Lollipop is an interactive creative production company

While we work in whatever way is right for the agency, generally it looks something like this: the agency owns the client relationship, strategy and idea. We help them figure out how to bring the idea to life in the interactive world. That could range from creating a treatment and shooting content to fleshing out and building a core idea into a fully functional interactive experience.

To get there, Lollipop provides interactive direction, full-service production management, design, animation, web and app development services.

We also think it’s pretty important to mention that we come from the agency side of the business; so we understand how agencies work and what their needs are from a production partner (read: level of service is really, really important). Our goal is to make the process as enjoyable and un-complicated as we possibly can.

 

Partners

 

Amanda Loughran, Executive Producer

People call me Executive Producer at Lollipop. Please think of me as someone who produces more, and is a stuffy executive less, or hopefully not at all. But someone had to take the title and Michael, being the focused super-talented creative he is, sure wasn’t about to have anything to do with it.

As the producer side of Lollipop my job is to make things happen. So I make budgets. I make schedules. I organize talent and I organize our team. Whatever it takes, I do it. If we’re being one hundred percent honest here, sometimes I find someone else to do it. But the point is it gets done, and not by you. So if you have an idea for a website that requires online videos shot in the old KGB offices in Belarus that get pushed out to a mobile site using QR codes scanned from posters with photography shot in Iqualuit that gets posted to a brand page on Flickr, no worries, I can make all that happen.

I’ve been making things happen my whole career at various leading agencies on both the traditional and interactive side for some great clients. So I’ve had a hand in a lot of great, award-winning, successful campaigns. Which makes me feel good.

 

Michael Gramlow, Creative Director

I work with agency creatives to help figure out how to make an idea live, breathe and sing in the digital world. Sometimes I direct content. Sometimes I oversee the art direction and design of a project. Basically I lead projects from the creative production side of things to make sure the agency and their clients get more than they’ve imagined.

I’ve worked as a CD at places like Organic in San Francisco and Dentsu in Toronto. And I’ve worked on some pretty great brands Nike, Toyota, Mercedes Benz, Levis, Sony PlayStation (to name a few). To see some of my past work and awards, take a look here.

 

Tim Scollick, Director of Technology

Fifteen years ago I wanted to make my own website and surprised myself (and my parents) by actually figuring out how to do it. Then I wanted to do it again. A few years went by and I found myself sitting at digital agencies making websites for some of the world’s biggest brands, including BMW, Chrysler, Citibank and Coca-Cola.

That was a lot of fun until I figured out that people would actually pay me directly to help them do exactly the same thing. So for a while I helped some friends at small shops do some great work. My favourite of those shops was Lollipop. And after a while it made more sense to actually show up there every day to help them make cool stuff, so that’s what I do now. Lollipop’s clients like to make fancy sites with video and animation and HTML5 and databases and iPhone apps and other complicated things. And somehow I know how to do all of that.