Happy beginning of Season 9! For anyone who’s listened to the show from the early days, you’ll know that the format often changes from season to season, as we tackle new topics and get excited about new things.

We’re taking a bit of a lighter approach to this season, and going to be going back to our Open Tabs format. Based on a series that we’ve run across two different countries now, Open Tabs is basically a private event that we take to our ad agency clients and run in house. We get four amazing speakers to plug in their laptop and literally go through their open browser tabs. Each speaker gets one minute per tab and a maximum of ten tabs, and it’s a bit of a mashup between pecha kucha and creative mornings, and a whole lot of fun.

This season however, with Lara doing a deep dive for our next season, I’m super excited to announce my new co-host for the Season, Rachael Kendrick. Rachael is a London based creative copywriter who’s worked all over the place, including Wieden + Kennedy, AKQA, Huge, Ogilvy and Google. In a previous life she finished a PhD, before washing out of academia when she realised that she’d much rather make deeply stupid adverts than peer reviewed articles that noone reads.

For the next three months, Rachael and myself will be coming together each week and going through our own open tabs.

Remember! We are now an ENHANCED podcast. That's right - If you listen to our podcast in Overcast or Pocket Casts, or Castro, you can get super special images, links, and chapter breaks in your player while you listen.

Featured links from our discussion - Want to get these in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for our text-only tinyletter at tinyletter.com/jackywinter