Category: News

September 16, 2014 – Saint Cloud, MN… Adventure™, a full-service advertising agency with Minnesota offices in Brainerd, Saint Cloud and Minneapolis, is excited to announce the addition of Annette Kmitch, Paula Keck and Amanda Blake to their growing staff.

With vast experience solving problems and managing projects, Adventure will be looking to Kmitch to take on an Agency Operations role as she oversees strategy, business analysis, and continued solidification of the business foundation. Before joining the Adventure team, Kmitch worked as software product manager at Creative Memories, and as an e-business consultant at Merrill Corporation. Her career history speaks strongly of her ability to be nimble, build relationships, improve processes and communicate effectively.

Keck is joining our team as Production Manager. In addition to production/traffic management, she will manage the day-to-day operations of Adventure’s offices. Keck has significant experience managing project schedules, human resources, legal and financial areas for both large and small companies. Adventure will benefit from her detail-oriented organizational skills. Keck most recently served as Executive Assistant to the CEO, CMO and VP of HR at Creative Memories.

Joining our creative roster is Blake as Copywriter. Prior to joining the Adventure team, she attended Minneapolis Miami Ad School before interning, and then working full-time as a Copywriter for FCB Chicago on both CRM and Digital accounts. Blake is a 2010 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.

Kmitch and Keck will office in Adventure’s downtown St. Cloud location. Blake will split time between St. Cloud and the Twin Cities.

Adventure™ provides all-encompassing creative and marketing services to leading regional and national brands on a project basis. Senior-level experience and nationally recognized executions complement existing client resources for energized brand strength, growth and success. The production side of Adventure™, Adventure Studios, provides award-winning still photography, video and graphics production. Adventure Studios complements the advertising agency’s capabilities, but operates independently. Visit www.adventureadvertising.com for more information.

April 1, 2014 – St. Cloud, MN – Adventure™ was awarded five Silver American Advertising Awards (formerly known as the ADDY Awards) at the District 8 competition held Saturday, March 22, 2014 in Fargo, North Dakota. Adventure’s entries were judged against all local level Gold and Silver winners from District 8, which included Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota.

The agency won five District 8 Silver ADDYs for the following entries:

Silver ADDY Award – Elements of Advertising – Enhanced: Park Tool Man of Steel Image
Silver ADDY Award – Consumer Integrated Campaign:  Trinona Triathlon Event Campaign
Silver ADDY Award  – Consumer Campaign, Four-color:  Johnson Outdoors Watercraft, Old Town Canoe & Kayak Worker Campaign
Silver ADDY Award – Consumer Full Page, Four-color:  Johnson Outdoors Watercraft, Old Town Canoe Museum Ad
Silver ADDY Award – Poster Single: Lifetime Kids Triathlon Poster

Adventure™ provides all-encompassing creative and marketing services to leading regional and national brands on a project basis. Senior-level experience and nationally-recognized executions complement existing client resources for energized brand strength, growth and success. Adventure Studios provides digital photography, videography and image manipulation complementing the advertising agency’s capabilities, but managed independently.

District 8 of the American Advertising Federation is one of 15 regional districts that participate in the American Advertising Awards competition. This is the second tier of the competition and winning entries will now move on to the national competition held in Boca Raton, FL, in early June.

Two months after moving to our third office in the last 15 months, we’re happy to report all the packing and unpacking was worth it – and necessary. Our new two-story, 6,000 SF office space in downtown St. Cloud is filling up fast – with people, that is. We’re still working on the furniture part.

This month we added two new faces to the Adventure™ team. One is Hali Danielson, a standout design student from Central Lakes College in Brainerd, MN. Adventure learned of Danielson when she scooped up Best of Show honors in the student division at the 2013 and 2014 American Advertising Awards. Danielson will begin working at Adventure part-time until graduating in May and will then transition to full-time at our St. Cloud office.

We also welcomed Jake Gyllen to the Adventure Studios™ production team. The addition of Gyllen was especially exciting to all the ladies until they realized Jake’s last name was Gyllen, not Gyllenhaal – the handsome, award-winning actor/producer. Gyllen, a 2011 University of North Dakota graduate, will be working side-by-side with John Linn as he produces work for both new and existing accounts at a regional and national level. Gyllen intends to relocate from the Twin Cities area of Minnesota to work out of our Brainerd location.
Welcome aboard, Hali and Jake!

November 25, 2013 – Saint Cloud, MN… Adventure™, a full-service advertising agency with Minnesota offices in Brainerd, Saint Cloud and Minneapolis, is excited to announce the addition of Katie Sczublewski to their growing creative staff. With a solid communications and journalism background, she will provide internal relief in day-to-day project management duties and serve as a secondary copywriter. Sczublewski will office in Adventure’s new downtown St. Cloud location.

Before joining the Adventure™ team, Katie acted as production coordinator, traffic manager, content editor/proofer and copywriter at Gaslight Creative. Her natural multi-tasking ability transcends to her volunteer position with the American Advertising Federation, where she currently serves as Co-Programming Chair on the Board of Directors for the Central MN chapter. Prior to relocating to St. Cloud, Sczublewski gained valuable experience as an intern supporting the international PR efforts at Michael Kors’ corporate office in New York City. Sczublewski is a 2011 graduate of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa as well as a 2010 program graduate of the Universite Paris Sorbonne in Paris, France.

Adventure™ provides all-encompassing creative and marketing services to leading regional and national brands on a project basis. Senior-level experience and nationally recognized executions complement existing client resources for energized brand strength, growth and success. The production side of Adventure™, Adventure Studios, provides award-winning still photography, video and graphics production. Adventure Studios complements the advertising agency’s capabilities, but operates independently. Visit www.adventureadvertising.com for more information.

October 8, 2013 – St. Cloud, MN… Adventure™, a full-service advertising agency with Minnesota offices in Brainerd, Saint Cloud and Minneapolis, recently added Jenna Akre to their growing creative staff. She brings nearly a decade of graphic design, print and interactive experience to her position of Senior Art Director. Akre will split her time between Adventure’s new downtown St. Cloud office and Minneapolis.

Prior to joining Adventure™, Akre served as Design Director for Touchpoint Media, where she led the development of custom publications in both print and digital formats. Before her years with Touchpoint, Akre acted as designer and art director for both Metropolitan Media Group and Tiger Oak Publications. Her creative experience spans a wide range of projects, including packaging, corporate collateral, ad design, magazine layout, photo direction and web design. Akre is a 2005 graduate of the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and an active member of industry organizations, including ADFED, AIGA and MMPA.

Adventure™ provides all-encompassing creative and marketing services to leading regional and national brands on a project basis. Senior-level experience and nationally recognized executions complement existing client resources for energized brand strength, growth and success. The production side of Adventure™, Adventure Studios, provides award-winning still photography, video and graphics production. Adventure Studios complements the advertising agency’s capabilities, but operates independently. Visit www.adventureadvertising.com for more information.