Agency community raises over $5k for Starlight Foundation at Facebook’s Agency Games Day

Last Thursday, Facebook Australia held its 2018 Australian Agency Games Day to raise money for The Starlight Foundation.

The event brought together the Australian agency community on the first day of Autumn to determine who were the best swimmers in agency land, all in the name of charity.

Facebook’s Agency Games Day brings the agency community together to celebrate ‘active living’ at one of the most iconic Australian locations – Bondi Beach. Most importantly it supports a wonderful charity, The Starlight Foundation. The Starlight Foundation is a charity for hospitalised kids and their families. Starlight programs offer entertainment, education and technology to critically, chronically and terminally ill children.

The event has built huge momentum since its inaugural year in 2017, with Agency’s running training sessions months before the event and even rumours of changing hiring policy’s to recruit the strongest swimmers.

The day was great success; 120 people from media and advertising agencies attended to compete and helped Facebook raise $5,204 for The Starlight Foundation, an amount all attendees were proud to achieve.

OMD and PHD were crowned joined first place (as the teams were too exhausted to compete for first place!). Waveshare – a combined Wavemaker & Mindshare team – placed second and Dan & Zenith placed third.

The Facebook swim team was composed of Oliver Moore, Paul Nahoun, David Fernandez, and Thomas Hosking.

Says Ellie Rogers, head of agency sales in Australia, Facebook: “Giving back to the agency community is important for us as a business. Sometimes it’s important to stop and say thank you – and where better to it than at Iceberg’s on a beautiful day. It was great to see so many people put on their cozies and join us for the afternoon for a good cause to support the Starlight Foundation.”