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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2024-2025

Set the vision for Lyft Media’s creative strategy org as the first creative strategist hire for its advertising platform.

2023-2025

Recorded, mixed and produced over 150 hours of live public radio as a host for my weekly music show titled Adjacent.

2023-2024

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.

2021-2023

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.

2018-2020

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.

2017-2018

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.

2016-2017

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.

 

2015-2016

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.

2014-2015

Established social media and digital content strategy practice. Won the agency new business from LG Mobile USA, Vizio, and Zico.

2013-2014

Produced TV commercials: “51 & Counting,” Gatorade; “Chess,” Energizer.

2011-2013

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.