Creative Copywriter & Brand Strategist

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Vika

I've always been a bit persistent about how I see things. When I was a kid, I used to write with my left hand whenever the grownups weren't looking, even though they tried to train it out of me.

That same persistence followed me into advertising. I spent over seven years at top creative agencies in Ukraine, working my way up from intern to Senior Copywriter. I would dig until I found the right insight, then rework the idea until it actually landed. I directed commercial shoots, won tenders for global brands, and briefed influencers on campaigns that ran across the country. My proudest moment: a Gold Effie for a campaign with literally zero budget. We turned a boring plastic bag ban into a national breakup drama. No paid media. Over a million people joined anyway.

I moved to the United States in 2022. Los Angeles first, where I created social media content for beauty brands and learned the American market up close. In 2025, New York, where I have been studying how people here discover brands, what makes them stop scrolling, and what makes them come back.

I am looking for a creative home in NYC where that instinct gets to meet a new audience.

Brand Strategy Copywriting Content Direction Campaign Development Influencer Strategy Social Content

Selected Work

03 Projects
The Plastic Bag Divorce campaign

01 / 04

Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine

The Plastic Bag Divorce

The brief was simple and nearly impossible: persuade Ukrainians to give up single-use plastic. Zero budget. A few months to do it. Nobody stops scrolling for environmental news — but a public breakup? That travels fast.

120+Opinion Leaders
12MSubscribers Reached
300K+Engagements

Zero paid media — entirely organic

Social Content

02 / 04

FMCG Brands

Social Content

Content adaptation and campaign development for one of the most recognized FMCG brands in the market. Social content strategy built around a simple insight: some things are just better together.

FMCGCategory
SocialChannel
EffieAwarded

03 / 04

Nutrimed · Anxiomedin

What if the World Ends Tomorrow?

A psychological thriller commercial for an anti-anxiety medication in a saturated market. When every competitor talks about stress, we talked about the spiral.

TV+ Digital
UAMarket
Pepsi Music Star

04 / 04

PepsiCo · Ukraine

Pepsi Music Star

Pepsi has always been tied to music — Michael Jackson, Britney, Beyoncé. The challenge was bringing that legacy to a new generation on the platform they actually live on. We turned Instagram into a stage.

1K+Applicants
InstagramNative
OlympicStadium

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Ministry of Environmental Protection · Ukraine · 2022 · Effie Winner

The Plastic Bag Divorce: A Viral Breakup

How do you make an entire country care about a plastic bag ban with zero media budget?

The brief:Persuade Ukrainians to stop using single-use plastic. No paid media. No budget.

The problem:Nobody stops scrolling for environmental news. It feels distant, preachy, someone else's problem.

The insight:But a public breakup? That travels fast.

At the time, The Bachelor was one of the most watched shows in Ukraine and celebrity gossip was the currency of everyday conversation. We used that.

We turned the plastic bag into a toxic ex and launched a nationwide divorce flashmob. People were invited to publicly break up with plastic and post their own declarations online.

Then Plastic Bag responded. In the comments. Pleading, bargaining, refusing to accept it was over. People had fun with it and kept the conversation going. Opinion leaders joined first, then everyone else followed.

The campaign was picked up by one of Ukraine's most popular morning shows. No media buy. The story spread on its own.

Plastic Bag Divorce campaign Plastic Bag Divorce campaign
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Effie Awards
120+
Opinion Leaders
12M
Subscribers Reached
300K+
Engagements

Shifted the national conversation on ecology. Bettersvit named most efficient agency on the Ukrainian market.

Picked up by one of Ukraine's most popular morning shows. No media buy. The story spread on its own.

FMCG · Beauty · Small Business · Multi-Brand

Social Content

I created social content for big brands, FMCG, and small businesses.

Nutrimed · Ukraine · Pharmaceutical · TV & Digital

What if the World Ends Tomorrow?

Client
Nutrimed / Anxiomedin
Format
TV Commercial · Digital
Category
Pharmaceutical · Anti-Anxiety

Anxiomedin is a medicine for anxiety. The market for sedatives and anti-anxiety drugs is saturated in Ukraine. Competitors focus on stress and irritability, with communications that treat the symptoms rather than the feeling.

Anxiety isn't just stress. It's a spiral — the mind amplifying worry until every small thing feels catastrophic. We shifted the perspective: instead of targeting the breakdown, we targeted the moment before it. The quiet dread. The "what if" that takes over.

"What if the world ends tomorrow?" — the catastrophising thought at the core of anxiety.

To convey the tension a person feels during anxiety, we shot the commercial in the style of a psychological thriller. The visual language — tight framing, controlled light, mounting unease — puts the viewer inside the spiral rather than observing it from the outside.

PepsiCo · Ukraine · Social Media · Talent Show

Pepsi Music Star

Client
PepsiCo Ukraine
Format
Instagram-Native Talent Competition
Platform
Instagram · Social
Pepsi Music Star

Pepsi has a powerful connection to music. Michael Jackson danced in the brand's commercials. Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Pink, and Enrique made a cult anthem. The task was to bring that legacy to a new generation in Ukraine, making it feel native to the platform they actually live on.

Instagram isn't a distribution channel. It's a stage. At the time of the contest, the platform didn't yet have IGTV and the maximum video you could upload was 60 seconds. That was our challenge. We didn't try to work around it. We made it the whole point. Real constraints make real creative decisions.

"We didn't put a talent show on Instagram. We built one that could only exist there."
Pepsi Music Star

A four-stage Instagram-native competition: video covers, online interviews, creative tasks, and live jam sessions, all on the platform, all in 60 seconds.

Dozens of celebrities promoted the project across their networks. The winner received full production backing: EP recording, music video shoot, and live performances at Olympic Stadium.