Sam Gilbert working at a standing desk in a home office.

I build the marketing that grows brands, and the creative that makes them land.

Fifteen-plus years of digital growth and creative strategy for global brands and mission-driven nonprofits.

Clients

Clients & Brands

Disney
Jacksonville Jaguars
Johnson & Johnson
Volkswagen
NBA
Universal
Pfizer
Wounded Warrior Project
Under Armour
Marriott
Discovery Channel
Kentucky Derby
Biden Harris 2020
AdCouncil
Zaxby's
Daytona International Speedway
Ruby Tuesday
ADCOLOR
NHTSA
AAF

Organizations I've worked with.

At a Glance
15+
Years across marketing, brand & growth
Agency & In-House
Both sides of the brief
Millions
In creative and marketing budgets managed
18
Years in the nonprofit space, starting as a volunteer
Selected Work
Selected Work

A selection of growth and brand work.

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St. Baldrick's

Turning Search Traffic Into Childhood Cancer Research Funding

Nonprofit · Brand & Growth

125%+ average year-over-year organic traffic growth, paired with donor storytelling built around real research and real families.

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Health Nonprofit

Building the System, Then Handing Back the Keys

Nonprofit · Marketing Operations

Four platforms they already owned, connected into one measurable system that roughly doubled conversions in six months, with the governance to run it after the engagement ended.

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Email & CRM

Turning Databases Into Relationships

Lifecycle Marketing · Multi-Client

Three CRM builds at three starting points, with open rates up ten points, a 3.9x retargeting ROAS, and none of it from sending more email.

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Paid Media

Taking Underused Ad Grants to the Cap

Paid Media · Multi-Client

Two Ad Grants taken from idle to near the cap, a 3.9x retargeting ROAS, and commercial spend that launched already knowing how to count.

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Northwest Federal Credit Union

A New Website, and the NFL Partnership It Launched On

Finance · Brand & Web

Brand, website, and marketing for the Washington Commanders' official credit union, through the naming-rights launch of Northwest Stadium.

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ADCOLOR

Five Years of Making One Brand Unmistakable

Nonprofit · Brand & Social

Lead digital creative since 2021 for an organization whose credibility rests on how it speaks. Social, video, print, and a live venue.

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Seize the Awkward

Giving a Mental-Health Campaign One Voice, Then a Year of It

Nonprofit · Social Brand

The Ad Council's youth mental-health campaign had assets but no unified social voice. I defined the voice and visual language, then produced a year of always-on social against it.

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Jacksonville Jaguars

Building a Brand for an NFL Franchise

Sports · Brand Leadership

A brand platform built in two seasons that is still governing the work six seasons later.

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The Democratic Party

Who Is a National Campaign Actually For?

Political · Audience Strategy

A national campaign speaks nationally. Across two cycles I built the visual languages that made it land somewhere specific.

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Johnson & Johnson Vision

The Person Who Chooses the Lens Never Wears It

Healthcare · B2B & Consumer

They sell lenses to your optometrist, not to you. Two audiences, two arguments, one brand.

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Willet

A Conference Platform for the Room That Matters Most

Product · Self-Directed

A nonprofit's conference app kept treating a homecoming like foot traffic. So I built the alternative: strategy, brand, UX, pricing, and the code.

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Uptern

Automating the Audit, Keeping the Judgment

SEO & Conversion · Self-Directed

Sixty percent of a site audit is mechanical. The other forty is why anyone hires me. So I built the machine to eat the sixty.

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