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Ad 2 Public Service Partners with The BrandLab

by Forest Taylor June 12, 2012

Ad 2 Minneapolis is excited to announce its partnership with The BrandLab and the re-launch of its public service program.
If you’ve heard of The BrandLab, their selection as an Ad Fed partner for 2012 is probably obvious. Since it was founded several years ago, The BrandLab has reached out to an ever-increasing number of classrooms [...]

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They came, they saw, they devoured. Summer OlympiAD2 Pub Crawl 2012.

by Tim Putnam May 21, 2012

What a great night we had last Thursday at The Summer OlympiAD2 Pub Crawl! A slew of advertising and marketing professionals and students alike gathered at Williams in Uptown Minneapolis for the first stop of the night. They  networked, competed, and enjoyed the food/beverage specials offered especially for pub-crawlers. The dart boards, foosball tables, and [...]

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The Future of Magazines in the Digital Age? Engage, Learn, Grow.

by Joan Erakit May 7, 2012

Printed magazines will continue to be an important piece of the consumer’s life; this is the message I walked away with during last week’s Magazine Day – an annual gathering hosted by the Advertising Federation of Minnesota (Ad Fed) to discuss the role magazines play in a time of mass communication and ever evolving technology.
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Experience Magazine Day 2012

by Leah Zins April 30, 2012

Picture, for a moment, a large room. In the room there are rows of tables. Neatly stacked upon these tables are magazines. Not just a few, thousands. Every title imaginable is free for the taking, from GQ to Wired, Glamour to Newsweek. The doors are open for the attendees to freely grab as many titles [...]

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The Inaugural AdFed MN Bowl-O-Rama 2012!

by Matthew Martin April 24, 2012

On Thursday night, April 19, the first annual Bowl-O-Rama, at Memory Lanes and Throwback Café in Minneapolis, was a new hit event for the Advertising Federation of Minnesota (AdFed)!  Twenty-one lanes contained 100+ AdFed members and others from the ad community ready to bowl their hearts out.
Dress was casual and some teams created their own [...]

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Trendspotting of Generation Go

by Jack Fahden April 24, 2012

In front of a full crowd at International Market Square in Minneapolis, Ann Mack, director of Trendspotting for JWT, revealed the top ten trends that will shape 2012. There was no mention of the end of world, so we’re good in that respect.
Ann spoke in-depth about a variety of trends, the societal and economic forces [...]

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Top Five Reasons You Should Attend Ad Fed’s Inaugural Bowl-O-Rama

by Leah Zins April 16, 2012

Written By: Leah Zins & Lacey Cobb
The Special Events committee has decided to try something new and exciting to parallel the other annual Advertising Federation of Minnesota (Ad Fed) events. We bring you: Bowl-O-Rama 2012. Come one, come all. Regardless of your skill (or lack thereof), you will want to be here, and here is [...]

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Re-cap: Ad2 Event at OLSON

by Matthew Martin April 8, 2012

On the 10th floor of a once abandoned Ford plant (that now towers over Target Field) in Minneapolis’ Warehouse District rests the new home of Olson. While taking a tour, it’s not hard to be amazed at the amount of space and openness on each floor. With the windows still preserved from the former tenants, [...]

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AdFed/AD2 Pub-Crawl:  2012 Summer OlympiAD²

by Matthew Jollie April 5, 2012

Does the term, “Work hard, play hard” mean anything to you?
Our volunteers for Ad2 have been working hard all year to bring you some of the best networking events in the country – and that’s no fanciful claim. Ad2 Minnesota was officially awarded First Place by Ad2 National Operations for Club Achievement Programs 2011-12! What [...]

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Check it Out: OLSON New Space, New Trends, New Connections

by Tiffany Jackson April 2, 2012

On Thursday, April 5, 2012 from 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., OLSON invites members of Ad2, students and professionals for a night of new!

As a “house warming party” and a chance to show off their new “pad,” Olson is kicking off the evening with a tour of their new office space that was designed by [...]

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