Head of Creative for Sport, Racing Sponsorship & Live Event Brands

Caroline Coombs is an award-winning creative leader with extensive experience across sport, betting, racing sponsorship, broadcast and live event campaigns. She combines brand strategy, team leadership and hands-on design expertise to deliver commercially focused creative across every touchpoint.

Caroline Coombs Showreel 2025
  • 20+ years creative experience
  • Creative team grown from 2 to 12
  • Trusted Betfair creative partner since 2017
  • Sport, betting, broadcast and live event campaigns
  • Based in Molesey, Surrey

How Caroline Works

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Creative Leadership

Caroline has built and led multidisciplinary creative teams across design, motion, 3D, editing and campaign delivery. At Stoke & Dagger, she grew the team from two to 12 people developing talent, improving workflows and expanding the studio's creative capabilities along the way.

Every project she leads runs from concept through to final delivery, holding creative ambition and commercial priorities in balance throughout.

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Brand Strategy & Guardianship

That team-led thinking translates directly into brand work. Caroline has spent her career shaping identities and campaign systems for sport, entertainment, broadcast and betting brands combining strategic direction with hands-on delivery across digital, social, OOH, DOOH, print, motion and live event assets.

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Sport, Racing Sponsorship & Live Event Experience

Nowhere is that combination more tested than in sport. Caroline is a trusted creative partner in racing, sponsorship and sports-led campaigns with long-standing experience working with Betfair. Racing audiences are knowledgeable, time-sensitive and commercially engaged. The creative has to land quickly, feel credible and support the brand without getting in the way of the sport.

Selected Work

Ascot
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Ascot

Creative campaign work for one of Britain's most iconic racecourses, spanning sponsorship branding, event assets and digital creative.

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Betfair Racing
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Betfair Racing

Dedicated racing creative for Betfair, covering sponsorship idents, motion toolkits, OOH and digital assets built around the ITV Racing partnership.

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Betfair
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Betfair

Betfair has been a retained client since 2017, with Caroline supporting racing, sponsorship, sport and live event creative across motion, branding and campaign assets.

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NOW TV
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NOW TV

Working closely with NOW TV's in-house team on their Christmas Campaign. Delivering OOH, DOOH, Print, Digital and Social Ads.

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Secret Escapes
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Secret Escapes

Working for Secret Escapes Marketing team on DRTV and Radio Ads for the UK and Germany.

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Sky Sports Germany
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Sky Sports Germany

A sport campaign spanning digital display ads, social media content, social animations and DOOH.

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WOW TV
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WOW TV

Working directly with WOW's in-house team on digital display ads, social media, social animations and DOOH. A seamless campaign across all channels for maximum impact.

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United Rugby Championship
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United Rugby Championship

A multi-channel sports campaign delivered in collaboration with Sky's marketing department, covering radio, digital, social media and press.

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Experience & Leadership

Branding & Creative Direction

Branding & Creative Direction

Caroline has spent her career shaping brand identities and campaign systems for sport, entertainment, broadcast and betting brands. She combines strategic creative direction with hands-on delivery across digital, social, OOH, DOOH, print, motion and live event assets. At Stoke & Dagger, she has led creative work across the UK, Germany, Brazil and Spain, ensuring every touchpoint feels consistent, distinctive and commercially focused.

Managing Teams & Creative Standards

Managing Teams & Creative Standards

Caroline is an experienced creative leader who has built, managed and mentored multidisciplinary teams across design, motion, 3D and editing. At Stoke & Dagger, she helped grow the team from two to 12 people while leading projects from concept to delivery, balancing creative ambition with deadlines, budgets and commercial priorities.

  • Creative direction and final design oversight
  • Team mentoring and talent development
  • Studio process and workflow improvement
  • Quality control across creative output
  • Managing designers, motion designers, editors and freelancers
  • Client and stakeholder collaboration
  • Creative pitch development
  • Campaign delivery across multiple channels
  • Maintaining brand consistency at scale

Years of Sport, Betting & Entertainment Experience

Years of Sport, Betting & Entertainment Experience

Caroline has extensive experience creating campaigns for sport, betting, broadcast and entertainment brands, with work spanning live events, sponsorship, social content, digital campaigns, motion graphics, press, OOH and DOOH. Her sport and betting experience includes projects for Betfair, Paddy Power, Sky Sports, Team GB, British Rowing, Paralympics GB, NatWest Cricket and Rugby sponsorship, International Tennis Federation, United Rugby Championship and Sky Sports Germany.

This experience gives Caroline a strong understanding of how sport and entertainment audiences behave, how to build excitement around major events, and how to create creative systems that perform across both premium brand environments and fast-moving digital channels.