Kofi Lost: Ghanaian-American Multi-Disciplinary Artist.

Creative Copywriter at Translation

[Google]: Year in Search (2020)

Credits
Google Brand Studio
Words/Narration: Kofi Lost

Editor: Scott Butzer - Cabin
Editing Company Sound Design: John Bolen - Formosa

Group VFX/Color/Finish: Shape + Light

Original Music: Peter CottonTale - “Together” Featured Artists: Chicago Children’s Choir, Cynthia Erivo, and The Matt Jones (Re-Collective Orchestra)

Google once again returned to deliver its end of year recap for the year’s most popular searches. In the midst of one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, Google joined forces with artists Peter Cottontale, Chance the Rapper, Cynthia Erivo, and poet Kofi Lost to deliver the first Year in Search film to feature a narrator/voiceover artist.

The film was punctuated with a performance its original song “Together” on the Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert

Awards/Press:

The Webby Awards
People's Voice Winner:
Websites and Mobile Sites
Best Individual Editorial Feature - Ind/Brand/Org

Boston Globe
Article by Natachi Onwuamaegbu

“Listen To Your Heart” features LeBron James, Lionel Messi, and Shohei Ohtani, three legendary athletes united by one thing: their hearts. Despite immense pressure, their hearts remain steady, guiding them through challenges and championships. Narrated by the iconic RZA, the film highlights their unshakable calm in the most intense moments. This campaign encourages athletes to train harder and listen to their bodies, with Powerbeats Pro 2 heart rate monitoring technology to track and improve performance


Awards:
The Clios 2025

  • Gold, Film Craft, Sound Design

  • Bronze, Film Craft, Original Music


D&AD Awards 2025

  • Shortlist, Direction / Short Form


The One Club ADC Awards 2025

  • Silver, Craft in Motion / Film / Use of Music / Sound


SHOTS Americas Awards 2025

  • Gold, Sound Design

  • Silver, Use of Music (Original Composition)

  • Silver, Cinematography (Above 2 minutes)

  • Shortlist, Copywriting

  • Shortlist, Direction (from 61 seconds to 3 minutes)

  • Shortlist, Editing (from 61 seconds to 3 minutes)


2025 AICP Awards

  • Winner, Audio Mix Over 60 Seconds, Post Awards

  • Shortlist, Cinematography, Show Awards

  • Shortlist, Sound Design, Show Awards

  • Shortlist, Original Music, Show Awards

  • Shortlist, Dialogue/Monologue/Spoken Word, Post Awards


New York Festivals Advertising Awards

  • Finalist, Film Craft, Script/Copywriting

  • Finalist, Film Craft, Cinematography


Gerety Awards

  • Bronze, Craft Cut, Cinematography

  • Silver, Craft Cut, Copywriting.

[BEATS]: Listen to Your Heart

Credits
Director: Julien and Quinten
CCO: Jason Campbell
GCD: Castro Desroches
GCD: Steve Horn
CD: Maximillion G.
CD: Chris Mendez
SCW: Eyob Yirgou
AD: Kamiin Valree
CW: Kofi Lost

Beats by Dre Holiday Film:

Whether you’re 21 years into your career like LeBron James, or just 23 years old like Erling Haaland, for sports greatest stars, pressure doesn’t get in the way, its a fuel to keep going, and break records again and again and again.

[BEATS]: The King and the Viking

Credits
Director: Julien and Quinten
CCO: Jason Campbell
GCD: Castro Desroches
GCD:
Aryan Aminzadeh
SCW: Eyob Yirgou
AD:
Jordyn Silver
AD: Shrinidhi Vijay
CW: Kofi Lost

[WhatsApp]: The Game of Adetokunbo

Credits
Director: Miko Lim
CCO: Jason Campbell
CD: Steph Cajucom
CD:
Dennis Kung
CW: KS Shanti
AD:
Hailey Boerema
AD: Shrindhi Vijay
CW: Kofi Lost

Two cross cultural icons, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Hasan Minhaj, play a game of HORSE with an interesting twist.

We’ve seen the different looks of LeBron over the years – the superstar athlete, the leader, the champion. But we’ve never seen him as a father.

“Fatherhood” explores what being a parent means to LeBron, as he muses out loud about his oldest son, Bronny James. The fears, the joys, and everything in between he experienced as a dad, supported by never-seen-before footage from the James family archive.

Throughout our film, we see the growth of the two of them together, all wrapping up with a unique handshake between father and son — showing the strength of their bond.

AWARDS :
Clio Sports Awards
Short List 2023 – Direction - Film Craft

Clio Awards
Short List 2023 – Film - 31 seconds to 60 seconds

One Show Awards
Merit Short list = Television & VOD - 31 seconds to 60 seconds

15th Annual Shorty Awards
Winner in Storytelling
Finalist in Short Form Video

[BEATS]: Fatherhood

Credits
Director: Lance Acord
ECD: Jason Campbell
GCD: Castro Desroches
GCD: Aryan Aminzadeh
AD: Kevin Lu
CW:Karan Raikar
CW: Kofi Lost

[WhatsApp]: Hoopchat

For March Madness, we set out to bring the heat of basketball banter from the group chat to real life. To do it, we created the first-ever basketball fan sports desk: a full-on set where two lucky Midwestern group chats had the chance to take their hot takes, wild predictions, and trash talk to the big stage.

This campaign aimed to get fans to move their hoops chatter over to WhatsApp, a more private and secure way to talk smack. So we gave them a reason to make the switch — the chance to become the voice of their own mini sports network. Each winning group got a fully produced segment at our custom-built Fan Desk, complete with pro hosts, lights, cameras, and all the action. The result? Real friends. Real debates. Real madness.

It wasn’t just a campaign. It was the first time March Madness fans got to see themselves as the stars of the show. Big thanks to our incredible team for helping Kamiin and I bring our insane basketball superfan idea to life!

SOCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT & RECAP

In a social-first, Man-on-the-Street–style video, Filayyyy roamed the Big 12 Tournament asking fans

group chat–related questions. We also posted a hype reel summarizing the event, following the weekend

Event Setup:

In between our Hoopchat show segments, the space featured exclusive WhatsApp jerseys, basketballs, and phone chargers, along with a branded photo booth.

Inside the arena, we executed digital takeovers that appeared on ESPN broadcasts. Across 9 televised games,

the message reached ~7.1M viewers in total and averaged 794K per game.

Credits
Group Creative Directors:
Emmeli Osterdahl & Aryan Aminzadeh

Creatives:
Kamiin Valree, Kofi Lost, Hailey Boerema, Em Frederick

Editor & Content Capture:
JJ Tanaka

[McDonald’s]:
Let Me Put You On

The return of the McDonald’s Snack Wrap is all thanks to the persistence of fans begging the brand to bring back their beloved menu item. But here's the thing: there's a whole new generation of McDonald’s lovers too young to remember the Snack Wrap ever existed. So what better way to introduce it than through a trusted voice from the neighborhood who would never steer us wrong: Unc. And to bring him to life, we tapped Wee-Bey himself, Hassan Johnson from The Wire.


Credits
Director: Ray Smiling
CCO: Beto Fernandez
GCD: Castro Desroches
GCD: Aryan Aminzadeh
CW: Kofi Lost
AD:
Kamiin Valree

The Heist

Credits
Director & DP: Kamiin Valree
Written by: Devon Inman
Voiceover: Kofi Lost
Camera Op: Isaiah Pemberton
Styled by: Danny Saxon
Design and Motion Graphics: Kamiin Valree