Justin is a copywriter at R/GA in San Francisco, Cutwater and McCann T.A.G. before that. How about this for a client list: Jeep, Ray-Ban, Nike, Arnette, Oreo, Master Lock, Gibson. Suh-weeet.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/justinchen
Neil is a copywriter/ACD at BBDO West in San Francisco, Odiorne and Chiat before that. Lots of awesome SF Zoo work on his site. Check out his Innovative Media section.
Portfolio: neilrlevy.com
Roger is a copywriter/ACD in NYC, formerly at Lowe and Leo Burnett. In the Content section of his site, check out rexona. Robots auditioning for commercials. Hilarious.
Portfolio: rogerbaran.tv
Alec is a senior copywriter at Y&R NY, Publicis and Maxim and BBDO before that. See, this is how you get a job in advertising. Check out The Google Job Experiment. Brilliant.
Portfolio: alecbrownstein.com
Adam is a Sr Copywriter at Draftfcb in Los Angeles, Chiat and DDB before that. And he’s a rock star.
Portfolio: theadamshow.com
Mark is a copywriter/ACD in San Francisco, formerly at Fancy, Chiat and McCann. Don’t misses: Chiquita, xbox welcome video (directed by Tom Kuntz), and Mark’s Photography.
Portfolio: Click here
Christian is a copywriter at SK+G in Las Vegas. Almost everything in his book has something to do with Vegas, but what a cool variety: Las Vegas and Bon Appetit, National Finals Rodeo in Vegas, Vegas TAP Project, etc. And don’t miss the last campaign in Print for Borders. Just perfect.
Portfolio: christiandurrett.com
Alberto is a copywriter/artist/director at Atletico International (Grey) in Barcelona. Seriously, this is why I do MC. Alberto’s portfolio is fresh and weird and inspiring. Check out the spot for SEAT Leon, featuring the original narative of Argentinean writer Julio Cortázar. Beautiful.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/thefakefaker
Todd is a copywriter/ACD at Arnold Boston, Publicis West and Core before that. Hurray, awesome copy! Check out Jack Daniel’s, Virgin Mobile, Montsanto, St. Louis Dispatch, and Never Compromise Golf. Todd also has a Thievery Corporation vid on his site. One of my faves.
Portfolio: toddmitchellhome.com
Neel is a copywriter at The Martin Agency in Richmond, Y&R NY before that. As the father of a daughter, an extremely talkative daughter, I looove Neel’s Cellular South spot. (Made coffee shoot out my nose.) His blog, Superuselsess Superpowers, is just ridiculous. I’m so buying the book.
Portfolio: neelwilliams.com
Scott is a copywriter at Carmichael Lynch in Minneapolis, Energy BBDO before that. If you’ve visited MC before, you probably know that I have a thing for remedial video games, having grown up in the Pong Generation. Scott’s made a good one. “Man Luge.”
Portfolio: Click here
Evan is a copywriter at Sid Lee in Montreal, BBDO before that. Lots of cool work for Adidas on his site. Don’t miss Print, which is grouped together in one section about halfway down the page, Art (my fave is “one part loss, one part gain”), and Design: Enigma Travel.
Portfolio: evanbrown.carbonmade.com
Andy is a copywriter at 72 and Sunny in Los Angeles, Modernista! and Euro RSCG before that. His site is a blast. Make sure you click on The Info and then, bottom of the page, The Fail. Andy can’t dunk.
Portfolio: andykadin.com
Ryan is a copywriter at McCann Erickson NYC, Walrus and Mad Dogs & Englishmen before that. Don’t misses: Avis Mascot spot, Howard Stern vids (in TV section), Radar Magazine print, and in Ryan’s PLAY category, Animals I’ve Befriended On Vacation.
Portfolio: girlryan.com
Mike is a copywriter/ACD at Arnold Boston, Butler Shine and CP+B before that. One of the things I like best about blog portfolio sites is how deep you can go, how much work you can show, without bogging down visitors with a billion clicks. Mike’s done a ton of killer work and his site is way deep. The blog format makes it fun to go exploring. Check out a Volvo piece here, BK there, Truth, Epson, VW, Earthlink, Monster, Puma, Miller Lite …
Portfolio: mikehowardcreative.com
Andy is an interactive copywriter/ACD at CP+B in Boulder. Dare you to find something uncool on his site. Even the URL is sick. Don’t miss: Cheerleidoscope, 12 Months of Andy & Liza, and Accidental Dong.
