Benjamin Mccoy Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Back with the old Saatchi/Hawkeye team to help out with USAA once again. Doing campaign work, one-offs, and everything in between.

Greater New York City Area

From leading teams to rebranding whole companies to writing tweets, I've grown teams and produced effective work for everyone from small businesses to government departments to award-winning agencies. Who I've helped: Razorfish, PXP Studios, Versus Studios, Barbarian, Creative Studio, NV Communications, Clovis Marketing, Aston Magna Music Festival, Westchester Community for Ethical Culture, Advanced Real Estate, American Foresters, Eon Skincare, NERD Skincare, Bent on Learning, Laura's… Show more From leading teams to rebranding whole companies to writing tweets, I've grown teams and produced effective work for everyone from small businesses to government departments to award-winning agencies. Who I've helped: Razorfish, PXP Studios, Versus Studios, Barbarian, Creative Studio, NV Communications, Clovis Marketing, Aston Magna Music Festival, Westchester Community for Ethical Culture, Advanced Real Estate, American Foresters, Eon Skincare, NERD Skincare, Bent on Learning, Laura's Library Card, and many more. Show less

Writing a bit of everything, from dialogue to in-game notes to easter eggs.

New York, United States

Worked onsite directly with the [NDA redacted client name in the sin vertical]. Helped them define their brand voice for a U.S. product launch, created the entire eCRM journey, and drafted their first ads for radio, banners, experiential, and more. Did all of this while navigating the strict legal restrictions put upon this advertising category.

New York, New York, United States

Helped the military community find financial coverage with USAA, campers find the best spots with Sun Outdoors, and people everywhere smile a little better with Invisalign. Plus helping out on a bunch of other brands like Crest, Oral-B, National Down Syndrome Society, Dreft, Bounty, Pampers, CVS, Always, and more. Also helped lead Junior Creatives on projects.

Greater New York City Area

In my first year, drove sales and awareness with campaigns that increased sales by 126.3% and generated $175K in earned media, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, WQXR, and Grammaphone (2019). Led teams across all marketing, publicity, and communications efforts. Brought the brand through a website refresh and a complete rebranding. Expanded our reach across new platforms, including Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Google Search. Led the team to earn the Google Ad Grant, giving up to… Show more In my first year, drove sales and awareness with campaigns that increased sales by 126.3% and generated $175K in earned media, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, WQXR, and Grammaphone (2019). Led teams across all marketing, publicity, and communications efforts. Brought the brand through a website refresh and a complete rebranding. Expanded our reach across new platforms, including Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Google Search. Led the team to earn the Google Ad Grant, giving up to $10,000/mo in free advertising on Google Search. Show less

Greater New York City Area

Concept, execute, and post all content on Twitter for CC|NY. Develop video campaigns that span the digital realm. Advise on Facebook and YouTube content.

New York City

Concepted and edited a mini-documentary for the U.S. co-Premiere of Dame Ethel Smyth's "The Prison." The documentary was named "Video of the Day" by Gramophone, voluntarily promoted by The British Consulate, and the New Yorker gave us a full article.

Reviewing and highlighting the best of emerging indie artists. Over 100 articles to date. Read them all here: https://www.unxigned.com/author/ben-mccoy/.

Reviewing unknown names and rising stars in the indie, alt, rock, and pop space.

New York, New York, United States

Worked with an amazing team across the entire agency's client portfolio: Spectrum, Fujitsu, Kaiser Permanente, AUL, and more.

New York, United States

Wrote bright and shiny copy for Crest and Oral B, plus lovable prose for Pampers.

New York, New York

Helped small businesses find insurance with Berkshire Hathaway's newest insurance option, THREE as part of MXM. Assisted other Accenture-owned companies as needed, like writing social media posts for the Chase Sapphire Card with the Droga5 team.

New York, New York

Freelanced across a wide range of accounts from tech to beauty to crazy. Created videos for Samsung, rebranded the tech company Solace, wrote web copy for Garnier, developed social media posts and concepts for AB inBev, and 3D-printed a mini-trebuchet.

New York, New York

Freelanced on Barclay Card, UPromise, New York Life, ADP, and more. Many of my lines for Mastercard AAdvantage were so well-loved they carried through multiple iterations of the campaign, living on banners and posters in major US airports for almost 5 years in a campaign that refreshed yearly.

Greater New York City Area

Jumped in on any account that needed an extra brain after my internship officially ended. Concepted Chick-fil-A social media and wrote video scripts, developed radio spots for Verizon, brainstormed extensions for NatGeo's show One Strange Rock, and more. Everything from State Street to Qualcomm to Mucinex saw my words.

Greater New York City Area

Interned with McCann XBC on all things Mastercard. Even got to write lines for some baseball heroes during the All-Star Game. Also won 1st Place in their Internship Competition for our groups' Chick-fil-A student-targeted pitch.

Brooklyn, New York

My first assignment was naming drinks for the holiday party. That's how I knew this was my kind of crazy. From there, concepted ideas for Elmhurst Nut Milk, Fiverr, Ironbound Hard Cider, and more.

Homestead, Pennsylvania

Promoted from Proposal Assistant within one month of starting.Responsible for writing, editing, compiling, and general layout of proposals and helped create a database of past Energy Projects. Routinely worked with proprietary information.

Falmouth And Penryn

A dash of everything. From hanging posters at midnight to running events to streamlining interviews. We helped people know what they needed to know, when they needed to know it, no matter how it had to happen.

Homestead, Pa

Interning in the Marketing and Communication Department, I edit profiles, briefs, and suggest changes to the website, corporate charter, corporate profile, and just about anything else that contains words.

Delaware, Ohio And Charleston, West Virginia

Teaching beginning piano students the basics of the piano and reading music.

Master'S Degree, Creative Advertising, First (Uk Scale)

Activities and Societies: Viva Voce, Capoeira Integrated campaigning mixed with theory and emerging technologies, emphasis on Copywriting

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English With A Concentration In Creative Writing, 3.77

Activities and Societies: Choral Art Society, Chamber Singers, OWtsiders, Horticulture Club, MARRCA, Tae Kwon Do Club

High School Diploma, 4.05

Activities and Societies: Choir, Theater Club, Pep Band, Chess Club

Continuing Education, Advertising

Sketch Writing

Activities and Societies: Culminating project: wrote and performed in an off-Broadway production