Hunt is on for agency that’s best at advertising itself
Mumbrella can today announce a competition to find the agency that can create the best online ad to promote itself.
Agencies and media companies of all types are eligible to enter, with the only condition that they use an image from the Thinkstock image database. Thinkstock is sponsoring the competition, and free one-month subscriptions to the service are available to all of those taking part in the contest, which is free to enter.
The deadline for entries is May 30 June 4.
All of Mumbrella’s standard ad sizes are acceptable.
Entries to be sent to: mumbrella@focalattractions.com.au
Further details of how to enter are available here.
With the support of:
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large. He returned to Mumbrella as Publisher in January 2025
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Good luck everyone. Hope to see all shortlisted entries online.
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^ nice link building effort lottos.com.au
🙂
/y0z
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Hi Mumbrella, what formats are available for your ads (just images: .gif; .jpg, or flash: .swf, accept streaming video etc.)
Thanks
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Hi Question,
Formats as follows:
Leaderboard
Size: 728 x 60 pixels
Accepted formats: jpg/gif/swf
Image file size: 20kb
swf file size: 40kb
Medium Rectangle
Size: 300 x 250 pixels &
Expandable to Medium
Rectangle: 600 x 350
Accepted formats: jpg/gif/swf
Image File size: 20kb
swf File size: 40kb
swf File size for expanded
panel: 100kb
Banner
Size: 468 x 60 pixels
Accepted formats: jpg/gif/swf
Image file size: 20kb
swf file size: 40kb
Click tags should be
installed for swf files
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Sorry, no streaming video.
Advertising is dead.
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Agencies should start with their websites. google a few agency names. Some are not even returned in the serps, others are with Flash ‘skip intro’ websites. These companies consult to clients about online strategy…?
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Rocking! We’re in – but who’s judging entries?
(Oz Lotto – linkspamming on an article about a competition for self-promotion is *wonderfully* meta.
A slow handclap to your SEO team).
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@ Cathie, read the comp rules, it’s nice and ambiguous.
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No HTML5? What is this, the naughties?
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Are freelancers or small (1-5 people) “Agencies and media companies of all types” able to enter? Would be good to see how they go against the bigger fish in any case…
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Yes, the competition is open to all Agencies and Media Companies regardless of size.
Hey guys – did Mumbrella just buy out Flickr 🙂
Dan Campbell to me
4:23 PM (1 minutes ago)
Hi David,
Thank you for registering for our Flickr competition and good luck!
Could you please take a moment to register on the site (www.thinkstockphotos.com.au) and then send me your username and password?
I will then start your one month free subscription to Thinkstock and you’ll be able to start downloading images.
Please do not hesitate to call me anytime if you have any questions or there is anything else I can do to help,
Thanks again!
Kind Regards
Daniel Campbell
Market Development Executive
Getty Images
Level 10 / 203 Pacific Highway
St Leonards, Sydney
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Just found out Flickr’s doing the same. Sorry probably not a good idea I left the contact details of Daniel in above comment…
(I’ve removed contact details to save Daniel from web spam! – Tim, Mumbrella)
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Hi David
I am the Marketing Manager for Getty Images ANZ and wanted to reply to your post. Dan’s email was actually just a typo. The competition you have registered for is 100% for Thinkstock.
As you might know Getty Images does have a partnership with Flickr, and have a dedicated Flickr collection on Getty Images. In the future we are excited about hosting a competition involving Flickr but this competition will be photography based – another outlet talent of our creative clients!
If you want to check out our Flickr collection you can do so at http://www.gettyimages.com/flickr
Otherwise we look forward to seeing your entry for the Thinkstock competition.
Cheers
Jane
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Thanks for the explanation. I always considered a typo as at most a few letters, but a whole word is a unique psychological event!
I guess a feasible thought process might be…
Umbrella competition… that Rihanna looks so hot in that video clip … no Thumbrella… ha ha Thumbelina… back on track then it’s Mumbrella isn’t it? Like a mum with an umbrella… Yes that’s right.. Mumbrella competition… back to typing… [typing away] … Thanks for registering for our Flickr competition…
??
Really?
Anyway, I’m kidding as I’m no saint – I’ve sent out many email errors in my time… but it’s kind of unconvincing to think it was a typo, that’s all…
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