🏆 The Creative Floor Awards First Deadline: 06 March
📅 Full entry dates and details: https://thecreativefloor.com/
Best of luck to everyone entering, and thank you for supporting work that changes careers and lives through our Talent & Diversity Fund.

🗳️ New for 2026: Public Vote Categories
Anyone can judge. Literally anyone. The real question: does our award-winning jury know better than the internet? We’re about to find out.
📧 Email: awards@thecreativefloor.com

📢 Hiring or promoting something useful?
Open roles, services, or opportunities welcome.
👂 Email: awards@thecreativefloor.com

💡 The Creative Floor Awards Mentorship Platform
Feeling stuck? Not reaching your full potential? You're in good company as the greatest creatives never do it alone. We cover confidence, personal branding, how to thrive redundancy, award case studies, portfolios, creative direction, career progression, pitching, presentation skills, and everything in between. Mentorship starts from just £29.
Get guidance, perspective, or just some headspace here 👉https://thecreativefloor.com/mentorship

📘 Agency Tales: The Book
Available here 👉 https://thecreativefloor.com/agency-tales
WIN a limited edition signed screen print of the book cover with every purchase.
🎁 Details: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUshGDSjNNh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

🎙️ Straya calling 🇦🇺 The Creative Floor Awards continues its Australian tour. And to celebrate the launch of our new Mentorship platform, we are talking about leadership. What it is. What it isn't. And how you actually get there. Because leadership is lonely. It's messy. And most people never talk about it honestly. This episode is not about titles, LinkedIn buzzwords or performative confidence. It is about what leadership really feels like when the meeting ends, the door closes, and you are the one left holding the pressure. We sit down with Jeremy Perrott, former Global Chief Creative Officer of McCann Health, and June Laffey, former CCO of McCann Health New York and now a Creative Leadership Coach. We get into the reality of leadership, not the LinkedIn version:
• Protecting your agency’s values when everyone else wants the easy win
• Standing up for creativity when compromise feels easier
• Backing the troublemakers instead of silencing them
• Absorbing pressure without cracking
The question is simple. How do you lead without selling out your people or yourself? The Ultimate Guide to Leadership tackles doubt, pressure and the messy human side of leading. Real honesty. Real tools. And the blueprint for creating brave, life-changing work, and a legacy for yourself.

⚠️ Language is colourful.
🍺 Could be Aussie punctuation.
🤷 Who knows.

Grab a cold one and plug in.
For mentorship and support from today’s panel:
The Creative Floor Awards Mentorship: https://thecreativefloor.com/mentorship
June Laffey: https://www.junelaffey.com/
Jeremy Perrott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-perrott-257246168/
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🏆 Next Creative Floor Awards Deadline: 06 March
📅 Full dates and entry details: https://thecreativefloor.com/awards
Best of luck to everyone entering, and thank you for supporting work that changes careers and lives through our Talent & Diversity Fund.

🗳️ New for 2026: Public Vote categories
Anyone can judge. Literally anyone.
The real question: does our award-winning jury know better than the internet? We’re about to find out.

🔍 Looking for work?
We’ll shout about you. Send us your LinkedIn, portfolio, even a voice note ad if you’re feeling brave. And we'll add it to our next episode.
🆓 Completely free.
📩 awards@thecreativefloor.com

📢 Hiring or promoting something useful?
Open roles, services, or opportunities welcome.
👂 Same email. Same ears.

📘 Agency Tales: The Book
Available here 👉 https://awards.thecreativefloor.com/agency-tales

🎙️ G’day 🇦🇺 The Creative Floor Awards heads to Australia

Yes, we’ve gone to the land of Crocodile Dundee, Neighbours, and a shrimp on the barbie. We sat down with Hugh Fitzahardinge (Ward 7), Ryan Wallman (Wellmark), and Tobe Pickford (The Health Army) to shine a spotlight on the Australian healthcare advertising market.

🥊 It might be smaller than some, but historically it’s punched well above its weight.
This is the country that gave us Dumb Ways to Die, Check Your Date Mate, Meet Graham, and countless campaigns that quietly (and sometimes loudly) changed health comms forever.

🔍 We get behind the famous projects, the lesser-known ones, and the very Australian way of making healthcare work actually land. Hear what’s happening in the market right now, where it’s heading, and what the rest of us could probably steal.

📖 Along the way, the lads share some legendary Australian advertising stories you almost definitely haven’t heard before… worth the listen for those alone.

⚠️ Fair warning: there is a lot of swearing in this episode.
🍺 That might be the beers.
🤷 Or maybe it just doesn’t count as swearing in Australia. Unclear.

🍻 Grab a drink, stick your headphones in, and pretend you’re sat with us down the pub.

