Selected work

Creative Lead / ACD · London

I help brands earn a place in culture.

Across campaigns, social, content and emerging tech.

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João Emmerling is a Creative Lead based in London.

For more than ten years, he has developed and led work for brands including Coca-Cola, Google, Porsche, Volkswagen and Uber, from global campaigns to ideas built for the feed.

He feeds off a mix of international mileage and being chronically online. His creative philosophy is simple: if the idea can’t compete with a great news story, a beautiful film, or a delicious piece of organic content, it’s not working hard enough.

Some call it a culture-first approach. He calls it a common sense approach.

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Brands I’ve worked for

Google, Coca-Cola, Volkswagen, Ray-Ban, Heineken, Captain Morgan, Sky, Porsche, Philips, Uber, Mercedes-Benz, Bumble, Get Your Guide, Costa Coffee, Nesquik, Yamaha, Deutsche Bahn, H&M, Tate, Lumas, Habitat, Global Citizen, BVG, Boiler Room, Zopa, Pampers, Converse, Johnnie Walker, Swatch, Gordon’s, Zalando, Canon, The Economist, Gillette, Red Bull, Oral-B

Experience

Independent Creative Lead / ACD

Ogilvy / Special / Billion Dollar Boy / BMB / Sky Creative

2024–PresentLondon

Senior Creative

Virtue/VICE

2021–2024London

Creative

Porsche / MCH Global / Marks / mamapapacola

2014–2021London / Berlin / Zurich

Education

Master of Arts

Media & Communications

Goldsmiths, University of London

2017–2018

Bachelor of Arts

Media Culture

Bauhaus-University Weimar

2012–2016

Requests, compliments, insults:

hi@joaoemmerling.com