As a producer at Ogilvy & Mather, I am knee-deep in the world of advertising. However, producers tend to carry-out ideas, as opposed to conceiving them. This is sometimes tough since I’ve always viewed myself as a conceiver (hmm, that sounds sort of dirty). To compensate for my creative void, I decided to create my own speculative portfolio full of ad campaigns and one-offs. You can see for yourself here.

As a producer at Ogilvy & Mather, I am knee-deep in the world of advertising. However, producers tend to carry-out ideas, as opposed to conceiving them. This is sometimes tough since I’ve always viewed myself as a conceiver (hmm, that sounds sort of dirty). To compensate for my creative void, I decided to create my own speculative portfolio full of ad campaigns and one-offs. You can see for yourself here.

As a producer at Ogilvy & Mather, I am knee-deep in the world of advertising. However, producers tend to carry-out ideas, as opposed to conceiving them. This is sometimes tough since I’ve always viewed myself as a conceiver (hmm, that sounds sort of dirty). To compensate for my creative void, I decided to create my own speculative portfolio full of ad campaigns and one-offs. You can see for yourself here.

As a producer at Ogilvy & Mather, I am knee-deep in the world of advertising. However, producers tend to carry-out ideas, as opposed to conceiving them. This is sometimes tough since I’ve always viewed myself as a conceiver (hmm, that sounds sort of dirty). To compensate for my creative void, I decided to create my own speculative portfolio full of ad campaigns and one-offs. You can see for yourself here.

Posted 2 years ago

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Ben Berkon currently works as an Assistant Producer at Ogilvy & Mather, a worldwide advertising agency. Berkon has worked on projects for IBM, Siemens, Coca-Cola/Fanta, TD Ameritrade, SAP, Citizens Bank, and many more.

Prior to Ogilvy & Mather, Berkon worked as the web site editor at Livestream.com, which is a live streaming, video platform on the Internet. As the web site editor, he updated the site’s blog, wrote the company newsletter and press releases for new partnerships, and maintained the featured videos on the site’s home page.

He has also worked in the footage and writing departments at the Onion News Network (ONN), the online video version of the Onion newspaper. Berkon contributed his own ideas at the weekly pitch meetings, and had an original idea published in a video segment.

In addition, Berkon currently blogs for the Sports and Comedy sections of HuffingtonPost.com, reigns as the Senior Editor of RisingApple.com (a mainstream New York Mets blog), and has free-lanced for Tonic.com, BrandChannel.com, NewYork.com, and various other Web sites. You can also find him writing for his own blogs SomethingYouShouldRead.com, and FoodForFodder.com.

Berkon is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he majored in History and minored in Creative Writing. He was born and raised in New York City, where he also presently lives.

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