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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Creative Director operating in the Social space. If you think a Creative Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Antonia Bonello
Associate Creative Director of BuzzFeed
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About BuzzFeed: BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.
Juan Juan Clemente Lopez
Creative Director of Favorey
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About Favorey: We are building a community of trust, where we can all ask for help from trusted contacts, and use our skills to help others.
Stefan Michalak
Founder, Creative Director of Wantfeed
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About Wantfeed: Wantfeed lets you store and curate things from around the web into your own personal wantlist.
Katya Scott-Barrett
Creative Director of Spin Brands
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About Spin Brands: The go-to Scale Up Social Media Specialists
Tom Curtis
Executive Creative Director of mediacom
Tom heads up MediaCom Beyond Advertising UK, the content marketing arm of MediaCom, one the world’s largest media planning and buying agencies. He runs a team of around 100 content specialists, overseeing content strategy, creation and distribution for the local and international clients that are serviced out of MediaCom’s London office.
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About mediacom: MediaCom is one of the world’s leading media agencies.
Franki Goodwin
Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi (Advertising Co.)
Franki leads a double life as a Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi London and as Exec Producer at Western Edge Pictures and the Gennaker Group – a group of independent Feature Film Production and Finance Companies. In her first company, Franki&Jonny, she pioneered early integrated content and social media campaigns and won many awards, including a BAFTA interactive and a bunch of D&ADs. Franki was recently was named by the prestigious awards outfit the FWA as a ‘Digital Pioneer’ for her work in this period for Warner Bros, Disney, Skype and Film4. In 2013 she joined Saatchi & Saatchi London, bringing unique digital expertise and storytelling skills to an integrated advertising role working across clients such as Marie Curie, Asda, and Deutsche Telekom. In 2016 Franki won 9 Cannes Lions for “Sea Hero Quest” – the world’s first game to plug into Dementia research, which was named as one of the top 10 campaigns of 2016 by Creative Review and Campaign. In 2017 she was a Judge at the Cannes Lions, and also won 4 Lions, including one gold, for her latest work for DT “Magenta Unleashed”– a partnership with the band Gorillaz.
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About Saatchi & Saatchi (Advertising Co.), Saatchi & Saatchi London, Western Edge Pictures: Saatchi & Saatchi is a global creative communications company headquartered in New York with 130 offices in 70 countries.
Matt Garbutt
Creative Director of Greenlight Digital
Matt has been a digital creative his entire career, starting out in full service agencies in the late nineties through to in-house roles in the 2000s. In 2010, he co-founded a digital agency, followed by a creative production agency in 2013. Matt has extensive experience in a great many areas of digital creative and build, as well as video and film, motion graphics and above-the-line creative. In 2017, Matt’s digital agency and Greenlight joined forces, with Matt being appointed as the agency’s Creative Director.
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About Greenlight Digital: Full service digital marketing agency
Adam King
Creative Director of Diagonal View
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About Diagonal View: Diagonal View creates entertaining video content that reaches mass audiences.
Mark Fleming
Creative Director of Rosie Lee
With a decade’s experience within the creative sector – working cross discipline for Virgin Group, Lego, MTV and various record labels – Mark founded Rosie Lee in early 2000. As Creative Director he saw the agency’s client base soon grow to include a diverse relationship with Nike UK, EHQ and Global. Developing projects spanning both brand and retail categories, performance and sportswear, campaigns include National and International team kit launches, Nike Sportswear 08.08.08, the NIKEiD launch at NikeTown London as well as grass-roots projects such as this year’s Run Dem Crew Youngers initiative. A keen collaborator, Mark is currently working alongside industrial designer Jasper Morrison to launch Swiss electronics brand Punkt, and with poet, producer and DJ Charlie Dark on a number of creative projects. In keeping with Rosie Lee’s ethos of celebrating diversity within creativity, Mark has become increasingly involved with mentoring aspiring creatives, sharing his substantial experience within the sector and giving hands on advice to business start-ups.
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About Rosie Lee: Rosie Lee are a hybrid creative agency.
Emily Short
Creative Director of Failbetter Games
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About Failbetter Games: Choice-based interactive stories online
Andy Park
Creative Director of Open Path
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About Creode, Open Path: Open Path is a Leeds-based digital agency.
Ediz Huseyin
Creative Director – Video of VexPop
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About VexPop: VexPop is a social utility platform that allows consumers to express their opinions on a range of topics.
