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thedrum.com | Gordon Young
Kofi Amoo-Gottfried didn’t stumble into marketing; he recognized its power early. Growing up in Ghana, he watched brands such as Coca-Cola weave themselves into daily life not through flashy ads but by doing something useful. “You’d see branded umbrellas shading women at the market from the sun,” he says.
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thedrum.com | Gordon Young
Matt Scheckner has a knack for ending up in the wrong place and turning it into the right one. It’s a trait that’s defined his career ever since he wandered through City Hall as a college graduate, hoping for a job with nothing but a newspaper clipping from his mum and a sense of curiosity. “There was no internet, so I literally went to City Hall and got sent to the wrong place three times,” he remembers.
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2 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Gordon Young
Share We sit down with Keith Carswell, director of economic innovation and development for the City of Miami, as part of The Drum’s Miami Report . Miami has long been known for its sunshine and salsa, but if you ask Keith Carswell, director of economic innovation and development for the City of Miami, the real story now is cranes. Lots of them. “We’ve got more cranes in the air than any other city in the country,” he says. “There’s an energy here that’s just different.
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2 weeks ago |
thedrum.com | Gordon Young
For a school barely out of its 20s, Miami Ad School has punched well above its weight. It has launched global award-winners, fed the ranks of top agencies and helped put Miami on the creative map. But legacy only gets you so far, especially when AI, TikTok and generative everything are knocking on the classroom door. Enter Rebecca Rovirosa. Just three months into her role as executive director, she’s already dragging the curriculum into the chaos – and loving it.
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2 weeks ago |
thedrum.com | Gordon Young
When Globant, a 35,000-strong Argentine tech consultancy, acquired indie creative hot shop Gut two years ago, the ad world reacted with suspicion. Would one of the boldest voices in modern advertising be swallowed by the corporate machine? Or, would this be the start of something genuinely different? Two years on, the answer seems to be taking shape – in glowing neon. Gut has just moved into its first permanent HQ in Miami’s MiMo district, a building formerly home to The Community.
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