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How To Write An Inspired Creative Brief- In Person Only

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                                         PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               By registering for this in-person workshop you are acknowledging and agreeing the ANA may provide your email address to the building for security reasons. Seats are limited and confirmation of attendance will be required in advance of the session. 

This full-day workshop will help you get the kind of powerful creative work that builds your sales overnight and builds your brand over time. Led by the author of two critically acclaimed textbooks, How To Write An Inspired Creative Brief and How To Write A Single-Minded Proposition, and former ad agency creative director and corporate advertising executive, this workshop guides you through the entire creative brief-writing process, from articulating your key objectives to crafting an inspired and inspiring single-minded proposition to best practices for briefing.

This engaging, interactive workshop is packed with individual and team exercises, and examples of exceptional creative briefs and creative work inspired by creative briefs. Quite simply, this course will help you better optimize the creative process to improve your marketing effectiveness, efficiency and ROI. In short, it will help you be a better client.

This is the second installment in the ANA’s five-part series “Creative Briefing Mastery Program,” where participants learn the art of crafting compelling creative briefs that captivate audiences and inspire innovation. Participants also get hands-on experience creating a creative brief by taking a step-by-step approach.

Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for anyone, at any level, who is involved in the development of advertising. It is a great introduction for those new to the creative brief process and a welcome refresher for seasoned professionals.

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  • Welcome (5min)
  • Why the brief is so important (60min)
  • Breaking down the creative brief (15min)
  • Break (10min)
  • What a well-written brief looks like (90min)
  • Lunch (30min)
  • Build a creative brief (3:30H)
  • Break (10min)
  • Creative brief exercise (45min)
  • Do it backwards (45min)
  • Closing (5min)



Instructors

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Howard Ibach

Howard Ibach is an award-winning copywriter & creative director, corporate trainer, podcast co-host, and author of two critically acclaimed graphic textbooks, How To Write An Inspired Creative Brief and How To Write A Single-Minded Proposition. He has been a vocal advocate for creative-brief education for twenty years, the last seven on the faculty of the Marketing Training and Development Center for the nation’s largest client-side trade group, the Association of National Advertisers.

For 26 years, he was an award-winning brand and direct-response advertising copywriter and creative director. He worked at legacy ad agencies, notably Hoffman York & Compton in Milwaukee; DDB Direct, Team One Advertising, Direct Partners, Brierley & Partners, Rubin Postare & Associates, OgilvyOne, Grey Direct West (now G2) and Wunderman in Los Angeles; Carlson Marketing, Campbell Mithun and Asset Marketing Services Inc., a major retailer of collectible gold and silver coins, in Minneapolis.

In 2021, he and his friend Henry Gomez, VP/Director of Strategy at Zubi Advertising in Miami, launched The Brief Bros., a weekly video podcast on briefs, briefing and advertising. They have recorded and aired more than 180 episodes so far, including interviews with Mark Ritson, Luke Sullivan, Jon Steel, Bob Hoffman, Steve Harrison, Dave Dye and many others.

In 2023, Howard launched The Creative Brief Archive on his website, the first repository of finished creative briefs written by professionals and students and categorized by brand and ad agency. The Archive is free to anyone who wants to read, study, download and comment on briefs.

Howard is also the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning memoir, Already Home: Confronting the Trauma of Adoption, and a short biographical sketch, Remembering Stanley Holden: Seven seconds the ballet world will never forget. He lives in Southern California.