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Ziploc ︎

BEAMS X ZIPLOC


PROBLEM To unlock growth in the US, Ziploc was fighting to attract new users to the brand. And one of the hardest audiences to win? The under-30 crowd of younger millenials and gen z. This audience is social and highly digital, living in urban metro areas and the least likely group to be reaching for our storage bags. This generation of mindful purchasers care deeply about how the world sees them. They pay little mind to mass channels, they upend brands and categories overnight, and they flock to blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments in feed. 

IDEA
We leverage Japanese Ziploc street wear to earn US street cred by reimagining the idea of a fashion drop.
BEAMS x Ziploc partnered with Fred Segal to launch a socially-driven activation in  LA in the week before Coachella. We used Japanese street wear to activate a city-wide-hunt for the freshest virtual drop ever imagined, and seeded a suite of lightweight, razor sharp assets among the micro-influencers keeping our style-seeking Gen Z/Millennial audience on their toes.


OOH
PROMOTION
PRODUCT
FRED SEGAL LA


RESULTS
Exclusive coverage by The LA Times https://www.latimes.com/fashion/la-ig-ziploc-beams-fashion-collaboration-20190405-story.html
Coverage by Hypebeast
27.1 Million Impressions in 4 days
6X higher social engagement than other brand efforts

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Ziploc ︎

BROCKHEIM REVIEW


PROBLEM 
With only a few regular season games to go, Ziploc faced slowing sales on the NFL licensed Ziploc Brand bags and containers. The majority of sales for these products would need to come from Amazon.com which is especially challenging considering the vanity bags are considered an impulse-buy.

IDEA
We tapped into the reality of rivalry to spark and emotional need to buy our bags before the season was out.




82% of online shoppers consult the reviews before making a purchase. So, we had the idea to take the reviews to the consumers. We found real life Amazon Vine Reviewer “Brockheim” who had already reviewed one of the NFL licensed Green Bay Packers Ziploc Brand Bags. His review was pure magic. He, as a dyed in the wool Chicago Bears fan, had some really imaginative ways to utilize the competitions bags.  So we comissioned him to write some more reviews, one for each team that faced the Bears for the remainder of the season. Then, partnering with Bleacher Report, we filmed “Brockheim” delivering these reviews from his mother’s basement in his Bear Cave. We posted them across all of Bleacher Reports channels, releasing one per week until the regular season came to an end.

And then the legal department from the Chicago Bears called and asked that we either give them some* money or stop making these. Thing is, we’d already made some quickies for the post-season, which you can now enjoy.
*a lot of money





RESULTS
Immediate +264% sales growth per day on Amazon.
VCR of 80% (against Bleacher Reports benchmark of 60%)
24.5% completion rate on social (12x’s higher than any other SCJ portfolio long form)
Proved you can go from concept to live execution in under 6 weeks.

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Eggo ︎

L’EGGO WITH EGGO


PROBLEM
When your tagline is more recognizable than your logo or any cartoon critter in the Kellogg’s portfolio, how do you move away from a line that at its core is promoting morning conflict, something parents want nothing to do with? 


Idea
Talk to the parents, not the kids. Invite them to lean into the sorta-homemade nature of Eggo waffles to take the pressure off their hectic mornings. 
A 90’s charity anthem is nothing without the giving. We built an API that tracked the hardest mornings for parents with traffic, weather, school closings and negative news stories. When things reached a boiling point, we released free waffles to help parents L’Eggo. On Daylight Savings day we knew it was going to be extra rough so we gave out 1M free waffles in one morning.

Awards
1 Effie


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Cadbury ︎

CARAMILK SECRET CONFIRMED


PROBLEM
Caramilk is a popular candy bar in Canada best known for its enduring ‘Caramilk Secret’ advertising campaign. Revenue was driven by a small group of loyal users made up mostly of older millennials and Gen Xers. To continue to grow, we needed to win back younger consumers. Younger buyers had memories of eating Caramilk, but the brand had lost relevance in recent years, not surprising given their best-known campaign was almost three decades old! 


