Ryan Randall Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Creative Director overseeing creative for all of the Up Entertainment Brands.

Burbank, California

From classic animated features and exhilarating theme park attractions to cutting edge sports coverage, and the hottest shows on television, The Walt Disney Company has been making magic since 1923, creating unforgettable stories that connect with audiences around the world. And we’re just getting started!•Lead creative for 50+ films and TV shows for the Freeform network, owned by ABC Family Worldwide, a subdivision of the Walt Disney Company, delivering trailers and marketing campaigns across social media platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok) and streaming to Hulu; report to VP of Creative Services•Review edits, give feedback, and coordinate with graphic designers, sound designers, and music composers, providing hands-on creative input, including copywriting, concepting, and music searches•Collaborate cross-departmentally with Creative, Social, and Strategy teams, establishing gold standard for marketing campaigns, ushering in new era of strong social creative campaigns thanks to vision and innovation•Manage internal teams and vendors to achieve strategic and creative goals, applying understanding of new audience ecosystem to innovate and evolve campaigns to meet changing audience needs•Evolve brand by taking creative risks, initiating disruptive ideas, and staying on the forward edge of entertainment trends; when weather canceled a shoot, pivoted to voice-over spots for award-winning Cruel Summer campaign•Creative direct series and movies, including Cruel Summer series on Hulu; crafted innovative marketing campaign for Cruel Summer, designing 3-headed trailer approach that generated 6M+ views on Hulu per episode, >2x the next-highest company show; as most successful launch in company history, became template for future campaigns•Achieved 2.5M views per episode for Single Drunk Female and 3.8M total viewers in Cruel Summer’s first week

Greater Los Angeles Area

A+E Networks® is a collection of culture brands that includes A&E®, HISTORY®, Lifetime®, Lifetime Movies™, FYI,™, VICELAND® and BIOGRAPHY®. We are in eight out of 10 American homes, cumulatively reach 335 million people worldwide and have 500+ million digital users.•Creative directed Lifetime Network from 2016-2018 and scaled up to A&E, History, and Lifetime in 2018, leading up to 100 total projects and heading LA team of an American multinational broadcasting company based in New York•Built out new in-house agency that crafted creative content across all A&E platforms, designing strategy for new agency and interviewing, hiring, training, and managing innovative, multidisciplinary team of 10 creatives•Designed and delivered campaign presentations and creative reviews, creative directing and copy-writing for award-winning campaigns and flagship programs; reviewed team’s work and provided edits and feedback •Created campaigns, copywrote, and creative directed for History's Car Week, Truck Night in America, and Vikings, ideating, developing, and launching Car Week stunt that was one of the most successful stunts on TV•As Creative Director for Lifetime (2016-2018), led LA-based marketing team of 8 including senior producer, writer/producer and editors, crafting strategy for and spearheading creative execution of all campaigns for movies and series•Owned all aspects of promotional marketing campaigns, writing shoot concepts, directing shoots, and supervising out-of-house vendors such as agencies, trailer houses, visual effects (VFX) houses, and music composers•Crafted on-air marketing campaigns for unscripted and scripted series and movies, including Unreal, You, Mary Kills People, and Project Runway

Atlanta

Turner is a global entertainment, sports and news company that creates premium content and delivers exceptional experiences to fans whenever and wherever they consume content. •Supervised promotion of all late-night creative as interim Creative Director, including award-winning campaigns for Conan and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee for an American television and media conglomerate•Managed team of 5-10 direct reports including in-house writers, producers, editors, GFX, and sound designers along with out-of-house vendors; facilitated daily creative reviews to provide brainstorming, input, and feedback•Creative directed and copywrote all late-night creative for TBS, collaborating directly with and securing buy-in from shows’ stars and managers, Conan O’Brien and Samantha Bee and managing stakeholder relationships

Tbs Creative

•Collaborated cross-functionally with a team of 8-10 writers and producers on 25+ films and TV shows•Wrote and produced award-winning creative for Conan, Family Guy, and The Big Bang Theory and generated custom short-form social media content tailored for each platform, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube; created shoot concepts for Conan, including award-winning campaign, Conan at Comic-Con

Atlanta

•Designed creative for and launched 40+ films and TV shows, collaborating cross-functionally with team of 8-10 writers and producers and reporting directly to the Vice President/Head of Creative Services•Wrote and produced creative for marketing campaigns for Family Guy, American Dad, and Sex and the City; designed and led campaigns for highly rated Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns and House of Payne•Launched The Bill Engvall Show, the highest rated TBS original scripted series launch to that dateWon Silver Medal in Editing from Promax BDA for Cape Fear trailer and Telly Award for Payback Trailer•Held roles as Programming Coordinator (1996), Freelance Writer & Producer, Sports (1997), Associate Producer, Sports (1998-1999), Sports Writer and Producer (1999), and Writer & Producer, Original Movies (2000-2003)

Bachelor'S Of Arts, Advertising

Studied Advertising at the Grady School of Journalism.

Communication And Media Studies