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The A-List Podcast

by Tom Christmann

A podcast about breaking into the advertising industry featuring the best in the business. Sponsored by AdHouse Advertising School

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Episodes

  1. A-List 6005 - Sum Patten

    🎙️ Get ready for a dose of pure inspiration! 🌟 In this episode of ALP, Tom Christmann speaks with creative, hip hop artist and activist, Roshmond "Sum" Patten, Creative Director at creative agency GLOW. 🔥 Discover how his unique journey from music journalism to advertising has shaped his...

  2. A-List 6004 - Mike Manheimer

    This is the A-List, the podcast that asks the world's top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, our host Tom Christmann talks with Mike Manheimer, Chief Marketing Officer at Postscript.io. Mike ditched his pre-law plan to join a software startup where he...

  3. A-List 6003 - Jaime Cabrera

    In this episode of the A-List podcast, sponsored by Adhouse Advertising School, Tom Christmann talks with Jaime Cabrera, Group Creative Director on Hyundai at Innocean USA in Los Angeles, California. Jaime’s focus at Innocean is what’s called “Experiential marketing”. It’s sometimes called...

  4. ALP Matt Steinwald 6002

    Another week, another A-List, the podcast that asks the world's top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. Sponsored by Adhouse Advertising School. Hosted by Tom Christmann, Executive Creative Director at Catch+Release and one of the head #adnerds at Adhouse, where zoom...

  5. A-List 6001 Matt Vitou

    Hello and Welcome to the A-List Podcast, the podcast that asks the world's top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. Sponsored by Adhouse Advertising School. Hosted by Tom Christmann, Executive Creative Director at Catch+Release and one of the head adnerds at Adhouse. In...

  6. A - List 5012 Micöl Rankin

    SPONSORED BY ADHOUSE ADVERTISING SCHOOL. AD CLASSES TAUGHT BY WORKING AD PROS ON ZOOM. ADHOUSENYC.COM ----- Hello and welcome to The A-List, the podcast that asks the world's top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. This episode is a conversation between host Tom...

  7. A - List 5011 Lisa Topol

    Lisa Topol is a big believer in kindness. As she likes to say, “Good things follow it.” So it’s not surprising that she recently took the job of Managing Partner, Executive Creative Director at Oberland, the industry’s leading purpose-driven ad agency founded by Bill Oberlander and Drew Train. In...

  8. A - List 5010 Dan Nelken

    ------ What are you doing this summer? Why not up your ad game by taking a class at Adhouse Advertising School? Classes are taught by working ad pros live on zoom so you can take them from anywhere. You get ten weeks of classes for just seven hundred ninety nine dollars. You’ll practice turning...

  9. A - List 5009 Matt MacDonald

    What are you doing this summer? Why not up your ad game by taking a class at Adhouse Advertising School? Classes are taught by working ad pros live on zoom so you can take them from anywhere. You get ten weeks of classes for just seven hundred ninety nine dollars. You’ll practice turning briefs...

  10. A - List 5008 Analisa Goodin

    Hello adnerds! And welcome to another episode of The A-List, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, Tom Christmann -- ECD at Vayner Media and co-dean at Adhouse Advertising School -- speaks with Analisa Goodin…

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  11. A - List 5007 Jason Bagley

    Hey #adnerds! Welcome to another episode of The A-List, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, our host Tom Christmann talks with Jason Bagley, a freelance creative who spent 16 years working at Wieden & Kennedy in...

  12. A - List 5006 Cameron Day

    Hello, #adnerds and welcome to another episode of The A-List, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. Tom Christmann has been busy starting his new job as ECD at Vayner Media and being co-dean at Adhouse Advertising School. (And…

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  13. A - List 5005 Pete Favat

    Hey Adnerds! It's time for another episode of The A-List Podcast, sponsored by adhousenyc.com. This episode, host Tom Christmann talks to Pete Favat, Creative Chairman at Deutsch LA, which describes itself as "a data-inspired, culturally shaped creative studio." Pete started at Wunderman in New...

