About Us
In the realm of marketing, there’s a divide between creative and media agencies. This gap often leads to inefficiencies, wasted resources, and diminished impact for brands. It’s time for a change, a new approach that maximizes your marketing and advertising endeavors.
Meet Summer98: Founded by childhood friends Todd Milliner and Paul Velten, we merge 20 years of individual success in Hollywood Production and cutting-edge Technology-based Advertising to bridge the age-old gap between marketing and creativity.
With Emmy award-winning creative and MarCom award-winning media teams, we have united these forces under one roof. Our collaborative approach ensures seamless coordination between departments, delivering impactful messages to your audience precisely when it matters.
Why Choose Us?
Growth Partner: We specialize in supporting businesses that are growing, providing strategies that scale with your success. We support the challengers of industries.
Human Led AI Technology: Utilizing “Breeze,” our AI planning tool, we supercharge marketing results with speed and impact across the highest performing ad products. Compress months of campaign planning into a matter of days.
Hollywood Level Production: With 20 years of best-in-class Hollywood creative experience, we’ve produced some of the most successful shows and podcasts in the market, with access to elite-level talent and celebrity influencers.
The spirit of Summer98 embodies the excitement of eras that push boundaries. From iconic moments in pop culture to groundbreaking technological advancements, these are times of accelerated progress that also retain a sense of fun and promise.
Join us at Summer98 and, together, let’s push the limits once more.
OUR FOUNDERS
Todd Milliner
Todd Milliner is an award-winning producer and writer who co-founded Hazy Mills Productions with Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) in 2004. Todd has produced over 400 episodes of television, which include hit shows Grimm and Hot in Cleveland, two dozen stage productions and a feature film. On the writing side, his credits include Grimm and Roanoke for NBC, What News for TBS and Ducks Landing for HBO MAX. He also co-wrote the Emmy Award-winning 64th Annual Tony Awards and produced the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Milliner hails from Chicago, where he performed and taught at the World Famous Second City Theater for five years. In addition to his work at Second City, he spent ten years in leadership development with SBC, TransUnion, and HSBC. Todd has written and produced award-winning branded content for Orbitz, Clark Pest Control, TBS and TNT.
Paul Velten
Paul Velten has been an executive in the marketing and advertising space since 2009. He is the founder of Nimmea Advertising, a data-driven performance media agency in Los Angeles, specializing in customer acquisition and business growth through best-in-class digital and traditional media campaigns. With a background in technology and communications, Paul has lead strategic initiatives for major brands such Yamaha, Humana, Allergan, Discovery, and Clark Pest Control.
Originally from Chicago, IL, Paul now lives in Los Angeles, continues to oversee strategic growth for clients, as well internal leadership committees for the development of AI technologies in the world of marketing and advertising.