Idea
Use the trending topic of misinformation to bring new relevence to the old Caramilk Secret.



Results
Twitter named it one of the most successful Twitter campaigns in history. They crushed campaign awareness benchmarks in the CPG space by 266%, and the ad recall was 300% above CPG norms, while industry-norm recall for CPG campaigns was roughly 22%. After being exposed just once to their video posts on Twitter, 49% of users recalled seeing it and 65% of campaign awareness at the end of the campaign. It surpassed CPG benchmarks by 200%, and saw that intent turn up in sales.

Awards
PHNX
Strategy
Applied Arts


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Thomas’ ︎

HUZZAH


PROBLEM
Thomas’ is literally in the pantry of 60% of American households, but the brand name recognition was a bit of a problem. We needed to go from default breakfast breads, to the one people know by name. 


Idea
Make Thomas’ famous by introducing people to the spirit of the brand, Thom.





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Kraft ︎

MOTHER’S DAY AWAY


PROBLEM
Mother’s Day, a day created to celebrate mothers,  does a pretty terrible job of giving moms what they really want. It’s become more about the kids and their charming, but rarely redeemed coupon-books than about the moms it’s meant to celebrate. Kraft exists to release pressures in the parenting journey, creating win-win scenarios for moms and kids. So how does our brand break through and help moms get what they deeply desire for Mother’s Day?
 

Idea
We gave mothers the one thing they need. The gift of not being needed. A survey done by Care.com showed that the #1 thing moms wanted for Mother’s Day in 2019 was a little time to herself. So we got to work figuring out what a little time would look like. And it looked like paying for a sitter.




RESULTS
1,068,900,000 impressions
Coverage on Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, GMA, Today Show, and local TV and radio stations across the country.
All money was claimed within the first 20 mins of the site going live.
16M new visitors to our site in 1 day.




MY WORK


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BRANDS I’VE WORKED WITH



COCA-COLA ︎ VF CORP ︎ BURGER KING ︎ COACH ︎ KELLOGG’S ︎ CHOBANI ︎ YOUTUBE ︎ UNILEVER ︎ MOTOROLA ︎ DOVE ︎ HELLMANN’S ︎ KOTEX ︎ MARSHALLS ︎ ABSOLUT ︎ KAHLUA ︎ JP WISERS ︎ AIRMILES ︎ INVEST IN CANADA ︎ DAILY HARVEST ︎ PLANET FITNESS ︎ GENERAL MILLS ︎ RAID ︎ ZIPLOC ︎ NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL ︎ SCARBOROUGH HEALTH NETWORK ︎ NHL UNITES ︎ STATE FARM ︎ MONDELEZ ︎ COTTONELLE ︎ HUGGIES ︎ KLEENEX ︎ ALDO ︎ HEFTY ︎ OMA ︎ MOLSONCOORS ︎ JIM BEAM ︎ PELOTON ︎ CHLOE WINE ︎ PIZZA HUT ︎ TD BANK ︎ KOHO ︎ TARGET ︎ ZOLA ︎ EGGO ︎ RICE KRISPIE TREATS ︎ SPERRY ︎ MOZILLA ︎ ORKIN ︎ WYNDHAM ︎ BLUDOT ︎ SMASHBURGER ︎ KRAFT ︎ HONEYWELL ︎ CADBURY ︎ STARBUCKS ︎ ALDI ︎ VALSPAR ︎ GANDER MOUNTAIN ︎ CASTROL ︎ META 



ABOUT ME    011235813
JUST THE HIGHLIGHTS


Nice to meet you

SIT — ENJOY


HI, I'M MEG
Hi, I'm Meg


I want to do fearless work.
Not stupid fearless.
Right fearless.
Fearless because I know that the client is getting more than they are paying for.
Fearless because the work we're doing changes the game for my agency.  Fearless because fearful work wastes my time, clients money, and perfectly good media space. I want to be fearless and work with people who scare the pants off me every day with the fearless ways they are going to change this world of ours.

