Fred & Farid Group

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FF
Company type Private
Industry Advertising
FoundedJanuary 9, 2007
Headquarters Los Angeles, United States
Number of locations
4: Los Angeles, New York City, Shanghai, Paris
Area served
Global
Key people
Frédéric Raillard, Farid Mokart
Number of employees
150
Website www.ffcreative.com

FF Agency

FF is an independent international boutique network (Advertising firm) with offices [1] Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai and Paris founded by Fred Raillard and Farid Mokart in 2007. [2] It employs around 300 people. [3]

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Fred & Farid also provides investments via Fred & Farid Digital Investment Fund (FFDIF) [4]

Raillard and Mokart had worked as partners beginning in 2000. In 2007 they launched their own independent company. [5]

History

Frederic Raillard and Farid Mokart were both raised in the Paris suburbs, Raillard from a Breton and a Parisian family, Mokart from an Algerian and Kabyle family. After studying respectively design and political science (Sciences Po), Raillard and Mokart started as strategic planner and account manager at Euro RSCG BTC in Paris. [6] They decided to team up and moved to the creative side, working consecutively for 6 major agencies in Paris as creative directors. [7]

Their first project was for start-up Aucland.com, a French online auction site. [8] In 2000, Fred & Farid created the musical video for British Pop Star Robbie Williams "Rock DJ". [9] [10]

FF (formerly Fred & Farid) is an independent creative agency of 100+ people Archived 20 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine . They produced campaigns for brands like Air France, [11] Audemars Piguet, [12] Audi, [13] [14] Coca-Cola, Diesel, [15] Giorgio Armani, [16] Google, [17] Guerlain, [18] HP, [19] Lacoste, [20] Louis XIII, [21] Martini, [22] Orangina, [23] Porsche, [24] Saint Laurent, [25] Schweppes, [26] Societe Generale, [27] Tmall, [28] Vivo, [29] Wrangler. [30]

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  15. "Diesel puts responsive web design to the test using a contortionist".
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  21. "A Cognac Brand Just Made a John Malkovich Film That No One Will See for 100 Years". 20 November 2015.
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  26. "Schweppes, inattendue Penelope". 3 April 2014.
  27. "La Société Générale surprend le XV de France avec des tweets en 4×3".
  28. "Fred & Farid Crams All 21 of Your Favorite Taglines into One Alibaba Spot". 15 November 2016.
  29. "Une campagne Vivo avec Stephen Curry signée FRED & FARID Shanghai". 4 April 2017.
  30. "Wrangler in hunt for European ad agency".