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🔗 Links mentioned in the episode:
Dumb Ways to Die: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw&list=RDIJNR2EpS0jw&start_radio=1
Meet Graham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YyWbOAu6S8
Seat Belt Safety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1q4yVA71Xo

🏆 The Creative Floor Awards First Awards Deadline: 06 March
📅 Full dates and entry details are live on the site: https://thecreativefloor.com/awards

Best of luck to everyone entering, and thank you for supporting work that changes careers and lives through our Talent & Diversity Fund.

🗳️ New for 2026: Public Vote categories
Anyone can judge. Literally anyone.The real question is whether our award-winning jury knows better than the internet. We’re about to find out.

📩 awards@thecreativefloor.com

🔍 Looking for work?
We’ll shout about you. LinkedIn, portfolio, even a voice note ad if you’re feeling brave.
🆓 Completely free.
📩 awards@thecreativefloor.com

Talent Available for hire

Award Winning Motion Director, Marcus Kenyon

👉 https://marcuskenyon.com/

📢 Hiring or promoting something useful?
Open roles, services, or opportunities welcome.
👂 Same email. Same ears.

📘 Agency Tales: The Book
Available here:
👉 https://awards.thecreativefloor.com/agency-tales

🎙️ This episode: From Adland to Netflix

❄️ This week, we head to Chicago (because London clearly isn’t cold enough) to sit down with TJ Cimfel, Chief Creative Officer at Avalere Health. Alongside the day job, TJ has made four feature films. The latest, Don’t Move, launched on Netflix in 2024 and went number one in 68 countries for two weeks. No big deal. So naturally, I asked him to break down exactly how you do that.

🛠️ This episode is a step-by-step guide to getting a feature film made:
• Getting an agent
• Selling a script
• Working with platforms like Netflix, Apple, and Disney
• What actually matters
• What’s mostly nonsense
• How much success comes from smart strategy versus sheer persistence

🚫 No highlight reel. No myth-making. Just the real process.

💡 If you’ve got a film idea sitting quietly in the back of your head and no clue where to start, this episode is for you. Even if you don’t, you’ll want one after this.

📓 Get your notebook out. This one’s unmissable.

⚠️ Light swearing. Parental advisory. You’ve been warned.
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🔗 Links mentioned in the episode:
Academy Nicholl Fellowships: https://www.oscars.org/nicholl
The Black List: https://blcklst.com/

TJ’s next film with Mila Kunis and Ridley Scott: https://deadline.com/2026/01/mila-kunis-nightwatching-scott-free-1236691811/

Message TJ: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjcimfel/

⏰ Early Bird Deadline: 06 February
Yes, it’s real. Yes, it’s this Friday.
All key dates and entry details are live on our site.
Best of luck to everyone entering, and thank you for backing work that genuinely changes careers and lives through our Talent & Diversity Fund. Not just shiny trophies. Actual impact.
👉 https://thecreativefloor.com/awards

🗳️ New for 2026: Public Vote categories
Anyone can judge. Literally anyone with WiFi and an opinion.
The big question: does our award-winning jury know better than the internet?
Bold of us to ask. Let’s find out. 📩 awards@thecreativefloor.com

🔍 Looking for work?
We’ll shout about you. Loudly.
LinkedIn. Portfolio. Even a voice note ad if you’re feeling chaotic.
🆓 Completely free. 📩 awards@thecreativefloor.com
📢 Hiring or promoting something genuinely useful?
Open roles. Services. Opportunities.
No spam energy. Same inbox. 📩 awards@thecreativefloor.com
📘 Agency Tales. The book.
100% of profits go straight into our Talent & Diversity Fund.
👉 https://awards.thecreativefloor.com/agency-tales

🎙️ This episode
This week, we’re heading to Dubai (because apparently everyone else is) to unpack one of the most talked-about healthcare campaigns of the past year.

We sit down with Alok Gadkar, Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Tuesday, alongside Shamrock Nevis, Senior Creative Director, to break down their bold Harley-Davidson collaboration tackling testicular and prostate cancer awareness in the UAE.
Yes. Really. 🏍️🎶

They brought together a group of real Harley riders to form the Tough Nuts Choir, creating a film that somehow balances comedy with cultural sensitivity in one of the region’s most conservative healthcare categories.

This isn’t your usual case-study fluff. We go full nuts-and-bolts (pun fully intended) on how to write comedy into serious healthcare work. From creative strategy and client buy-in to execution in a conservative market, Alok and Shamrock walk through exactly how they made it work, and how your team can steal the process.

💡 Described as a free masterclass for agencies, this episode offers rare, practical insight into healthcare creativity you genuinely won’t hear anywhere else.

