MARKETING & BRAND COMMUNICATIONS

Find the Story.Then Make It.

Alex Zhong at the Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards

I plan marketing strategy and campaigns, then take them to market: positioning, product launches, brand partnerships, social, and messaging, down to the content that carries them. I've done it at Disney/ABC, for DJI Technology, and for partner brands including Amazon, Hyundai, and United.

Chicago/Midwest Emmys Crystal Pillar nominee · RTDNA national scholar · Work featured on ABC and PBS

Explore the work
400K+

units sold
DJI Neo launch

30M+

views
Guangzhou city brand film

10M+

views
Disney/ABC social content

120+

organizations
sponsor messaging

Both Sides of the Brief

Some marketers plan the work. Some make it. I do both.

I start with the market: the customers, what they want, what they ignore, and what competitors already offer. That becomes the insight, the positioning, and the plan for messaging, channels, timing, and partners. Then I carry it through launch, down to the content itself.

I know what makes people pay attention. My background in media taught me how media companies decide what runs, what holds attention past the first few seconds, and how a brand earns a place in the story instead of paying for an interruption.

Selected Work

01—05

01 — Product Launch

Product Marketing & Launch Communications

DJI Neo: selling a drone to people who weren’t shopping for one.

400K+ units in four months · Engadget’s camera of the year

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02 — Campaigns

Campaigns & Activations

Hyundai, Bud Billiken, F1 Arcade: sponsor campaigns.

Live on Chicago’s most-watched station to 145,000+ TV homes

View the campaigns

03 — Social Media

Social Media Strategy & Audience Engagement

Real-time content and creator partnerships for Disney/ABC.

10M+ views · 216K+ engagements

View the work

05 — Brand Storytelling

Brand Storytelling

Guangzhou, Forward: one train, one century, one city.

30M+ views

Watch the film

Recognition

Chicago/Midwest Emmys, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Crystal Pillar Nominee · One of two nominees in its category

RTDNA David Louie Scholarship

2026 national recipient, one of 12 nationwide

Columbia Journalism School Scholarship

The only undergraduate selected, 2025

AAJA Journalism Excellence Award

National recipient

SPJ Mark of Excellence Award

Midwest recipient

About

I’m a junior at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, majoring in journalism with a minor in Radio/Television/Film. I’ve interned at Disney/ABC and freelanced on product launches and brand films in the U.S. and China. I work in English and Chinese.