Chris Joakim & Mike Donaghey have been a creative team for the past 18 years. In that time they’ve created Cannes gold-winning campaigns at four different companies, in three different countries.
Chris and Mike’s work has received gold prizes at every major award show in the world including: Cannes Lions, One Show, D&AD, The Clios, and the Webby Awards. Their “Ted Lasso x FIFA 23” collaboration won the Cannes Grand Prix in Brand Experience & Activation. Their “Innovating Saving” brand platform for Jet.com won the Cannes Grand Prix in Media. Their “Skittles Touch” campaign is featured in the book “Hey Whipple, Squeeze This” which is used as a textbook for university level teaching. And their campaign “The Love Cam” was inducted into the permanent collection at the MoMA, and received an Emmy nomination.
Chris & Mike began their careers in Toronto, Canada where they were creative leads on brands such as World Wildlife Fund, Skittles, and FedEx. In 2012 they left Toronto to move to London, England as global creative leads for the Philips Sound business and Amnesty International at Ogilvy & Mather London.
Chris & Mike moved to R/GA New York in 2014, where they became Executive Creative Directors working across a range of clients including Samsung Global, Mercedes-Benz, Shopify, Jet.com, and the Ad Council.
In 2020, Chris & Mike moved to Apple in Los Angeles as Creative Directors on Apple TV+, and in 2023 have helped form a new group focused on activations across products and services.
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