Positioning starts with purpose.

I'm Pepe Leyton, a creative director who has spent over 20 years helping brands put what they stand for into words. I turn those words into a story people remember. That story becomes the brief for everything else.

  • Cartoon Network
  • Warner Channel
  • TNT
  • TNT Sports
  • Space
  • Ministry of Environment, Ecuador
  • Premios Verdes
  • WELL'COM Group
  • V.O2
  • Ecometro
  • HCL Software

Work

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How I work

One mirror only shows us from the front. Yet we trust that image as the truth. A three-way mirror in a fitting room lets you see yourself from the side and from behind: the bed head you missed at the back, the shoulder that sits a little lower. Founders and leadership teams rarely get that view of their own company. That's where I start.

  1. 01Mirror Sessions

    This is how I like to start. I put clients in front of mirrors they've never stood in front of, or haven't in a long time, so they can see their own brand from angles they'd missed. Then we go through what they found and look for patterns.

  2. 02Brand Story Guide

    You're a stranger until people know your story. So we write it down: where the brand comes from, where it's going and what it stands for. Then come the pillars, the voice, and examples of how it speaks.

  3. 03Brand Style Guide

    With the story in place, we work on how the brand looks. Sometimes that means a full rebuild. Sometimes three small changes, or none at all. Whatever we change has to serve what the brand needs to say.

  4. 04Campaigns and content

    This is where the brand starts talking: launch campaigns, events, monthly social content, a single video. I can bring in a team, work with yours, or do it myself, depending on the job. Every piece starts from the story.

Story before style. Style before content.

What I do

I can direct your team. I can build one for you, with freelancers chosen for the project. Or I can join as your external creative director, for as long as you need.

AI

Do I use it? Yes. Do clients get to choose? Also yes. Last year a client wanted a human voice for all their videos, on social and in the app. We cast a voice talent in Atlanta, and no AI voice would have done it better.

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I use it every day to research, test ideas, write, and make images, video and voiceovers. It makes the work easier and helps me raise the quality of what I deliver. It also makes it easier for every brand to end up sounding the same. That's why I built the Six Finger Filter: it uses AI to catch writing that sounds like AI, so neither my voice nor the brand's gets lost. And that's why the story comes first. With it, AI works for the brand instead of diluting it. Try the filter or download the skill at sixfingers.leytonlab.io.

Me

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I'm Pepe. I started as a copywriter in Buenos Aires and later in Santiago de Chile, at agencies like Leo Burnett, Publicis and Y&R. Then I spent 13 years at Turner, in Atlanta and Buenos Aires: first at Cartoon Network as creative manager, then as creative director of the Turner Broadcasting Latin America In-House Agency, and finally leading the creative for TNT, Warner Channel, TNT Series and TNT Sports, where I built the creative services team from the ground up for its launch in Latin America. Most of the teams I led, I either built or rebuilt. The work got better as soon as people trusted their own instincts again.

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After Turner, I became a partner at Felicidad Collective, working with brands and organisations on sustainability. Purpose had always been at the centre of my work. At Felicidad it was easier to put it first, because the brands we worked with knew theirs, and it went beyond what they sold.

I've lived and worked in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, the US and Portugal. Today, from Setúbal, I work with teams across Europe, the US and Latin America, and I still learn something from every one of them.

  • Creatives for Climate Ambassador in Portugal
  • Clean Creatives Team Lead, Iberia

Every brand has angles it's never seen. That's usually where it grows. Start here.

Contact

Your story should work as hard as the rest of your business. Thinking about revisiting yours? Let's talk. I usually reply within a day.

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Not sure where to start? Book a 30-minute call and we'll look for one together.