
Nike FuelBand
Built and managed a large content operation for Nike FuelBand — 60+ events in 90 days across New York City, editorial storytelling, and the first public use of real Nike+ activity data as a creative medium.
Nike FuelBand was Nike’s first real bet on wearable technology — a bracelet that tracked movement, converted it to a universal metric called NikeFuel, and turned physical activity into a social currency. Our job was to make that currency feel valuable. Not through advertising, but through culture.
We built and managed a content team that produced over 60 events in 90 days across New York City. Street activations, pop-up fitness challenges, community runs, studio sessions — each one designed to generate authentic content that could feed back into Nike’s digital channels. The editorial team embedded with athletes, trainers, and everyday New Yorkers, producing photography and video that treated movement as subject matter worthy of real visual attention.
The “Rise and Shine” data visualization was the conceptual centerpiece: a real-time map of NYC showing NikeFuel activity across all five boroughs, animated from dawn through morning. It was the first public use of real Nike+ data in a marketing context — not simulated, not illustrative, but actual human movement rendered as light on a dark map. Staten Island waking up. Manhattan already at it. The Bronx hitting its stride. The piece turned quantified self data into something that looked like a city breathing.
The project demonstrated something that would become central to the next decade of marketing: that the most compelling branded content isn’t content about a product, but content that uses the product’s unique capabilities as a creative tool. The FuelBand was the camera. The city was the subject. We just pointed it in the right direction.

