Lee Hunt is a strategist and industry thought leader for media companies across the globe. His success in launching and positioning entertainment brands, in addition to his groundbreaking work in audience management and competitive analysis, have set many of the standards for our industry. Lee began his career on the client side in the 1980s, launching, branding and executive producing at Lifetime, VH1, TNT, and MTV. In the 90s, he founded the creative services agency, Lee Hunt Associates. After...
Aug 14, 2025•39 min
Wesley ter Haar is a co-founder and the Chief AI Officer at Monks. Now in year 25, he’s helped grow the company from a scrappy production shop from Amsterdam into a global leader in creative, tech and now AI. With 7000 people working across timezones in 33 countries, the Monks are regarded for high quality work and relentless innovation, and were recently named Adweek's first ever AI agency of the year. Wesley serves on the boards of S4Capital and The One Club for Creativity, is the inaugural pr...
Jul 29, 2025•45 min
Alex James has spent the last 12 years helping B2B service businesses across the globe become experts at conveying their expertise. He believes the go-to strategies of the 2010s, like niching down, solving problems and sharing ideas are no longer enough. Because in a post-AI world (where output is cheap & everyone's a specialist) you can't just share ideas - you need to own one. You need a perspective. His cut-to-the-bone approach has earned him 120,000 TikTok followers (despite posting no m...
May 22, 2025•48 min
Melissa Havel is a senior communications strategist, executive advisor, and team coach who blends big-idea thinking with a disciplined approach to problem-solving and delivering results. She has driven powerful storytelling and strategic communications campaigns across owned, earned, and paid channels for organizations of all sizes, drawing on her extensive experience as a senior director at Portland General Electric and an executive vice president at WE Communications. Currently, Melissa also i...
Apr 18, 2025•39 min
Mark Jones is an accomplished educator, producer, and author, known for bridging the worlds of culture, technology, and education. As the Dean of the Faculty of Animation, Art, and Design at Sheridan College and former Director at Seneca Film Institute, Mark has dedicated over 25 years to empowering the next generation of creatives. His book, The Starving Artist Myth , challenges long-standing stereotypes about creative careers, advocating for the economic and social value they contribute. With ...
Mar 06, 2025•47 min
Héctor Ayuso has spent the last 30 years chasing ideas and making them real. Call him an artist, filmmaker, creative director, storyteller, or just a guy who can't sit still—labels don’t matter, doing does. From Spain to Mexico, Italy to the U.S., he’s built studios, taught, spoken on stages, and created projects that live outside the usual boxes. For nearly 25 years, he founded and shaped one of the world’s most influential creative festivals, OFFF. Now, he’s building Paradiso, a different kind...
Mar 01, 2025•40 min
Marcel Petitpas is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability. In his work as a speaker, podcast host, and consultant, specializing in Agency Profitability Optimization, he's helped thousands of agencies, consultancies, and professional services firms worldwide measure the right metrics and improve their profitability. He’s on a mission to help firms break free of the outdated management silos between finance, operations...
Feb 20, 2025•54 min
Mandi Ellefson transformed her life from battling $175k in debt to amassing a multi-million dollar net worth before hitting 40. As the visionary behind Hands-Off CEO, Mandi isn’t just another success story; she’s a lifeline for consulting agency owners drowning in the day-to-day. Her magic? Transforming million-dollar agencies into scalable enterprises with minimal CEO dependency. Mandi has propelled hundreds of agencies toward tens of millions in revenue by refining their offers and attracting ...
Dec 22, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Cecilia Owens is an esteemed finance and operations executive with over 20 years of progressive experience in financial reporting, budgeting / forecasting, strategic planning, cash management, business operations, HR oversight, and business relationship management. Cecilia is currently the Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer at Grandview Entertainment, a renowned management company that represents awe-inspiring writers, directors, producers, and talent. She also serves as Fractiona...
Dec 05, 2024•39 min
Tony Kadillak has spent 20 years in branding and promotion, servicing today's most recognizable entertainment and sports brands. Currently EP at Versus, he’s been responsible for supporting the strategic growth of his agency teams, while focusing on key clients to drive the value of design-led thinking to their bottom lines. For over ten years, Carson Hood has played a crucial role as the executive producer at BigStar. He shares a passion for sales, marketing, and collaborating on branding and s...
