James Cross
CCO & Founder at Meanwhile- Claim this Profile
Click to upgrade to our gold package
for the full feature experience.
Topline Score
Bio
Experience
-
Meanwhile
-
United Kingdom
-
Advertising Services
-
1 - 100 Employee
-
CCO & Founder
-
Oct 2022 - Present
A creative company for people who’d rather set agendas than follow them. We’re an agency that believe in exceptions to rules, “what ifs” and “yeah buts”. It’s how we approach the work. It’s how we approach the way we work. And it’s how, together, our work will make difference culturally and commercially. A creative company for people who’d rather set agendas than follow them. We’re an agency that believe in exceptions to rules, “what ifs” and “yeah buts”. It’s how we approach the work. It’s how we approach the way we work. And it’s how, together, our work will make difference culturally and commercially.
-
-
-
BBC Creative
-
United Kingdom
-
Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
-
100 - 200 Employee
-
Creative Director
-
Apr 2017 - Sep 2022
Tim and I launched the Manchester office in April 2017, with responsibility for all BBC1, BBC Sport, CBBC, BBC Learning, Children In Need, Sport Relief, CBeebies and Comic Relief campaigns. We won a BAFTA for the Olympics, Roses Creative Agency of the Year and Grand Prix twice, a D&AD Yellow Pencil 194 creative and effectiveness awards in that period from the National Television Awards, Promax, Clio, Eurobest, Campaign, Epica, Creative Circle and British Arrows. Tim and I launched the Manchester office in April 2017, with responsibility for all BBC1, BBC Sport, CBBC, BBC Learning, Children In Need, Sport Relief, CBeebies and Comic Relief campaigns. We won a BAFTA for the Olympics, Roses Creative Agency of the Year and Grand Prix twice, a D&AD Yellow Pencil 194 creative and effectiveness awards in that period from the National Television Awards, Promax, Clio, Eurobest, Campaign, Epica, Creative Circle and British Arrows.
-
-
-
the seed project | branding and advertising agency
-
United Kingdom
-
Advertising Services
-
1 - 100 Employee
-
Consultant Creative Director
-
Jan 2018 - Jul 2022
-
-
-
McCann Manchester
-
United Kingdom
-
Advertising Services
-
200 - 300 Employee
-
Creative Group Head
-
Mar 2015 - Apr 2017
-
-
-
McCann Prague
-
Czechia
-
Advertising Services
-
1 - 100 Employee
-
Creative Director (Secondment)
-
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
-
-
-
Big Communications
-
United Kingdom
-
Advertising Services
-
1 - 100 Employee
-
Creative and Group Head
-
Jun 2012 - Mar 2015
-
-
-
McCann Worldgroup
-
Advertising Services
-
700 & Above Employee
-
Senior Creative
-
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
-
-
-
-
Creative (Secondment)
-
Sep 2010 - Sep 2010
-
-
-
Big Communications
-
United Kingdom
-
Advertising Services
-
1 - 100 Employee
-
Creative
-
Apr 2007 - Sep 2008
-
-
-
Butterfield Morris Bushell Ltd
-
United Kingdom
-
Advertising Services
-
1 - 100 Employee
-
Senior Copywriter
-
Apr 2006 - Apr 2007
-
-
-
BD Network
-
United Kingdom
-
Advertising Services
-
1 - 100 Employee
-
Copywriter
-
Oct 2005 - Apr 2006
-
-
-
J. Walter Thompson Worldwide
-
United States
-
Advertising Services
-
700 & Above Employee
-
Freelance Copywriter
-
Oct 2005 - Oct 2005
-
-
-
Butterfield Morris Bushell Ltd
-
United Kingdom
-
Advertising Services
-
1 - 100 Employee
-
Junior Copywriter
-
Jun 2003 - Sep 2005
-
-
-
Shifty Disco Records
-
Oxford, United Kingdom
-
A&R Assistant/Runner
-
Jul 2002 - Dec 2002
-
-
-
Poptones Records
-
London, United Kingdom
-
Runner / Placement
-
Jan 2001 - Jun 2001
-
-
Education
-
Buckinghamshire New University
BA(Hons), Marketing and Management -
The Duston School