SMUGGLER

Shots: “The AICP announced the full roster for the Curatorial Committee for the 2025 AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the Commercial. The committee, representing a lineup of experts from a cross-section of the industry, will gather this spring under the leadership of AICP Show Chairperson Patrick Milling-Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of SMUGGLER.”

Shots: “In collaboration with TBWA\Media Arts Lab, SMUGGLER’s C Prinz directs a cinematic promo shot entirely on the iPhone 16…

DGA: “Ivan Zachariáš receives an Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials award nomination from DGA for his film “Flock” for Apple.”

Campaign: “Lucy Forbes is Campaign’s Director of the Year. Her standout work “Never Just a Period” for Libresse and “Sweet Suspicion” for Waitrose, both secured spots in Campaign’s Top 10 Film List for 2024.”

Deadline: “SMUGGLER Entertainment’s ‘Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend’ has been nominated for Outstanding Sports Program by the Producers Guild Awards.”

Deadline: “Headquartered in Miami and LA and named after the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner’s Argentina hometown, 525 Rosario was formed as a JV with Smuggler Entertainment (Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend and Messi Meets America), operating under the supervision of the Messi family, with Smuggler’s Tim Pastore as CEO.”

SHOOTonline: “Patrick Milling-Smith, co-founder and CEO of SMUGGLER, and James Razzall, U.S. president, integrated advertising, of Framestore, have been named chairpersons of the 2025 AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the Commercial, and the 2025 AICP Post Awards, respectively.”

SHOOTonline: “Apple’s holiday ad–’Heartstrings,’ directed by Henry-Alex Rubin, introduces us to a father with mild-moderate hearing loss. But thanks to the clinical grade Hearing Aid feature on AirPods Pro 2, he can now hear his daughter playing the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young classic ‘Our House’ on her new guitar, just unwrapped on Christmas morning.”

The Drum: “The Christmas spot directed by Tom Speers looks back at these last four decades and highlights that while technology has changed – from brick phones to smartphones – the feeling of speaking with friends and family during the festive season remains the same.”