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Sydney’s Top Advertising School
Go to school at a different ad agency each week.
Our instructors host you at their agency: Clemenger BBDO, DDB, Havas, JWT, Leo Burnett, M&C Saatchi, McCann, Ogilvy, R/GA, Saatchi & Saatchi, TBWA are all part of our teaching network.
Join one of our 12-week boot camps and accelerate your career as a planner, strategist, UX designer, copy writer or social media expert.
You’ll not only build a great portfolio that will get the attention of future employers. You’ll also develop an amazing network of contacts. Sydney’s top strategy and creative talent will help you
plan and design innovative campaigns that you’ll get to present to real clients.
Sydney is one of the world’s most beautiful and liveable cities
It is also one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse cities in Australia and the world. Going to school at ad agencies means you get to know the different neighbourhoods and their creative culture, from the historic Rocks area to Barangaroo, the new ‘Manhattan by the harbour’.
Our summers often stretch from August to late May. So the 32 beaches that line Sydney’s coastline are lively all year round. Each has its own cultural tribe. It all makes for a big melting pot of creativity, just like Miami Ad School.
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DEVELOP A PORTFOLIO AND NETWORK OF INDUSTRY CONTACTS
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Advertising Awards Mean Advertising Jobs
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R/GA’s Jess Greenwood: Is Strategic Planning For You?
Miami Ad School Boot Camp for Strategic Planning mentor Jess Greenwood on what makes a good planner.
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A Tokyo Advertising Internship Translates into a Life-Altering Experience
“Every time I travel, my mind is consumed, wondering what the lives of the people that live at my destination are really like. What do they do for a living? What do they do for fun? Are they happy? Maybe I should’ve been a sociologist, but instead I’m a copywriter. But I guess that sometimes, it’s the same thing.”
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Network Your Way To A Creative Career
At Miami Ad School, you’ll have networking opportunities every single day. These priceless chances to make contacts will enrich your creative career.
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Creativity Is A Superpower: Miami Ad School Student Helps #BuildTheWalls After Mexico Earthquake
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Up-and-Coming Account Planners: Get The Recognition You Deserve!
The “Pick of the Litter” recognizes the work of emerging strategy professionals. Winners to be announced at the 4A’s Strategy Festival this October 16–18.
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5 Writing Tips I Learned at Miami Ad School
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Failing Fast: Why Making Your Mistakes In School Helps Your Career Take Off From Day One
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Want a Creative Career? Here’s What You Need To Do.
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VIDEO: Jayanta Jenkins—How Far Will You Go?
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Do You Hate Something? Then Change Something.
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Jayanta Jenkins Redefines Twitter For Its Second Decade
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How Do You Stand Out in a Crowd? Create Something New.
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Your Job Placement Process Starts On Your Very First Day of School
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Learn From Top Social Media Strategists This Summer in Atlanta
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Opera Singer, Circus Performer, Attorney: What Students Did Before They Found Miami Ad School
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Opera Singer, Circus Performer, Attorney: What Students Did Before They Found Miami Ad School
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Copywrite Your Way to a Grammy Award
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9 Miami Ad School Grads Named to Business Insider’s 30 Most Creative Under 30
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A Powerful Symbol for Racial Harmony: ‘United Not Divided’
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‘I’m human. What are you?’
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$200,000 in Minority Advertising Scholarships
Miami Ad School launches the largest minority advertising scholarship program in the country! There has never been a better time to start your creative career. The industry is in crisis mode when it comes to minority involvement. Clients like Pepsi, General Mills and HP are demanding more diversity in their agencies.
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Apply Now for $200,000 in Minority Advertising Scholarships
Miami Ad School announces $200,000 in tuition scholarships annually for minority applicants.
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How To Be The New Hire Agencies Need
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R/GA’s Connected Office An Ideal Home for Alumni Trio
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Give Your Voice to Those Who Have Been Censored
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Social Media Yard Sale Earns Grad Team a Titanium Lion
Miami Ad School graduates (and team at Deutsch NY) Erika Kohnen and Lauren Cooper win a Titanium Lion at Cannes for their “First Ever Pinterest Yard Sale” for Krylon.
