Always On Communications

02/21/2023

Celebrating our 14th Anniversary, the day our President and Founder, Martin Thomas left corporate advertising and began working on creating what would eventually be Always On Communications.

02/22/2022

AOC was "officially" founded in June 2009, but we unofficially got going starting February 20, 2009 after our founder left his corporate advertising job and began consulting for a former client.

Since then, we've provided media planning and buying services for dozens of clients located in multiple states including California, Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York.

Here's a look at our team across the years.

05/04/2021

The AOC has been celebrating for almost as long as our agency has been around. Here are two of our past holiday cards with a theme.

Have fun celebrating today!

12/11/2020

2020 has been a year of changes for all of us. On top of the regular challenges of working remotely, helping clients who lost distribution, and constantly adjusting our media plans to account for stay-at-home orders and the rapidly changing media landscape, two of the more personal changes that affected AOC this year are not sending out holiday cards and, for the first time since we were founded in 2009, not hosting a holiday dinner to thank our wonderful team for a great year.

Instead, we combined our holiday cards and fellowship this year with a "Holiday Listen Party" on Zoom, with a collaborative playlist of holiday songs contributed by our team, our clients, and our partners. You can listen to our playlist here - an eclectic mix of songs, both new and traditional: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0wzkA2C8qwtHFMCEQFtP3M?si=0Hyu6KpPTtCJkX-F8bDpuQ

We wish everyone a wonderful holiday season, and a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2021.

Cheers!

04/01/2020

Tonight's and with workmates from Team , who also happen to be friends. Interestingly, the person on here I've known the "least" is and I've known her for nearly 13 years!

I sent cocktail recipes to everyone ahead of time, with advice on how to tweak the recipe if ingredients weren't available.

Original recipe was Blanco Tequila, Dry Vermouth, Lemon Juice, Simple Syrup, Muddled Cucumber, and Cilantro. Nobody made it the same way.

For mine, because I didn't have cilantro, I swapped the Tequila for Gin, and used a combination of rosemary and sage for my herbs.

Some folks didn't have dry vermouth so they subbed white wine. One person is allergic to citrus juice and another didn't have citrus, so they both subbed apple cider vinegar. One guy didn't have cucumber, so he left them out. And it all seemed to work. People prepped, tasted, adjusted, and drank.

12/23/2019

Here's a look back at our 11 different holiday card designs from Cheryl Browne and Jenny Louie from 2009 - 2019.

12/23/2019

These have been spotted in the wild, so we can reveal our 2019 holiday card design, by our designer .real.cherylistic.

This year's design steps a bit away from our geek roots and instead provides a nostalgic look at some of our favorite holiday memories over the years, and invites others to share their own memories with the hashtag

Cheers and Happy Holidays!

12/20/2019

Annual AOC and Holiday Dinner last night. Great times with a great group of people.

@ The Terrace at the Langham

12/01/2019

Our president, Martin Thomas, is raising money for by growing a mustache all throughout November to help raise awareness of men's health issues, particularly prostate and testicular cancer as well as mental health and su***de prevention. Today is the last day, and you can help by donation to the cause, as we will be matching every donation up to a total of $500.00 through Midnight Pacific Time today.

You can donation to Martin's page here: https://mobro.co/martinrthomas?mc=1

Movember, the month formerly known as November, is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men's health.

10/26/2019

Team AOC had some big meetings in New York this past week, but we still found some time to hang out at bowling at and for dinner and Negronis drinks at a classic NYC restaurant , plus a late night pizza run to a new New York classic place

@ Bowlmor Lanes

10/16/2019

Last week was a bit grueling. This week is a return to normal with working at my local pub while my daughter is at her after school activities across the street.