Josh is a Creative Director, writer, and director who has worked at Ogilvy, McCann, Clemenger BBDO, AMV BBDO London, and FCB Worldwide.
Josh loves ideas in culture, social and entertainment, writing, making stuff, and being an A.I. generated elf.
Josh has lead creative departments, managed and mentored creative teams, social content creators and designers, run large international and local accounts, won new business, built out social and content offerings, managed content integration and production processes, spoken on panels, won global and local awards and judged on award juries.
He has created campaigns for Dove, eBay, Mastercard, Microsoft, Circles.Life, Hiscox UK, Tourism Australia, V Energy, Gumtree, Brand Australia, Virgin Australia, Qantas, Red Rock Deli, Hungry Jack’s, Tourism Queensland, Lindt, Honda, Air New Zealand, Telstra, Google, e-Harmony, Who Magazine, Bombay Sapphire, Smirnoff, Bacardi Martini, Museum of Australian Democracy, MasterFoods, National Stroke Foundation, Unicef, Amnesty International and Greenpeace.
Josh has also directed content films for eBay, Tourism Australia, Gumtree, Brand Australia, Hungry Jack’s, Foxtel, Qantas, Maximus, Igniting Change, e-Harmony and Lindt. He appeared as an Expert Advisor in a four part TV series called ‘Don’t Make Ads Make TikToks’ hosted by Froomes, and as a challenge judge alongside Karen Ferry on Channel 9’s ‘Celebrity Apprentice Australia’ 2021.
In his spare-ish time Josh walks his dog Debra and wee bebe Flori, floats in bodies of water, watches and reads things, falls asleep watching and reading things, pretends to know things about architecture, and writes satire for ABC TheDrum and The Shovel.
Email: joshaitken@gmail.com
Cannes Lion Gold | Best Use of Social Media
Cannes Lion Bronze | Use of Branded Content for Social Media
Cannes Lion Bronze | Print & Publishing
Cannes Lion Finalist | Film x2
Cannes Lion Finalist | Print & Publishing
Cannes Lion Finalist | Outdoor
Cannes Lions Finalist | Longterm Creative Strategy
The Webby Awards | Social Video Honouree
The Webby Awards | Best Media Strategy
D&AD | Best Use of Social Media
AWARD Awards Agency of the Year 2019
AWARD Awards Gold | Creativity with Purpose
AWARD Awards Silver | Press Campaign
AWARD Awards Silver | Branded Content or UGC
AWARD Awards Silver | Film TV Commercials 30”
AWARD Awards Bronze | Health & Wellness
AWARD Awards Bronze | Branded Content Online Series
AWARD Awards Bronze | Integrated Social Media
AWARD Awards Bronze | Craft Direction Events & Experiences
AWARD Awards Bronze | PR & Promotion Events & Experiences
AWARD Awards Finalist x11
The Caples Silver | Branded Content
The Caples Silver | Ambient Guerrilla
The Caples Bronze | Digital B to C
The Caples Bronze | Integrated
The Caples Bronze | PR
The Caples Bronze | Integrated
The Caples Bronze | PR
The Caples Bronze
Creative Circle UK Bronze | Best Uncategorised
The Drum Awards UK Gold | Activation
The Drum Awards UK Gold | Photography
The Drum Awards UK Silver | Online Video
The Drum Awards UK Bronze | Integrated Campaign
Campaign Pick of the Week - Hiscox
Spikes Asia Silver | Branded Content for Social
Spikes Asia Bronze | Digital Travel
Spikes Asia Bronze | Digital Content Placement
Spikes Asia Finalist x6
LIA Finalist x3
Effie Award Asia Pacific Gold | V Energy
Effie Awards Gold | V Energy
Effie Awards Silver | V Energy
Effie Awards Finalist | V Pure
Effie Awards #1 Australian Independent
Madstars Bronze | Use of Media Special Events
Madstars Crystal | Brand Experience & Activation Exhibitions
Madstars Crystal | Brand Experience & Activation Use of Promo Stunts
Madstars Crystal | PR Events & Experiences
Madstars Crystal | PR Launch or Relaunch
Madstars Crystal | Media
Madstars Crystal | Media Use of Ambient
Mumbrella Social Media Idea of the Year
AdNews Media Idea of the Year
AdNews Small Agency of the Year 2018
New York Festivals Finalist x2
Axis Awards NZ Finalist x3
Clio Awards Finalist
BEFest Award | Branded Content Series
Campaign Asia Independent Agency of the Year 2014
Campaign UK World’s Leading Independent Agencies List 2013, 2014
Campaign Brief Hot List #1 Independent
#1 Independent Agency at Caples globally