#SharkSwim: March 2024 Recap
It’s not too often that March feels more wintery than January or February. But alas… we made it through the snowy days and cold and are looking ahead to a great April in North Dakota!
Before we spring too deeply into our excitement for the month ahead, we want to share with you the thrills of the month we just left behind.
You know what it do, baby boo. Strap on your snorkels & get ready: it’s time for a Shark Swim recap blog!
A Coupla Birthday Boys!
Okay, first: my designer was out of the office at the time I needed to post this, and the original image accidentally put Nick Due on the left instead of Nick Loock. So shoutout to my flawless (FLAWLESS) Photoshop job of putting Loock’s head on Due’s body.
March was a big month for one Nicholas Loock (exclusively known as “Loock” in our office). Not only was he featured like 1,700 times on our social media pages, but… he ALSO celebrated his 24th birthday (on March 14th)!
We had another tall, brown-haired fella with a birthday in March: Gavin Longthorne! Gavin turned 25 on March 30th. It was fun to have both Gavin and Loock feel like they were the same age (at 24-years-old) for two weeks before Gavin’s birthday.
A Spice-y Night at The Movies
This month’s AdShark culture event was a private movie night at Marcus Theatres! Thank you to the Marcus team for letting us rent out a theater to watch “Dune 2” at. The crew had a blast. Lisan al ga’ib.
Bowling for Kids’ Sake… or Rick’s Sake
We were proud to be a returning sponsor of Big Brothers Big Sisters’ “Bowl For Kids Sake” event! As part of our sponsorship, we got to have a bowling team (the “PinSharks”) at their bowling event, with all funds going back towards the kids! Rick won. Of course.
AdShark’s March Happy Hour… at Pixeled!
This month’s happy hour host (Karina Acosta!) chose a wonderful lil’ spot for us to go: Pixeled Brewing Co! Not only did the team get to enjoy some adult beverages, but they also apparently commandeered a single arcade game for about 3 hours. Sorry, Pixeled, for not letting others on that game.
Cold Ones Episode 2 Dropped – Featuring Loock!
Cold Ones is back and more flowery than ever! After our first episode, Kelly Krenzel (Founder of Hope Blooms) invited us to film episode 2 from her flower cooler! It was a tight squeeze but that added for even more hilarity in this new content series which we plan to film monthly. Tune in (prepare for 8 minutes of it).
Creative Feature: BeTold Testimonial Videos
We’ve had the pleasure of partnering with our friends at Off Color Media on their paid social ads to educate the community about their new brand: BeTold! We’re also looking forward to the BeTold team working with us on a new commercial about AdShark, too. More to come there!
S/O to the team of Paige & Robb for their hard work on this account!
Some Final Shark Bites
We figured you want to hear more than just the fun, cultural highlights, but also get some real insight into what AdShark has going on in our day-to-day. Here are a few big things from February:
- We held our All-Staff Stand-up in a brand new location – our space across the hall!
- Speaking of that space across the hall, we started an effort to decorate each of the rooms by giving teams of employees a budget to furnish them. Voting will be happening soon!
- We hired 2 new Creatives that will be starting in April and May – excited to have them join the team!
- We designed some sick new AdShark golf hats that will be making their way to our swag shelves soon
- We developed and launched ALL KINDS of new ads for our clients!
- We (finally) finished designing our own website 🙂 Lookout for the new AdShark.com coming your way soon!
Thank you for continuing to read these blogs and learn more about what life at AdShark is like! We will be back in early May to give you a recap of some of our favorite April memories. In the meantime, keep in touch with all of the day-to-day happenings on Facebook. Talk soon!
