Bank of America

ABOUT TRACTION - Traction is a creative agency that is very good at uncovering insights about your customer and connecting them to the work we produce for your brand through branding, advertising/content and digital experiences. Insights are critical for producing work that drives business results because today's customer is not just harder to reach, they are actively taking steps to ignore your marketing. The reason Traction exists is to create work that people actually want to consume. Our core competencies are branding, advertising and web design. We have in-house capabilities for strategy, creative, media, web development and analytics. But what sets us apart is how we've created an integrated method of working that ensures ideas are always driven by insights. It's a formula that works. Over the past few years, Traction has been a 4-time finalist for iMedia Small Agency of the Year and has won Small Agency of the Year awards from both Advertising Age and the Business Marketing Association. We were proud to be named the #1 Creative Advertising Agency in the US by Agency Spotter in 2018.

WELCOME TO PUBLICIS HAWKEYE - Publicis Hawkeye is a full-service ad agency with a vision for the future and a dedication to leading the change. We are fueled by people with unique perspectives, daring ideas and diverse backgrounds. We are unique in the way that we fuse together data, creativity and technology to fuel innovative and extraordinary ideas. Combining data with an acute understanding of culture and behavior, we build insight that enables us to tell engaging stories you’ve never heard before. We are 260 team members strong with headquarters in Dallas and other offices in Minneapolis, Charlotte, Toronto and Buffalo. We are a part of the Publicis Worldwide North American network and operate in a borderless fashion across all offices to best serve the needs of our client partners. As an integrated, full-service agency, our team offers the following focused areas of service across all media: · Advertising · Insights and Strategy · Creativity and Content · Digital Technology · Data and Analytics · Experiential In addition, out of our Buffalo, NY location, we offer a specialty set of services specifically for the financial services industry. These services include change and merger communications and simplification of customer correspondence. Publicis Hawkeye works with many of the largest banks in the country, as well as growing regional and community banks and many brokerage firms.

UNCONVENTIONAL B2B MARKETING - Bulldog is a full-service agency exclusively focused on complex B2B marketing. We believe that “best practices” are a starting point - not a destination. Our passion lies in the innovation that takes brands from good to amazing. We use highly technical and wildly creative marketing to solve enterprise B2B sales challenges. That takes curiosity and courage – traits that we share with our clients.

WHO WE ARE AND WHY WE DO IT. - Just like brands that are constantly evolving, we challenge the status quo every day. As the country’s largest independent brand consultancy, we’ve been at the forefront of redefining how brands are made and experienced since 1971. Our ever-growing capabilities mean that we are continually advancing how we help our clients to deliver powerful experiences, create purposeful cultures and tell compelling stories. The net result is hard-working brands that move people. We’re independent — both in spirit and in ownership. Unbound to tradition and shareholders, the freedom to do what’s right has fueled our success for the last five decades — and it’s what will fuel us for the next five. It’s why thousands of clients and our 100+ team members choose to work with us: They value our aptitude for thinking further, moving faster and working closer.

HELLO. NICE TO MEET YOU. - Suits & Sandals is a brand communications agency based in Brooklyn, NY. Since 2011, we've taken a unique perspective on the intersection between branding, technology, and human communication. We're an agency with an intentional identity crisis–equal parts branding agency, digital agency and communications consultancy. We help organizations find their place in the market, bring them valuable insights and recommendations, build the tools they need to successfully connect with the right people, and effectively solve important problems.

ABOUT LOPEZ NEGRETE COMMUNICATIONS - Lopez Negrete Communications, Inc. is the nation’s largest independent, Hispanic owned and operated, full-service agency specializing in Hispanic marketing. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in Los Angeles and New York, the company’s capitalized billings were $193.5 million in 2012. Since 1985, Lopez Negrete has offered a full range of advertising, marketing and public relations services to industry leaders, including Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bank of America, Verizon Communications Inc., Kraft Foods (Kraft Singles and Kraft Natural Cheeses), NBC Universal Motion Pictures Group, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, AARP, Pernod Ricard, Chrysler Corporation, SAMSUNG Telecommunications America, The Recreational Fishing and Boating Foundation and others. With more than 200 employees, Lopez Negrete Communications, Inc. is a proven leader in fully integrated national Hispanic marketing and communications services.

IDEA MEET AUDIENCE - Rival Schools is a creative agency and digital studio all in one. We were started by people from different creative backgrounds, from film to Web, but we all had one thing in common – we thought that what they now call digital content was the place to be.

ENGAGING, ALWAYS. - Weber Shandwick is a leading global public relations agency. The firm’s success is built on its deep commitment to client service, our people, creativity, collaboration and harnessing the power of Advocates - engaging stakeholders in new and creative ways to build brands and reputation. In 2010, Weber Shandwick was named Global Agency of the Year by The Holmes Report for the second year in a row, an ‘Agency of the Decade’ by Advertising Age, Large PR Agency of the Year by Bulldog Reporter, a Digital Firm of the Year by PR News, and Top Corporate Responsibility Advisory Firm by CR Magazine. The firm has also won numerous ‘best place to work’ awards around the world.