Indie agency Drake Cooper has hired veteran account management pro Nick Hanlin as its first director of growth. The 100 percent employee owned, Boise-based Drake Cooper has enjoyed record-setting success over the past several years, onboarding more national accounts than ever in its 46-year history, including Blue Diamond Almonds, Challenge Butter, Brookfield Properties, Chevron, and its subsidiary Texaco. Hanlin brings a decade of account management and agency growth expertise to Drake Cooper. He began his career at McCann in New York as an account manager on their portfolio of Reckitt’s OTC products and transitioned to McCann Worldgroup’s Global Growth team, acting as a pitch manager across the agency network’s largest clients, including Coca-Cola, L’Oreal, Microsoft, and GM. After three years at McCann, Hanlin was recruited by Wieden+Kennedy in Portland to manage its Old Spice business, where he helped develop campaigns and led launches of multiple new product lines. He later bounced back to New York City to lead growth for Swedish-turned-global agency Forsman & Bodenfors before joining Drake Cooper. Hanlin’s remit as growth officer is to connect with national and regional brands and help shepherd these clients through Drake Cooper’s creative processes. The shop has full-service capabilities, including strategy, creative, analytics, design, production, and media buying and planning. In addition to pursuing national and regional consumer brands, Hanlin will work to continue burnishing the agency’s exceptional reputation for cause marketing. Drake Cooper has become widely known and respected for helping the Idaho Office of Drug Policy and the governor’s office launch a powerful campaign to combat the opioid epidemic. The agency created a series of gripping ads targeted to teens, young adults, parents, and caregivers, illustrating the stark reality of fentanyl overdoses. When it launched in 2023, the “Fentanyl: All It Takes Is Everything” campaign garnered more than 60 million impressions and delivered a 55% increase in fentanyl awareness among targeted young adults and teens. A new fentanyl campaign from the agency is currently in the works….
Rep Report for March 13, 2026
Abandon Editorial in West Hollywood, Calif., has signed Michaël Dimitri of boutique representation company dimitri + co to handle the West Coast.... With decades of experience working across commercial production and agency partnerships, Brad Grubaugh of Goodrebel has joined Spiders & Sparrows as an independent sales representative covering the West Coast territory. Spiders & Sparrows, founded by Damon Meena and Aaron Baumle, is a global creative production and talent representation company working across live-action directing, design, animation, experiential production, and emerging AI-driven workflows. Grubaugh will focus on building relationships with agencies, brands, and creative partners across the West Coast while introducing the Spider & Sparrows’ roster of directors and creative studios to new opportunities.... Time Based Arts, the VFX and color grading studio located in the Shoreditch area of London, has brought Georgie Evans on board as new business executive producer. Evans joins the team, having worked across both television and advertising, with previous roles at Agile Films, Bullion, SMUGGLER and BBC Studios. Based in the Shoreditch shop, she will be working closely with the senior leadership team to develop and nurture client relationships, collaborating with brands, agencies and production companies to help deliver world-class creative solutions. The new hire comes off the back of a run of high-profile work created by the studio, including the standout Super Bowl commercial, Budweiser “American Icons” with director Henry-Alex Rubin, Absolut x Tabasco “For Those Who Bring the Heat” directed by Leigh Powis... Read More