Author · Creative Director · Recovering jugglerCopenhagen, DK

That American guy you keep seeing on LinkedIn…

Thinks it, writes it, ships it. Jason Donnelly: author, copywriter, and creative director in Copenhagen. Agency-trained, allergic to boring.

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Selected
work

01 / Ten years of brands that covered the rent
01 Marketing Combat The podcast I co-hosted with Chris Kubbernus. We take opposite corners on a marketing question and argue it out. Forty episodes, not much agreement. Podcast · Video
Kubbco · 2024
02 Moxso Built the content engine for a Danish cybersecurity company: a weekly calendar across four LinkedIn voices, a delivery system, launch strategy, and the one-pagers to sell it internally. This is where I learned to run AI at scale. Not one prompt at a time, but systems that hold a voice without me in the room. AI systems · Content engine
Moxso · 2026
03 Hello Retail Redrew the website and the brand voice to cut against stale competition, built a 24-page Black Friday report with the data team, and wrote all the social. B2B SaaS made to sound like it has a pulse. Brand voice · Website · Report
Hello Retail · 2025
04 Creative Force A Studio Manager how-to series, a case study for boohoo, and a five-part AI series for dreem. A dry category turned into content people actually finished. B2B content series
Creative Force · 2023
05 Kubbco Made #MarketingMath videos with Brian Baumgartner and ran the Social Media Sucks podcast. Social · Video · Podcast
Kubbco · 2024
06 Bud Light NFL spots for the new cans, the "Let's Agree to Agree" films, and the Bud-E Fridge launch. For Whatever, USA, I directed video and photo on location and ran the content calendar for every stop. Campaign · Social · Direction
VaynerMedia
07 Spotify Shot and directed The Piano Guys at Spotify Studios. Pitched a new social format the street team could run. We brought 12 ideas. They bought 8. Branded content
VaynerMedia
08 GE Turning genuinely complicated engineering into a monthly social calendar a human could follow without an engineering degree. Editorial · Social
VaynerMedia
09 Family Dollar Wrote, designed, and directed it all: an intro film for the new combo stores, three national commercials, seasonal activations, and a full rebrand built around one word, MORE. Campaign · Video · Rebrand
Edge Marketing
10 Fernet-Branca An acquired taste, marketed honestly. They flew me from New York to San Francisco to drink with the bartenders who love it, then I built a social calendar for three audiences: the brand, the believers, and the curious. Social · Copy
VaynerMedia

The
fiction

03 / Twenty-plus titles, two names
A selection of Jason Donnelly's book covers

When nobody is paying for the words, I write satire. The same voice, pointed at people who lie for a living.

I have published more than twenty titles, under my own name and as Sham Acumen, the pen name for the books I write with AI. They live in one place.

Go read one. That is the whole pitch.

See every book

Voice
over

04 / Written and read by the same person
Jason Donnelly into a microphone.

I write it, then I read it. Most of the reel was written and performed while I was at iHeartMedia.

Voiceover reel · 2:38 · written and read by me

Things that
are true

06 / All pulled from real life
01Recruited himself into his first copywriting job. It worked.
02Holds three master's degrees. One of them is an MFA in fiction.
03Took a cold bath 385 days in a row, then stopped, on purpose.
04Was a professional juggler before he juggled clients.
05Founded and ran a clothing brand called The Casual Cult.
06Spent a year as a college professor and lived to tell it.
07Has lost count of the tattoos. This is not a metaphor.
08Moved to Denmark in 2022 and is still negotiating with the language.

7-Eleven.

At 360i, a content calendar in 7-Eleven's cheeky voice that still did the boring job: getting people through the door.

A content calendar in 7-Eleven's cheeky voice, built to drive people into stores.

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Aquafina.

Social copy for Aquafina.

Simple word puzzles about water. They asked, we delivered.

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Avión.

Copy and content for Tequila Avión.

Delicious-looking content: recipes, turns of phrase, and perfect pairings.

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Brisk.

Copy and social content for Brisk.

UX copy for Brisk's new cans, written to be read at arm's length.

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Bud Light.

At VaynerMedia, Bud Light was one of my biggest accounts: national spots, social films, and live events, all in a voice that knew exactly how dumb and how fun beer is meant to be.

NFL spots introducing the redesigned cans, built to feel like a tradition rather than a launch.

Whatever, USA, a town Bud Light took over for a weekend. Working with an art director and Mosaic, I directed the video and photo crews on the ground and mapped the entire content calendar before we arrived.