  14. A - List 5004 Hannes Ciatti

    Hello, fellow #adnerds and welcome to The A-List, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, Host Tom Christmann talks with Hannes Ciatti, former founder of JohnXHannes and current founder and Chief Creative Officer of…

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  15. A - List 5003 David Esrati

    This is The A-List, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, Tom Christmann, freelance copywriter at tomchristmann.net and co-dean at Adhouse Advertising School, speaks with David Esrati of The Next Wave in Dayton Ohio....

  16. A - List 5002 Gavin Lester

    Tom Christmann talks with Gavin Lester, CCO of Zambezi (zmbz.com) n independent agency in Culver City, California. Tom and Gavin discuss going from art to advertising, Goodby vs. BBH, the making of Levi's "Odyssey" (directed by Jonathan Glazer) and so much more. Tom can be reached at...

  17. A - List 5001 Danny Gregory

    Hello and welcome to the A-List, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, host Tom Christmann talks with Danny Gregory. Danny is the founder of Sketchbook Skool and the best-selling author of several books on…

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  18. A - List 4016 Eva McCloskey

    In this episode of the A-List Podcast, Tom Christmann, creative for hire at tomchristmann.net and one of the Head Adnerds at Adhouse Advertising School, talks with one of the baddest women in advertising, Eva McCloskey. Eva didn’t go to college, but that didn’t stop her from finding herself as a...

  19. A - List 4015 Sariah Dorbin

    Hello Adnerd. This is the A-List Podcast. The podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. Your host is Tom Christmann, creative for hire at tomchristmann.net. And one of the Head Adnerds at Adhouse Advertising School. Today you’ll hear Tom's...

  20. A - List 4014 Bianca Guimaraes

    Welcome to another episode of The A-List Podcast, the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. In this episode, Tom Christmann chats with Bianca Guimaraes, Executive Creative Director at Mischief. Bianca was born and raised in Brazil and...

  21. A - List 4013 Jeff Benjamin

    Welcome Adnerds. Today you’ll hear host Tom Christmann's conversation with Jeff Benjamin, Chief Creative Officer at Tombras. Tombras is one of the top independent agencies in North America, headquartered in Knoxville Tennessee, with offices in New York, Atlanta, Charlotte and DC. Jeff Benjamin…

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  22. A - List 4012 Mo Osunbor

    A conversation with Mo Osunbor, Creative/Art Director at Facebook. Before his current job, he worked at Razorfish, Deutsch and JWT, where he created the Unsafety Check for Black Lives Matter that got him noticed by Facebook. This year, Mo collaborated with Spotify’s Alex Reinoso, Nick Elliot of...

  23. A-List 4011 Molly Mitchell of Houseboat

    Today you’re going to hear an episode we recorded back in August. I have thankfully gotten busier with freelance work recently and that plus the Adhouse class i teach and just the general malaise of 2020 have made the A-List hard to get to these days. Thanks for being patient everyone, especially...

  24. A - List 4010 - Laura Canzano & Bre Fern

    Laura Canzano and Bre Fern are the Co-Founders of Breaking Ad, an instagram account dedicated to breaking down the ad game for newbies. Bre was born in Cuba, raised in Miami, dropped out of Law School in DC and discovered advertising while on a meditation retreat to China. Laura Canzano was born…

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  25. A - List 4009 - Kevin Mulroy of Mischief USA

    On this episode of The A-List (the podcast that asks the world’s top advertising professionals how they got started in the business) Tom talks to Mischief USA ECD Kevin Mulroy. Mischief is an offshoot of Canadian Agency No Fixed Address, the fast-growing disruptor agency that scooped up Greg Hahn...

  26. A - List 4008 - Steve Pacheco

    In this episode, Tom talks to Steve Pacheco, CEO of The American Advertising Federation. Steve was a journalism student at the University of Memphis when an ad class showed him how fun advertising could be. Soon he was making radio ads for a local laundry service that worked TOO well. This led to…

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  27. A - List 4007 - Keni Thacker

    Today we’re serving up Tom's conversation with Mr. Keni Thacker, the founder of 100rosesfromconcrete.com, a network for men of color in the advertising, marketing, media and public relations industries. Keni is also a creative consultant, accomplished writer, director, documentarian, motivational...

