I walked into my first advertising agency on work experience aged 13.

I’ve never left.

After art college at Falmouth and Bucks I secured my first job as a creative copywriter writing TV, Press, poster and radio campaigns at DMB&B (D’arcy).

I rode the dotcom boom of the 2000’s with agency.com and then Dare rising to Creative Director and when the rest of the industry eventually caught up with the future I joined Ogilvy.

These days I concept across all media channels. A typical month might see me concepting for a pitch, writing a direct mail piece or putting together a social campaign with scripts for YouTube or TikTok.

For the last 8 years I’ve enjoyed freelancing at TBWA, M&C Saatchi, Mullen Lowe, Saatchi & Saatchi, VCCP and Sky among others.


Career History:

Freelance Senior Copywriter / Creative Director 2018 - 2025
Golin, Rapp, Mullen Lowe, Saatchi & Saatchi Pro, GTB, TBWA, VCCP, Ogilvy, 23 Red, Sky and Havas.

Senior Creative / ACD
Ogilvy 4 years

Working on 360 campaigns for American Express, British Gas, British Airways, BT, Inmarsat, Samsung, Nestlé, Ikea, PHE, Black Rock and Philips.

Pitch wins included British Airways and Nestlé.

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Freelance ACD / CD
M&C Saatchi, OgilvyOne, Skype, DraftFCB and TribalDDB.

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Creative Director (BMW) / ACD
Dare 2 Years 9 Months

Working across Dare's entire client list on a number of accounts, including Vodafone, Premier Inn, Penguin, Sony Ericsson and Sainsbury's. I was also Digital Creative Director for BMW and responsible for line-managing a number of creative teams within the department.

Pitch wins included Sainsbury's, Penguin, Learn Direct, Technicolor and successfully retaining the BMW account.

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Associate Creative Director
Good Technology 1 Year 1 Month

Worked across all accounts including Microsoft, The BBC, The Cartoon Network and responsible for all work on Audi.

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Creative Director
agency.com 4 Years 6 Months

Creative Director on BT Consumer & BT Business, as well as working across the entire client base which included, Dulux, Ikea, British Airways and the NSPCC among others. Helping to oversee and mange a creative department of over 9 teams.

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Copywriter
DDB 6 Months

Brought in by John Webster I worked as an above the line copywriter for The Guardian, British Gas and VW.

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Copywriter
D'arcy (formerly DMB&B) 5 Years 4 Months

Above the line copywriter working on Press, Poster, Radio and TV campaigns for Fiat, P&G, Tetley, McCain, COI, Mars Bar, Littlewoods, Epson, Hovis, Skittles, Sanatogen (pitch win), St.Ivel, Uncle Bens, Philips, DFEE, Lloyds TSB, and Twix.

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Awards

Campaign Digital – Gold & Grand Prix
Cannes Cyber Lion – Finalist
Direct Marketing Awards Gold & Silver
Creative Review The Annual Best in Book
Media Guardian Innovation award
IAB Creative Showcase two 1st places, four 2nd, three 3rd
NMA Campaign of the month
Campaign Digital – Silver
Revolution Awards – FMCG Winner
Revolution Awards - Best Integrated Marketing
IMA - FMCG Silver
LIA – Finalist
IAB / Adweek Mixx Awards – Gold
Net Imperative – Best Online Advertising
Web Marketing Associates International Advertising Awards – Best non-profit rich media online campaign & Best of Show rich media online campaign
DMA – Winner
NSPCC No.8 top ten digital ads of the decade 2000 - 2010 Campaign Magazine

Contact

stevejwhiteley@hotmail.com
Mob: 07949 078 144


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