In the meantime, the ADC board and management have come to the conclusion that holding the gala postponed to May 16 is too risky in view of the situation and forecasts. The ADC Gala will therefore be postponed again, to Saturday, September 5. The tickets remain valid.

The ADC office in the home office 

The ADC office is closed since Monday March 16 until further notice and no events will take place. Gioia Bozzato and Hanna Jackl are working from home; the office can also be reached in the home office by mail, phone and video conference.

The judging and the deadline for submissions postponed

ADC Switzerland will inform about when and how the judging will take place at a later date. This also applies to the planned Creative Week. A small drop of bitterness for those who missed the submission due to stress: The submission deadline is extended to April 19, 2020 - any physical proofs can be sent to the office after returning from the home office; the works must have been published in 2019 or in January or February 2020.

The ADC Young Creatives Award ceremony is cancelled

The Young Creatives Award ceremony unfortunately falls victim to the Corona Virus. The results will be communicated to the participants and the public in the course of the next week. A small consolation for the winners: They will be honored afterwards at the ADC Gala.

Closed and yet open

A closed ADC office does not mean that ADC Switzerland is at rest. "On the contrary," emphasizes Frank Bodin, "public life is at a standstill. What is not at a standstill are the creative possibilities to counter this crisis. Despite home offices and virtual communication, we want and need to remain agile and networked. It is precisely in times like these that we can show what Creative Leadership means - ideas and initiatives are welcome."

The SwissMediaForum planned for May cannot be held. The "extraordinary situation" declared by the Federal Council on Monday is forcing the organizers to postpone the event, probably until the fall of 2020. The exact date will be announced in due course, according to a statement on Wednesday.

Like countless other agencies, the Polish agency has now switched to home office, which makes communication tools, and especially video meeting tools, a necessity. These tools could now help us fight an unhygienic and currently even dangerous habit, face-grabbing. Because not only does this lead to annoyances like blemished and itchy skin, but it also increases the risk of infection with the flu or, currently, the coronavirus. And as many videos circulating on the Internet prove: We touch our faces much more often than we think!

With a small update, the video functions of the communication tools could counteract these annoying habits by displaying warnings as soon as a person touches their face. This should at least curb the risk of infection during work. A good and sensible input that could also be useful beyond the Corona crisis.

The months of March, April and May are commercially very important for Swiss private radio stations, the Swiss Private Radio Association announced on Tuesday. During this period, numerous advertising-relevant events such as car and furniture exhibitions, spring trade fairs, tourist promotions and concerts normally take place.

Traditionally, a lot of radio advertising is booked for these. Due to the numerous cancellations, these advertising funds would now be missing for the private radio stations. These cancellations at short notice would "fundamentally" threaten the existence of private radio stations, according to the statement.

They are therefore asking the Federal Council for an immediate contribution of twelve million francs from the existing fluctuation reserve. This is already allocated to the Federal Office of Communications Bakom. According to the statement, the reserve amounts to 34 million francs for 2020.

Each broadcaster should receive an equal amount with which it can maintain its programs in accordance with the performance mandate. The regional service is of great importance to the population in the current crisis. If the crisis lasts longer, the association reserves the right to make further applications to the federal government. (SDA)

Wittwer has decided to take on a new challenge and will join Süddeutsche Zeitung in summer 2020. Together with the current Editor-in-Chief Wolfgang Krach, she will head the editorial team of the largest subscription daily newspaper in Germany.

Judith Wittwer began her journalistic career after completing a Master's degree in International Relations at the University of St. Gallen HSG in 2002 at the Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich. She completed her traineeship and part-time diploma training at MAZ - The Swiss School of Journalism, later worked as a business editor and was a correspondent in Germany before moving to the Background and Analysis department. From 2011 to 2014, she was the business editor for the Handelszeitung of the Axel Springer media company. In 2014, Judith Wittwer returned to the Tages-Anzeiger where she headed the staff department of the editor-in-chief and worked as head of news. In 2016, she became a member of the editorial board of Tages-Anzeiger and Sunday newspaper, she has been editor-in-chief of the Tages-Anzeiger since the beginning of 2018.

Judith Wittwer has developed the Tages-Anzeiger in recent years, including the introduction of "Page Three" with reports and investigations and the strengthening of the Opinion section. Under her leadership, the Tages-Anzeiger also expanded the regional offering. In terms of strategy, Judith Wittwer drove forward various cooperations, including the collaboration in place since 2017 between the Tages-Anzeiger and the South German Newspaper.

Judith Wittwer: "The Tages-Anzeiger and the South German Newspaper share the same journalistic values. Both are extremely competent and creative, strong in research and opinion, regionally anchored and cosmopolitan. They have everything that readers want, even in digital times. Shaping this digital transformation is one of the most exciting challenges in our industry. I am delighted to be able to bring my experience from Zurich to Munich and to be able to strengthen the cooperation between the two media houses by moving to the South German Newspaper is strengthened once again. I will remain connected to the 'Tagi', to which I owe almost my entire career," says Judith Wittwer.

The succession plan at Tages-Anzeiger as of summer 2020 will be communicated at the appropriate time.

The subsidiary of Blueglass Interactive is a provider of services around eSports reporting and consulting. Over the past three years, the eSports Competence Center has become a pioneer in the now booming gaming environment.

