Nicola Dowe, Campaign Manager

My Coke Rewards continues to be one of Studiocom’s most successful campaigns. Today, PricewaterhouseCoopers has valued mycokerewards.com as a company asset worth tens of millions of dollars. As the site and program grow further and exponentially, Studiocom needed a strategic leader to guide its expansion. The agency brought in Nicola Dowe as Campaign Manager based on her extensive experience in ad operations, sales support, policy and procedure development. Nicola will manage the day-to-day operations of My Coke Rewards as well as handle client relations for many of our other partners. She joins us from weather.com, where she assisted in project initiatives for the weather.com site and Weather Channel Mobile. Nicola believes Studiocom’s innovative and encouraging atmosphere will allow her to make truly meaningful contributions to her clients.

Laura Haynes, Senior Social Marketing Strategist

As a leading digital agency, Studiocom has been living and breathing social media for years. Social media is no longer an individual marketing effort; it’s quickly become the primary avenue to engage consumers. Studiocom hired Laura Haynes to further develop our social media strategies and seamlessly integrate them into our clients’ marketing plans. Laura is perfect for her role as Sr. Social Marketing Strategist due to an impressive background in social, mobile, email and search marketing. At AEG, one of the world’s largest sports and entertainment presenters, she led digital and social campaigns for the LA Kings, LA Galaxy and the David Beckham Academy. Laura also has in-depth experience managing major accounts for the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Spirit, the parent company of the Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers. Her knowledge reaches way beyond sports as well. Recently, she established the social media presence for Blockbuster Express from the ground up. Laura was thrilled to join Studiocom after witnessing the success of our Dunkin’ Donuts social media campaign.

This month marks the ten-year anniversary for five members of the Studiocom team. In the Atlanta office, we’re celebrating Mauricio Ruiz & Luis Lopez (a.k.a. Murdock), while Bogotá is celebrating ten years with Miguel Leyva, Berny Bettencourt, and Edilma Correa. Check out the surprise that Studiocom’s president, Carlos Pimenta, pulled out of his Santa bag for these dedicated team members:

Luis "Murdock" Lopez and Mauricio Ruiz with their surprise gifts in today's company meeting.

They look pretty happy! Congratulations, and here’s to ten more years!

After three always-interesting years, those of us in Studiocom’s Atlanta office just made the move down Peachtree Street to our new digs 40 stories over downtown. But what was the proper way to say farewell to our Midtown office space that has treated us so well?

Drinks? A going away party? Maybe a speech?

Well, for those of us at Studiocom, there really was only one possible answer: Packing Cart Racing.

All you need is a giant open space where everyone’s desks used to be, a couple rolling packing containers, and a few cases of ice-cold courage juice.

Put it all together and add a gong, and it was a great, only somewhat insane, way to say goodbye to 1955 Peachtree Street:

Oh, and despite a few near misses, we are happy – and surprised – to report that no one got hurt.

We are delighted to welcome Michelle Suttle to the Studiocom team as our new head of Business Development. Michelle brings to Studiocom a reputation for being both regionally-savvy and nationally successful, having led her prior agencies to multi-million dollar contracts with companies such as Jet Blue, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Chick-fil-A and The Marriott Hotel.

In her previous position as Head of Business Development for Band Digital Atlanta (formerly WhittmanHart), Michelle was responsible for establishing new relationships, as well as fueling organic growth for long time clients including AT&T and Regal Entertainment. Following her success with WhittmanHart, Michelle worked on the Salon Selective account at JWT Chicago and eventually relocated to Washington D.C. to head JWT’s Business Development division. With deep roots in account management and client relations, Michelle possesses an in-depth understanding of companies’ needs and priorities when selecting partner agencies, bringing invaluable insight and industry connections to her role at Studiocom.

Originally from Indianapolis, Michelle attended Indiana University- Bloomington where she received her Bachelors degree in Telecommunications. She has lived for the past several years in the Metro Atlanta area with her husband and 10-month old son, Kingston.