Digital-first ECD / CD with a track record in transforming agencies, brands and culture.
I’ve led creative modernisation across 3 agencies: Digitas (ECD), The Marketing Store (ECD) and Wunderman (Group CD).
I champion, and create, big integrated contagious ideas with a story-telling core that drive audience participation across brands' physical and digital worlds. From film, experiential, press and outdoor to tech innovation with bespoke Facebook and Google campaigns, VR, bots, cloud-computing CRM, dark social, content co-creation and influencer-based work.
Awards / finalist: Over 70, including a recent D&AD Pencil
Speaker: IPA, ad:tech, Marketing Week, Creative Review, The Guardian
Press: Contagious, Campaign, Metro, Creative Review
Judge: DMA, Cannes Lions Lynx, D&AD New Blood, Creativepool
BIMA UK Digital Hot 100
Making people part of the story:
Brands must earn the right to play a role in our lives – the masses control brand relationships, not us, so ideas must enhance, validate or improve people’s self-perception. Get that right and the positive experience of a shared moment with a brand becomes the brand itself. I love motivating people to be part of a brand’s storytelling. Fire up your audiences’ passions, and watch ideas self-propel, sparking cultural shockwaves from a shared experience.
Projects credited in
- WEETABUDDIESA new breakfast experience that delivered unstoppable retail. Weetabix is a national treasure. Parents love it as a healthy breakfast choice, but it doesn’t excite kids like cartoon tigers or monkeys on cereal boxes do. Placing parents in a tricky dilemma. So we did what any responsible adult would – we let kids play with their food. How Weetabix went straight to the top of the shopping list. To excite parents and kids over Weetabix’s versatility, we introduced the ‘Weetabuddies’ – a series of c9
- Delivering another Wiiiin!MONOPOLY at McDonald’s is BACK! TMS are proud to launch MONOPOLY Wiiiin! to the UK, launching on 21st March 2018, running through to 1st May 2018. From the eye-catching bold design, social media activations and the new technology that TMS have integrated into the game, you won’t want to miss it.3
- D&AD Wood Pencil for adidas GLITCH Cliques"D&AD Pencils are never handed out unless the work is good enough." It's said that a D&AD Pencil is the equivalent of a "career knighthood". So you can imagine how unbelievably proud TMS are that we were awarded a Wood Pencil for our adidas GLITCH Cliques campaign!8
- adidas - GlitchCo-creation like never before. adidas adopt an open source strategy: grow share of market through share of trend and share of mind. Why? Because they recognise that traditional marketing won’t reach audiences that don’t consume traditional media. adidas Glitch is a new breed of football boot which sits at the heart of the strategy. Developed in collaboration with adidas ‘football creators’, it has interchangeable inner and outer skins that can be switched up to suit your mood. To suit adidas aud14
- The Power of Social ListeningLet’s be honest. Social listening isn’t that sexy. It’s not the first thought that comes to mind when you’re crafting a new social media strategy or concept. It’s a data game. An onslaught of keywords, graphs, numbers and mixed data to mine your way through – a total parallel to the glamorous world of perfectly formed Instagram images, viral tweets and cat videos on Facebook. But as they say, the devil is in the data (ahem, yes, this is usually detail, but bear with us). When you interpret and use data results, it can turn into something informative, interesting and quite frankly, game-changing. Jeff Bezos once said this: “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room”. How often in social events have we wished we could listen through the door? Wanted to be a fly on the wall in big corporate company meetings? Social listening gives brands that unrivalled access, and it’s an incredibly powerful thing.4
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Work history
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Freelance Creative Director(Various)
London, United KingdomFreelance
Freelance CD, writer, brand platform, brand manifesto creator, pitch-winner, script writer.
Led 4 recent pitch wins for 3 agencies. I created and directed the pitch-winning creative platform concepts that won: Amazon, Twitter, Google, BT sustainability and a Marriott Hotels (digital-first integrated) pitch – as yet, some not public.
Executive Creative DirectorThe Marketing Store
- London, United KingdomFull Time
Transformed TMS into an award-winning integrated campaign led agency with a strong digital capability. My approach was to broaden the agency's remit by creating reasons for people to engage with brands way before entering a retail environment.
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Skills
- Concept
- Copywriting
- Idea Generation
- Team Building
- Creative Direction
- Digital Advertising
Education
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Bachelor of Arts (BA) Middlesex University
- London, United Kingdom
Awards
PencilD&AD
adidas GLITCHT
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3 x awardsThe Drum's Chip Shop Awards
Chip winner, Best ad without a headline for Specsavers
Vinegar winner, Best use of honesty for VW Lemon
Finalist, McDonald’s. Best work for a client you have, but haven’t a hope in hell of running+ Show more