Tim Piper

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Timothy David Piper, born in 1971 or 1972 in South Australia, is an Australian writer and director who lives in New York City. He co-founded the film and advertising company Piro with Daniel M. Rosenberg.

Piper has directed many television commercials, most notably Dove’s 2008 Evolution ad, part of Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty. He helped develop the campaign while at Ogilvy & Mather in Toronto and worked on other Dove ads, as well as Becel margarine’s Broken Escalator. He also co-wrote Canada’s 2008 Diamond Shreddies campaign, which won top advertising awards.

Around 1999 he created the gecko character for Bridgestone Australia, which was animated by James Neale and later updated in 2023 by Cirkus Animation.

In 2013 he gained attention for a viral video showing his wife, actress Sally Gifford Piper, being heavily photoshopped to radically change her appearance.

In 2014 he and Daniel Rosenberg produced Farmed and Dangerous, a four-part Chipotle webisode comedy series featuring his wife. The New York Times noted its strong influence on audience behavior.

He was executive producer on the Bravo sitcom Odd Mom Out, which ran from 2015 to 2017.

Under the name Timothy David, his debut feature film Kangaroo Island premiered on the closing night of the Adelaide Film Festival on November 3, 2024. Written by his wife Sally Gifford, the film was shot on Kangaroo Island and stars Rebecca Breeds, Adelaide Clemens, Erik Thomson, and Joel Jackson.

Piper is married to Sally Gifford, a Canadian actress, and they have two children. The couple divides their time between Australia and the United States and bought a holiday home on Kangaroo Island in 2016. They are dual citizens of Australia and the United States, and Piper remains co-owner of Piro.

He has earned several major advertising awards, including Grand Clio, Cannes Lions Grand Prix, and D&AD Pencils. Time magazine listed him as a Time 100 finalist in 2008, and Creativity magazine named him among the World’s Top 50 Creative Thinkers.