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On Thursday April 4, 2013 we hosted a party for our clients and friends. It's the first party we've had in five years and it was well worth the wait. Bad weather held off, the food was great, and the almost 300 attendees had fun. We go out of our...
IDEAS has been awarded two Telly Awards for its Funky Holiday Sweater music video. The video, featuring IDEAS’ in-house band, 64 IDEAS, and the rest of the IDEAS team, was created in December to go with the annual IDEAS e-greeting, which allowed users to create an on-line holiday sweater. The...
Originally posted on the Marketing Brain Fodder website, excerpts below: Some impressions are indelible. The golden sun, slowly dropping from view on a perfect horizon; the smell (and taste) of mom’s fresh-baked cherry cobbler; the eyes of a child in an early instance of wonder. For most of us, a few experiences are deeply...
Motion Picture & Television Production Incentive Program Results in Significant Economic Impact, Investment Return in Florida A study released today on the economic impact of The Florida Film and Entertainment Industry Financial Incentive Program found a return on investment (ROI) of 4.7, with estimated state and local tax revenues in Florida...
Foster Productions, Inc. and IDEAS were awarded the Pink Partner of the Year at the Scooters 4 Hooters fundraising event to benefit Libby’s Legacy Breast Cancer Foundation. In 2012 IDEAS teamed with Foster Productions, Inc. to help produce a video for LLBCF to enter into the PinkWell Challenge contest which awarded...
IDEAS Chief Storytelling Officer Bob Allen will be part of a panel about "Our Digital Future: Innovation at the Intersection of Creativity and Technology" on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 from 11am - 12:30pm at the Enzian during the Florida Film Festival. From production to parking, from marketing to multichannel interactivity, new digital applications are...
Emmy Award-winning Los Angeles-based casting and voice director Stevie Vallance will be teaching a 7-hour animation acting workshop at the downtown Orlando Studio of IDEAS from 10am - 5pm on Saturday May 18, 2013. The workshop is for adult comedians and character actors who want to master the art of animation...
In 2006, the IDEAS team was tasked with helping one of America's great vacation destinations reinvent itself. The Pocono Mountains is a region of over 2,400 square miles in Pennsylvania and home to extraordinary mountains and rivers. It offers four full seasons of calm re-connection in the woods and adventure with biking,...
Recently the new CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, made an interesting decision. She rescinded the company’s almost wide-open policy about working from home (click HERE for details). Whether it's work hours, work location, choice of tools or dress, decisions like this should and do keep leaders awake at night. These cultural...
IDEAS has been awarded a Telly Award for its work on a marketing video for SkillsTutor, the company of choice for cloud-based, digital, personalized assessment and instruction to significantly increase student achievement. The video, featuring SkillsTutor CEO Adam Hall explaining why SkillsTutor is the right choice for online learning, was...
Shirley Decker, EVP, Business Development at IDEAS and Board Member of Women in Film & Television Florida (WIFT-FL) will be the host and panel moderator for the WIFT-FL Quarterly Meeting and Social Media Panel. The event will be held on Tuesday March 19, 2013 from 5:30 - 8:00pm at the Downtown Orlando...
I went to school in the stone age so imagine how pleased I was to hear that people still major in Communication. Last week I got a chance to talk with some of those folks in my friend Lucia's class at Florida State University and it was both astonishing and...
