Tessa May Marr, CEO We've been profiling our team members this year, as I'm sure you've seen. This month, we interviewed our CEO and founder so you can all get to know who started this whole thing from the beginning. Where’s home for you? I as born in raised in Edmonton, Alberta and spent my first 10 years of adulthood in Calgary so technically, I’m an Alberta-girl. But just over a year ago, I decided I needed to find a city that really fit me and I found that fit out west in Vancouver. I fall in love with this city more and more every single day I’m here. When I’m here that is—I travel a tonne! I sometimes say my home is “Cloud 9”. Why did you start Mad Media? Marketing has changed drastica

Advancements in technology have changed all our lives by giving us instant access to nearly any topic using either a computer or a Smartphone. While giving us access to this information is a clear benefit of technology, constantly being “plugged in” makes it difficult for us to slow down. The hectic lifestyle of the 21st century means that people are reading less and watching more. This not only applies to traditional entertainment mediums, like books and movies, but also to websites and online videos; most people are moving so quickly that they prefer to watch a video than sit down and read through text. Consider the following statistics: YouTube has 1 billion users, or roughly 1/7th of the

Communicating and collaborating can be challenging when you have a virtual team. Having the right tools in place will allow your team to work together, be productive and to establish and build relationships. Here we share with you what tools we use at Mad Media and why we love them. Slack This baby is our main team collaboration tool. It's a real-time messaging, and archiving tool that we've just adopted in the last six weeks. "We spend 47% of our time just reading, answering and searching email to gather what we need to do real work." (Slack team) It really does make a difference for us to be able to group chat live and not have to struggle with juggling those email threads. We love that Sl