Cody D'Ambrosio Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York

+ Oversaw TPT’s Creative Production, Physical Production, Post-Production, Creative Strategy, Revenue Strategy, Sales Operations, Content Operations, Media/Client-Strategy & Publishing departments and a wide network of freelancers+ Led the creative development, packaging, pricing, and execution of integrated campaign proposals for major brands across all advertising verticals, leveraging custom video/audio/written/photo content, editorial sponsorship opportunities, experiential activations, influencer marketing, targeted media strategies & third-party distribution amplification+ Designed and implemented proactive and RFP response processes and status tracking systems+ Approved all outbound campaign creative treatments, ensuring that the proposal has synthesized brand objectives into a story that hits their KPIs whilst not compromising our editorial voice, standards and/or identity+ Oversaw the creation of multi-platform distribution strategies and platform-optimized video assets for all integrated branded campaigns+ Directed the development and production for all third-party partnership content, branded video/written/audio efforts, short-form editorial videos living on TPT’s social pages, editorial written content & editorial podcasts+ Led the exploration and discussion of psychological factors that drive viewers to utilize content as a communication/connectivity tool and the experimentation/testing of these hypotheses during the ideation, creative development & publishing phases of future content output+ Led all influencer marketing/promotional strategy, including talent research and identification based on campaign goals and target audience, social post copywriting, and data/performance-tracking of live posts+ Oversaw content department P&L, media planning, paid/targeted media, billing/revenue collection, tracking of margins for all revenue-generating campaigns & forecasting revenue recognition for all calendar/milestone-based assets within said campaigns

Los Angeles, Ca

+ Oversaw Rhett & Link’s staff Creative Production, Physical Production, Post-Production, Social Media, Community, Operations & Technology departments and a wide network of freelancers+ Creatively developed and produced serial and one-off video efforts for all of Rhett & Link’s incubation/development lab+ Produced Rhett & Link’s weekly podcast, leading the identification and research of potential guests and/or topics, scheduling of recording and publishing calendars, curation and editing of clips for the companion video clips and the delivery of advertiser reads+ Managed all community-building and audience-development initiatives across O&O, social and newsletter+ Built editorial publishing calendars across YouTube/Facebook/Instagram/Twitter and led analysis of platform-specific performance metrics, ensuring data-driven optimization of both the production/post-production processes for original content and the publishing/editing strategies for archival content, as well as quick iteration on formats from which we saw audience signal+ Created and implemented Rhett & Link’s archival social publishing strategy, which allowed the company to utilize vast library of YouTube content and optimized for native publishing on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter+ Designed organizational structure, hiring needs, and pipeline for all creative and media departments+ Built and implemented organizational-wide relational database to track all stages of a video’s production cycle and the myriad department-specific components/assets associated with each video, which result in improved overall organizational communication/efficiency and allowed Rhett & Link to double their daily minutes output without issue

Los Angeles, Ca

+ Oversaw BuzzFeed’s staff Creative Production, Physical Production, Post-Production, Research, Casting, Assistant Director, Stage/Studio & Equipment departments and a wide network of freelancers+ Oversaw creative development and operational/logistics planning of sponsored editorial content and worked directly with the sales and marketing teams through the execution of each program+ Worked with producers, accountants, post-production and finance to create production schedules and budgets for multiple concurrent long-form projects, all of which may be at different stages of the production process (development, pre-production, production, post-production) and then supervised the production cycle of said projects+ Partnered with Creative Directors to ensure their vision was executed within parameters of each respective project budget for content output of all formats; short-form social video, scripted/unscripted episodic, editorial video, sponsored editorial video and branded video+ Designed and implemented BuzzFeed’s Intern/Fellow program, which provided a cost-efficient solution for the large labor center needed for support roles, as well as future prospective full-time conversions+ Built and scaled operational systems to support the 1400% growth of the video department in terms of personnel+ Provided production & operational support to (5) BFEG international video departments, across (5) continents

Los Angeles, Ca // Portland, Or // Boston, Ma // Pittsburgh, Pa

+ Twilight (2008), Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009), Hop (2010-2011), The Heat (2012), The Fault In Our Stars (2013)+ Maintained lines of communication between Production & Studio Department Heads+ Tracked clearance issues on set & corresponded daily with studio legal team to ensure that all items were legally cleared+ Served as liaison between shooting location Film Commission & Los Angeles based studios+ Made preliminary rate/availability calls to local crew & placed holds during the pre-production/logistical phase of my respective films+ Coordinated meetings between Department Heads+ Logged and maintained online Filemaker database of VFX shots, sequences & storyboards+ Worked with respective film commissions to assemble location packages for studio during pre-production in order to vet out viable host cities/states+ Assisted in first pass of shooting schedules for my respective films+ Filed production paperwork & cast deal memos