Founded in 2000, MELT (www.meltatl.com) is a sports, sponsorship, event, experiential, social and NIL marketing agency. This includes MELT’s 22-year representation of The Coca-Cola Company, activating 18 Final Fours, 8 seasons of ESPN College GameDay, Fifa, MLB, MLS, Nascar, PGA, and Olympics. MELT has produced more than 10,000 events, tours and campaigns. MELT also helped create and produce AFLAC's Nick Saban and Deion Sanders college football campaigns.MELT is a full-service agency offering services including brand strategy, event and experiential marketing, social and digital content production, sports property and sponsorship strategy and execution. Thompson also created one of the country's most successful internships, MELTU, based on his experience of working his way through Auburn University as a student assistant in the Sports Information Department. MELT University has guided 1000s of college students with career advice, podcasts, weekly newsletters, videos and resume coaching. In 2020 Thompson published "Build Brand YoU". MELT also helped launched the Jboy Show podcast, which sold to The Daily Wire and SANIL, a student-athlete NIL marketing agency and produced the first-ever student-athlete summit. MELT's awards include 2023 Chief Marketer Pro Award, 2023 and 2022 Ex Award, 2022 NACDA/NACMA Gold Medal, 2020 Chief Marketer Top 200, 2019 ABA Company of Year, 2018 Shorty, 2018 Drum Marketing USA, 2018 Interactive Marketing, 2018 Event Marketer's 100 "IT" List, 2018 American Business, 2018 Shopper Marketing Effie, 2018 PR News Social Media, 2018 Cynopsis Sports Media, 2018 Cynopsis Social Good, 2017 Event Marketer, 2017 and 2015 ABA Agency of The Year, 2015 Cynopsis Social Good, 2014 Cynopsis Brand Marketer, Event Marketer EX Award, Biz Bash Top 50 Event Producer and Adweek Buzz Award.