About me
Christie Allport joined Huge as Vice President of Global Communications. In her role, Allport leads the agency’s global communications, where she advances global connectivity and communications across all 12 offices, while externally and internally elevating awareness of the agency’s vision, transformative work, and extraordinary talent. Allport reports directly to Global CEO Michaeal Koziol.
Previously, Allport held the title of Director of Communications at DDB, where for over six years she led the agency's strategic internal and external PR programs, working alongside clients such as McDonald’s, State Farm, Mars, FCA, and others. During her time with the agency, she was responsible for the communications program that launched, “We Are Unlimited,” partnered with the agency’s teams to bring home multiple awards for Skittles (Super Bowl, “Exclusive the Rainbow”), McDonald’s (International Women’s Day, “Flip”) including 16 Lions (3 Gold) at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2018, as well as launched of the agency’s diversity and inclusion platforms, “Talent Has No Gender” and “Pride in Talent.”
Prior to DDB, she worked with agencies such as MEC, Publicis USA and McKinney, to achieve global recognition through strategic communications. Allport worked in partnership to bring home top awards at the leading industry shows such as Cannes, Andys, CLIOs, One Show, D&AD, and more.
She is actively involved in the industry, including serving on the 4A's Communications Committee.
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Positions
Director of Agency Communications, reporting to DDB Worldwide's CEO
Responsible for shaping DDB’s narrative across 17 North American agencies and 2,000+ employees, as well as managing DDB’s global conversation in 100 countries.
• Managed the communications roll-out of “DDB Flex” – an operating model that creates bespoke, cross-agency, integrated teams based on clients' businesses
• Led the communications plan for the launch of We Are Unlimited, McDonald’s dedicated agency, building executive profiles and the “Agency of the Future” conversation
• Formed DDB North America’s internal board, Better by Half, creating the agency’s Worldwide “Talent Has No Gender” campaign in honor of International Women's Day. The program led to the roll-out of DDB’s D&I programs like “Pride in Talent.”
• Secured DDB/NY’s client Wildlife Conservation Film Festival, taking home the agency’s first Cannes Lions under new leadership team
