Michael J Webdell has over 30 years of experience in the advertising, media, and entertainment industries in the United States and Asia. His agency, Michael J Webdell, LLC., was founded in 2019. At the agency, they focus on connecting businesses with customers through legacy and digital advertising, public relations, and media production.

 

In the five years since the agency’s inception, Michael J Webdell has been awarded 16 awards for animation, original music, and advertising from the Telly Awards and Communicator Awards. Michael J Webdell was personally nominated for Best Photographer in Chicago in the Chicago Reader’s 2023 Best of Chicago.

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“Most small- to medium-sized businesses don’t have the budget to just brand. Branding has to happen while you're selling your products and services. Customers need to know why they should buy. Michael J Webdell tells them why,” said Michael.

 

Before launching his agency, Michael was a partner for 12 years in an agency called American Mass Media. There he and Jason Hervey of Bischoff Hervey Entertainment turned his client, Royal Pawn Chicago, into the hit reality series Hardcore Pawn: Chicago. The show was the biggest series premiere in truTV history and was regularly in the top 100 cable shows, achieving ratings of over 2.3 million people per episode.

 

Other notable clients that Michael has served include Washburn Guitars, Northwestern University, Mancow Muller, Ford Motor Company, Philip-Morris, MTV Asia, The Vrdolyak Law Group, Papa Charlie’s Italian Beef, Purdue University Acacia, Paul Vallas for Mayor of Chicago, Haymarket Beer Company, and Robert Fleischman (former lead singer of Journey and The Vinnie Vincent Invasion. Writer of the hits Wheel in the Sky and Anytime for Journey).

 

Michael J Webdell is a 1996 Cum Laude graduate of Butler University. He also attended The University of Technology in Sydney, Australia where he studied film and animation.