I make work with people I admire for clients who trust us to develop creative advertising, lasting branding, and meaningful experiences. Art and commerce delivered (mostly) without drama for decades — a very creative producer-type who respects stakeholders, strategies, and the selling of stuff. Many hardware launches and looking forward to more. Truth, documentary, photography, printmaking, art, and food… all important, too.
Let’s make Things Like These Things.
And/Or, talk FR/ACTION for Behind The Scenes and Fiduciary Production.
BEN SPIVAK
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benjaminmichaelspivak@gmail.com
_BRANDED CONTENT & ADS Commercials, brand films, and integrated campaigns. Land Rover, Cadillac, Chase, Verizon, Trident, Garnier, Little Caesars, Hyundai, and more things like these things.
_EVENTS & EXPERIENTIAL Immersive activations, hardware launches, retail environments, live events, installations, key art, and cultural programming. Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Quaker Mac-A-Roni, CMJ Music Marathon, New York Cosmos, and more things like these things.
_STUDIOS & NETWORKS Identity, campaigns, content, and design systems for studios, streamers, and networks. SNL Weekend Update with Tina Fey & Amy Pohler, PBS, WNYC, WQXR, Ovation, Univision Deportes, American Documentary, and more things like these things.
_FILM & DOCUMENTARY Feature-length documentary and longform branded storytelling. Development through post, visual effects, and finishing. Alive Inside (Sundance Audience Award Winner), Chicago 10 (Sundance Opening Night Film), The John Lennon: Bermuda Tapes (SXSW finalist in collaboration with Yoko Ono), and more things like these things.
_HARDWARE LAUNCHES Global product launches, key art, keynote support, retail, and digital rollout. The moment a product meets the world — strong visuals, scored, and orchestrated. Apple (Key Hardware Art Images from iPhone SE to VisionPro), Amazon (Kindle and twenty other brands over five years leading AOR work often direct with Bezos), Meta (Events, Packaging, and Product Images), Microsoft, and more things like these things.
w/ THESE CLIENTS
BRANDS & ORGANIZATIONS 2K Games, Abbvie, Adidas, Aetna, Albertsons, Alive Inside Foundation, Amazon, Amazon Kindle, American Express, American-Scandinavian Foundation, Apple, Apple Music, AstraZeneca, The Atlantic, AT&T, Baha Mar Bahamas, Belvedere Vodka, Boehringer Ingelheim, Best Buy, Bud Light, Cadillac, Caterpillar, Chase, Chase Aviate, Chase Bold, Cisco, Classpass, Clinique, CMJ, Coke, Creative Planning, CVS, Disney, The Economist, Elanco, Electronic Arts, Facebook, Fender, Ferrari, Fiber One, Fidelity, Ford, Fruit Of The Loom, Fuji, Garnier, Gatorade, General Electric, General Motors, Google, Groupon, Hallmark, The Hartford, Hasbro, Herzog & deMeuron, Hilton, HP, HTC, Hugo Boss, Huntington Bank, Hulu, Hurraw, Hyundai, IRS, Jared, JCP, Jeep, Jetblue, Kawasaki, Kmart, KTM, Land Rover, Liberty of London, Life Cereal, Little Caesars, L'Oreal, Lowes, Macys, Marriott, Marriott Bonvoy Bold, Master & Dynamic, McDonalds, Mercedes, Meta, Microsoft, Moby, Moet, Natrol, New York Aquarium, New York Cosmos, New York Public Radio, Neil Diamond, Nike, Novo Nordisk, Nvidia, Oculus, Olivia Rodrigo, Oracle, Pearle Vision, Pfizer, Philips, Polariod, Preferred Hotels, Purina, Qriously, Quaker