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Askinazi + VICE
Cut as in-house editor with world’s leading youth media company, VICE
- Create content directly alongside Vice founders & Chief Creative Officer
- Under the creative direction of film director Spike Jonze, Viceland (branded cable network) was launched in 2016 where I created original promos & documentary series. Along with content for all of Vice’s 11 digital channels ranging from Vice News to Motherboard (technology), Noisey (music), Munchies (food), The Creators Project (collaboration with Vice & Intel), Vice Sports, Vice’s film division and record label, and projects with Virtue (in-house creative services agency)
- Lead Edit VICELAND’s standout series ‘Desus & Mero’ (eventually bought by CBS / Showtime) - Film every weekday, deliver EOD / air on broadcast that same evening
- Launch Vice News directly alongside editor-in-chief with a series of “Meet the Hosts” vignettes, “Best-of-Vice” videos, “Welcome to Vice News” launch content & short films chronicling what issues matter to young people today
- Network branding promos, show intros, Sizzle Reels showcasing VICE mission statements / strategic fundraising & pitch decks
- Launch Munchies (Vice’s food network) directly alongside executive producers with subscribe videos, branding content and original programming
- Cut content as Vice’s in-house ad agency, Virtue
“Behind every great brand is an idea. We take these ideas and turn that into content.”
Clients include:
- Google & YouTube - 20th Century Fox - Coca-Cola - Verizon - Samsung - AT&T - ABInBev (all Anheuser-Busch’s 17 brands including Budweiser, Corona, Stella Artois, Beck etc.) - Ralph Lauren - North Face - Chanel - Rolex & many more