Who is Dennis Nielsen?
Dennis Nielsen is a digital marketer with +10 years of hands-on experience working with Digital Marketing.
As Digital Strategy Lead at DEPT®, an agency which is pioneering tech/marketing to help brands stay ahead, he works with a range of clients across multiple industries.
His passion for pushing digital technology started in an early age and he strives at utilizing them to its fullest. Through the years, he has gained experience through working with larger end-to-end paid marketing campaign strategies across ads platforms as, both in terms of strategy and hand-on:
Google Ads, YouTube Ads, Facebook/Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok X/Twitter, Twitch, Instreamly, Microsoft ads, Programmatic/GMP (Still counts as a platform, right ;)
He also has experience working hands-on with SEO, and Web developer early on in his career as a freelancer
I'm not a thought leader - just a passionate digital marketeer, who gets excited about new technology, pushing limits, thinking outside the box, in hopes of one day creating the perfect campaign.
Career highlights
Strategy Lead - always focused on knowledge sharing (End-to-end campaigns and stuff)
QuantAds becomes Dept (Performance focused build in data, with an International focus. Becoming Dept opened up for more opportunites: Large enough to cope, small enough to care)
Started focusing on Programatic, specifically Video ads on YouTube with DV360 tracking
SEO were added to portfolio and I joined the dark side and started moving toward 50/50 split and later 20/80 split
Sharing knowledge on; CBS, AAlborg uni and webinars(later)
Wrote a book with a past colleague to fill a gap in High School marketing crolicrilum
Went fulltime SEM and working the Bestseller and some Social at Quantads(Now Dept)
Started working as a Junior Google AdWords Assistant & Office runner (Part-time), this involved doing basic AdWords task filtering ads and keyword, but also cleaning the kitchen and buying lunch. My responsibility grew as quick as my hunger for knowledge
Moved to Copenhagen and started Masters in Strategic Market Cration + minon in neuroscience
Bachelor ASB BcS(B)+IM
Explored graphics design with 3d creation through 3D studio max 5.0, blender, Maya and 2d in Photoshop and Paint shop pro and similar (Don't ask how a teenager got his hands on all that expensive software)
Started working freelance through friends and family connections. Made websites for musician, dog hairdressers, craftworkers and B2B sites, which supported me through college and bachelor
Business high school in Skanderborg Denmark, 5 A-level, Finance and something
Took programming courses on Delphi, Visual basic and Pascal/Java
I get my own very first computer IBM 750Mhz, Gforce graphics in 2000m, and Diablo II, making website on 14" in FrontPage, creating first website on .subnet.dk
Build first website at School library (one hour internet per day)
Dad makes large investment in Amitec pc; 500Mhz computer connected to internet K56 models, later on ADSL
Family got first PC with MS:DOS 1997 through family connection and facination of technology starts
Born in Skanderborg hospital 1987, one year later moving to the country-side as mother found that guy that I consider my bestfriend and dad
Timeline goes here
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Long story short:
+1000 hours were spend in front of the 14" screen, many in Frontpage, and my beloved Notepad❤ which today is still my preferred software.
Freelance
I started as a freelancer throug friends and family connections
creating websites for musicians, hairdressers, pubs etc. which helped me financially through college and bachelor.
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Kjellerup
Education was my main focus, as I saw
no future in working with designing website (DOH!) and I was more interested in Internaltional Business (BA: Business Administration and International Management→Bsc(B)+IM)
QuantAds - The digital agency
In 2011 I moved to Copenhagen and during my Masters (MSc:Strategic Market Creation), I found I part-time job at QuantAds. This involved doing basic AdWords task filtering ads and keyword, but also cleaning the kitchen and buying lunch. My responsibility grew as quick as my hunger for knowledge
QuantAds (google glasses+interview)