Kevin Roddy, chief creative officer of Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), New York, has been elected to a three-year term as chairman of the board of The One Club. He succeeds David Baldwin, who will remain on the board of directors for the coming year. Baldwin heads Durham, N.C.-based agency Baldwin&.
Additionally three new officers to the One Club board have been tabbed for three-year terms–Ari Merkin, (Toy New York) is The One Club’s new secretary/treasurer while Kara Goodrich (BBDO New York) and Steve Sandstrom (Sandstrom Partners, Portland, Ore.) both serve as vice chairpersons.
“Creativity is facing some significant challenges in this industry right now, and I’m looking forward to working with The One Club to champion and promote it in all its forms,” said Roddy. “We are a creative industry that has tremendous value and, I believe, that needs to be elevated in importance. And there’s no better organization to do that than The One Club.”
Mary Warlick, CEO of The One Club, described Roddy as being “a mainstay” in the nonprofit organization’s tremendous growth and achievements over the last few years. He is probably the only board member that has won two Best of Shows at the One Show.”
In addition to the new officers, The One Club board members are: Andy Azula (The Martin Agency, Richmond, Va.); Arthur Bijur; Roger Camp (Publicis & Hal Riney, San Francisco); Glenn Cole (72andSunny, El Segundo, Calif.); David Droga (Droga5, New York); Linus Karlsson (Mother, New York); Nick Law (R/GA, New York); David Lubars (BBDO New York); José Mollá (la comunidad, Miami); Steve Mykolyn (Taxi, Toronto); and Nancy Vonk (Ogilvy & Mather, Toronto).
Last month, The One Club hosted its inaugural “Creative Week NYC” which included the 34th Annual One Show honoring the best in print, radio and television, One Show Interactive, One Show Design and the first Creative unConference.
On Aug. 21, The One Club’s feature documentary Art & Copy directed by Doug Pray (who’s handled for spots via Oil Factory, Los Angeles) will be screened at the IFC Center in New York. Art & Copy debuted earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Other endeavors of The One Club include its first Los Angeles-based One Show Entertainment Awards recognizing outstanding creative achievements by brands in the realm of entertainment (ceremony was held last October), as well as ongoing ad community initiatives. For example in 1995 The One Club established an education department, dedicated to fostering the creative talents of advertising students nationwide. The department administers scholarships to outstanding students in advertising programs at a variety of advertising schools across the country.
The One Club has approximately 1,000 members, including copywriters and art directors.
TikTok Creators Left In Limbo As Supreme Court Considers Potential Platform Ban
Will TikTok be banned this month?
That's the pressing question keeping creators and small business owners in anxious limbo as they await a decision that could upend their livelihoods. The fate of the popular app will be decided by the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on Jan. 10 over a law requiring TikTok to break ties with its Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, or face a U.S. ban.
At the heart of the case is whether the law violates the First Amendment with TikTok and its creator allies arguing that it does. The U.S. government, which sees the platform as a national security risk, says it does not.
For creators, the TikTok doomsday scenarios are nothing new since President-elect Donald Trump first tried to ban the platform through executive order during his first term. But despite Trump's recent statements indicating he now wants TikTok to stick around, the prospect of a ban has never been as immediate as it is now with the Supreme Court serving as the final arbiter.
If the government prevails as it did in a lower court, TikTok says it would shut down its U.S. platform by Jan. 19, leaving creators scrambling to redefine their futures.
"A lot of my other creative friends, we're all like freaking out. But I'm staying calm," said Gillian Johnson, who benefited financially from TikTok's live feature and rewards program, which helped creators generate higher revenue potential by posting high-quality original content. The 22-year-old filmmaker and recent college graduate uses her TikTok earnings to help fund her equipment for projects such as camera lens and editing software for her short films "Gambit" and "Awaken! My Neighbor."
Johnson said the idea of TikTok going away is "hard to accept."
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