• by Kelly Samardak , October 13, 2009

The Ghost Of OMMA Events Past, New York

Advertising Week is a blur by now to most if not all of you.  In fact, some of us are probably in therapy hoping it will help us forget the hustle, palm squeezing, "what's it gonna take to get you into this banner ad"ing, and overindulging in small foods.  Woven into Advertising Week were a ton of valuable MediaPost/OMMA events and I just wanted to link you up to the resources floating around about them.  Some may even contain your smiling face, as many MediaPost subscribers are also speakers, winners, and minglers.  Get ready to go BACK! IN! TIIIME!

Let's kick it off with the Social Media Society Launch party, which was a huge hit that we can easily blame on the chocolate-covered bacon.  I mean, the quality company!  Expect a lot more from this newly launched society, I happen to know there are plans hatching as I type.

OMMA Global New York was the meat and the bread of a truly packed online marketing, media, and advertising sandwich.  It covered two days and held itself together with condiments like the Online All Stars Luncheon (with incredible illustrations by New York City artist-in-demand Molly Crabapple) and The OMMA Awards.

There were no DeLoreans at The Future of Media Forum, but Marty McFly would have been blown away as if by an overzealous amp at some of the goodies offered by the panel, which included Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired magazine (and Mr. Free); Mark Cuban, Chairman & Cofounder of HDnet and the Dallas Mavericks; Bob Garfield, columnist at Advertising Age; Milton Glaser of Milton Glaser, Inc.; Reid Hoffman, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of LinkedIn; Judy McGrath, Chairman and CEO of MTV Networks; Rob Norman, CEO of GroupM Interaction Worldwide (and Online All-Star "The Man on the Flying Trapeze"); Vivian Schiller, President & CEO of NPR; Martha Stewart, Founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; and Susan Whiting, Vice Chair of the Nielsen Company (does that mean she runs out for cigarettes and 40oz?). [turn down your mic, these autoplayed for me] Video can be found here, here, and here!  You can also find our full coverage on MediaPost!

The Creative Media Awards honored the best of the best in creativity in media -- respecting the art and finesse within the process of buying, planning and strategy. It was a deliciously red evening in the stuffy Yale Club -- and I like to think we loosened that place up a bit.

Photos from the official MediaPost/OMMA events are in this collection.

Photos from the other Advertising Week events I covered are in this collection.

Live blogging coverage of OMMA Global New York can be found on MediaPost Raw!

October is already filling up, but maybe I'm free to cover your party.  If you've got events planned and you would love to see them in Just An Online Minute, send invitations to kelly@mediapost.com!

And, because I know you so need another link - MediaPost.com/events is where you can find links to register and deeper info on all of our upcoming events!