  28. A - List 4006 - Mike Rovner

    Freelance CD/writer Mike Rovner may not be a household name, but he has made bobblehead dolls out of people with household names. (For the full story, you have to listen). He's also gone from English Major to Account Guy to Accomplished Ad Creative, making some award-winning, funny work, even if…

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  29. A-List Podcast 4005 George Tannenbaum

    Recorded this over a month ago. But the current state of our world has made my brain into cottage cheese. Anyway, I got to talk to George Tannenbaum, former Copy Chief and Executive Creative Director on IBM at Ogilvy AND CURRENT ADHOUSE PROFESSOR. If you're not reading Ad Aged, George's daily…

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  30. A - List Podcast 4004 Derek Walker

    Listen in as host and Adhouse professor Tom Christmann speaks with Derek Walker, owner of Brown & Browner Advertising in Columbia, SC and a brash and opinionated voice that never lets the industry off the hook on twitter (@derklwalker). Derek's origin story is fascinating. He grew up in Germany…

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  31. A-List Podcast 4003 Alan Cerutti

    WARNING: This episode of The A-List Podcast may make you want to pick up and move to Saigon. Listen in as our host, Freelance Creative and Adhouse Professor Tom Christmann, talks to Alan Cerutti, CEO and co-founder of Happiness Saigon, a creative agency in Vietnam. Alan's origin story has it all:...

  32. A-List Podcast 4002 Tyler DeAngelo

    Episode 2 of season 4 of The A-List Podcast is here! Tom talks to Strawberry Frog ECD Tyler DeAngelo, who learned his dogged determination on the ski slopes of northern Maine before getting a job offer at Leo Burnett, Bratislava. You know what? We should let Tyler tell the story. Tom and Tyler…

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  33. A-List Podcast 4001 Greg DiNoto

    The A-List Podcast is back with a check-in with a second conversation with Greg DiNoto, founder of DiNoto, Inc. With a long history of driving relationship and commerce for some of the world's most sophisticated marketers, Greg believes in brands. And in this episode, we discuss how brands can…

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  34. The A-List Podcast(Dean's List Edition): Matt Low & Mani Schlisser

    On this week’s episode of The A-List Podcast, host and DiMassimo Goldstein CCO, Tom Christmann is joined by BBDO’s Matt Low and Mani Schlisser Matt is a Senior Copywriter (and resident sneaker enthusiast) at BBDO Worldwide where he has worked since being an intern for nearly five years. Matt is a...

  35. The A-List Podcast(Dean's List Edition): Alex Brueggeman & Ivan Whitted II

    [0:00-2:01] Intro. [2:31-5:31] Alex and Ivan talk about their upbringing in Georgia, Haiti and Tuscon, Arizona! [5:32-8:22] Alex talks high school influences and his discovery of anthropology at Howard. [8:27-11:00] Ivan discusses early inspiration in the performing arts and discovering PR and...

  36. The A-List Podcast: Gerard Caputo

    [0:00-2:06] Intro [3:01-7:55] Growing up in Little Falls, New Jersey [10:52-14:00] Discovering photography in school and creative writing. [14:01- 18:35] Transitioning to advertising and becoming an intern at Mullen [20:17-26:36] Building his book, ‘finding the fire’, and becoming an art…

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  37. The A-List Podcast: Mark DiMassimo

    [0:00-3:00] Intro. [3:01-7:25] Mark talks about growing up in NJ and his early upbringing. [7:26-9:29] Mark’s imagination and first forays into creativity as a profession. [9:29-13:46] Mark’s super-dark childhood short story and learning how to express himself. [13:47-16:11] Wayne Dyer’s…

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  38. The A-List Podcast: Steve Sandstrom

