In 2004 along with, Jeremy Ervine, he launched Fnuky, an advertising agency which promised "big ideas, not just ads".
He served as the agency's creative director, leading it to become South Australia's most internationally awarded creative agency with its work being recognised in major advertising award shows in London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Sydney and Cannes.
Only months later he directed a short comedy, Blind, starring Francis Greenslade.
Campbell served a short stint as a director of publicly listed not-for-profit organisation, Fanconi Anaemia Australia Limited before resigning to run as a candidate in the Adelaide City Council election in 2007.
In 2009 he was called a "tragic try hard tosser"[2] by the managing director of Clemenger BBDO Adelaide, the city's biggest advertising agency.