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Columnist: Colin Costello

Colin Costello is a biracial award-winning Creative Director, Senior Copywriter and Content Creator who loves to explore the human condition through advertising and content creation.

He’s has conceived and written for a wide range of clients including most recently, Honcho Hard Seltzer, Disney, Marvel and AT&T. Because of his background, Colin understands that ‘emotion’ is one of the most important communication tools of them all. His website showcases the range of solutions he’s helped create with amazing global teams, over the years – from reinventing The Los Angeles Dodgers’ image to working with the Gatorade Sports Lab in Barrington, IL to reach brown and Black audiences.

Colin has been writing for Reel 360 since joining Reel Chicago in 2014. Colin started as a Social Media Manager, but then soon moved up to contributing writer. Colin eventually was given his own column covering the Los Angeles advertising and film scene called Reel LA.

When Reel LA became Reel 360, Colin Costello was the natural choice to become West Coast Editor.

Marty Supreme and ESPN turn Ping Pong into Holiday Music
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Marty Supreme and ESPN turn Ping Pong into Holiday Music

By Colin Costello Dec 23, 2025
If Christmas Day already felt overbooked, ESPN and A24 just found a way to make it louder, weirder, and oddly musical. In a shared holiday promo for ESPN’s NBA Christmas Day ...
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The Quiet Genius of A Charlie Brown Christmas at 60
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The Quiet Genius of A Charlie Brown Christmas at 60

By Colin Costello Dec 21, 2025
First aired in 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas should not have worked. It was quiet. It was sad. It had long pauses, real kids’ voices, jazz instead of jingles, and an actual...
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JAMM x Dave Meyers fly with Harman Kardon
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JAMM x Dave Meyers fly with Harman Kardon

By Colin Costello Dec 16, 2025
Award-winning post-production house JAMM Visual has teamed up with director Dave Meyers and Havas London on Harman Kardon’s latest global campaign, delivering a visually rich...
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Uber Eats delivers new chapter of Get Almost, Almost Anything
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Uber Eats delivers new chapter of Get Almost, Almost Anything

By Colin Costello Dec 10, 2025
Uber Eats is taking its long-running “Get Almost, Almost Anything” platform to a new level of playful absurdity, unveiling a fresh round of cinematic stories that treat eve...
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Apple puts accessibility center stage in musical film
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Apple puts accessibility center stage in musical film

By Colin Costello Dec 9, 2025
For this year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3, Apple has released a vibrant global short film that shines a spotlight on disabled college stude...
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Glad and Oscar the Grouch drop trash-filled musical collab
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Glad and Oscar the Grouch drop trash-filled musical collab

By Colin Costello Dec 2, 2025
Glad just dropped the most unexpected and delightful collaboration of the holiday season. The nation’s leading trash bag brand teamed up with the one creature on Earth who t...
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John Travolta’s Santa channels Danny Zuko for Capital One
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John Travolta’s Santa channels Danny Zuko for Capital One

By Colin Costello Nov 27, 2025
This is an unexpected Thanksgiving gift. John Travolta has officially sleighed the holidays. In what may be the best holiday commercial of 2025, the screen legend returns as Sa...
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Uber x Mother deliver an emotional father-daughter holiday reunion
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Uber x Mother deliver an emotional father-daughter holiday reunion

By Colin Costello Nov 25, 2025
Every so often, a holiday spot hits you square in the chest before you even realize what’s happening. Uber’s new Christmas film, Close, did that to me. I started watching i...
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Bradley Cooper takes on football’s tasty conspiracy for Uber Eats
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Bradley Cooper takes on football’s tasty conspiracy for Uber Eats

By Colin Costello Nov 23, 2025
Uber Eats is back with another deliciously unhinged chapter of its “Football Is for Food” campaign, and once again, Bradley "Go Birds" Cooper is the conspiracy theorist Ame...
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Cotton tees from Lisa Says Gah! deliver ultimate holiday clapbacks
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Cotton tees from Lisa Says Gah! deliver ultimate holiday clapbacks

By Colin Costello Nov 20, 2025
Let’s be honest: holiday dinner is a full-contact sport. You walk in hoping for sweet potato casserole and peace on Earth, but within five minutes, you’re being interrogate...
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ICYMI: The best ads of October
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ICYMI: The best ads of October

By Colin Costello Nov 15, 2025
October came in hot, weird, and wonderfully unhinged, precisely the way the ad gods intended. If September was the warm-up, October said, “Hold my beer… preferably Garage B...
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AFM 2025 rediscovers its swagger at the Fairmont
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AFM 2025 rediscovers its swagger at the Fairmont

By Colin Costello Nov 13, 2025
After several years of a pandemic, venue roulette and industry uncertainty, AFM’s return to Los Angeles feels, at long last, like a market with its confidence back. By mid-we...
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EA unites fans in global rally cry for Battlefield REDSEC
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EA unites fans in global rally cry for Battlefield REDSEC

By Colin Costello Nov 5, 2025
Electronic Arts (EA) and Mother Los Angeles have joined forces once again, this time for the launch of Battlefield REDSEC, the first-ever free-to-play entry in the iconic Battl...
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It’s Garage Beer x Jason Kelce vs The Predator in “Thermal Buzz”
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It’s Garage Beer x Jason Kelce vs The Predator in “Thermal Buzz”

By Colin Costello Oct 29, 2025
Sometimes, the best ads don’t just sell, they hunt. Garage Beer has teamed up with 20th Century Studios and Jason Kelce for Thermal Buzz, a tongue-in-cheek short film celebra...
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All the Best People Are Dogs according to Life360 campaign
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All the Best People Are Dogs according to Life360 campaign

By Colin Costello Oct 21, 2025
Who are we to argue - according to location-sharing maker, Life360, your dog is probably the best member of your family. Truth. More loyal than your cousin, less complicated ...
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IW Group has created an OzMazing spot for Lexus x Wicked
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IW Group has created an OzMazing spot for Lexus x Wicked

By Colin Costello Oct 14, 2025
Every holiday season brings a wave of movie tie-ins, but few feel as thoughtfully engineered as Lexus’ reunion with Universal for Wicked: For Good. The anchor :30, “Magic i...
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Six Flags puts a stake in Halloween with terrifying short
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Six Flags puts a stake in Halloween with terrifying short

By Colin Costello Oct 1, 2025
Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is putting a stake in Halloween, the crown jewel of theme park entertainment, because no other destination or holiday delivers more screams. La...
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Xfinity shocks new life back into Frankenstein
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Xfinity shocks new life back into Frankenstein

By Colin Costello Sep 30, 2025
Comcast’s Xfinity is unveiling Imagine That, a new brand platform designed to showcase how its connectivity and entertainment products work together to make life simpler, saf...
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Eagles superfan, Bradley Cooper, tackles food conspiracy for Uber Eats
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Eagles superfan, Bradley Cooper, tackles food conspiracy for Uber Eats

By Colin Costello Sep 24, 2025
Football is back and so is Uber Eats' ridiculously funny conspiracy campaign starring one of Philadelphia’s proudest fans, Bradley Cooper. The Oscar-winning actor fronts the ...
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There’s a new Affleck in the Dunkin-verse—and it ain’t Ben
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There’s a new Affleck in the Dunkin-verse—and it ain’t Ben

By Colin Costello Sep 23, 2025
Move over, Batfleck. There’s a fresh Affleck grabbing screen time (and a coffee) at Dunkin’. Jen Affleck, the breakout from Hulu’s Secret Lives of Mormon Wives who went v...
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