Oct 22, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Join Esther and Tim for the DDD Catalyst Think Tank at DDD Milan this October. https://ddd.live/programs/catalyst-think-tank Esther Weinberg is a business growth accelerator that equips executives in high-growth media and technology industries to create game-changing breakthroughs, increase profitability in declining markets and create successful and sustainable“portable” virtual cultures with executives, leaders and teams. With over 20-years experience, her innovative strategies have assisted ...
Sep 20, 2024•1 hr 4 min
This is a recording from RevThink's The Weekly Briefing from August 7th, 2024. This discussion was followed by a Q&A which you can watch here: https://community.revthink.com/c/the-weekly-briefing/resilience-in-chaotic-times-strategies-for-economic-shifts-d3d6ea28-b832-4e00-bf7b-e0aa74fd52d6 Blair Enns is on a mission to change the way creative services are bought and sold the world over. He is the CEO of Win Without Pitching, the sales training and coaching program for creative professionals...
Aug 10, 2024•36 min
Alana Tompson is a Melbourne cinematographer and the creative director of Said & Done Media. She also hosts a podcast called Said & Undone which interviews creatives about what could be done – and is being done – to increase the diversity of the film, TV, media and advertising industries to make them a more inclusive place. With her career commencing as a camera operator on Animal Planet's acclaimed series 'Whale Wars', Alana spent 100 days at sea in Antarctica capturing the intense clas...
Jul 09, 2024•49 min
Kevin Robinson is an award-winning design leader with decades of experience as a director, entrepreneur, executive creative director, strategist, and advisor. Throughout his professional career, Robinson founded and led Juniper Jones, a multidisciplinary studio, and most recently, Creative Dept., a new platform whose mission is to provide access to extremity-vetted talent on a fractional monthly basis; allowing brands to easily build internal creative teams and for individual creatives to establ...
May 21, 2024•46 min
Marlene P. Naicker, a serial fashion entrepreneur and the Founder/Creative Director of MULDOONEYS, epitomizes resilience and innovation. Born in apartheid-era South Africa in 1975, she draws inspiration from influential figures like Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, embodying fearlessness and empathy. Facing adversity head-on, Marlene battled cancer while simultaneously building MULDOONEYS in 2009, showcasing her strength and commitment. In 2022, she relaunched the brand with innovative solutio...
Apr 15, 2024•35 min
Joanne is CEO of Turner Duckworth, a world-class branding agency with studios in San Francisco, London and New York. Turner Duckworth has designed some of the world’s most valuable brands, including Amazon, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Levi’s and Samsung. Joanne’s first career was in the art world, having worked at prestigious art galleries in New York, Monaco and San Francisco, and the Guggenheim Museum. After deciding on a career shift, Joanne became employee #2 at Turner Duckworth San Francisco, es...
Apr 04, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Stephen Price is the founder and creative director of Stash Media Inc. and executive editor of Stash Magazine and the Stash Permanent Collection – the world’s only video streaming platform dedicated to design, animation, and VFX. Stephen has given dozens of talks on design at festivals/conferences from Los Angeles to Hamburg and Istanbul to Caracas and curated scores of film screenings in over 20 countries. He also oversaw the creation of The Style Frames Design Conference and the Collider Digit...
Mar 28, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Will Travis is an internationally respected brand builder and social connector. With a career leading respected branding / advertising agencies ATTIK, Dentsu and SidLee as CEO, he has worked with brands like Toyota, Facebook, Apple, Nike, Coca-Cola. After a 25-year career in elevating products and services, Will launched Elevation Barn (link below) to elevate people, future-proofing their self-belief through defined higher purpose ambitions. The Elevation Barn network now unites leaders in a kin...
Mar 07, 2024•1 hr
Feb 21, 2024•1 min
Those who know, know: Camp Mograph fosters inclusivity, promoting open dialogue among attendees and speakers without hierarchy. Originally a passion project, the event has transformed into a business, posing challenges in balancing time commitment and preserving the initial vision. Today, a pivotal decision looms on whether to expand into a full-scale business or maintain a smaller scale. Follow the work of Mark Cernosia and his team at Camp Mograph: https://www.campmograph.com/ Enjoyed this co...
