James Cross

CCO & Founder at Meanwhile
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom, UK

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Experience

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • United Kingdom
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Consultant Creative Director
      • Jan 2018 - Jul 2022

    • United Kingdom
    • Advertising Services
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Creative Group Head
      • Mar 2015 - Apr 2017

    • Czechia
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Creative Director (Secondment)
      • Aug 2016 - Oct 2016

    • United Kingdom
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Creative and Group Head
      • Jun 2012 - Mar 2015

    • Advertising Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Creative
      • Sep 2008 - Jun 2012

    • Creative (Secondment)
      • Sep 2010 - Sep 2010

    • United Kingdom
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Creative
      • Apr 2007 - Sep 2008

    • United Kingdom
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Copywriter
      • Apr 2006 - Apr 2007

    • United Kingdom
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Copywriter
      • Oct 2005 - Apr 2006

    • United States
    • Advertising Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Freelance Copywriter
      • Oct 2005 - Oct 2005

    • 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

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