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Eric David Johnson
Senior Vice President, Executive Integrated Music Producer 
McCann Erickson

NEW YORK, USA // Eric David Johnson, p/k/a/ DJ Bunny Ears, is a music producer, music supervisor, record producer, director, musician, filmmaker, writer, artist, photographer and DJ.

Rooted as an independent artist, he is a multi award-winning music producer having spent over 19 years in the advertising industry. Prior to his current role as the Senior Vice President, Executive Integrated Music Producer at McCann Advertising in NYC, Eric begin his career with ad agency Wieden + Kennedy, followed by senior roles with Young & Rubicam New York, DDB Chicago and Randall Poster’s music supervision firm, Search Party Music.

Eric has won numerous industry awards and accolades working with/for such clients as Nike, Microsoft, Coke, Mastercard, Verizon, Lockheed Martin, State Street Global Advisors, L’Oreal, and National Geographic. He has also written and directed music videos and award-winning TV commercials for Nike.

Originally from Milwaukee, Eric's nomadic career has led him to make homes in the cities of Portland, Los Angeles, London, Brooklyn and now New Jersey, where he currently resides with his young family. He is part of the music/art collective Pulseprogamming and regularly DJs at events and venues around the world.

Eric is widely regarded as a thought leader in best practices for music-centric creative advertising/marketing and regularly participates in international panels, juries and conferences such as SXSW, Cannes, AICPs, CLIOs, London International Awards, CMJ, BUMA (Amsterdam), Canadian Music Week, MIDEM, Music Finland, SPOT (Denmark), Roskilde and Iceland Airwaves, to name a few.