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The Deadline To Start Your Creative Career Is Nearly Here
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A Small Agency That’s Poised For Big Things
Miami Ad School Alum Ryan Kutscher’s agency, Circus Maximus, is recognized with the Small Agency Campaign of the Year honor from Ad Age.
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Meet the (Newest) Most Awarded Student In the World
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‘In advertising, you are only as good as your last ad.’ —CP+B CEO Andrew Keller
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On Second Thought, #PleaseTaseMeBro
In 2007 #DontTaseMeBro went viral and entered popular culture when a University of Florida student was tased by police officers at an academic forum. Flash forward to 2016 and the sad truth is we’d all gladly take a taser over a bullet.
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Social Media Milestones: The Miracle on the Hudson
Janis Krum’s tweet broke the news of US Airways flight 1549 water landing in New York’s Hudson River and beat the major news media.
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Graduates at Droga5 Bring Home a Lion
A Droga5 team of Miami Ad School graduates bring home a Lion from Cannes for their Solar Forecast work for NRG Energy.
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It’s Home Sweet Droga5 for this Swedish Miami Ad School Team
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20 Things You May Not Know About Being a Copywriter
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What Students Did Before and After Miami Ad School
Miami Ad School students have done all sorts of jobs before they found that a creative career was the right fit for them.
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Live on Facebook: Get a taste of the Miami Ad School Experience
Miami Ad School is the most awarded institution of its kind. But what’s it like to be a student? Our ongoing Facebook Live broadcasts give you a peek.
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See Inside Miami Ad School on Facebook Live
Miami Ad School is the most awarded institution of its kind. But what’s it like to be a student? Our new Facebook Live broadcasts will give an inside view.
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How Far You Go Is Up to You
Miami Ad School graduates can be found working at all levels in the industry. Here are the trajectories of three alumni who’ve gone a long way.
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What Is It Like to Work at Facebook?
“What I like most about Facebook is that everything has a purpose. That’s why I know I’m in the right place for me.”
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Art Director Andrés Ordóñez graduated in 2000 with a killer book and some international experience, having been one of the first to spend a quarter away interning in London. He was a talent on the cusp of greatness.
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Miami Ad School and Portfolio Center Impress in Graphis New Talent Annual
Miami Ad School and Portfolio Center proved the benefits of collaboration with a stellar showing in the 2016 Graphis New Talent Annual, with Portfolio Center students winning over five times as many awards as last year.
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Smartphone Photography – The Hottest Tool in Content Creation
Who would have dreamed that the smartphone would become the camera of choice for advertising agencies. (Thank you Steve Jobs for your vision!) The smartphone’s small size, attachable lenses and editing and photo-manipulation apps make it an amazing production tool.
Great News! Advertising Jobs Are at Their Highest Level Since 2001. Here’s Why:
With the boom of social media, brands need content for all the different platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Periscope, SnapChat…) The demand for content for social media has created a whole new discipline called content creation. Content creation is the hottest and fastest growing area of the business and one of the reasons advertising jobs are at their highest level since 2001 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Are You an Art Director? Here is a Trick to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing
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What Do You Do When You’re a Planner in Need of Inspiration?
Marco Ruckenbrod, a planner at Saatchi & Saatchi, takes a sabbatical and goes to Miami Ad School Boot Camp for Account Planning in Sydney and creates a great blog. “Plannatical.”
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Take Control of Your Career. Become Who You’re Meant to Be.
At Miami Ad School, from the day you start, you learn by doing. This video, created by three, first-quarter students, is an example of that philosophy. The project, part of their Video Storytelling course, was “Why Miami Ad School?”. The finished two-minute video, a collection of interviews of students and staff and footage of the school, tells the reason “why”. In the process of telling their story the students learned to shoot, light, direct and edit.
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Tastes Like Chicken
All of Miami Ad School’s locations are very dog-friendly places (as are many ad agencies, design firms and companies like Google). Students, instructors and staff are welcome to bring their dogs. The school’s founders bring their dogs, currently three, to school everyday. When the dogs aren’t in class or playing ball they hang out in Ron and Pippa’s offices. Lately the newest school mascot, a Doberwoman, has been very busy redecorating. Read the story of the accidental mascot
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Regular Holiday Gift Wrap is soooo 2015
Gift Wrap My Face has solved the problem of boring wrapping paper across the world!