Portfolio: ievenwrotethissickurl.com
Casey is a copywriter at BBDO NY. In the year-and-a-half since she graduated from VCU, she’s put together a really fun portfolio, including that AT&T spot with the Jr. Assistant who runs around getting stuff for Mariah Carey. Love when he kicks the elevator button. Perfect ending. She’s also got a killer blog called People Who Deserve It. Getting punched in the face, that is. Soon to be a book.
Portfolio: caseyrand.com
Mike is a copywriter/VP/ACD at The Martin Agency in Richmond, CP+B and WestWayne (under Luke Sullivan) before that. His site is a straight-up, old school Blogger blog with zero extra fanciness. That’s what you can do when you have a portfolio like Mike’s portfolio. Which, if you haven’t guessed, is just absolutely, completely awesome.
Portfolio: mikelearportfolio.blogspot.com
Amy is a copywriter/ACD at Hoffman York in Chicago after doing time at Leo Burnett, Cramer-Krasselt and Arnold. She wrote a spot for the Broan Ultra Silent Fan that I’ve seen about a zillion times (yes, I watch HGTV), and there’s a moment at the end that cracks me up. In the version on her site, they let that moment play out. Fun.
Portfolio: writesomethingnow.carbonmade.com
Marcin is a freelance copywriter in Los Angeles, TBWA Chiat/Day and Euro RSCG before that. His portfolio is just sick. I wish I could have featured his Energizer print campaign above, because the writing is absolutely hilarious, but the type is too small for my blog. So, go check it out. And the Pedigree Adoption spots. And Tap Project. And … just go.
Portfolio: marcinmarkiewicz.com
William is a copywriter at Draftfcb in NYC. His wrap-around poster for the Global Coalition for Peace (above) is just awesome. Also dig his campaign for Oreo with Fudge. Yum.
Steffan is a copywriter at the doug agency in Toronto, Arnold and JWT before that, 10 years on the account side before that. Love how his site looks and works. Super clean and easy. Be sure to check out DOUG AGENCY in the ALT section (above). Hilarious.
Jason is a freelance copywriter in LA after doing time at Ignited, DDB, Zuckerman, and The Richards Group. His Rose’s Cocktail Infusions campaign is funny. Makes me embarrassed to be a guy. Also check out his Zuckerman Self Promo. Gross, but you just know someone wore it to an agency party.
Scott is a freelance copywriter/CD in NYC, formerly SVP/Sr CD at BBDO. Where do I start? FedEx or Ebay TV, BBC or Milky Way alt, Snickers snowboarder virals? Too much killer work. I can’t decide.
Shane is a freelance copywriter/CD in Boston, previously at Modernista! and Arnold. This is an awesome portfolio. Print is full of just wicked writing and the TV … wow. He’s got 27 spots up there. Hummer, Bud, MTV, and one of my fave spots all-time, maybe even my all-time fave, “Milky Way” for the VW Cabrio.
Scott is a copywriter at Droga5. The first campaign on his site, for MTV, is stupid funny. The next one, for Swedish Fish, is just as stupid funny, and on it goes. NOTE: I’m usually not a fan of sound effects on portfolio sites, but the air horn is awesome.
Rich is a senior copywriter at Mullen in North Carolina. The biz card above is so cool I wanted to feature it in his post, but it’s not really representative of Rich’s work. He’s a headline writer. A good one. That’s so rare these days, I feel like I should put it in all caps. ALERT. AWESOME HEADLINE WRITER.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/brightblack
Martin is a freelance copywriter in NYC, after having spent time at McCann, mcgarrybowen, Cliff Freeman, D’Arcy and Wunderman. Lots of big idea visual print campaigns in his book. My fave is his Sketchbook (in Extras, third column down). You get to see inside Martin’s brain. Which, no coincidence, is full of big idea visual madness, and I mean that in a very good way. Wish more copywriters included sketchbooks – or something like them – on their sites. How great would it be to see a Janet Champ, Brock Davis, or Max Godsil sketchbook?
Shane is a copywriter in Johannesburg, where he wrote the above campaign for CNA at The Jupiter Drawing Room (One Show 2009). He’s also a taxidermist, celebrity impersonator, novelty snack inventor and dermatologist.
John is a copywriter/ACD at Saatchi in Los Angeles. The work on his site is split into Online and Offline. In Online, check out the Land Cruiser site, RAV4 launch site, and Camry launch site (the remote control Camry on the landing page is FUN).