During my time at General Mills, I was placed on the Gushers, Fruit by the Foot, and Fruit Roll Up brands. My favorite brand was, by and large, Gushers. We focused on targeting our teen demographic by exclusively creating memes. This was a very new concept for GM and after seeing our success, many brands followed suit.

When I joined the team, the Gushers instagram page was hovering around 12k and when I left, two years later, it had grown to 155k organically. The brand finally became profitable in the first year of social media marketing with little to no external advertising.

Our 4-person team was run by Kaylee Pohlmeyer (Senior Marketing Planner), Ashley Berset (Social Community Manager & Strategist), John Meilner (fellow designer) and myself.

After the advent of Instagram Stickers, I took the initiative to create a Giphy profile for Gushers. It seemed only fitting for an iconic brand like ours to be in the mix. Within the first week, several of our gifs had made it to the trending page. By the end of my time on the team, our Giphy views had reached 635.6 million organically. The gifs you see above were all created by me.