
CREATIVE DIRECTOR • BRAND STRATEGIST • MARKETING LEADER
Building brands
that move people.
I'm Tate Holcombe, a creative director and marketing leader with 15+ years in creative, the last decade leading teams, turning strategy into standout work across video, digital, and brand for national organizations, advocacy groups, and corporate brands.
Core expertise
Brand Strategy
& Identity
Visual identity systems, brand architecture, and messaging frameworks that give a brand a distinct, ownable presence — and hold up consistently across every product, channel, and surface it lives on.
Campaign
Creative
Integrated campaigns built for high-stakes, fast-moving moments — from 48-hour rapid launches to sustained multi-market efforts — pairing message discipline with standout creative that performs.
Video Production
& Direction
Full-scale video from concept to post: brand films, launch spots, founder and customer stories, and doc-style content produced in-house at the speed and volume a growing brand needs.
Public Affairs
& Strategic Comms
Creative and messaging strategy for organizations shaping narratives, protecting reputations, and reaching the stakeholders who matter most.
Digital Marketing
& Content Systems
Always-on content engines across social, CTV, and digital built on data, optimized through testing, and engineered to scale creative output without diluting the brand.
Creative Operations
& Leadership
Building and leading multi-disciplinary creative teams, with the processes, review systems, and training that let them ship hundreds of assets a year at speed without sacrificing quality.
Strategy meets execution.
I'm a creative and brand leader who builds the systems, teams, and work that scale a brand across every surface it lives on. Over a decade leading creative teams, on a 15-year foundation of hands-on craft, I've turned strategy into work that moves people to act, and built the operational engine that ships it consistently, at speed, and at national scale.
As Creative Director at Go Big Media and Think Big, I built a creative department from the ground up: multi-disciplinary teams, review systems, training programs, and a quality bar that held while producing hundreds of assets a year across video, digital, CTV, web, and print. I've also led brand and identity work inside regulated, high-scrutiny environments, including a full visual identity for a U.S. federal financial regulator, where brand, compliance, and trust had to coexist.
Much of my work has lived in the most demanding corner of marketing: high-stakes, fast-moving campaigns where the message has to be clear, credible, and persuasive the first time. I've made complex, sensitive subjects land simply and emotionally, optimized creative against real performance data, and launched complete brand identities in as little as 48 hours. That pressure-tested discipline is what I bring to a brand team.
I lead AI-native creative, integrating tools like Veo, Kling, Sora, Midjourney, and Claude into real production pipelines, not as novelty. It all still rests on hands-on craft: years directing video, documentary, and mixed-media work that informs how I approach every brief.
10+
YEARS LEADING CREATIVE &
MARKETING TEAMS
60+
CAMPAIGNS LED
AT NATIONAL SCALE
19
AWARD-WINNING
CREATIVE PIECES
Selected work
The reel
Things I'm proud of
Award-Winning Campaign Creative
Directed campaigns recognized by the Reed Awards and the Pollies for creativity, originality, and measurable effectiveness in political and advocacy media.
Viral Digital Campaigns
Produced ad assets generating multi-million impressions across digital platforms, leveraging data-driven targeting and iterative creative optimization to maximize reach and engagement.
48-Hour Campaign Launch
Led the full rebranding and rapid deployment of campaign identity and web presence within 48 hours for a high-profile congressional special election — from logo to launch.
Unified Creative Operations
Built integrated creative operations across multiple sister agencies within a larger corporate structure — unifying processes, training programs, review systems, and quality standards.
How I work
Creative & Production
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Adobe Creative Cloud
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Figma
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Canva
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Event & Broadcast Production Systems
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AI such as Kling, VEO, Sora, Midjourney, Claude, etc.
Strategy & Operations
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Asana Project Management
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Data-Driven Content Strategy
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A/B Testing & Performance Analytics
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Budget & Resource Management
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Cross-Functional Team Leadership
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Vendor & Agency Management
Platforms & Systems
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WordPress & Webflow
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Google Workspace
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Microsoft Office Suite
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CTV & Digital Ad Platforms
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Social Media Ecosystems
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