Nick Gallo

I made 35+ promos for Schitt’s Creek including Launch promos, episodics and season recaps. I collaborated with my promo team, the marketing team as well as the creators the show and made sure everyone was happy. This promo is a collection of Season 1 reviews from the press.

We have broadcasted thousands of live HQ Games. I edited this video to showcase the collaboration between partnerships and editorial along with the engineers that keep us running. Here you’ll find a collection of the celebrity guests that I have and some of the brands that I have creatively collaborated with.

During my 6 year stint at the Onion I worked with editors creating images to accompany Onion stories on web and print. I produced 10,000+ graphics for the satirical media company and managed graphics for multiple award winning books including #7 NYT Best seller Our Dumb World.

Big Brother After Dark is a 7-day-a-week 3-hour live broadcast on the Pop TV network. My mission was to create promotional + in-show content to keep viewers engaged and increase retention. The Orwell Games encouraged live viewers to tweet taking part in Hashtag Battles, Trivia, and Predictions. Every night, one of the most engaged viewers would be crowned Verified Night Owl Badges which awarded their tweets to show up live in-show.

This started as an interactive live mobile gameshow on the Hype app. A year after shutting down Hype and focusing on HQ, I decided to bring back Tool Talk in a weekly podcast format. Every episode has a guest and we test the knowledge of America’s hardware stores. If an unsuspecting game show contestant at the store can name the tool we are describing to them, they win a free pizza.

I lead up the production team creating hundreds of web videos and dozens of series. I produced/directed shoots and oversaw edits.

Hype is a live interactive video platform that I collaborated with the founders to create. It is a live production tool kit that explored the creation of hyper-interactive and immersive live content.

At Hype, I directed 50+ content creators guiding them to explore unique and engaging live show formats. NewsOne with Samm Todd was a multi-daily live broadcast aggregating what’s in the news.

For Air Max Day, Nike partnered with us to create the competition of a lifetime: Playing for $100,000 and something money can’t buy… EXCLUSIVE HQ AIR MAXES. I worked in collaboration with Nike’s creative team to design the sneakers as well as the immersive live in-app experience.

Director Alec Brownstein hired me to produce this comedy pilot. Bernie is a 300 year old Goblin in modern day. The pilot features Will Janowitz, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Matt Servitto & Abbi Jacobson.

This was created for John Legend’s reality a cappella show Sing It On. This promo was written, directed and casted by me for Pop TV network. It never made it to air due to song licensing rights but here it is in the flesh on my website.

In collaboration with marketing, my mission was to drive as many eyes to the premiere of New Kids On The Block’s Rock This Boat reality show. I distributed a 2-second clip of Donnie Wahlberg saying “Get on the boat” to 100 notable content creators on Vine, Twitter + Instagram. It resulted in 1000+ people organically creating memes with the clip as well as 9 Million+ views with Donnie telling people to “Get on the boat.”

In collaboration with Rhys Stover, we altered President Trump’s Weekly Address videos. The day the White House posted them, we would reproduce them with a surprising twist pertaining to his ear. After 2 months of creating them weekly, we were approached by Anne Horel to be showcased in her exhibit at the Palais De Toyko Museum in Paris.

The goal was to create a promo highlighting all of the movies that would appear on Network in the month of November. I wrote this song to create a unique showcasing these November on-air films.

The goal was to create a video to announcing that Tyra Banks will be hosting the Day Time Emmys. I wrote and directed this interrogation style script to achieve that in a non-traditional way.

This movie is iconic. There have been hundreds What About Bob promos made already so took it as an opportunity to do something a little different. I’d like to present to you Bob + Beethoven's 5th Symphony.

The marketing team sent in an RFP for 30 second Hautelook partnership promos. After revisions with marketing, the client and Schitt’s Creek creative team, this quirky promo with Dan Levy and Anne Frances is the final result.

We decided to use the month of October as an excuse to create some different types of promos. Everyone loves the classic Drama/Romance film Sleepless in Seattle. ‘Twas the Season to look at it in a different light with a promo that has a spooky twist.

This was created for John Legend’s reality a cappella show Sing It On. It was written and directed by me for the Pop TV network. The singers are from one of the show’s competing a cappella group and John was filmed on-location.

The goal was to create a promo highlighting all of the movies that would appear on Network in the month of October. Instead of a traditional horror promo we used this as an opportunity to create something attention grabbing, uplifting and scary all at the same time.

HQ Trivia has amassed 2.4 Million concurrent players and acquired $10 Million in Ad Revenue to date. As Head of Content Development I collaborated with the founders in creating this viral sensation. I have worked with brands like Nike, Google, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros., Sony and directed celebrity guests such as Dwayne Johnson, Elmo, Alicia Silverstone, Robert De Niro, Kevin Hart, John Mayer and Sting.

The goal was to create an elegant wrestling promo. Once we discovered this quote from wrestler turned politician Jesse Ventura it became very clear on how to achieve that. This promo was paired with classical music to marry the elegance of choreography with the excitement in the ring.

Since the movie circulates around Bond defeating Le Chiffre at a game of Poker we decided to turn the promo into what looks to be a live World Series Poker match that you would see on TV. For an extra twist the announcers commentating the poker match continuously drop previous names of Bond films. Spoiler: BOND WINS.

I joined the TV Guide Network 2 months before they rebranded to Pop TV. This Brand sizzle was created in collaboration with many leads and the goal was to expose a fresher vibe then it’s current one at TVGN. The voice and content of the rebrand was driven through the inclusive idea that “We’re fans too."

Have you dreamed about what it would be like to overhear someone calling Richard Gere and greeting him by saying “Yo Richard Gere”? Dream no further because it becomes a reality in this fun mashup promo of 2 Richard Gere movies back to back.

To create viral buzz of John Legend’s a cappella competition show launch I created a national callout of people for videos signing Meghan Trainor’s “Like i’m gonna lose you”. This video is a collection of hundreds of submissions edited into a supercut as a Nationwide celebration of a cappella. To create even more buzz, I commissioned viral sensation Us The Duo to join in the supercut and share on their social platforms.

When you’re re-airing a show that has existed previously on other networks, it’s important to promo it with something fresh and captivating. This promo checks all the boxes for me. Not only does it make me want to watch the show but it makes me want to rewatch the promo.

I had the honor of accepting the People’s Voice Award for Humor Speech on behalf of the Onion. This is my 5 word acceptance speech.