Mike Ladman

Since joining Droga5 in 2016, Mike Ladman founded and developed its music department, managing music and audio capabilities across the agency and client roster. During this time, Mike has helped lead the agency to win over 100 music and advertising industry awards, notably one sports Emmy, five Cannes Lions, two D&AD Pencils, four Clios, including the Grand Music Clio, 12 AMP awards, including Best In Show, and two Guild Of Music Supervisor Awards, among others, across Droga5 clients such as Google, The New York Times, Meta, GM, Xbox, Hennessy, Levi’s and others. He has created and supervised music across global campaigns including work for the Super Bowl, Olympics, Grammy’s, Oscar’s, Emmy’s, and presidential elections.  In 2018, Mike was named one of Billboard’s Top Branding Power Players. He has been an international music delegate around the world at music festivals and conferences in Denmark, Amsterdam, Israel, Brazil, Mallorca and more. Prior to joining Droga5, he was a music producer at McCann for nearly seven years, where he provided music for clients such as Microsoft, the United States Army, Verizon, MasterCard and more across the agency’s roster. Mike received his first film credit managing the music supervision for an indie film, Tracktown, which premiered at the LA Film Festival in 2016. In his free time, he DJs under the alias DJ PuppyHiccups and produces music under many aliases with lots of collaborators and has had his music placed in White Lotus and Etoille.

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