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Having a Hard Time Deciding on Your Career?
If you can’t decide what career is right for you it’s very likely you’ll thrive, grow, bloom and even flourish in a creative career in advertising, design, social media or content creation because these fields incorporate a little of everything: creativity, business, innovation, story-telling, technology, photography, psychology…
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Portfolio Center and Miami Ad School are Actually Siblings
“We remember our “first times” more than any other. In a sense Portfolio Center was my first kiss: I was young, dumb and very lucky but the kiss was sweet and unforgettable. What a gift to my life to be back where it all started.”
– Ron Seichrist, Founder of Portfolio Center & Miami Ad School
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“Miami Ad School teaches people how to think creatively. There’s nothing else in the world quite like this school which is why the placement rate for grads is close to 100%. I believe Miami Ad School is a critical part of the educational ecosystem for agencies and I want to contribute.” – Barry Wacksman
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Are Models Really as Bad as People Say?
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Pharrel Williams Made Me Happy, Happy, Happy but Cindy Gallop, Wendy Clark, Piera Gelardi and Jessica Walsh Inspired Me
The best advice I received was from Mark D’Arcy, VP, Chief Creative Officer of Facebook Creative Shop. He said, “If you can’t find your perfect role in an agency go and create your own, change the game and make it yours.” Hear more inspiring bits of wisdom from the brightest minds at the Cannes Lion Festival.
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Advertising Needs You, Especially If You’re Black, Brown, Pink or Rainbow
That’s not Ron. (He doesn’t look that good in a dress.) That’s Pippa Seichrist, his wife and cofounder of Miami Ad School. She accepted the award on his behalf at the American Advertising Federation award show in Las Vegas. Find out the unlikely person who changed Ron’s life forever and how Ron has paid it forward ever since.
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I Created a Company in 54 Hours
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It’s Just Like the Cannes Film Festival but Instead of Brad Pitt, Dave Droga Will Be There
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Do You Know Which Advertising Agency Has Hired the Most Miami Ad School Students?
748 OF OUR STUDENTS HAVE BEEN ART DIRECTORS, COPYWRITERS, STRATEGISTS AND DESIGNERS AT THIS TOP AGENCY. Last week I was at the New York Festivals award show and hung out with a big group of our graduates. (Twenty-two of them won advertising awards that night.) Seeing...
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How I Got the Chance to Work on a Hip Hop Documentary
Having Miami Ad School as a common link helped me land my first job in the film industry faster than I ever dreamed.
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The Creative Recruiters from Saatchi & Saatchi and VML have been big supporters of Miami Ad School for many years. They always attend our New York Portfolio Reviews to meet with our recent graduates. A couple of weeks ago we invited them to the school to give the students advice how to build a better school portfolio. Here are their top 10 portfolio tips.
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First Day of School-Last Day of Boring
Miami Ad School is the best way to start a creative career in advertising. You’re trained by industry pros who inspire you to climb higher.
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Student Housing Just Became as Simple as Finding a Starbucks
Student subletting and housing will never be the same. We’re all too familiar with how difficult it can be to find housing when moving to different campuses or attending internships in other cities. Miami Ad School is excited to introduce The Network.
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What If Advertising Agencies Were Ice Cream Flavors?
Ice cream sounds a whole lot better when it involves design and a good spoof.
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Master’s Program Students at Miami Ad School and FIU Help Florida Farmers with Social Media
“Miami Ad School provides an environment where students are constantly challenged to think creatively while FIU provides a analytical backdrop to help students make informed decisions based on the client brief. It’s really the best of both worlds.”
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Play SCORE and Date the Smart Way
TWO MIAMI AD SCHOOL GRADS CREATE SCORE, A MOBILE DATING APP THAT IS THE ULTIMATE ICEBREAKER. “When we date these days it's not our chances which are keeping us apart, it’s the way that we take those chances. We pick a date with our eyes closed and our fingers crossed....
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