🔗 Watch the Tough Nuts Choir film:
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRKOE4_Eshg/

⏰ Early Bird Deadline: 06 February
📅 Full dates are live on the site. Best of luck to everyone entering, and thank you for supporting work that changes careers and lives through our Talent & Diversity Fund.
💡 Got a genuinely life-changing idea? Fund pitches close 31 January.

🗳️ New for 2026: Public Vote categories
Anyone can judge. Literally anyone.
🤔 The big question: does our award-winning jury know better than the internet?
👀 We’re about to find out.

🔍 Looking for work?
📣 We’ll shout about you. LinkedIn, portfolio, even a voice note ad if you’re feeling brave.
🆓 Completely free.
📩 Email: awards@thecreativefloor.com

📢 Hiring or promoting something useful?
Open roles, services, opportunities?
👂 Same email. Same ears.

📘 Agency Tales, our new book is out now on Amazon. Find your local link here:
👉 https://awards.thecreativefloor.com/agency-tales

🎙️ This episode
Today we’re talking to Paul Burke. Writer. Producer. Director. Radio advertising legend. The kind of legend where people say, “Oh… Paul Burke?” and nod seriously. Paul has won more awards for radio ads than anyone else in the world. Ever. He’s also directed hundreds of actors, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Rowan Atkinson, Joanna Lumley, and David Tennant. Just a normal Tuesday. Paul’s been on the podcast before sharing some excellent agency war stories. This time, we dig into his journey from dispatch rider to writer at Abbott Mead Vickers. If you’re trying to break into a creative department, pay attention. These lessons are still painfully relevant. If you’re new to the industry or working outside the UK, you’ll love this one. Paul also shares stories and lessons from some of advertising’s greats, including David Abbott, Peter Mead, Richard Foster, John Horton, and Chris O’Shea.

⚠️ Light swearing. Parental advisory. You have been warned.

📖 Paul’s articles in The Spectator
👉 https://spectator.com/writer/paul-burke/

🎧 Paul’s work
👉 https://www.paulburkecreative.com/
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🎉 Season 8 is here. Happy 2026. Brace yourselves.
🏆 The Creative Floor Awards are officially open.
⏰ Early Bird Deadline: 06 February
📅 Full entry dates and details:
👉 https://thecreativefloor.com/awards

🍀 Best of luck to everyone entering, and thank you for supporting work that changes careers and lives through our Talent & Diversity Fund.

💡 Got a life-changing idea?
🚨 Fund pitches close 30 January
👉 https://thecreativefloor.com/awards

🗳️ New for 2026: Public Vote categories.
Anyone can judge. Yes, that includes you.

🔍 Looking for work?
📣 Share your LinkedIn or portfolio and we’ll shout about you in future podcast episodes.
🆓 Free.
📩 awards@thecreativefloor.com

📢 Hiring or promoting something useful?
Open roles, services, or opportunities welcome.
👂 Same ears.
📩 awards@thecreativefloor.com

📘 Agency Tales, our new book, is out now on Amazon.
🌍 Find your local link here:
👉 https://awards.thecreativefloor.com/agency-tales

🎙️ This episode
We break down what actually happened in 2025 and what’s really coming in 2026 with Tim Jones (Klick Health) and John McPartland (Ogilvy Health), co-founders of Creative Rounds.

🔥 If LinkedIn feels like a bin fire of gloom, this is the unfiltered version.
🤖 AI in real agency life
💼 What clients are actually buying
📈 Where growth is coming from
🎨 What creative departments might look like next

⚠️ Light swearing. Parental advisory. You’ve been warned.

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This week our industry was shaken by nearly 4,000 layoffs, and in response we have released a special emergency episode of The Creative Floor Awards Podcast.

From the emotional shock of losing a job to the anxiety, fear, anger and confusion that follow, this episode breaks the silence around what layoffs really feel like. It offers practical coping techniques, ways to regain structure, advice on protecting your energy and a reminder that even though it may not feel like it today, this moment can eventually become a turning point.

If you have been affected, or you are supporting someone who has, this episode is for you.
You are not alone.

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This week we’re joined by none other than Ben Kay - podcaster, blogger, novelist, Creative Review contributor, ex-Creative Director at Apple, Droga5, AMV, Luna BBDO etc… basically, a walking awards cabinet. 🏆

Ben’s dipped his toes into the world of pharma advertising and shares his observations. In this episode, Ben breaks down what healthcare marketing can borrow from the fruit-shaped tech giants in Cupertino (spoiler: it’s not just clean design and turtle-necked presentations).

💡 What to expect:
🍎 Apple-level creative thinking
💊 Pharma truths with a twist
🙃 Advice you’ll actually use
🎤 One or two mic drops. Maybe more...

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