing to either ‘roast a creative’ or ‘get
roasted’. After sharing a few details, campaign mascot Father Critmas makes
those all important matches between senior industry staff and aspiring
creatives.
Merry
Critmas came
from a conversation between copywriter Alex Goddard with creative team Asa
Bradshaw and David Felton about how difficult it is for young creatives to even
get a book crit these days.
“People
are a little kinder in December” said Alex, and the idea grew from there.
“For
undiscovered talent trying to break into advertising, it’s the perfect gift”
said Asa and David. “And for established creatives it’s an easy way of giving
something back. Just half an hour of their time can make a real difference. And
you never know who might walk through the door.”
After discussing
the idea with Nick Entwistle, Creative Director at MAGNAFI & founder of One Minute Briefs, the idea began to be brought to
life as we created a film featuring one of Father Critmas’ infamous book crits. Then the collaboration grew further, with
Trunk creating some amazing illustrations & building the website merrycritmas.com
“Here at
Magnafi we’re all about collaboration” said Nick Entwistle.
“When
people collaborate, anything is possible. We witnessed that last year when we
helped the NHS Choir beat Justin Bieber to Xmas No1. So, when Alex, Asa and
David got in touch about Merry Critmas we couldn’t resist the chance to
get involved and bring others on board to something special for the creative
industry this Christmas.”
As part
of the campaign Father Critmas will be tweeting from his very own Twitter feed,
@OneMinuteBriefs will be running a day brief and @AgencyQuotes will be getting
involved with Christmas cards being sent out in December.
With a
number of top creatives already on board, including Vikki Ross, Rory Sutherland
& Tom Richards, we are looking to grow the campaign and help to bring the
creative industry together for a very #MerryCritmas.