Scott Edwards
Executive Vice President, Fox Creative Advertising
I love entertainment marketing. It doesn’t matter if it’s a drama, comedy, movie,
reality show, video game, or otherwise. Making compelling campaigns for entertainment
content, while working alongside the most talented people in the industry, is a true
privilege. Hands down, the best part of our days is the talent pool in which we get to swim.
When we’re clicking in harmony and firing on all creative cylinders – that’s magic.
In my current post, as EVP of Fox Creative Marketing, I witness, on a daily basis,
the unpredictable process and mind-bending convergence of art and commerce. Whether
we’re cranking out first-look trailers, launch promos, current-show episodics, key art one
sheets or billboards, custom social content, or otherwise, the formula-free process of
solving creative challenges is never boring. Add to the great people and energetic
environment hits such as 9-1-1, ALMOST FAMILY, BH90201, EMPIRE, LAST MAN
STANDING, THE MASKED SINGER, PRODIGAL SON, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN
DANCE, and THE RESIDENT, and an array of animation and Gordon Ramsay shows,
and you’ve got all the ingredients for an awesome “day at the office.”
(And I thought theatrical marketing was unique in its own special brand of highoctane
engagement.)
Prior to my five-year stretch as SVP of Fox On Air Promo & Operations – where
I was lucky to help launch 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY, BEAT SHAZAM, EMPIRE,
GOTHAM, GREASE LIVE, and the return of THE X-FILES – I served two decades worth
in theatrical tours of duty at four top-tier agencies (BD Fox & Friends, BLT AV, Crew
Creative, and AV Squad), with a memorable run at New Line Cinema thrown in for good
measure.
If you’ve read this far then I now consider us friends, which means we don’t have
any secrets. So, I cop to the likelihood that I owe you ten bucks for convincing you to see
a movie that didn’t really deliver. It happens. After all, that’s the gig.
Besides entertainment marketing, music is a great passion. Don’t tell anyone but I
DJ’d through college at various social events and nightclubs, which means I am familiar
with the significance of the number “1200.”
I was voted Best Dressed in my graduating High School class, which my friends
won’t let me live down, and to which my wife gives a fabulous eyeroll.
In closing, I’m advised to share where I got my smarts, but I’d say more important
than my education (BA double major, Theatre/Telecom, Indiana University; MFA w/high
honors, Film/Advertising, Art Center College of Design) is the annual opportunity to teach
short-form storytelling at Santa Monica College as part of the Promax Promo Pathway
program. That’s where I really see how much more advanced the storytellers of tomorrow
already are. Let’s all agree to pay it forward and inspire them to reach new heights.
Here’s to an amazing future in this amazing industry! (See me later for the $10.)
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