Dan Acree has more than 40 years experience in media, advertising and marketing. Importantly, his background spans a number of industries and disciplines.

As one of the youngest radio personalities in Los Angeles in the 1960′s and later as one of the most respected marketing directors in his industry, Dan Acree understands media—inside and out.

Following a two-year stint in the Army (Ft. Ord, CA and Ft. Hood, TX) during the Vietnam era, Dan worked through the early ’70s as a programmer as FM radio emerged and supplanted AM radio as the dominant force in music.

It was during his years in Oklahoma and Texas radio that he was discovered by border radio legend, Wolfman Jack. In 1979, Wolfman and his business partner entrepreneur Don Kelley, brought Dan to Hollywood as his VP for Marketing and Promotion. He spent the next 10 years in the Hollywood entertainment industry working with stars of film, television, and music.

In the music industry Dan managed publicity for recording artists like Stephanie Mills, Frankie Valli, Paul Revere and The Raiders, Francé Joli, Manhattan Transfer, Roseanne Cash, Bennie Mardones, Randy Jackson (The Jackson’s), Foxy, Peaches & Herb, Michael Franks, and others. He also worked with the stars of top-ten TV series like CHiPs (NBC) and Three’s Company (ABC), The Young and the Restless (ABC), Live at the Improv, and The Groundlings where he publicized soon-to-be-stars like Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman), Phil Hartman and Mary Kay Place.

As a public relations professional he supervised the telecast publicity for a number of major events including The Grammy’s® and the Miss Universe®, Miss USA® and Miss Teen USA® pageants televised to a worldwide audience on CBS-TV.

You can see many of Dan’s celebrity photos by viewing Dans Scrapbook.

In a return to broadcasting in the early ’90s, Dan helped re-establish San Francisco’s heritage rock ‘n’ roll radio stations KSFO and KYA-FM to their former glory in an oldies format. He also created and staged a salute to the 25th Anniversary of The Beatles Last Concert at the Hard Rock Cafe. He commissioned a commemorative poster featuring the photographs of quintessential rock ‘n’ roll concert photographer, the late Jim Marshall. As a thank you to Dan, Marshall gifted him four signed prints made from the historic 1966 event original negatives.

In 1993, after being unsuccessful in finding another radio job in San Franciso, Dan moved back to Texas where he founded his first full-service advertising agency in Houston.

For the next few years, Acree Creative was a well-known provider of high-quality graphic design for companies like Compaq Computer, British Petroleum (BP), Mobil Oil, Shell Oil, dozens of software and hardware companies, and more than 35 banks and credits unions in major cities from New York City to San Diego, California.

After surviving both a recession in the oil business, the sale of Compaq Computer to HP, and the bursting of the technology bubble, Acree moved in 2000 to the lake resort community of Denison, Texas on the Texas-Oklahoma border and started a new agency from scratch. Within the first year Acree Creative signed American Bank of Texas as a client. Over the next three years advertising produced for American Bank won Best Advertising awards from the Independent Bankers Association of Texas in the categories of print, radio, television, and outdoor.

In 2001, Acree Creative was acquired by RadioVision, one of the nation’s leading automotive advertising agencies. At RadioVision, Dan Acree developed over $1.7 million in promotional programs for client dealerships across the nation. He also managed the introduction of the Hummer H2 in markets on the East Coast. Acree, and three other RadioVision executives left in 2005 to form a partnership representing a diverse group of clients. By 2006, Acree went solo again, reopening Acree Creative.

What began as a one-off project for the Sherman, Texas Chamber of Commerce transitioned to a periodical publication—Texoma Living! Magazine. Acree published the award-winning regional publication through October 2010.

Today, Acree Creative represents clients of all sizes, and categories. From helping local business owners double their sales–to launching a new electronics product to the world–Acree Creative brings tremendous experience, integrity, and value to every client project.