Getting job updates by email

You don't need an account to hear about new jobs. The Email me new creative jobs panel on the job board — and under the description on every job page — signs you up for job updates: new CGI, VFX, motion and AI video roles, by email.

Browsing the board and reading a listing never require a subscription. Applying still asks you to sign in, exactly as before — and once your application has opened, you may be offered job updates there too, using your account's address. That offer is optional and never holds the application up; see Applying to a job or project.

Signing up

1. Pick how often you want to hear from us, right in the sentence:
   • Weekly — one email a week with the newest jobs. This is preselected.
   • As jobs go live — an email each time new jobs are published, grouped so a batch of jobs is one message, not five.
2. Enter your email address. That's all we ask for — no name, no account.
3. Press Go.

Nothing is stored until you press the button, and nothing is sent until you confirm.

Confirming your address

We email you a confirmation link. Open it and press Confirm job updates — that click is what starts the updates. Until then you get no job emails at all.

• The link works for 24 hours, and an unconfirmed request expires after seven days. If yours has run out, just sign up again from the job board.
• Pressing the same link twice changes nothing. One address is one subscription, however many times you ask.
• If you're signed in to FOOH with a verified email address and you subscribe with that same address, you're subscribed straight away — we already know the mailbox is yours.

What the weekly email looks like

The Weekly email goes out once a week — Thursday morning, Amsterdam time, by default. It features up to four of the newest jobs that went live on FOOH since the last one — never two from the same company — and tells you honestly how many more there are ("+8 more new jobs on FOOH") with a link to the board. If only two jobs went live, you get two; if none did, there's no email that week. A job that closed before the email went out is left out, and a job never counts as new twice.

The four are the same for every subscriber — nothing is picked based on your role or location yet.

Projects in job emails

Freelance projects — briefs brands post for free — reach you too, in the weekly email and as they go live, from the moment FOOH approves them. A project appears as its teaser: its title, where it is, who it's looking for, budget, timeline and the opening lines of the brief, with a link to its page. The full brief and who posted it are for FOOH members, so the link asks you to sign in (or create a free account) to read the rest and apply. A project that's still waiting for review, was declined or has closed never appears. See Finding jobs and projects.

It is sent automatically, and it is checked right before your copy goes out: if you unsubscribed or switched to As jobs go live after the week's email was prepared, you don't get it. You never get the same weekly email twice. Links in it carry a tag naming that week's email, so we can see which edition brought people to the board — never who you are. We don't track opens.

What the as-jobs-go-live email looks like

If you chose As jobs go live, you hear from us a few minutes after new jobs are published on FOOH. Jobs published together arrive together: one email with up to four of them, no two from the same company, and an honest count of the rest ("+3 more new jobs published with these"), with a link to the board. Jobs published at different times come in separate emails.

Only jobs that are actually new to FOOH trigger it — an update to a job that's already live, or a job coming back after a short break, never does. The one exception is a paid listing: when an employer pays to advertise a role, it goes out as its own email a few minutes after it goes live, even if the role was already on FOOH. You still never get the same job twice within seven days — if we sent it to you recently, the paid listing's email waits until the seven days have passed, and if you already had it since it was paid for, there's no second email. An approved project gets its own email the same few minutes after its approval, once — shown as its teaser, as above. A job that closed in those few minutes is left out; if all of them did, there's no email. It is checked right before your copy goes out, so if you unsubscribed or switched to Weekly in the meantime, you don't get it. The same link tag and no-open-tracking rules as the weekly email apply.

Changing the frequency or unsubscribing

Every job email carries a manage your job updates link at the bottom. It opens your preferences with no login: switch between Weekly and As jobs go live, or unsubscribe.

Three things that work the way you'd want them to:

• Asking again doesn't change your settings. If you fill in the panel with an address that's already subscribed, we don't touch your frequency — we email you your preferences link instead. Only somebody who can read that mailbox gets to change it.
• An old email can't undo a newer decision. If you unsubscribe and then open a confirmation link from before, it won't put you back on the list.
• Coming back needs a fresh confirmation. The preferences link has no "start again" button on purpose — it sits in every job email we ever sent you, and a forwarded copy shouldn't be able to undo your opt-out. Sign up again from the job board and open the new confirmation link; nothing restarts until you do.

If your link expired

Open the expired link anyway and press Send me a new link — it goes to the same address, and nothing has been sent to you in the meantime.

What this is not

Job updates are separate from everything else:

• They're not the FOOH newsletter. Subscribing to one never subscribes you to the other.
• They're not a FOOH account. Signing up for job updates creates no account, and creating an account never subscribes you. If you later create an account with the same address, it stays one subscription — you're never counted or emailed twice.
• Unsubscribing here stops job updates only. Your account and any other FOOH emails are untouched; those live in your email preferences.