5 Minutes WITH Jamie Sims

Episode 8 - Ryan GravattFrom TV to digital, to inbox, to your mailbox - in 2020 there’s a candidate targeting your vote. To get a perspective on the strategy behind it all, this is part two of a two part series on the strategy of political messaging with Ryan Gravatt, a pioneer of political digital messaging and CEO of Austin based Raconteur Media.Follow Jamie on twitter @jsimsatl and Ryan @Gravatt and online at www.raconteur.com.Produced by the WITH/agency. www.thewithagency.com.

Episode 7 - Ryan GravattFrom TV to digital, to inbox, to your mailbox - in 2020 there’s a candidate targeting your vote. To get a perspective on the strategy behind it all, this is part one of a two-part series on the strategy of political messaging with Ryan Gravatt, a pioneer of political digital messaging and CEO of Austin based Raconteur Media.Ryan shares his insights as we explore the relationship between polling data and messaging, the polarization of parties, the reporter's dilemma, the true cost of a vote, and the 'magic number' of exposures a message needs for retention.Follow Jamie on twitter @jsimsatl and Ryan @Gravatt and online at www.raconteur.com.Produced by the WITH/agency. www.thewithagency.com.

The best collaborations create something bigger. In episode #6, get an inside perspective on leading the WITH/agency as we connect with my partner and co-founder Blair Brady. After eight years of partnership, we take a few minutes to reflect on the making of a great partnership and how collaboration, debate and super-decisions are key ingredients.Blair opens up about reopening and we compare how other companies are approaching it from big to small. Blair brings the thunder and riff’s on a ‘great leveling’ taking place in the workplace and ponders the sage words of the Doobie Brother,”Without love, where would you be now.”Follow Jamie @jsimsatl and Blair @blairbradyatl. Produced by WITH/agency. thewithagency.com

If it's happening now, it's happening on Twitter. In episode #5, Ryan Oliver from Twitter joins me to discuss how Twitter Next is helping brands discover what’s underneath the conversations related to their brand and how to create human-centric ideas worth talking about.Ryan shares the evolution of Twitter Next, the benefit of a clear brand voice for social conversation, the uniqueness of Twitter in knowing the ‘now’ of your interests and signs off with two must follows he cannot live WITH/out.Follow Jamie on twitter @jsimsatl and Ryan @ryno. All other social handles were banned in the making of this episode.Produced by WITH/agency. Visit: thewithagency.com

Think you live in a constant news cycle? Try literally living with it. In episode #4 we get a first-hand perspective on delivering the morning news to 1.4 million people from a ‘studio home’ as we connect with Top 20 market news anchor Justin Warmoth in Orlando.In this episode we get a first-hand perspective of having to literally ‘live with the news’, the timeless elements of a great story, the real meaning of ‘fake news’, and the poetry of Seinfeld.To watch bonus behind-the-scenes footage, check our social feeds at Jamie @jsimsatl on Instagram and Twitter and Justin @jwarmoth on instagram and @justinwarmoth on Facebook and Twitter. Produced by WITH/agency. thewithagency.com.

William Pate is President and CEO of Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB) and responsible for maintaining tourism as one of the city's top economic drivers. The industry brought nearly 56 million visitors to metro Atlanta in 2018, generating $16 billion in visitor spending and sustaining approximately 300,000 jobs.William and Jamie touch base and discuss the impact of the pandemic on Atlanta and the hospitality industry post-COVID. William recounts his experience during the cancellation of Atlanta’s would be hosting of the Final Four and how he harnesses calm when leading through a crisis. The two wrap with predictions on the rest of the year and a ‘big bang’ view of what maybe all of this means.Follow Jamie @jsimsatl on Instagram and Twitter. Follow @discoveratlanta to keep up with William, the ACVB and all things Atlanta.Learn more about the WITH/agency and WITH/studios at thewithagency.com. You can find more about the ACVB at www.atlanta.net. Disclaimer: Jamie is a board member of the ACVB.

Glenn Goad is CEO of EarthLink, LLC, a leading provider of internet and online services headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Founded in 1994, EarthLink is leading the next revolution in telecom.In this episode Glenn shares with Jamie the importance of a brand’s customer experience in times of crisis, his own family’s experience as the COVID-19 travel ban was announced, and why Zac Brown Band’s ‘Free’ is on repeat anytime he is not focused on shaking up the world of telecom.Follow Jamie on Instagram and Twitter @jsimsatl.Learn more about the WITH/agency and WITH/studios at thewithagency.com. You can find more about EarthLink and their services at earthlink.net.Disclaimer: EarthLink is a very happy client of the WITH/agency.

Spence Kramer is a 25 year veteran of the advertising and marketing industry, having held senior leadership positions in, and for, some of the world’s most respected brands. In his career, he has served in client side roles at ESPN and Virgin America and agency side at Wieden+Kennedy, Crispin Porter + Bogusky and most recently as CEO of J. Walter Thompson Atlanta. Spence now runs his own Advisory and Consultancy in Atlanta, GA and is an advisor to the WITH/agency.Spence and Jamie share the mic in our pilot episode with discussions on how brands and businesses are navigating the escalating Coronavirus crisis, lessons learned after 9/11, and a mutual love of West Side Story.Follow Jamie on Instagram and Twitter @jsimsatl, and Spence at @spencekramer.Learn more about the WITH/agency and WITH/studios at thewithagency.com.