Chick Ciccarelli

Chick is a senior-level executive with over 30 years experience in advertising. His unique marketing strategies have often redefined the standards of advertising. He's re-thought the selling processes of everything from motion pictures to media space and helped brand hundreds of products and companies. Many of his campaigns have captured number one market positions.

Chick created MediaBuys as a way to help save money for his clients. MediaBuys is now the largest media buying club in the nation with over 1,150+ buying members and 3750+ media selling members. In the MediaBuys Creative Services division, Chick serves as the Creative Director for many major accounts and heads most of their national campaigns. MediaBuys became the ad agency of record for the City of New Orleans to find sponsors for Mardi Gras after the devastation from Hurricane Katrina. Chick signed Glad Products as the first sponsor in Mardi Gras' 150 year history.

As President of ad agency, Chick, Inc., Chick developed Editvu (a digital video delivery system used by companies such as ABC Daytime, Castlerock Entertainment, Disney Channel, Ogilvy and Sony Pictures) and he created national and regional ad campaigns for over 35 accounts, including Media Distributors (capturing a number one market position).

As Vice President of Communications at L.A. Digital, Chick's marketing campaigns helped the company into another number one market position. Later, he authored the business plan and helped coordinate the multi-million dollar sale of the company.

As Vice President of Communications at Moviola, he helped the company resurrect it's 75 year old brand that had been laying dormant for 20 years, and captured a number one market position.

Chick co-founded Theafilm Distribution Network. As Executive Vice President he created and developed the highly publicized 'flat-lease' motion picture distribution process, reviewing over 200 films from HBO, Showtime, Dino Delaurentis and other well-known film producers and production companies. During his tenure, he implemented the national theatrical trailer exhibition of "Wing Commander-IV" on 570 General Cinema screens, a first for the electronic gaming industry.

While as a Senior Art Director at Lewis Anthony Advertising (formerly Reeds Farris & Lewis), Chick helped capture a number one national market position for Custom Building Products and a number one International market position for WorldPortLA (The Port of Los Angeles).

Chick has won numerous national design awards in both print and web development and was honored by the Smithsonian Institute for his promotional contribution to the historical Voyager flight around the world. He is a member of the National Academy of Media Arts & Sciences.