Integrated Marketing · Sponsorship & Experiential · AI-Enabled Strategy

SydneyCodrington

I build B2B campaigns that put brands on the biggest stages in the world — from the Las Vegas Sphere to the NASCAR grid — and turn attention into pipeline.

Senior Manager, Marketing Activation — Verizon Business NYC / NJ Metro MBA, Marketing

The Story So Far

Ch. 01 — Career
Now

Verizon Business

Senior Manager, Marketing Activation

Owner of B2B channel strategy across paid social, programmatic, display, and experiential — and of the messaging frameworks underneath it, building the strategic architecture that translates complex enterprise solutions into value-driven storytelling that moves leads down the funnel. Leads sports sponsorship activation strategy for the NHL and NASCAR, marketing for enterprise verticals including manufacturing and distribution, and Public Sector marketing spanning Federal and Verizon Frontline, plus channel activation for an AI agent partnership launch.

Selected Creative

Verizon Business paid social ad: No blind spots, from shelf to shipment
Distribution vertical — paid social
Verizon Business paid social ad: Boost your OEE
Manufacturing vertical — paid social
Verizon Business display ad: Cut production inefficiencies, gain more control
Manufacturing vertical — display
Verizon Frontline video creative: Before the call. Through the response. Beyond the recovery.
Verizon Frontline — video creative · Watch on Instagram
Verizon Frontline FirstLap at Homestead-Miami with Joey Logano
FirstLap — Homestead-Miami ft. Joey Logano · Watch on Instagram
Verizon Frontline FirstLap at the Brickyard 400, celebrating first responders
FirstLap — Brickyard 400 · Watch on Instagram
$15M
Pipeline influenced
Before

Marriott International

Digital Merchandising — Loyalty & Travel

Drove digital merchandising strategy for one of the world's largest loyalty programs, leading a three-person team across operations and campaign management to grow membership at scale — with marquee moments including Marriott Bonvoy's Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour touring sponsorship and the MGM Resorts portfolio partnership.

Selected Creative

Marriott Bonvoy touring sponsorship creative for Taylor Swift The Eras Tour
Marriott Bonvoy × The Eras Tour — touring sponsor
MGM Resorts and Marriott International partnership announcement over the Las Vegas skyline
MGM Resorts × Marriott International partnership
85%
Loyalty enrollment increase
Before

UBS & T. Rowe Price

Digital Experience — Financial Services

Sharpened digital experience and content strategy inside two of the most regulated, detail-obsessed categories in marketing — where precision, compliance, and clarity are the price of entry.

2
Global financial brands
The Start

BBDO Worldwide

Account Management — ExxonMobil

Agency-side foundations on a flagship global account: integrated campaign delivery, client leadership, and a loyalty app campaign that proved marketing could move adoption numbers, not just impressions.

Selected Creative

ExxonMobil campaign film — BBDO Worldwide
ExxonMobil — campaign film · Watch
ExxonMobil Rewards+ CRM email: Download, fill up, cash in — 500 bonus points app download offer
ExxonMobil Rewards+ — app download CRM
48%
App download increase

The Marquee Work

Ch. 02 — Sponsorship & Experiential

Public Sector · Experiential

The Sphere

Activation strategy for Verizon Frontline at the most talked-about venue in live entertainment — tiered strategic windows, earned media moments, and a month-long narrative arc around a marquee takeover.

Motorsport · Partnership

NASCAR × Team Penske

B2B channel activation around Team Penske and Joey Logano — translating race-day equity into enterprise brand awareness and demand.

League · Competitive Intel

NHL & Beyond

League-level sponsorship activation plus a full competitive analysis of AT&T and T-Mobile sponsorship portfolios across golf, tennis, NFL, motorsports, and soccer — turning the landscape into strategy.

The AI Practice

Ch. 03 — Practitioner · Launcher

Most marketers talk about AI. I use it daily and have launched it publicly — the operator's view and the campaigner's view at once.

  • PractitionerA daily AI-powered research and production workflow built on Claude, Gemini, and NotebookLM — from executive briefings to campaign development and competitive analysis.
  • LauncherChannel activation for Verizon's AI agent partnership launch: 2.9M impressions at a 32% CTR.
  • AppliedAI-assisted strategy across live portfolios — sponsorship competitive intelligence, vertical campaign planning for manufacturing and distribution, and Public Sector activation calendars.

Case Studies

Ch. 04 — Proof

Brand Architecture & Message House

Verizon Business

Messaging for Verizon Business lived in too many places at once — product, vertical, and campaign teams each writing their own version of the story, with no agreed hierarchy underneath it. Built the brand architecture and message house: a single source of truth defining the top-line narrative, the proof beneath it, and how each audience and vertical ladders up — maintained and governed through Slides, so every request routed to one framework instead of a new deck. The outcome was alignment before launch rather than reconciliation after it: leadership signed off on one narrative, full-funnel creative was briefed from the framework, and Sales was equipped with use cases drawn from the same language the campaigns ran on.

1Source of truth, replacing scattered messaging
FullFunnel creative briefed from the framework
SalesEquipped with aligned use cases

AI Agent Partnership Launch

Verizon Business

Owned channel strategy for a first-of-its-kind AI agent partnership launch — orchestrating paid social, programmatic, and display against an enterprise audience that is famously hard to move. The result: breakout engagement well above category benchmarks and a measurable lift in brand perception.

2.9MImpressions
32%Click-through rate
35%Brand awareness lift

Frontline: Provider to Partner

Verizon Business

Verizon Frontline faced immense pressure from telecom competitors fighting for the first responder market. Drove the messaging strategy across the 2025 and 2026 Frontline campaigns, driving brand preference and consideration for Frontline's solutions and support. The 2025 campaign centered on network capabilities and positioned Verizon Frontline as a partner rather than a provider, emphasizing an unwavering commitment to first responders. The 2026 campaign shifted to championing the solutions themselves — and how they resolve the pain points customers face in the field. Under the Frontline umbrella, also led the NASCAR sponsorship activation, developing strategies that drove leads, brand affinity, and recognition across multiple audiences.

105%Increase in reach, Q3 to Q4
62%Ad appeal
9%Improvement in quality visits
85%Increase in marketing-owned lead rate

Marriott Bonvoy × The Eras Tour

Marriott International

Marriott signed on as an official sponsor of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour — a global tour spanning multiple regions, which meant a seamless digital experience across staggered launch dates matched to the tour schedule and localized languages for every fan, anywhere in the world. Owned campaign delivery end to end: every asset created to spec, launched on time with the correct URL, shipped and trafficked — managing stakeholders across creative, dev, QA, and operations to protect a seamless experience for Bonvoy members. The campaign did two things at once: drove Bonvoy loyalty registrations and amplified one of the biggest musical tours on the planet.

85%Increase in loyalty enrollments
4Stakeholder teams orchestrated

Loyalty Program Refresh

BBDO · ExxonMobil

With gas prices running well above normal, ExxonMobil needed its rewards program to work harder — re-engaging current members, activating dormant ones, and winning new registrations while driving loyalty app downloads and usage. Led multi-channel strategy and asset trafficking across programmatic, paid social, search, SEO, SMS, push, and CTV, activating on cultural moments and the consumer day-to-day, with loyalty and commerce partnership integrations across Walmart and AARP.

48%Increase in app downloads
42%Growth in registrations
7Channels orchestrated