After a long night with the group, we had all started the day at different points. I ended up starting my day with a late start. Dara, Julia and I slowly got our shit together and decided it was to gorgeous of a day to sit around, so we went for a hike to Arthur’s […]
Author: Diego Febres-Cordero
Day 10: On the Fringe… Festival
Waking up in Edinburgh was awesome. The old city’s architecture was so incredible but we had our last media day to take care of with a marketing director of the Fringe Festival. The Fringe Festival is one of the largest festival in the world and occurs 250 times across the world. Olly Davis came to […]
Day 9: Ayy Secuurittyyyy.
Today we left Manchester England for Edinburgh Scotland. We got up early and went straight to the airport that was essentially next door. For some reason we all struggled to get through this airport, Manchester Airport security sucks. We all got flagged down and had to get searched for the most minor of things. We […]
Day 8: Media City, Home to the BBC
Today was another professional day, we had visits with multiple personalities across the board. It was a full day of lectures and tours across Media City campus in Manchester. It seemed like this was a Manchester version of Silicon Valley. When we arrived at media city and it was a sight to behold. The campus […]
Day 7: Mother’s day in Liverpool
I’d like to start by saying happy Mother’s Day! Liverpool was so pretty, it reminded me a lot of Pittsburgh as it is an industrial city on the coast. We had the morning free so we naturally we had a late start to the day. We Gravitated to a brunch restaurant nearby the hotel we […]
Day 6: Shakespeare meets the U.S.
Waking up in Stratford was way different than in London, in the big city there are people moving pretty much all the time. In Stratford there was nothing moving at 7 am. I woke up early to run to the store and buy a jacket but nothing was opened till like 9. Before i went […]
Day 5: It’s not Windseerrr it’s Windsor
Today was a sad day, it was the day we had to move out of our hotel in London and go on with our tour. London is such an amazing city and spending 3 days here is not enough. BUT we were heading to Windsor Castle to see the Queen’s home and then to Stratford-Avon […]
Day 4: Media visits At Hearst
Today’s visit was to the Hearst agency and this place was a huge modern office settings and full of publications that are read across the world. It was amazing to see the amount of data that these places use and are exposed to. Much of the analytics the team processes are used and put towards […]
Day 3: Media Day
Today was the day we had all been waiting for… to finally not be jet lagged and it couldn’t have come at a better time. We had a full day of visiting media agencies on our schedule. Battenhall and Burson Cohn and Wolfe are the first agencies we got to experience in the United Kingdom. […]
Day 2: Okay, Eye see you London.
With a full night of sleep, the group felt a little more recharged today and rightfully so because we had a visit to our sister school Regent University here in the heart of London. After some much-needed coffee and breakfast we made our way though the “tubes” of London and found ourselves outside the school […]