"Create an environment where you're free to express what you're afraid to express."

— Rick Rubin

Senior Creative Strategist
Milano, IT — 2025
Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin

Alessandro Pasquarelli — Senior Creative Strategist

"Create an environment where you're free to express what you're afraid to express."

— Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Senior Creative Strategist working at the intersection of platform behavior, cultural fluency, and brand thinking. I build content ecosystems — not campaigns that peak once and disappear.

TikTok-first strategy & execution
Format architecture & content systems
Creator direction & brand ecosystems
Selected Work
01
MySecretCase

MySecretCase

A product drop that didn't look like marketing — 8.3M views, 30K units gone in hours.

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02
Campari

Campari

Turned Design Week from event recap to urban discovery — 5 sold-out events.

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03
TicketOne

TicketOne

Turned a ticketing brand into an entertainment format people actually watch.

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04
Lancia

Lancia

Rebuilt the brand's platform presence through a multi-creator content ecosystem.

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05
Coop Alleanza 3.0

Coop Alleanza 3.0

Grew a retail brand's TikTok from zero to community — format by format.

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06
WWF Italia

WWF Italia

Made environmental urgency feel immediate — not educational.

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// real talk from the field scroll for actual work ↓
me reading a brief that says "make it relatable"
with a 72hr deadline
client: "can you make it more viral?"
me internally 💀
the algorithm calling
at 11pm on a Sunday
brands showing up on TikTok
with a 60s ad in 2025
Case Studies
Case 01
MySecret
Case
× Tony Effe
8.3M
Views
hero video
30K
Units sold
in a few hours
100s
Organic reposts
no paid push
Role
Concept originator — drove the creative direction from initial insight to final execution across product, content, and distribution
Context

Launching a new album in a saturated landscape where collaborations are predictable by design. The brief wasn't "make noise" — it was "be the noise."

Insight

If a collab looks like marketing, people scroll past it. If it behaves like culture, they send it.

Strategy

Lead with the product, not the artist. Make Vibratony the cultural object — Tony Effe the proof it's real. Build around memeability and repost mechanics from the start, not as an afterthought.

Content System
Product as the narrative triggerArtist voice embedded in conceptEngineered for memeabilityRepost-first mechanics
Content
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@one.artist_mag
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@trap.pola777
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@mysecretcase
Next Step

Turn this into a model — recurring product drops built around cultural moments, not release calendars.

Case 02
Campari
× Milano Design Week
5+
Events
all sold out
3
Creator-led
location stories
Role
Strategic lead & creator director — identified the platform insight, defined the creator brief, and oversaw content production end-to-end
Context

Design Week is content season for every brand in Milan. The result: a flood of visually identical posts that nobody remembers by Monday.

Insight

People don't engage with events. They engage with places they wish they'd found first.

Strategy

Reframe the creator's role entirely — not brand ambassador, but urban scout. The content becomes a FOMO machine. You don't recap an event, you make people feel like they missed something specific.

Content System
Hidden & unexpected locationsFirst-person discovery POVFOMO-first narrative structure
Content
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@ginevradberetta
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@biancuxz
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@milanohafame
Case 03
TicketOne
× Wladi
Role
Format architect — designed the repeatable content structure, selected the creative partner, and built the production logic from scratch
Context

Ticketing content has one job: inform. The problem is that informing doesn't build an audience. It builds a mailing list.

Insight

Events are forgettable. Formats are not.

Strategy

Use nostalgia and recognizable structure to build a format people return to — not because of the event being promoted, but because of the format itself.

Content System
Signature repeatable structureNostalgia as the hookFormat loyalty over event loyalty
Content
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@ticketone
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@ticketone
Case 04
Lancia
Brand Relaunch
4 creators
4 distinct narratives, one brand universe
Paid reach
Significant distribution — organic seeding focus
Role
Creator ecosystem lead — owned the full creator selection process, defined each narrative angle, and aligned the content strategy with the brand relaunch positioning
Context

A legacy brand relaunching into a world that didn't ask for it. The risk: the relaunch looks like an internal decision dressed up as a cultural moment.

Insight

Modern luxury isn't about status. It's about access to a world you want to belong to.

Strategy

Give the brand multiple entry points through creators who each represent a different door into the same universe. No single ambassador — a constellation of perspectives, unified by the same aesthetic logic.

Content System
One brand, multiple POVsCreator as entry point, not megaphoneAesthetic coherence over message uniformity
Content
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@lancia_global
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@lancia_global
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@lancia_global
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@lancia_global
Case 05
Coop
Alleanza
3.0
Always-on TikTok
+28K
Followers
in 12 months
Consistent growth
Views varied by format — trend with recurring peaks
Role
Channel strategist & content lead — built the always-on system from zero, defined the format logic, and managed production cadence across 12 months
Context

Retail and TikTok don't have a natural relationship. Product shots, price tags, promotional logic — none of it works on a platform built for entertainment. Most brands try anyway and wonder why nobody watches.

Insight

Routine can become entertainment — if you stop treating it as information.

Strategy

Shift the entire content logic from "what we sell" to "what we know." Build recurring formats with recognizable structures — so the audience comes back for the format, not just the content.

Content System
Format-first production logicPlatform-native tone of voiceConsistency over peaks
Content
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@coopalleanza_30
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@coopalleanza_30
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@coopalleanza_30
Case 06
WWF
Italia
Awareness Campaign
Role
Strategic contributor — platform translation and message simplification, making complex environmental topics feel urgent without losing their depth
Context

Environmental communication is stuck in a paradox: the more important the topic, the more dense and inaccessible the content. The audience that most needs to engage, doesn't.

Insight

People share emotions, not information. Make them feel it before they understand it.

Strategy

Strip the message down to its emotional core. Complexity is the enemy of shareability — not the signal of credibility.

Content
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@wwfitalia
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@wwfitalia
and the channel just grows 🌱
How I Think
On systems

Content doesn't scale. Systems do.

01
On trends

Trends are raw material, not strategy.

02
On TikTok

Brands fail when they try to control instead of participate.

03
On who does this job well

The best content people are culture consumers first. Professionals second.

04
Systems & Frameworks
T
Trend → Format Translation
01Cultural signal detection
02Brand relevance filter
03Format hypothesis
04Platform-native adaptation
05Test & measure
06Serialize or kill
P
Content Pillar Architecture
Amplification — reach & attention
Narration — identity & depth
Participation — community activation
Conversion — intent & action
G
Channel Growth Flywheel
01Format win → replication
02Replication → channel identity
03Identity → audience signal
04Signal → creator interest
05Creators → organic reach
06Reach → new format wins
Alessandro Pasquarelli
Hi, it's me! Sandro. ✌️
About

Not a strategist who learned the internet.
I grew up in it.

I've been online long enough to remember when going viral was an accident. Now I get paid to make it a system. My background isn't a pivot or a reinvention — I've always been in this space, just getting sharper at it.

My thinking is shaped less by industry frameworks and more by being a compulsive consumer of internet culture — memes, gaming, niche communities, whatever is actually moving on TikTok right now. That's not a personality quirk. That's the job.

I believe the best people in this field are culture-first, professional second. You can't reverse-engineer genuine cultural fluency from a trend report. You either have the instinct or you don't.

8.3M
Views, single organic video
+28K
Followers in 12 months
6
Brands across 5 categories
→ HOC
Head of Content. Next move.
If it needs
to scale,
let's talk.
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