The Bud-E Fridge launch, a fridge that tells you when the beer is cold. I wrote the spot, helped direct, and was on set throughout.

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The Capitol Theatre.

Copy and content for The Capitol Theatre.

Show reviews for the theater's website. Tap a photo to read one.

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Creative Force.

In-house at Creative Force, a B2B platform for creative-production teams, I wrote content series that people in a famously dry category actually finished.

The Studio Manager Series: guides, playbooks, and tips that made a thankless job feel lighter.

A long-form case study for one of their marquee clients, boohoo. I wrote the whole thing. Scroll through it below.

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A five-part AI series for the dreem sub-brand, pulled from a webinar nobody wanted to sit through twice.

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Family Dollar.

At Edge Marketing, copy and content for Family Dollar.

An intro video for Family Dollar's new combo stores in small towns across the country. Written, designed, edited, and directed with fully remote teams.

Three commercials I wrote for Family Dollar.

Seasonal activations across in-store, digital, social, and print, built out as complete programs throughout the year.

A complete rebrand built around one word: MORE. Showing the country just how much more they can get at Family Dollar.

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Fernet-Branca.

Copy and content for Fernet-Branca, an acquired taste marketed honestly.

Before I wrote a word, Fernet-Branca flew me from New York to San Francisco to drink with the people who actually love it. A whirlwind twenty-four hours: wheels up from New York at 11am, wheels up out of San Francisco at 11am the next day. In between, behind the bar and in front of it, learning the brand from the bartenders who evangelize it. You can't fake that taste, and you can't write it from a deck back east.

They handed me a Fernet-Branca coin on the way out. In Fernet circles, the coin means you're one of them. I still have mine.

A social calendar with three audiences: the brand, the bartenders who back it, and brand-new Fernet drinkers.

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GE.

At VaynerMedia, I wrote a year of social for GE, turning genuinely complicated engineering into posts a normal person could follow and want to share.

A monthly social calendar spanning graphene, wind turbines, biogas engines, and brain scans. Every post took something most people can't pronounce and made it click.

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Hello Retail.

In-house at Hello Retail, a B2B ecommerce personalization platform, I owned the brand voice and rebuilt how the company looked and sounded across web, social, and reports.

A 24-page Black Friday report and its companion webinar, written with our data scientist and designer. Hard numbers, made genuinely readable.

The full website redesign and voice overhaul, built to stand out in a category where every competitor sounds identical.

Social posts, written and designed, that admit online shopping is broken and then point straight at the fix.

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iHeartMedia.

At iHeartMedia, copywriting across brands, campaigns, and on-air promotion.

They needed a writer who could jump from brand voice to personality voice to strategy in seconds. These are some of the brands and shows I wrote for. Examples on request.

They also built a platform for businesses to create their own audio ads. I was there from the start: naming, branding, design direction, and the UX copy for the site.

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Jukely.

Copy and content for Jukely, live music on subscription.

Long-form SEO content to grow subscribers across 16 markets. I wrote over 300 articles, including one that went viral past 250k views. Tap a cover to read.

Jukely Live: concerts at the office, invented to make fresh content for fans and give up-and-coming bands a stage, on a budget of zero.

Micro-content that introduced new app features to users, written and designed to be simple and good-looking.

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Kindle.

At Laundry Service, micro-content for Kindle Direct Publishing, written from the author's side of the desk.

Micro-content for Kindle Direct Publishing, written from the one perspective I didn't have to fake: an author's.

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Kubbco.

At Kubbco, a social-media agency, I did a bit of everything: video, podcast, blog, and the website, all carrying a Kind Rebel edge.

An Icelandair case study with an AI voiceover that informed and, against the odds, actually entertained.

A run of #MarketingMath videos made with Brian Baumgartner. Kevin, from The Office.

The Social Media Sucks podcast, repointed at the audience instead of at ourselves.

A steady stream of blog posts, built to let search do some of the selling.

The website rework that gave the whole brand its Kind Rebel edge.

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Marketing Combat.

The podcast I co-host with Chris "Kubby" Kubbernus. We take opposite corners on a marketing question and argue it out, and the audience referees. Forty episodes, not much agreement.

All 40 episodes are available below, EP1 through EP40. Open the player, pick a side, press play.

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Moxso.

In-house at Moxso, a Danish cybersecurity company, I built the content operating system: AI infrastructure that runs the company's entire LinkedIn presence in four distinct voices, on a weekly cadence, to editorial standards the machine doesn't get to vote on. What's below is the architecture. The contents belong to Moxso.

