Agencies To Face Off In The Blis Golden Shaker Grand Final

It has begun. A schedule of awards dinners and holiday parties is once again about to grab media agencies by the collar and throw them headlong into champagne fountains across the country. So it’s nice to know some of them are managing to learn something along the way – about classy drinking, at least.

The inaugural Australian Blis Golden Shaker began in earnest a few weeks ago. Eight teams from some of Australia’s top media agencies have been learning how to mix cocktails with the best of them, courtesy of Blis.

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In keeping with the highest traditions in media, the agency has a fully stocked bar in their office. Combined with some professional training from renowned bartender Toby Hiscox, Blis’ home base makes the perfect training arena for agency friends to flex their creative muscle with some top-shelf booze.

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The competition comes to a rather snazzy finale this Friday at one of Sydney’s premier new venues, The Calyx. The eight agency teams will don their aprons and go head-to-head to be crowned Sydney media’s best cocktail makers, and receive the coveted Golden Shaker (made from actual gold, we’re informed).

B&T’s very own news editor, Huntley Mitchell won himself a spirited game of rock-paper-scissors against editor John Bastick and will be manning the judging panel alongside world-class mixologist Natalie Ng and Blis’ Aussie and New Zealand MD, Nick Ballard.

Here are the agency teams that will be competing in the Blis Golden Shaker Grand Final:

OMD

Emily Lydford, business director
Sam Rochaix, interactive director
Daniel Thomson, account director
Tom Fryett, head of programmatic video

Spirit = whisky

Airwave & OMG Programmatic

Adam Coulter, programmatic director of ad operations (NSW/QLD)
Fiona Hill, account director (Airwave)
Jacques Kaladchibachi, programmatic lead
Tamara Fraser, programmatic lead

Spirit = rum

M2M Media

Dan O’Brien, head of digital
Tarryn Blackwood, head of social
Mikayla Ellis, business director
James Parry, business director

Spirit = tequila

Simon Turner, senior partnerships director
Tim Rogers, client director
Anna Cox, graduate
Jacqui Oullevou, client manager

Spirit = whisky

Ikon

Tim Micallef, digital amplification and trade director
Emile Van Schalkwyk, communications director
Matthew Cranley, data science manager
Jake Devlin, amplification and trading coordinator

Spirit = rum

Match Media

Rebecca Alexander, brand strategy and partnerships manager
David Bostelman, digital client planner
Jacqui Capel, client director
Will MacDonald, client executive

Spirit = gin

PHD

Chloe Hooper, new business and trading director
Danielle Russell, planning manager
Zoe Lyon, account executive
Tahnee Fleming, account executive

Spirit = whisky

Ansible

Scott Player, CEO
Jem Reis, mobile media director and agency lead
Kristy Manson, client services director
Blake Moseley, media implementation and technology manager

Spirit = tequila

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