In my role at Agency Spotter, I see a lot of marketing agencies from digital agencies to branding design firms to user data analytics companies. This list of "Agencies That Think Different" highlights some that seem to differentiate themselves better than the norm.
If you are growing a brand, I think how a partner crafts their own message is important. If they take the time and know how to help themselves stand out amongst the hundreds of thousands of marketing agencies and design firms, they may just be able to help your company too. Enjoy. Note: This is an unordered list.
Portland Digital Agency
UpliftCX is a Portland-based agency that exists to rid the world of bad customer experiences – one touchpoint at a time. We do much more than make websites, we provide custom and targeted e-commerce experiences that customers love. Simply having a websi...
RNO1
RNO1 is a Growth—First Digital Design Experience Agency. We guide game-changing Tech & eCommerce brands across platforms & places, through agile thinking. In working with brands like Acorns — to — Airbnb (and all those in between), we understand that havi...
We make video, and we f*cking love it.
IndieWhip makes video. It’s our tool of choice. Sight. Sound. Emotion. All at once. How do we make them? By curating deep relationships with our clients. Our clients are our collaborators. Together we develop the content they need to tell their story, to c...
KNOW THE CATEGORY. SLAY ITS CONVENTIONS.
Our agency exists for one purpose only – to help clients break out of their sales doldrums by eschewing the conventions of the categories in which they play. We’re a CPG agency that never goes for safe. A B-to-B agency whose work actually has soul. A hea...
We’re Taxi Studio, the Brand Expression Agency.
We help clients BeMore.FearLess.™ using Analysis & Intuition to create and rejuvenate brands that endure in the memory across a wide range of countries, cultures and media. This results in iconic, award-winning work that’s simple, scalable and above all – ...
We are the simplicity company.
Siegel+Gale is a global brand strategy, design and experience firm. Using facts, intuition and creativity, we blend science with art, unlocking the power of simplicity to help organizations realize their full potential.
BUILDING BRAND SUCCESS SINCE 1982
Primary is a full-service integrated marketing agency that believes powerful ideas transform anything. We deliver Strategy, Design, 3D Visualization, Web Development, Creative, Media/Social and Analytics. We work with clients to change perceptions, to chan...
Branding through experience — Building brands people love.
BASIC is a branding & experience design agency working at the intersection of lifestyle, fashion, entertainment and digital culture. We believe brands are the cultural connection between companies and their communities. We help brands attract the right p...
We Believe in Stories
twofifteenmccann is a great big little agency. A tiny building in an alley, filled with storytellers and backed by the might and reach of a global network. Storytellers making amazing stories for amazing companies. Stories that make people feel, that make ...
Expertly Crafted Disruption
Ruckus is a marketing strategy and creative agency that practices “Expertly Crafted Disruption.” Our branding, platform design, and campaign work have propelled blue-chip enterprises and early-stage startups alike. We are not a marketing agency that focuse...
Sagon-Phior grows businesses by building better relationships between a brand and their target audience through emotional marketing, branding and technology.
––––––––––––––––––––– As a full service marketing agency, our primary purpose is to create ideas that affect how people feel. Though logic plays a role, feelings ultimately drive behavior and choice. Creative branding, emotional marketing and technology...
We Create Digital Experiences for Physical Spaces
NEXT/NOW is a creative technology agency that produces next-generation digital/physical experiences for world-class brands. We use virtual reality, natural user interfaces, gesture and motion interactivity, innovative display concepts, and breakthrough tec...
Getting results is our strength. Digital intelligence is our passion.
For the last 15 years we're the folks who have found innovative ways to make businesses grow and succeed in today’s super-cluttered communications environment. Our cross-functional team is fluent in digital and offline marketing—from responsive <a href="ht...
The Brand Activation Agency | Experiential, Engagement, Activation
Modern Promos is one of the nation’s top brand activation agencies and has worked with hundreds of North America’s biggest brands. As a full-service brand activation agency specializing in impactful brand experiences, Modern Promos partners both directly w...
Superior Creative and Technical Expertise
Union is an independent creative & performance marketing agency that creates omni-channel campaigns, unleashing creativity on a data-driven world, helping brands produce memorable, measurable and repeatable results. We specialize in travel & tourism, healt...
CREATIVE. PRODUCTION. AGENCY. BUILDING THE SCIENCE OF STORY.
We’re a group of producers, designers, writers, strategists, and weirdos who love a good story. We do that by creating in house, while measuring everything to ensure you get the returns you need. It’s part of our “science of story,” and we hope you’ll join...
We design, create, and build brands
Founded in 1994, Tank is a full-service, multidisciplinary design and branding studio with offices in Boston (Cambridge), New York and San Francisco. We help transform organizations, re-invigorate brands and grow businesses in many different sectors, fro...
Innovative. User Focused. Silicon Valley, NYC, London
Momentum is an award winning Silicon Valley, New York City, & London based user experience design & development agency serving startups to the Fortune 500. Our services include - Research, Product Strategy, Design, and Development. We specialize in: + Pro...
Brokaw—World's Greatest Ad Agency (According to Google)
Brokaw is an independent, full-service creative agency and former Ad Age Small Agency of the Year famous for helping brands rise above the blah blah—including GE Lighting, Tim Hortons, Great Lakes Brewing Company, PURELL, Philips, and Cayman Jack Margarita...
