Set the vision for Lyft Media’s creative strategy org as the first creative strategist hire for its advertising platform.
My name is Ashton Allen Dunn.
I’m a builder.
I launched Reddit’s KarmaLab creative strategy team and social media teams at Chiat/Day LA and David & Goliath. I created and co-hosted a weekly music program on New Orleans’ Jazz & Heritage station – WWOZ 90.7 FM.
I do what I do because I love to cultivate and bring new ideas to life.
Currently I’m based in Los Angeles.
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Set the vision for Lyft Media’s creative strategy org as the first creative strategist hire for its advertising platform.
Recorded, mixed and produced over 150 hours of live public radio as a host for my weekly music show titled Adjacent.
Successfully sourced and negotiated art licensing agreements with Jack Daniel’s, YouTube, Universal Music Group and Mignon Faget on behalf of artists Cubs the Poet and Polo Silk.
Promoted to cultivate and supervise a global network of creatives, producers and technologists with direct positive impact on 300 advertiser campaigns. Played a key role in the inception of KarmaLab, its offerings and industry recognition.
Appointed to lead the auto vertical for KarmaLab after success with Toyota and Honda. Increased Toyota media spend 6x YoY and unlocked Honda as a first time advertiser with campaign ideas of my own and campaign ideas resulting from inspiration sessions I led. AdAge wrote about one of my ideas – Honda Circuit – a racing video game and leaderboard that enabled Redditors to compete for bragging rights to the fastest hotlap amongst the community and Team Liquid.
Expanded in-house production capabilities and partnered with legal, revenue and sales cross-functional leaders to ironclad production best practices.
Onboarded The Walt Disney Company onto Reddit and developed the idea for their first-ever Reddit campaign – The Wreck It Ralph Breaks the Internet Challenge. Crafted sponsorship go-to-market materials for Reddit and NPR’s Endless Thread podcast; pitched and secured Toyota Avalon as the inaugural sponsor.
Generated millions of earned views from Snapchat Discover and Twitter Trend mentions for the XQ: The Super School Project’s big announcement day. Directed social vignettes and storytelling of 10 learning communities across the US that were awarded $10MM each to innovate high school curriculum.
Developed the strategy for the Toyota Prius in Super Bowl 50 that focused on owning 10-minutes on Twitter to source and feature live tweets in the Longest Chase TV ads; the tweets helped thread the story of two episodic, in-game Super Bowl spots.
Raised $750K for the Boys & Girls Club powered by the most natural posting behaviors on Instagram – the selfie – as a mechanism to trigger a donation from Toyota.
Established social media and digital content strategy practice. Won the agency new business from LG Mobile USA, Vizio, and Zico.
Produced TV commercials: “51 & Counting,” Gatorade; “Chess,” Energizer.
Doubled the Nissan Motorsports Facebook community YoY with $0 in paid media by connecting the passion of Z fans with an opportunity to build the ultimate Nissan Z – known as Project 370Z. It received honors from the Effie Awards, DigiDay and Top Gear .
Wrote scripts and produced a first-of-its-kind, series of Nissan enthusiast-centered videos.