
Brand & campaign strategy
Open to full-time Creative Strategist roles in Munich, hybrid or remote.
I build brand and campaign strategy from the base up: a clear value proposition, a few strong pillars, living themes, and only then content. It is how I have worked for an airline, a Publicis agency, USAID Kosovo and Speeex Group.
What I do
I turn a business problem into a brand and campaign system a team can run. That means positioning, the value proposition, two to four content pillars, seasonal themes and a brief that tells creative and media exactly what has to be true when the work goes live.
How I work
I draw pyramids. Value at the base, pillars above it, themes above those, and content at the very top. Every piece of content has to serve the layer below it, and every result feeds back down to sharpen the base.
Before a brief is locked, I pressure-test its assumptions. Is the problem awareness, or is it trust? Does the audience already understand the product? Does this really belong on the channel we always use? And when an idea everyone loves points away from the strategy, I am the one who says so.
Where I have done it
At Air Prishtina I grew the Facebook audience from 35k to more than 100k and made the first Albanian brand video to pass one million views. Our real-time football posts beat the official FIFA posts, and I presented that work at the KOMFO Summit in Copenhagen. Today I lead brand and campaign strategy for Speeex Group across BPO, edtech, telemedicine and SaaS.
Proof
VideoAir Prishtina: "Për Ty"
Brand film for the airline. Facebook grew from 35k to 100k+.
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PresentationKOMFO Summit 2016
"Managing Social and Advertising Real Time", the Air Prishtina playbook.
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Social profileSpeeex Group
Brand and campaign strategy across BPO, edtech, telemedicine and SaaS.
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NewsUSAID Kosovo
Public and crisis communications through COVID-19. Eagle Award 2020.
NewsZero Pozitive Publicis
Digital campaigns for Carlsberg and others, ATL meets digital.
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Most marketing teams build pyramids upside down
I keep drawing pyramids in strategy meetings. Value at the base, content at the top, and a feedback loop that runs back...
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Kill it! Protecting the strategy from the best idea
The hardest thing in this work is killing an idea everyone in the room loves. Sometimes that is exactly the job.
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One question I ask AI before every brief
Before I lock a brief, I ask Claude what I am assuming but haven't proven. The answer is usually the part I...
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What does a creative strategist do?
A creative strategist connects business goals, audience insight and creative ideas. Ardian Kurtolli defines the value proposition, the campaign pillars and the brief, then makes sure the creative work and the media plan stay true to them.
Which brands has Ardian Kurtolli built strategy for?
Air Prishtina, USAID Kosovo, Speeex Group and its subsidiaries, CALL SOUL in Munich, and clients of Zero Pozitive Publicis such as Carlsberg.
What is the pyramid method?
A way of planning campaigns from the bottom up: value and the value proposition at the base, then pillars, then themes, and content last. Insights from content flow back down to sharpen the base.
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Open to full-time Creative Strategist roles in Munich, hybrid or remote.
More of what I bring
02AI content systems
AI-supported content production that ships more without losing the brand, the craft or the strategy.
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03Integrated & experiential campaigns
Campaigns that live in the room and online at the same time: venues, events, activations and launches.
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04Creative direction & production
From brief to shoot to edit: 84+ music videos, dozens of commercials and AI films, directed and delivered.
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