Creative Operations Sydney 2025
Ben Clare
Executive Creative Director
We Are Social
Ben is a writer, surfer, and father (not necessarily in that order).
His creative reputation has been built over an 18-year career working in Australia and the United States.
In this time, he has won hundreds of local and international awards across dozens of brands at Cannes, D&AD, One Show, CLIO, AWARD, The Webbys and more, as well as multiple Effies.
Most notably, his work for Google and Coca-Cola won the inaugural Mobile Grand Prix at Cannes, and most recently a Grand Prix at Spikes Asia and Grande Lotus at AdFest for his work on Tourism New Zealand's Play NZ campaign.
A proven creative leader with an unrelenting passion for culture-driven ideas and social-first thinking, his work has been parodied on the Jimmy Kimmel show, praised by Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent, and showcased around the world in multiple Google case studies as best-in-class advertising (among many other achievements that are probably better described over a beer).
Outside of advertising, he has three small children, one wife, and very little personal time.
