Director Nick Losq has joined Bully Pictures for advertising projects. Losq has already completed several assignments through Bully. They include a multi-spot package for Radio Shack and GSD&M, Austin, related to this year’s World Cup competition, and a campaign for Tribe Hummus through New York agency DeVito Verdi. Losq began his career as an animator and visual effects supervisor with credits in features, commercials, video games and music videos. He spent three years at Backyard Entertainment (now Oktobor Animation) before joining Motion Theory where he was a designer and visual effects supervisor, specializing in stylized forms of animation and effects. He later became visual effects supervisor at MPC, Los Angeles. In 2011, Losq joined Rabbit Content and expanded his repertoire to include live action direction. His output included a Monte Python-inspired campaign for Natural Light beer with 72andSunny, Los Angeles, and a commercial for computer processor maker Snapdragon set in a video game environment for Ogilvy, Los Angeles. It features a battle between a female warrior and an ogre—who has to pause the fight to use his inhaler. Other credits included campaigns for Five Hour Energy for MC Saatchi, Los Angeles, a Southern Comfort project for Wieden & Kennedy, New York, and a spot for Conrad Hotels and Resorts for Y&R, New York….
Publicis Seattle has appointed Ryan Stoner as strategy director, a new position at the agency. Reporting to chief strategy officer Britt Fero, Stoner will lead strategic development for key pieces of T-Mobile business including retail, device relationships, B2B, sponsorship business segments and the brand’s digital/mobile experiences. His team will be charged with identifying and fostering opportunities that will guide growth and expansion of the business, not just communications. Before joining Publicis Seattle, Stoner was the founder of two startups: MoPix as CEO; and Switchcam as VP business strategy & new business. Prior to that, he worked at shops including B-Reel, Omelet and Publicis on key brands such as H-P, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Activision and InBev. Additionally, Publicis Seattle has rounded out its strategy team with six hires: Sr. strategist Nicole McKeown who comes over from Nintendo of America, as well as Wunderman, where she worked on CRM strategy for Xbox; sr. strategist JP Martin, formerly of Publicis BOS Group and Zeus Jones, having worked with brands such as Purina, General Mills, Breathe Right and Wheat Thins; strategist Marie Matuszewski, a recent VCU Brandcenter graduate; analyst Casey Sperzel who had been at Space150 in Minneapolis; user experience designer Karen Hymes, previously at 180LA and Kimley-Horn and Associates as a designer; and creative technologist Chad Woods who served in the same capacity at The Martin Agency….