A published LinkedIn carousel for Moxso: seven slides that walk a reader from a comfortable assumption to an uncomfortable question, and land on the category. Built to be swiped, not skimmed.

The brief that armed the sales floor: six pages connecting product, market, and competitive strategy into something a salesperson could use in a live call. You can see the shape of the thinking. The words stay internal. That's the deal.

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Sixteen interlocking modules, every one loading from a single positioning core. Campaigns, sales, partners, design, localization: nothing ships unless it agrees with the spine. That's the difference between prompting and infrastructure.

POSITIONING CORE CONTENTCALENDARCAMPAIGNSSALESPARTNERSDESIGNVOICE ×3LOCALIZATIONCOMPETITIVEPRODUCT TRUTHDEPLOY GATEMARKETING 16 MODULES · ONE SPINE · NOTHING SHIPS THAT DISAGREES WITH IT

Voice profiles for three executives and the brand, built from interviews, post libraries, and rules with teeth. Raw notes go in. Posts come out sounding like the person, not the model.

VOICE MEMO, BULLETS, RAW NOTES THE GATES VOICE PROFILEEDITORIAL RULESPOSITIONING CHECKCEOCTOVP PRODUCTBRAND FOUR ACCOUNTS · ONE SYSTEM · ZERO GENERIC AI VOICE

The system in production: ghostwriting for the C-level. Two executives, two voices that don't sound like each other and don't sound like a machine. The CTO got satire with teeth. The CEO got conviction without corporate filler. Their stories, my pen.

Ghostwriters don't usually get receipts. The CEO posted one.

A weekly engine that decides what gets posted, when, by whom, and why, then produces the full set to standard. The week runs whether I'm in the room or not. That was the point.

MONTUEWEDTHUFRIBRANDPOSTPOSTCEOPOSTPOSTCTOPOSTPOSTPRODUCTPOST ONE WEEK · PLANNED, DRAFTED, AND SHIPPED TO STANDARD

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Mountain Dew.

At VaynerMedia, I gave Mountain Dew's Kickstart a face for the chaos, the Kickstart Koala, built on the idea that Kickstart is how the night begins.

Kickstart is how the night begins. To prove it, we gave the party a mascot: the Kickstart Koala.

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Pharmaceutical Radio.

At iHeartMedia, I wrote :15, :30, and :60 radio spots for a long roster of pharma and CPG brands: Prilosec, Genentech, Neulasta, Metamucil, Stelara, Allergan, Mucinex, ZzzQuil, Botox Cosmetic, Align, NAMI, and LOLO. Regulated copy, tight clocks. Examples on request.

Every brand came with its own mandatories. I ideated, wrote, and presented :15, :30, and :60 radio spots for each. Examples on request.

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Pure Leaf.

Social and campaign copy for Pure Leaf.

Simple, clear copy for social sweepstakes. No tricks, just entries.

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Quaker.

At VaynerMedia, a campaign that told a tired country to QuakerUp and re-energize.

A campaign that told a tired country to QuakerUp and re-energize.

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Rémy Martin.

At VaynerMedia, brand and social copy for Rémy Martin.

Elevated social content for a brand that lives on craft and status, written to actually engage.

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Rémy V.

At VaynerMedia, social content built to make the Rémy V bottle impossible to scroll past.

Bright, tempting content built to get people to try the new clear spirit.

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Shock Top.

Copy and social content for Shock Top.

For 12 hours straight on Valentine's Day, I wrote songs for an improv team to sing to fans who answered three simple questions.

A social calendar we wrote, designed, and shot in-house, delivered for every channel.

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Space Vikings.

As COO of Space Vikings, I wrote and designed a beer launch with our Edge Brewing partner, ran a three-billboard buy across Melbourne and Perth, and rewrote and directed the launch film.

As COO of our beer company, I wanted to show the world our new beer before a single can existed. So I designed it online and announced our new partner, Edge Brewing.

Then I wrote, designed, and orchestrated a billboard partnership that put us up in Melbourne and Perth, Australia. Mock-ups by me too.

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Spotify.

At VaynerMedia, I made branded content for Spotify, from studio shoots to social formats simple enough for a street team to run on their own.

The Piano Guys, shot, directed, and interviewed inside Spotify Studios.

A repeatable social format the street team and our designers could produce alone. We pitched twelve ideas. Spotify bought eight.

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Twisted Tea.

Social and campaign copy for Twisted Tea.

Funny real-time and evergreen content, written to match a voice that was already having fun.

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USA Network.

Promo and social copy for USA Network.

Social calendars for Falling Water and Eyewitness, written and built entirely from show photography.

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