1) How have you adapted to the pandemic in terms of creating and realizing work for your clients?

2) How has the call for social justice impacted your work?

3) How has your client’s messaging evolved in response to calls to address inequality on racial, gender and sexual orientation fronts?

4) What work (advertising or entertainment)--your own or others--struck a responsive chord with you and/or was the most effective creatively and/or strategically so far this year?

5) What’s the biggest takeaway or lessons learned from work (please identify the project) you were involved in this year?

6) Though gazing into the crystal ball is a tricky proposition, we nonetheless ask you for any forecast you have relative to content creation and/or the creative and/or business climate for the second half of 2020 and beyond.

7) What efforts are you making toincrease diversity and inclusion in terms of women and ethnic minority filmmakers? How do you go about mentoring new talent in the community at large and within your agency?

Amy Wertheimer
EVP/Group Executive Producer
BBDO NY

2) As a producer, part of my job is exposing filmmakers to creatives. I need to ensure that women and minority filmmakers and artists, along with women and minority owned businesses, are represented and, in turn, engaged in searches and production.

5) BBDO NY and Mars Petcare embraced the pandemic in their work. In March, we were able to quickly put together a shoot and produce a lovely commercial for Nutro that told the story of our stay at home lives through a dog’s eyes. Working with trusted partners, BBDO, Mars and O Positive were agile and turned creative around from concept approval to air in two weeks. Pedigree took the social distancing a step further and gave people the opportunity to adopt dogs without having to leave home. Using Zoom, we set up, hosted and broadcast webinars from multiple shelters, allowing hundreds of people to see adoptable dogs in their area. People then completed the adoption process online and were able to have a contactless adoption.

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