Brian Austin

Group Strategy Director at Kettle

Brian Austin has a diverse work experience that spans various roles and industries. Brian is currently working as the Group Strategy Director at Kettle, a position they started in September 2022. Before that, they worked as the Creative Strategy Director at an undisclosed company starting from May 2022.

Prior to their current positions, Brian worked at Code and Theory from 2012 to 2022. During their tenure there, they held multiple roles, including Creative Strategy Director, Associate Creative Strategy Director, Senior Creative Strategist, Creative Strategist, Social Strategist, Senior Community Manager, and Community Manager.

Brian's earlier work experience includes roles at Driver Digital as an Audience Distribution Specialist from 2011 to 2012, at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as a Production Assistant in 2010, at Time Out New York as a Music Intern in 2010, at MTV Networks as an MtvU Digital Media Production Intern in 2010, at Washington Post Express as an Assistant to the features editor in 2009, and at The Onion as an AV Club Intern in 2008.

Overall, Brian Austin has a diverse background in strategy, creative, community management, and digital media production.

Brian Austin attended The George Washington University from 2007 to 2011, where they pursued an undergraduate degree in American Studies, Journalism, and Communications. In 2010, they participated in an exchange program at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, focusing on Metropolitan Studies.

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Brooklyn, United States

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Kettle

We are a New York based interactive agency specializing in creative digital strategy, product design, and social media marketing. We take an absurd amount of pride in our work, combining bleeding edge marketing solutions with best practice UI, AI, design and technical development.Kettle created TheyMakeApps, the definitive online directory ofmobile application makers. Originally only featuring iPhone developers, the site will add in the next few days iPad, Google Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Blackberry and Palm developers.On May 4th, 2010, TheyMakeApps won a Webby Award in the IT Hardware/Software category, and got a nomination in the Best Navigation/Structure Category. The Webby Awards are the most prestigious Award in the Web Industry. Fellow winners include: twitter, HBO Imagine, Mashable, Hulu, TED,com, Mint.com, NYTimes, Tumblr...On March 14, 2010, Kettle won the SxSW Interactive Web Award in the business category for TheyMakeApps. For the last 13 years, SxSW has honored the top Web developers and designers worldwide.Kettle designed HeyWalkies in partnership with Jackson/Laycock, an iPhone application for dog owners in New York City. Apple featured the app in their TV ad commercial: Dog Lover.


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