Dec 02, 2023•51 min
What happens when your studio fully exploits the untapped potential of sonic expertise? To answer that question, our guest Eric Singer shares a bit of the science – and a lot of his passion – from the forefront of audio awesomeness at Coupe Studios. Follow the work of Eric Singer and his team at Coupe Studios: https://coupestudios.com/ Enjoyed this conversation? Join RevCommunity, the gathering of owners running the world’s leading creative studios. Apply to join: https://revthink.com/communit...
Nov 13, 2023•32 min
In this special podcast episode, Tim Thompson, founder at RevThink, sits down with the inspiring creators behind the newly formed community, Mothers of MoGraph: Jennie Davis and Kaci Smith. Discover the strength, resilience, and great creativity that drives the Mothers of MoGraph as they challenge stereotypes in the industry. Kaci Smith is a Motion Designer and School of Motion TA based in Eugene, Oregon. Working in motion design for over 10 years, Kaci is inspired by her environment and is pass...
Oct 27, 2023•49 min
We rejoin forces with Ryan Summers and John LePore for a fresh deep dive into the incredible potential and versatility of motion design! Oh, if you missed PART 1, see the link below. In this episode, we answer these questions: - How can motion design skills be seamlessly transferred into adjacent industries, like automotive and experiential design? - Why is it crucial to focus on solving clients' core problems instead of just executing? We're also exploring the future of motion design with thril...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 4 min
SVP, Design & Visual Effects at FX, Steve Viola, shares invaluable lessons gathered throughout his career in top-notch collaborations on both the studio side and client side of the table. Join RevCommunity: https://www.revthink.com/join Explore all RevThink https://www.revthink.com
Sep 12, 2023•51 min
Maybe you woke up this morning and wondered if I could keep doing this. What can I do differently to change this situation? Business is a lot like life itself. It has its seasons - the times of growth and prosperity and the inevitable downturns, testing our resolve. Knowing when it's worth the effort to persevere or when to seek a new direction is a crucial skill every entrepreneur should possess. Every Wednesday at 5 PM ET, RevThink goes live and discusses insights, trends, and advice to creati...
Jul 15, 2023•21 min
Running a creative business is messy, for sure. But it’s worth it. Because a business is the path to unleashing your greatest creative work. You can do this. Want to engage directly? Join RevCommunity today. RevCommunity is the gathering of owners running the world’s leading studios. Apply to join: https://revthink.com/community/
Jun 16, 2023•7 min
Is AI a threat to motion design? Wait, what is motion design? Is it becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our world? Is its own lexicon? What parts do education and community have to play? Attempting to answer these questions, our guest today is Justin Cone , the foundational motion design enthusiast, collector of sparkly pixels, and unabashed technology addict. Oh, and if you're listening to this in 2033, let us know if you're still using mobile phones, ok? This is a RevThink podcast . Join our...
Jun 02, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Are you struggling with setting boundaries with bully clients? Do you find yourself constantly trying to please insatiable clients who demand more and more, even when the project is technically complete? If so, this episode of RevThoughts is dedicated to you. In this special edition episode, Tim Thompson shares a powerful parable that illustrates the importance of setting boundaries and maintaining confidence as a service provider. Curious to learn more? Connect with us: www.revthink.com --- Sen...
May 03, 2023•13 min
On this episode of the RevThinking podcast we give you a taste of our RevThink Weekly Briefing series. In this particular Weekly Briefing, we discuss recent studio layoffs, how to navigate budget struggles without laying off team members in your studio, as well as the DOs and DON'Ts of the current financial season. Every Wednesday at 5 PM ET, RevThink goes live and discusses insights, trends, and advice to creative professionals and creative business owners, providing them with the knowledge and...
Apr 19, 2023•29 min
In our latest RevThinking episode, Joel Pilger and Paul Mikhaylenko (a.k.a. Mikhay), the CEO of Bloom.io, discuss the startup principles of a creative business. If you're a creative professional looking to start your own creative business, this is the episode for you! We dive into the principles that lead to success, moving from a staffer to a freelancer and to opening up your own studio or production company. Looking to streamline your business operations and book more projects? Check out https...
Mar 08, 2023•52 min