In the containers of Frau Gerold's garden in Zurich's West End, the creators of eStudios established a gaming center with 2 by 6 workstations for competitive gaming, commentator stations and a video studio for the production of live streams and video-on-demand broadcasts about the eSports action.

As part of the management buyout, Blueglass Interactive is separating from the subsidiary and placing it in the care of the management team around Tobias Egartner and Hakan Pazarcikli.

"The first 3 years of development of eStudios have brought immense and at the same time successful pioneering work. Now the time has come for us to tackle the next stage of development. I am extremely pleased to accompany the dynamic development in the environment of eSports as an entrepreneur. With our competent and versatile team, we are ideally equipped to satisfy customer needs in various areas of eSports," says eStudios CEO Tobias Egartner.

Blueglass remains faithful to eSports

However, the Zurich-based agency is not turning its back on Swiss eSports with this transaction: In the future, the agency will continue to operate the long-term UPC content marketing project in cooperation with eStudios as production partner eSports.ch.

The association announced Tuesday that the meeting, originally scheduled for April 28, 2020, will be moved to Aug. 20, 2020. The location and program will remain the same. Members are asked to register again for the evening program.

There were initially no details about what the cooperation actually entails. In recent days, false or dubious information about the novel coronavirus had appeared on the platforms in many cases. They already took individual action against it and removed, for example, advertising for alleged cures.

At the same time, online criminals are targeting users with spam emails on coronavirus topics. The IT security company Eset warned that there are currently e-mails in circulation with supposed information about the coronavirus from renowned institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO), which contain a harmful PDF file as an attachment. Opening the file could infect the computer. (SDA)

"We definitely met our goals for March. The Republic can continue," the company announced in its latest newsletter on Tuesday. Persoenlich.com had first reported on this.

The investors who have helped the online newspaper to exceed its funding target of 2.2 million francs will be listed on the shareholders' page shortly, the statement added. 2.46 million francs was the exact figure on Tuesday. The Republic is sticking to its ambition of finding 3,000 new publishers, as it likes to call its subscribers, in March.

In December 2019, the online magazine had reported that 2.2 million Swiss francs and 19,000 subscribers would have to be raised by the end of March 2020 for it to continue to exist. If the target had not been met, all employees would have received notice of termination as of March 31.

The Republic-founders had raised around 3.4 million francs in the 2017 crowdfunding campaign, four times as much as hoped for. In total, the project had 7.7 million francs at the start, thanks to contributions from investors. This would secure operations for at least two years, it said at the time. On January 14, 2018, it had launched as an advertising-free magazine with about three articles per day. (SDA)

Due to increasing regulation by laws such as DSGVO or CCPA, many companies are confronted with ensuring data protection when analyzing their websites. Google's market-leading Analytics solution can only be operated in a data protection-compliant manner with a great deal of effort - and even then, shortcomings remain, such as the storage of data in the USA or a lack of transparency due to the software's source codes not being available. For example, the Zurich data protection commissioner prohibits the use of Google Analytics for public bodies.

To solve this problem, Wortspiel agency launches its first product. Friendly Analytics is a privacy-friendly and professional alternative to Google Analytics. and is based on the world's most popular open source analytics solution Matomo (formerly Piwik) - used by NASA, the EU Commission and the United Nations, and recommended by Zurich's data protection authorities. It offers features such as goal measurement including e-commerce tracking, multi-channel attribution, events and a powerful tag manager.

Friendly Analytics completely eliminates the storage of personally identifiable information (PII) and cookies. This makes Friendly Analytics compliant with privacy laws like DSGVO (EU), CCPA (California) and PECR (UK). And the annoying cookie banner is eliminated. Companies don't have to worry about installation or hosting themselves, but can use Friendly Analytics for a subscription price as a software-as-a-service. The data is stored exclusively in Switzerland, and is not passed on or used for advertising purposes. All data can be completely downloaded or deleted at any time. This gives companies 100 percent data ownership.

Anyone who helps out in the kitchen from an early age learns a lot for life: Kitchen skills, a connection to nutrition, and a love of food go hand in hand. In Little Fooby, recipes are categorized by difficulty level and colorful illustrations show what kitchen utensils are needed in addition to the ingredients. In the recipes - which are specially designed for cooking together - the steps are highlighted in color, which the kids can take over.

Valencia Kommunikation developed Little Fooby in collaboration with Coop: Among other things, with its own, child-friendly recipe pages and articles in the Fooby spring magazine and the Coop Easter magazine and a coordinated launch campaign with recipe brochure, POS advertising and moving images.

Together with Boutiq Films, three atmospheric spots and short bumper ads were developed for online and offline use. The spots implement the topic of "cooking with children" in a cheerful and humorous way. Short sequences are shown in which parents and children cook together. The perfect result plays only a minor role.

Little Fooby can be discovered in the new Fooby Magazine, on recipe cards at the POS, in the Fooby App and on Littlefooby.ch.

For the online meeting, a tool will be available in which members can vote and also ask questions, with which the statutory part of the meeting can be realized. The farewells of the persons resigning from the Presidium and the Board will be made up for at a later date. The next event on April 30, 2020, is still under discussion, for which the CPMR will await the Federal Council's decisions at the beginning of April and then provide further information.

The BPRG views the online solution as an exciting attempt to gain experience in connection with such digital communication solutions that can potentially be used in non-crisis times.