.Hi, I'm Dan, a creative/social/earned/agency leader with deep experience running, winning and growing ambitious brands. I’ve worked all sides of the table, from ad agencies to comms networks to brand side, social to 360 to AI, Omnicom to boutiques. I’m currently on contract with Adobe as social creative director on Adobe Acrobat x Express. As the logo buffet below suggests, I’ve worked across categories and industries. Most of the brands I led. Some I won. Many I've won things with.
#UNHUMBLEBRAGS
My work’s earned hundreds of millions of views, 30 billion impressions, recognition from Cannes to Clios to Effies, a number 1-rated Super Bowl spot, a place in the Advertising Hall of Fame, and god bless, a parody on Saturday Night Live.
Most recently, my work's been profiled at SXSW, AdAge:Next and featured in media from NPR to FOX, USA Today to Telemundo, Newsweek to VICE, SNL to Colbert.
SAY HI
danmargulis125@gmail.com
GLAMOURSHOTS
I live in LA with my lovely and talented wife, equally-acclaimed dog, director alter-ego, and sometimes a clown.
M.O.
(The following is written in the third-person, so as to read slightly less me, me, me)
Dan is a tireless thinker and doer. Dan’s exuberant style inspires teams and motivates humans. Dan believes greatness lives at the nexus of insight and instinct, science and story, strategic rigor and creative rebellion. Dan is now regretting writing this in the third person. Feels forced, Dan. For Dan, the work always comes first, and second, but Dan is equally acclaimed at mentoring creatives, building teams and departments, managing accounts, new business pitches, agency recruitment, CMO relationships and the tumult that comes with ever-evolving industry dynamics. Given the choice, Dan is happiest solving the important things, pioneering next big whatevers and hacking culture, data and media to blaze new paths into hearts and minds.
And yes, Dan knows that last part sounds textbook mktg b.s., but it's the god's honest.