Where I've been

SCHAAF
Currently, I’m living that start-up life at the creative helm of Schaaf, the agency made of people who get people. We are the fastest guns in the west and that’s why brands like YouTube Gaming, Chobani, Planet Fitness, Coach, Meta, Zola, SavageXFenty, NHL Unites and Planned Parenthood took a chance on us.

DDB
I did, like, a lot of stuff as ECD on Coors Banquet, State Farm, Hefty, Wyndham, Orkin, and Thomas’. Thomas’ was the highlight because I love me a breakfast mascot and I never invented one before.

OGILVY CANADA
I braved the great North as the Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy Canada, a storied agency, famous for making the brands that turn into Harvard Business School case studies. We were real busy winning awards, new business, hearts and minds. Running a department gives me life. I liken my style to that of a bulldozer mom. I clear the way so the teams can do the best work of their lives. I lead with empathy and humor. Most importantly, I surround myself with people who are smarter than me, people who are more driven than me and people who should have my job someday, if not already.

Leo
Heading into the pandemic, I enjoyed having my mind blown by the fearless people at Leo Burnett and served as an SVP Creative Director on Kellogg’s, Marshalls and Aldi.

ENERGYBBDO
In 2017 and 2018, I was busy dominating the world of storage solutions as Global VP Creative Director of your favorite zip-top plastic bag.  I also worked on National Safety Council and our work got us an audience with a bipartisan group of Senators who were about to start the first ever Opioid Taskforce. I fondly refer to this as a place I did something famous. 

MEK
I lived the weird life at Mekanism in Chicago. There I CD'ed the Peloton and Jim Beam accounts as well as pitching in on ALL the pitches, and the odd MillerCoors innovations projects. I fondly refer to this as the place where I learned to lead.

MONO
I tried to stay warm at mono in Minneapolis, doing work for Target, Sperry, Firefox and Smashburger. I fondly refer to this as the place where I learned to think.

OGILVY + DAVID SP - BRAZIL
This is really where I got my start, sitting at the kid’s table and working under Anselmo Ramos on little brands like Coca-Cola, Burger King, Unilever, Dove, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft and Motorola. I fondly refer to this as the place where I learned to create.

OGILVY SINGAPORE
Somewhere in there I took off and spent 5 months at Ogilvy Singapore, working on some global clients for the EEMEA and Asian markets.
ACCOMPLISMENTS
Some highlights from my time as CCO of Ogilvy Canada...

Won and on-boarded the TD Bank business for all of North America.

Doubled the size of the agency/creative dept.

Took Bronze in the Agency of the Year competition in Canada. Ogilvy being the only network agency in the top 3 and this being only the second time winning this honor in the past 20 years.

Took Ogilvy Toronto from Creative Power List #11 to #3 in just one year.

Won National business Absolut, Kahlua and Global JP Wisers business for Canada through Corby.

We were first to market with an NFT activation for Pizza Hut. Asked to advise other billion-dollar brands on how to get their own NFT platforms off the ground.

Launched the most successful CPG campaign on Twitter in all of Canada. Twitter turned the Caramilk Secret campaign into a global case study.

Won Dove Men + Care global pitch.

Promoted from ECD- Head of Creative to Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy Toronto in less than one year. 3 Months after that, I was named to Chief Creative Officer of Canada, overseeing the integration of creative departments in Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City.

Lead diverse global creative teams pulling in talent from David the Agency in Miami, Ogilvy São Paulo, Ogilvy London, Ogilvy NY and Ogilvy Chicago in addition to our teams in Toronto and Montreal.

Some stuff that got me noticed throughout my career...

In-book Comm Arts 2024.
Bronze AOY 2021, #3 Creative Power List Canada 2021. 
Gold and a Silver, and 2 Bronze at the Effies 2020.
FWA of the day and of the month, 2 Clios, 14 Cannes Lions (3 Gold), 2 Graphite D&AD pencils, 2 Wood D&AD pencils, ADC Best in Practice, a Gold One Show Pencil, 3 LIAs, 5 El Ojos, a Black Star for the best idea of the 2012 CCSP show, appeared in 2010 and 2015 Communication Arts and the 2011 and 2012 D&AD book, and received 4 awards in the Wave Festival.






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