Patrick Wells. Copywriter.
Here’s everything else we tried to do for attention before the tweets took off.
“What if MoonPies were drugs?” is a question we all ask ourselves.
No one knows why Old Man MoonPie got his name. Especially since people have been calling him that since he was born.
Who doesn't like a good usage occasion video for the big game? Sorry, I have to say "Big Game" because you're not allowed to say Super Bowl.
In order to help launch their new Original Recipe MoonPie®, we used a series of digital shorts that helped turn September into the best month in company history.
Here’s what we had on deck for MoonPie’s Solar Eclipse promotion on social, but but then "lol ok" happened.
A taste of the CPG art direction that my team and I helped bring to life.
Last but not least, we worked with Bass Pro Shops to cover and live-stream the World MoonPie Eating Championship in Memphis, TN. It was pretty gross, but we did get over 300,000 impressions in 24 hours. The raised hand probably gives it away, but this guy won with 85 MoonPies in 8 minutes.
Tennesseans love their sweet tea. So much so, they will attempt to jar loose coupons that are frozen in ice.
Like a highlight reel, but with numbers at the end.
I was tasked with creating an social/digital presence for Farmer Charlie that lived outside of broadcast.
So, who’s Farmer Charlie?
Let’s just say if there was a Mount Rushmore of the people most beloved by the state of Tennessee, you'd likely see Dolly Parton, Peyton Manning, Davy Crockett, and...Farmer Charlie. Not sure what it says about a state that two of these individuals are insurance mascots on TV.
A few amendments to the Golden Rule.
Here's another top 10 list. You know you like lists.
Spoiler: this tip does not work for cats.
What does a rubber band have to do with a stripped screw? You're about to find out.
We also created a Farmer Charlie 8-bit game so people could compete to win tickets to see the Tennessee Vols play football, which turned out to be a bad prize (but a successful contest).
Painting the rock at the University of Tennessee (one of FBITN's primary sponsorships) is a big tradition, but not everyone gets to do it. We created a microsite where they could.
In most static posts, we like feature Charlie himself (which we call Charlie porn). He still has clothes on, but he's in the picture, so everyone still gets a little excited.
Because we could definitely use some consoling before (and yes, after) the election.
Here's a post about goat towers that went viral. A lot of people like goat towers, apparently.
Well-known in Germany. Unknown in America. We were tasked with helping fix this via Warsteiner’s social media and ended up winning some awards.
As a part of Warsteiner’s #DoItRight campaign, we partnered with a few up and coming artists in their field who do art differently.
I helped produce this short exposé on recording artist Charles Perry, who later served as the host of a beer pouring contest we put on in NYC. We also drank the beer afterwards, which was great.
Social content/ads telling people to drink Warsteiners on Wednesdays because it’s refreshing and also, alliteration.
Series of Halloween shorts that won gold at the Addy's, but probably won't be winning any horror awards anytime soon.
Papa John's wanted to sell a $12.99 value deal. But at the end of the day, nobody wants to watch a value-themed ad, unless there’s some quality entertainment value involved.
So that’s what we made, resulting in a top-10 viral campaign according to Ad Age.
Puppies. Because, you know, puppies.
Better used loosely here since we couldn’t afford LeBron James.
Client wanted these tricks to be “lit” so this is what happened.
The last thing you expect is for the federal government to slide into your DM’s. Which is why this work got called "pretty definitively the best government use of social media of all time".
For a whole month, we turned @NHTSAgov’s feed into a non-stop stream of government burns aimed at idiots who admitted and/or bragged that they text and drive.
Buzz: The Verge, Wired, Business Insider, Fortune Magazine, Tech Times.
Here's a commercial concept for the Drive Sober campaign that I pitched.
You’re probably thinking, “Patrick, this is just an animatic.” And you’d be correct. So we're both going to have to pretend here.
EchoPark does car buying differently, so they wanted their social content to be a little different, too.
We decided that destroying old cars with heavy equipment and vikings was different enough.
Maaco and Meineke threw a double birthday party, but instead of a cake, they wanted a commercial.
We still ate cake, anyway.
I wrote the 24th best sign in 2016 and my buddy's brother held it up.
This campaign saw incredible ROI, as Army broke Navy’s 15-year winning streak that day because of this sign.
