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A Mammoth Weekend

obm — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:22:31 +0000

What better way to spend a summer’s afternoon than in the Adelaide hills surrounded by free food and entertainment? Throw in a twilight screening of ‘Ice Age 4’, jumping castle, roaming balloon clown and petting zoo. Sounds mammoth, right?

We were joined by over 3,000 people for Devine’s Mammoth Fun Day at Mt Barker. Understandably clowns and petting zoo’s aren’t for everyone.
And if you’re like me and the sight of a grinning clown still makes you feel uneasy as an adult, the gourmet food and wine market stalls provided the perfect distraction.
Can’t wait for next year!

Crowds ‘Play the net’ at Aus Open photobooth

obm — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:11:10 +0000

Constant crowds of Australian Open goers are passing through Tourism Victoria’s photobooth at Grand Slam Oval. Utilising RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device) and green screen technology, tennis goers can have their photo with their chosen Victorian backdrop and uploaded directly to their nominated social media accounts with the swipe of a lanyard. With thousands of punters having already been snapped in this photobooth, it’s needless to say we’re proud to play our part in such a successful brand activation.

It’s a Disco Christmas

obm — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:42:54 +0000

This years OBM Christmas party took a couple of us back to our wilder days.

We transformed our new offices into an inferno. Complete with glitter-balls, aviators and a cross dressing diva.

Some of the youngans needed a bit of schooling in the appropriate dance moves at first, but by the end of the night everyone was jumping and jiving all over our neon-lit dance floor.

Goodbye disco era. You will be missed.

The OBM girls get rowdy with the BAA

obm — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:00:44 +0000

The BAA is a Brisbane based industry group and their xmas lunch is known to be one of the social highlights of the year. Held at the Brisbane Convention Centre, with a photo booth, charity raffle, stand up comedy and prizes for best dressed, it was a good afternoon spent with clients and industry contacts celebrating the year that was.

Dave Hughes was the highlight of the day followed closely by the hundreds of promotional soft stress balls being thrown around the 900 seater function room. Needless to say the MC’s from 4BC weren’t too impressed – berating the crowd like they were in school (I guess us advertising folk can get a bit rowdy).

The after party then followed at the ‘very classy’ Fox Hotel where we continued the christmas cheer.

All in all a good night had by all.

Matt Preston takes a Second Bite

obm — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 06:35:42 +0000

A generous donation from APN, endorsement from Matt Preston and art/copy from OBM adds up to a big billboard boost for this year’s SecondBite Christmas Appeal. You can donate here.

From 3182 to 3181

obm — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:10:59 +0000

…And so OBM waves a tearful goodbye to St Kilda and this weekend strides purposefully along the 1,502m route to our new home in Prahran.

Our new address: 145 High Street, Prahran, VIC 3181.

We are operating at the new office from Monday 10th December 2012.

No change to our Brisbane office address!

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The Tourism Brownlow

obm — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:43:39 +0000

Last night we joined Victoria’s tourism industry and donned our finest for the RACV Victorian Tourism Awards held at Crown’s illustrious Palladium room. Unfortunately they didn’t have that red carpet spinny thing. Apart from that it was great. Congrats to all the winners.

The Grampians at sunrise. Wow!

obm — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:00:59 +0000

Recently three OBM staffers had the rare opportunity of attending a client meeting in one of the more spectacular offices in the country, the Grampians. Giddy with excitement two of the team set off on a pre-dawn summit of Boronia Peak. The result, best pre-meeting preparation routine ever. The awe inspiring views and abundance of wildlife left us wanting more of the Grampians. We’ll be back.

Gruen Planet Round 2

obm — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:37:38 +0000

On our second appearance on ABC’s Gruen Planet last week, we were asked to produce a spot to ‘convince Australians to ban alcohol’. After a lot of thinking, we came up with the strongest strategic direction we believed would get Australians to support this ban. Thanks to The Hub Productions for editing and Bang Bang for sound. The ad was voiced by Neil Pigot. Check out the spot and make sure you vote.

Game Masters

obm — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 03:15:58 +0000

Try saying that name 10 times real fast. Numerous discussions about this exhibition with our friends at Tourism Victoria left us gagging for a bit of beep-beep, peow-peow. So when a 10 strong contingent of OBM’ers decended on ACMI, Pacman, Sonic and the Space Invaders had no idea what hit them. Well, almost. Well actually no, not at all. In fact the moral to be taken from this excursion is that we all spend far too much time in the office and not enough time in dimly-lit arcades playing video games. But despite our somewhat pathetic attempts at destroying the tyranny of the videogame world, the whole experience was incredibly educational not to mention nostalgically fun. The extraordinary creativity of the gaming industry on display here, from the earliest space invaders to the latest in 3D masterpieces, make this an exhibition that OBM recommends to everyone.