    Show Notes: [0:00-2:33] - Intro [2:34 - 7:40] How to pronounce ‘Oregon’ and Steve’s upbringing in Portland. [7:41- 9:52] Steve’s early inspirations and first exposure to art through his family. [9:52- 14:17] Learning design fundamentals in school and discovering graphic design in college. [14:18…

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  39. The A-List Podcast: Michael Bierut

    [0:00 – 1:56] Intro [1:57 – 4:27] Growing up in non-starstudded Ohio and discovering his drawing talents. [4:28 – 7:20] Serendipitously stumbling on the book “Aim High for a Career in Graphic Design / Art by S. Neil Fujita” at age 14 and starting art as a vocational trade. [7:21 – 12:10] The...

  40. The A-List Podcast: Mike Lescarbeau

    [0:00 – 2:22] Intro [2:23 – 7:50] Writing 200 headlines with Tom McElligott and growing up in Minnesota [7:51– 18:14] The natural ease of writing copy and early advertising experiences [18:15 – 25:50] Moving from advertising to HR [25:51 – 31:25] How to make interviews safer spaces [31:26 –…

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  41. The A-List Podcast: Nick Law

    [0:00 – 2:10] Intro [2:11 – 2:20] Growing up in Sydney, the benefits of a “feral” upbringing, avoiding school & enjoying art [4:46 – 8:18] Drawing, discovering graphic design, getting into art school [8:19 – 11:06] First jobs and how to become a master [11:07 – 12:54] Are big ideas that…

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  42. The A-List Podcast: Karl Lieberman

    [0:00 – 2:55] Intro [2:56 – 7:42] Having an artistic childhood in New Jersey with a painter mother and a doctor father [7:43 – 13:00] Exposure to the advertising world, learning jobs don’t have to stuck, pursuing art at The University of Delaware [14:30 – 25:29] Interning at Mother London…

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  43. The A-List Podcast: Paula Scher

    [0:00 – 1:30] Intro [1:31 – 2:31] How drawing became a respite from family disputes [2:32 – 3:59] Getting inspiration from beatnik counter-culture at the Corcoran School of Art in D.C. and using artistic inclination to make social connections in teen suburbia [3:59 – 5:33] Linking her talent to…

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  44. The A-List Podcast: Prentice Howe

    [0:00 – 1:18] Intro [1:18 – 2:20] Honolulu born, and Boston raised, Prentice ends up finding his roots in Texas once he starts attending SMU. [2:20 – 3:57] Taking an Intro to Advertising class at SMU that quickly changed his anticipation of being a business major, finding a passion for the...

  45. The A-List Podcast: Ricardo Casal & Juan Javier Pena

    On this week's episode of The A-List Podcast, host and DiMassimo Goldstein CCO Tom Christmann is joined by Ricardo Casal and Juan Javier Pena, Creative Directors at DAVID The Agency, an agency founded in Buenos Aires that exemplifies the "always on" approach to advertising. Ricardo and Juan's...

  46. The A-List Podcast: Dhruv Nanda

    [0:00 – 1:28] Intro [1:29 – 5:45] From Growing up in Dubai to attending a private school in Zambia, Africa for 3 years [5:50 – 12:32] Leaving Africa to study Law at Carleton University in Canada, and working in a hardcore financial sales role right out of college [12:40 – 18:03] Learning the art…

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  47. The A-List Podcast: Bobby C. Martin Jr.

    On this week’s episode of The A-List Podcast, host and DiMassimo Goldstein CCO Tom Christmann is joined by Bobby C. Martin Jr., founding partner of Original Champions of Design, a design and branding agency that builds better brands through informed and strategic identity system design. In 2017,...

  48. The A-List Podcast: Anselmo Ramos

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  49. The A-List Podcast: Paul Fix

    The A-List Podcast: Paul Fix by Tom Christmann

  50. The A-List Podcast with Ari Weiss

    The A-List Podcast with Ari Weiss by Tom Christmann

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A podcast about breaking into the advertising industry featuring the best in the business. Sponsored by AdHouse Advertising School

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