Mac-A-Roni, Ringling Brothers, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Samsung, SAP, Scotts Miracle Gro, Servpro, Siemens, Sizmek, Shaun White, Skechers, Skyy Vodka, SLB, Sodastream, Sony, Southwest, Starwood Hotels, State Farm, Stonecastle Financial, Sun Pharma, Super Cruise Cadillac, Sylvia Day, Synchronoss, Target, TD Ameritrade, Telus, Toyota, Trident, Trivago, United Healthcare, US Polo Association, V Magazine, Van Cleef & Arpels, Verizon, Virgin, Vogue, Volvo, Vtech, WaterWipes, WeWork, Western Governors University, Wheels Up, Why Hunger, William Grant & Sons, Wired, Wisk, Yahoo
BROADCAST NETWORKS, STUDIOS, & PUBLISHERS A&E, ABC, AMC, Amazon Studios, American Documentary, Animal Planet, AOL On, BBC America, Bio, BET, Bloomberg, Bravo, Cartoon Network, CBS Sports, Centric, Chiller, Cloo, CMT, CNN International, Comedy Central, Discovery, Disney, Disney Junior, E!, ESPN, Esquire, Ken Burns' Florentine Films, Food Network, Fox Sports, Fusion, FYI, G4, Galavision, Global Canada, HBO, Highsnobiety, History, HGTV, Hulu, IFC, LMN, MNN, MSNBC, MTV, National Geographic, NBC Universal, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nuvo, One World Sports, Ovation, OWN, Oxygen, PBS, Pixar, Playboy, POV Documentaries, Susan Sarandon's Reframed Pictures, Saturday Night Live, Screenvision, Seeso, Sesame Street, Spike, Sprout, Showtime, Sky, Sport24, Starz, Syfy, TBS, Telemundo, TLC, Travel Channel, TV Land, TV One, Univision Deportes, USA, Viasat, VH1, VH1 Classic, WNYC, WQXR
AGENCIES & DESIGN COMPANIES 180 Global, 22 Squared, Ad Asia, AEA Consulting, Alma, Amalgamated, Avrett Free Ginsberg, Arnold, Barkley, BBDO, Blitz, Boathouse, Bravo, Colangelo, Cossette, Deloitte Digital, DentsuMB, Deutsch, Digitas, Disney Yellow Shoes, Doner, Eicoff, Eisnor Interactive, Enviromedia, Erwin Penland, FCB, FleishmanHillard, Freestyle Collective, Futurebrand, Grey, Havas, Innocean, Jack Morton, JWT, Kraftworks, Laird+Partners, Lewis Communications, Lippincott, Martin Agency, McCann, McGarryBowen, Merkley+Partners, Methods+Mastery, The Mill, MMB, Momentum Worldwide, Mono, Muhtayzik Hoffer, Mullen, Nice Shoes, NSG Swat, Ogilvy, OKRP, Periscope, Publicis, Proof Advertising, Psyop, Re:think, The Richards Group, Rokkan, Saatchi & Saatchi, Serino Coyne, SGK/Schawk!, Significant Others, Siegal+Gale, Starcom, Tracy Locke, Tronic, Truth Co, Twoxfour, United Virtualities, Uniworld Group, UVPH, Y&R, Walton Isaacson, Wong Doody, Zimmerman
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FLEISHMAN HILLARD (OMNICOM) | VP, Creative Production & Operations (2024-2025)
SGK | Senior Director, Creative Client Services / Executive Producer (2021-2023)
THE ATLANTIC | Executive Producer (2018-2020)
MODOP, EYEBALL, VERITAS DIGITAL, SAGE, MCC DALLAS, MODUS OPERANDI, EYEBALL DIGITAL | Owner (2007-2023)
ROKKAN (RAZORFISH/PUBLICIS) | SVP, Integrated Production (2017)
EYEBALL | Managing Partner, Executive Producer, and Creative Director (2007-2017)
TRONIC | Executive Producer (2007-2008)
EDGEWORX | Creative Producer (2001-2006)
COSSETTE | Agency Broadcast Producer
UNITED VIRTUALITIES | Digital Producer
EISNOR INTERACTIVE | Creative Producer
LIVE FROM THE KNITTING FACTORY | Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
BOSTON UNIVERSITY | College of Communication
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