Two people. No layers.
The Matchbook Agency is two co-founders and, on any given project, exactly the team that project needs, with no account layers between you and the people actually making the decisions.
Kimberlie Christen
- Agency operations
- Client leadership
- Social strategy
- Creator campaigns
- Activations
- Project management
Kevin Burke
- High-level creative development
- Storytelling
- Production
- Celebrity-facing experience
- Field execution
- Post-production
What we actually bring.
- Develop actual concepts and repeatable formats
- Produce celebrities, creators, and real people
- Create unscripted, personality-driven content
- Manage shoots professionally
- Turn one production into a full library of platform-specific assets
- Oversee editing and post at a premium level
- Handle the client relationship and campaign logistics
- Scale the production team up or down depending on the assignment
Who you'd actually work with.
Kevin Burke
Co-Founder, Creative & ProductionKevin Burke is an award-winning television producer and creative leader with more than 25 years of experience developing, producing, and shaping entertainment across broadcast, digital, and branded content. Most recently, he served as Senior Co-Executive Producer of The Kelly Clarkson Show, following senior production roles on Steve Harvey, Lopez Tonight, Kathy, The Tyra Banks Show, and other nationally distributed series. Over the course of his career, he has worked with NBCUniversal, Warner Bros./Telepictures, Sony Pictures Television, Endemol Shine, and other major studios and production companies.
His experience spans the full creative process, from developing formats, franchises, celebrity segments, and branded integrations to field production, production leadership, and post. Kevin is a six-time Daytime Emmy Award winner, with four wins for The Kelly Clarkson Show and two for Steve Harvey. At The Matchbook Agency, he brings that combination of big-picture creative thinking and hands-on production experience to building ideas that are ambitious, executable, and made to connect with an audience.
Kimberlie Christen
Co-Founder, Strategy & PartnershipsKimberlie Christen is a digital marketing and creator executive with more than 20 years of experience building social, creator, mobile, and CRM programs for some of the world's most recognizable entertainment and consumer brands. Her career has been defined by getting ahead of what's next, from helping pioneer mobile marketing and CRM programs at Disney and Redbox to leading growth marketing at Horizon Media and helping build Blue Hour Studios into a social-first, creator-specialized agency.
She has built and scaled creator networks, ambassador programs, and social campaigns for brands including ESPN, National Geographic, AMC, Paramount+, Honda, Petco, Kohl's, Pandora, and UnitedHealthcare, while leading teams across strategy, talent partnerships, content, and client relationships. At The Matchbook Agency, Kimberlie leads strategy, brand partnerships, and creator marketing, bringing the experience of a senior agency leader with the hands-on instincts of someone who knows how to turn a strong idea into a program that actually performs.