RMIT’s advertising talk show ‘Hungry Talks’ is ready to call ACTION on the 2023 season
Are you an agency looking for insight into the perspective of young creatives? Hungry Talks is a student run talk show providing inspiration for curious minds alongside industry guests. Deep dive with the Hungry Talks team into the world of advertising AI, Super Bowl advertising, Barbie (obviously), strategy, and production, and help them answer the eternal young creative’s conundrum: have we sold our souls to the capitalist dream?
Hungry Talks is a student-run talk show run by a team of six advertising students, 19 cert IV screen and media students, and two supervisors, John Dingeldei and Chris Paterson. The 2023 team includes two hosts Charlie Borracci (above left) and Jaia Guildford-Carey (above right), writer Luca Battaglia, editor Simone Petrovski, marketing manager Steph Leong and creative producer Chelsea Addison. All six students are final year advertising majors who will be graduating later this year and participating in RMIT Pitch Night in October.
Each year, a new team of students host a range of the industry’s brightest minds. Industry guests confirmed for the 2023 season include Bec Robertson, managing partner, and Sasha Smith, chief media officer at Howatson+Company; Belle Kwan, account director and multicultural story-teller at CultureVerse, John Burgess, CEO and director of strategy, and Kelsey Dubar, marketing and events manager at First Nations owned and operated agency Little Rocket; Paul Reardon, chief creative officer at TBWA; Tyler Hamilton, conversational AI specialist lead at Deloitte Digital and Zoe Blochlinger, assistant production tinker, and Erin Beers, brand thinker at Thinkerbell.
Co-hosts Charlie Borracci and Jaia-Guildford-Carey perform in front of a live studio audience each week, with a series of pre-recorded segments, and live interviews with industry guests. To finish off each episode, the team presents the student viewers with a weekly Quick Brief, a concise AWARD school-inspired creative brief to practice their craft.
Episode 1 aired on Wednesday 26th July and featured handover interviews with the 2022 Hungry Talks team, as well as a live interview with two early-career professionals and recent grads, assistant production tinker Zoe Blochlinger and brand thinker Erin Beers from Thinkerbell.
Episode 2 will air live on Wednesday 2nd August at 5.30pm and will look at the role of AI in the creative industry, and how it can be used as a brainstorming and idea generation tool. Featuring Tyler Hamilton, conversational AI specialist lead at Deloitte Digital, digital learning specialist Kelly Ann Smith, and a live interview with Paul Reardon, chief creative officer at TBWA.
Join Hungry Talks live in the studio every Wednesday from 5:30pm.
Book here. Or, you can watch live from home here.
Episode 1 studio audience bookings sold out within 24 hours.
If you would like to be a part of Hungry Talks, please email Chelsea Addison at s3898812@student.rmit.edu.au.
Hungry Talks YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hungrytalks/streams
Hungry Talks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hungry_talks/
Hungry Talks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmit-hungry-talks/
(Pictured above left to right: Charlie Borracci, Jaia Guildford-Carey, Asha Gilbee-Giudici, Dimitri Adamopoulos, Anna Upton, and Maddie Collett).
(Pictured above left to right, top to bottom: The Hungry Talks 2023 team, RMIT Bachelor of Communication, Advertising students, Producer Chelsea Addison, Writer Luca Battaglia, Co-Host Charlie Borracci, Editor Simone Petrovski, Marketing Manager Steph Leong, and Co-Host Jaia Guildford-Carey).
Co-Host Charlie Borracci
Co-Host Jaia Guildford-Carey
Creative Producer Chelsea Addison
Writer Luca Battaglia
Editor Simone Petrovski
Social Media Manager Steph Leong
Studio Director Anthony Roberts
Studio Producer Caitlin Archibald
Vision Mix Rebecca Le Roy
DA Sam DiFlorio
Senior GFX Alex Viti
GFX Operator Julian Dods
EVS Playout Kyan Goodrich
Floor Manager Lauren Hundt
Assistant Floor Manager Alice Coffey
Staging Manager / Standby Props Casper Karimi
Lighting Director Jayden O’Connor
Lighting Operator Darcy Poynton
Audio Director Sean Richardson
Audio Operator Laura Wilson
Audio Assistant Liam Bradford
Camera A Brian Dominiecki
Camera B Josh Galbraith
Camera C Josh Devereaux
Supervisor John Dingeldei
Supervisor Chris Paterson