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Lil bit excited for next week!

A day of stories and inspo spread across five events, starting with a panel hosted by the Perth Advertising and Design Club - PADC and ending in music, vibes and secret cocktails - with the meat in this delicious sandwich for the brain being 3 x events with some serious names speaking candidly about business and leadership.

If you're interested in finding out more and coming along, hit up The Marketer website, or search Emergence Creative Creative Collision.

The July Wrap is out!

https://www.themarketeraustralia.com/post/grill-the-marketer-july-wrap

ROAD TRIP!

Join in the immersive Emergence Creative Collision program on August 20th. Kicking off the day's events is this Perth Advertising and Design Club - PADC panel. Read more about it and book your FREE tickets 👇

https://www.themarketeraustralia.com/post/padc-to-open-emergence-creative-collision-26-with-the-spaces-between

Emergence Creative

This time next week you'll either be on a high from the energy of the night before, or spewing you missed out. There will be no in between.

Ask Luke Whelan anything about his career, publishing, social media, AI, or whatever else you come up with. You won't get another chance.

Congrats to all the WA finalists in the Australian Marketing Institute Marketing Excellence Awards 🏆

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👏 Western Australia is making its mark on the national stage!

Congratulations to all our WA finalists who have been recognised among Australia's best marketers in the 2026 Australian Marketing Institute Marketing Excellence Awards.

It's fantastic to see so many outstanding marketers, organisations and agencies recognised across a diverse range of categories, reflecting the depth of marketing talent in Western Australia.

Our 2026 WA finalists are:

🏆 Bloom Digital - Acquisition Marketing and Small Budget Marketing

🏆 Bonfire - Agency of the Year – Under 50 Employees, Data and Insight Driven Marketing and Future Leader of the Year (sponsored by Rocket)

🏆Hayley Boneham, Capital Partners Private Wealth Advisers – Certified Practising Marketer of the Year

🏆 Chameleon Sand Candle - Australian Made Excellence Award

🏆 City of Subiaco- Sustainability and Purpose-Driven Marketing

🏆 Magellan Power - Australian Made Excellence Award

🏆 Power House Consulting Services - Sustainability and Purpose-Driven Marketing

🏆 RAAFA WA- Not for Profit Marketing

🏆 Tourism Western Australia- Brand Revitalisation

We know that behind every finalist is a passionate team dedicated to creating meaningful impact for customers, communities and organisations. We couldn't be prouder to see WA marketing excellence recognised on the national stage.

Best of luck to all finalists ahead of the 2026 AMI Marketing Excellence Awards Long Lunch in Sydney on 11 September (tickets: https://ami.org.au/events-ami/2026-ami-marketing-excellence-awards-long-lunch/). We'll be cheering you on! 👏

Our Grill The Marketer guest for July is Luke Whelan 🔥

Luke is the Managing Director and co-owner of Perth is OK! and Social Meteor, two independent, self-funded Western Australian businesses he has scaled in parallel since 2017.

Perth is OK! is WA's largest independent digital media company, reaching the state's largest under-45 audience with 1.6 million social followers and 115,000 newsletter subscribers -generating more than 195 million social impressions and 11.6 million email opens in 2025 alone - and partnering with brands including McDonald's, Tourism WA and Revo Fitness.

Social Meteor is a social-first marketing agency working with clients such as RAC, Kleenheat and Harvest Road Group.

A self-taught social marketer, Luke leads sales, growth and capability development across both companies, and is a vocal champion of independent media and local talent in WA.

He is a Business News 40under40 winner and a regular speaker and panellist on WA business and media.

Carma met Luke in her first year on the Oasis Ball Committee, where they both sat on the Revenue Squad in 2024.

Come and grill Luke on what founding a massive local publishing platform has taught him, his thoughts on running an independent marketing agency, and being a self-taught social media marketing specialist - or whatever else your heart desires.

See you there!

🔥 It might be cold out, but we're firing up the grill for a night of unscripted Q&A with John Linton.

Suit-Turned-Strategist and Managing Partner of , JL is prepared to answer all your career and campaign questions about their recent Campaign Brief Challenger Agency award win at Oasis Ball, their latest brand campaign for Murdoch Uni, or maybe why he's wearing board shorts in his headshot...

Perfect for curious marketers of all levels: https://events.humanitix.com/grill-the-marketer-2026/tickets

See you there!