Episodes

  • 25.7 Nursery rhymes and winter swims

    25.7 Nursery rhymes and winter swims
    Sep 29 2025

    A long time coming, this episode brings the godfather of AUT AdSchool, Mr Paul White, back into the dungeon of AUT. He taught the three of us most of what we know and regales us with stories of how the course came about, what has changed over the years and how he spends his time now he's no longer inspiring the youth on a daily basis.


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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 25.6 The most valuable things with Rhiana Merota

    25.6 The most valuable things with Rhiana Merota
    Apr 10 2025
    The perfect follow up to last week's episode, Rhiana Merota (2021 Ad Grad) worked on the Export Ultra Cold Call Back and talks us through how that worked, navigating her first few years in the industry and some of the other award-winning campaigns she's worked on.

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    38 mins
  • 25.5 Drug Driving Cold Call

    25.5 Drug Driving Cold Call
    Apr 3 2025
    Two campaigns that probably shouldn't be in the same episode. NZTA's Don't let the drugs drive and Export Ultra's Cold Call Back Service.

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    26 mins
  • 25.4 Meet your Maker

    25.4 Meet your Maker
    Mar 25 2025

    Matt and Dan catch up with fellow Ad Dad and recent Ad Grad, Tom Maker. TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains graphic descriptions and questionable opinions about birth, award shows and the creative process.


    Here's the campaign Tom's most proud of. Fingers crossed for the win tomorrow night.


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    32 mins
  • 25.3 Flashman

    25.3 Flashman
    Mar 21 2025
    This episode is a throwback to last year's trip to London where we catch up with 2019 Ad Grad, Jake Flashman. Jake talks about his switch from working for big international agencies to taking a different track through brand and marketing to the start of a new career in London

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    53 mins
  • 25.2 Seek Xero Perky

    25.2 Seek Xero Perky
    Mar 12 2025
    We go back to the original format for this episode. Matt brings in a couple of radio ads for Xero (1 & 2), Dan reveals the Seekret and after talking about the importance of brand names we look at some tattoos.

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    29 mins
  • 25.1 Outsmarted them

    25.1 Outsmarted them
    Jan 29 2025
    Ad Dads is back for 2025. Matt and Dan catch up for the first time and swap Christmas stories.

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    15 mins
  • 2024 Wrapped

    2024 Wrapped
    Dec 18 2024

    Our last podcast for the year. Matt and Dan have a special guest! It's the beauty to our beasts, the rose to our thorns, the brains to our brawn - the inimitable Jo Page.


    Apologies for a couple of quiet months, listen in to find out why you haven't heard from the Ad Dads lately.


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    39 mins