Bank of America

CONNECT PEOPLE. SOLVE PROBLEMS. - Suits & Sandals is an award-winning digital creative agency that uses human-centered design, forward-thinking brand strategy, creative solutions, and digital technology to help businesses and mission-driven organizations connect with their audiences, solve core business challenges, and spur on innovation & digital transformation. We fit right in the middle of the Venn diagram between consulting firms and creative agencies. We perform research & discovery to develop insights, recommendations, and road maps for clients–then actually take action through creative services like brand identity design, UX/UI design, web & app development, and content production.

ABOUT LOPEZ NEGRETE COMMUNICATIONS - We are a full-service marketing and advertising agency with capabilities across the customer journey. Our capabilities include brand leadership, business analytics, strategic planning, research, omnichannel creative development and production, customer experience management, community management, social listening, experiential, SEO/SEM, and loyalty marketing. In addition, we are built around a strategic core of Consumer Insights, Business Analytics, Research and Channel Planning. Our Strategic Business Planning Unit (SBPU) ensures that we provide measurable business return on cultural intelligence by turning consumer insights into liquid ideas that engage. Capabilities and processes that are foundational to the SBPU include focus group research (facility in-house), segmentation, targeting, omnichannel planning, brand architecture implementation, consumer profiling, business case development, opportunity sizing, direct response analytics, measurement performance, and reporting. Another unique capability is to balance the efficiency vs. the effectiveness of a national campaign at a local level. We believe that any effective marketing ends up impacting a consumer in a local address (physical or IP). Having serviced Fortune 100 corporations, with very complex, matrixed organizational structures and business dynamics, we have developed a method to understand the nuances of each regional market, and to what extent marketing efforts can be produced cost-effectively and augmented with hyperlocal overlays to be truly effective. Currently we have the following clients on our roster: Walmart; Sam’s Club; Unilever; Bank of America; United Airlines; Fiat Chrysler Automobiles; Motiva Enterprises, Phillips 66; CenterPoint Energy; Lone Star College; McDonald’s; Riviana Foods; Iora Primary Care; CICA Life; the City of Houston; and Harris County.

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.

MAD*POW LEVERAGES STRATEGIC DESIGN AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MOTIVATION TO CREATE INNOVATIVE EXPERIENCES AND COMPELLING DIGITAL SOLUTIONS THAT ARE GOOD FOR PEOPLE AND GOOD FOR BUSINESS. - Since 2000, we have partnered with industry leaders like Cigna, ESPN, John Hancock, Pearson, Microsoft and Google. We have received honors from the Webby Awards, the W3 Awards and the Inc. 500. Our team of 60+ works out of offices in Boston and Portsmouth NH.

ABOUT BOATHOUSE GROUP - Ad agencies are great at brand ideas, but are weak technically. Digital agencies are great at executing technically, but weak at brand ideas. We bring together both skill sets under one roof. No departmental silos, no separation of advertising and digital. We want the single-minded culture and creativity possible only by having highly conceptual people with different skill sets working together from the start. We learn the most by having both entrepreneurial and corporate clients. We help the smallest VC-funded companies be smarter, and help the largest Fortune 500 companies be more innovative. We invest in and bring together high-performing, forward-thinking, conceptual people. We look for brains and drive and often search in industries and specialties that fall outside of the norm. We test our instincts and learn the challenges of being accountable by investing in and launching stand-alone businesses and ideas. We shouldn’t spend our client’s money to do conventional, me-too work. We need to help you stand out.

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.

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.

THINKERS / CREATORS / BUILDERS - iMedia is a Strategic Interactive Agency We have the experience and in-house talent to solve your challenges, tell your story and get results. Our solutions ensure our clients' marketing initiatives create value for their brands, build enduring relationships with their customers and provide measurable results. We Care About Your ROI... It's not just about pretty pictures, witty content and the latest tech. It's about driving results for your brand. We create, design and produce integrated and results driven digital brand experiences. We collaborate with the best technology teams in the industry to deliver innovative and scalable solutions. Our in-house platform expertise are in Kentico, Sitecore, BigCommerce, Crownpeak, and Sitefinity.