John Papola

John Papola
Education	Penn State University(BA)
Occupation	Producer, director
Years active	1999–

John Papola is an American video producer and director who has worked for Spike TV, Nickelodeon, and MTV as well as for creative ad agencies such as Crispin Porter, Razorfish and JWT. He is currently the president and creative director of Emergent Order, a video production firm that he co-founded and that is based in the Austin, Texas, area.

Born into an Italian family in Philadelphia, Papola attended Penn State University from 1995 to 1999, receiving a BA in Cinematography and Film/Video Production.

Papola was a director and designer in MTV's Animation Series Development from 1999 to 2001. He started at MTV as a production assistant in the commercials division, then became an animator until finally a show developer and director of series pilots. At MTV he directed the animated series pilot The Mall Show.

He was a director and producer at Nickelodeon from 2001 to 2003. He directed, produced and edited show promotions, commercials and longer-form industry projects. These include the Jimmy Neutron product campaign, the Nickelodeon 2003 Upfront and The Kid’s Bill of Rights pro-social campaign. He also co-created, co-wrote and directed Robo Ralph, a story-driven interstitial series.

Papola worked as senior director and producer at Nicktoons Network from 2003 to 2004. In this position he helped develop the re-launch of the network's on-air branding and directed and edited the Cyber-ID campaign which he co-developed and co-produced with Jeremy Fernsler.

Papola was creative director of Spike TV from June 2004 to April 2011. In this position, he oversaw promotional campaigns and special projects. His Look Closer cross-media campaign for the 2010 Video Game Awards went viral, as did his Back to the Future campaign for the Scream Awards, featuring Michael J. Fox. The latter was featured on Entertainment Tonight and was viewed more than 2.5 million times over the course of 3 days.

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