Brand Innovation
Pixelslave provides brand strategy and 360º integrated communications. Interactive isn’t a buzzword or an add-on for us. It’s core competence. It’s who we are. We’re agile and responsive and we thrive in an environment that constantly presents us with new ...
We do more optimization than any other agency. How?
Our mission is to build the world's greatest performance digital agency. Our key services include PPC, SEO, Display, Content, Social Ads and Analytics and we use the best marketing talent in the world to deliver this. In our experience, there is no suc...
Is your advertising as interesting as your business?
L/H is a creative partnership making brands interesting through sharp, clear, witty and tasteful work, generally referred to as advertising. Though we find that limiting. We are firm believers in the late Howard Gossage’s observation, “The real fact of t...
B2B Marketing for Global Leaders & Challengers
Modo Modo is an award-winning Top 20 Strategic B2B Agency. We are strategy, marketing, advertising and branding people who don't think like agency people. We think like business people. We help high-growth businesses accelerate the way they capture & grow...
Marketing Agency Built to Grow Leader Brands
We don’t just build brands. We grow category leaders. ----- Ramey is an agency built to help leader brands succeed. In the 80’s, we partnered with Viking Range and over a 25-year relationship, helped them redefine the home kitchen. Today, we are group ...
Breakthroughs, not bandwagons
Burns Marketing ignites great brands by delivering creativity with a purpose. Our expertise in brand, digital, content, and campaigns spans companies in technology, life sciences, and beyond. But our true value lies in the ability to get into the heads of ...
Experience matters.
Everything at Launch begins with strategy: learning about your company, your challenges, those of your customers, so we can work together on creating actionable plans to meet your company's objectives. Our clients come to us for everything from better unde...
Human-to-human advertising for purpose-driven brands
CVLN is a performance marketing agency with a humanistic approach. We build purpose-driven brands through human-to-human advertising that creates real feeling, inspires real behavior and drives real business growth.
We design digital commerce experiences that make happier customers and healthier businesses.
- eHouse Studio is a digital commerce company located in Charleston, SC. We are experts in creating highly engaging user experiences for brands looking to grow their online marketplace and differentiate themselves from competitors. Our team of e-commerce ...
Digitally led design & Branding
Every member of Zero comes from a deep foundational understanding of the web, digital & branding. Our breadth of experience gives us a nuanced and holistic view of the current landscape - and the multitude of considerations across the customer journey. Th...
WE HELP AMBITIOUS BRANDS PUNCH ABOVE THEIR WEIGHT
Fueled by curiosity. Grounded in strategy. We're a small and mighty hybrid marketing agency focused on delivering creative solutions to marketing challenges. We work with ambitious brands that share our belief that marketing is not the savior but the ampl...
A Bold and Fearless Approach to Elevate your Brand
Fearless Media is a full-service media agency built around the Millennial audience. We are so much more than your traditional advertising agency. From the relationships we foster with our clients to the out of the box thinking we use to cultivate cutting...
WHY OH
OH Partners has gathered the best, the brightest and, yes, some of the craziest together in Phoenix and Southern California to make marketing magic. We combine elements of a traditional full service national agency with the ninja-like reflexes of a startup...
We design growth
THRIVE is an experienced group of researchers, strategists and designers based in Atlanta, Georgia. We work at the intersection of design, the social sciences and business to help companies create new value. Our expertise in reinventing categories, connec...
Digital Agency in San Francisco
Since 2001 we have shaped digital experiences at every touch point. We are storytellers, designers, technologists, writers, and builders. COG1 is a premier San Francisco-based interactive design and development agency that has been producing highly innova...
Get to the Space Your Brand Is Meant For
BooneOakley is a full-service agency dedicated to learning new truths, making meaningful creative, and doing better than good. We're committed to doing great work with people we like, and have been doing just that since 2000 with clients like Bojangles', S...
Think Critically. Act Creatively.
Smarthinking Inc. is an integrated brand development agency with a distinct focus on real estate and hospitality. Our task is to solve business challenges through the creation of compelling brands. We believe everything communicates. Every single thing...
We're a full service creative agency that tells the stories of small and medium sized brands.
Seeing our clients succeed as they “level-up” is one of our greatest thrills. Our process is simple. We talk to your customers and potential customers, we clarify and simplify your story, we refine and craft your core elements (website, brand ID, collatera...
Committed to extraordinary results
Pace is a leading full-service creative agency that develops brand storytelling experiences that move audiences to action. We believe there is power in “why,” and it serves as a creative catalyst for ideas and insights. Our clients include some of the wo...
Why We're Unique
Obility is a digital marketing agency focused on helping B2B companies. Our in-house Revenue Operations team provides reporting, analysis, data governance, and system administration that allows us to optimize campaign performance and deliver better-than-be...
Meet Agenda
We are an independent, New York-based creative agency that helps brands on the cusp of change. From new market entrants to long-standing industry leaders, we deliver an infusion of fresh thinking to help our clients reinvigorate their brand so they can su...
We design for cool brands...
ArtVersion Interactive is an independent creative agency, graphic design and web design firm with headquarters in Chicago. Our experiential design process creates emotion and engagement between the brands and consumers through UX, web design, graphic desi...
Strategically Classic, Digitally Remastered
We are a bold collection of talented professionals on a mission to create inspired solutions that move merchandise, build brands, and change lives. At Bigbuzz we believe that growing a brand in the connected age begins with creating meaningful relationship...
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 ...
AWARD-WINNING SEO AGENCY
✅ Page 1 Rankings On Google And Bing (w/case studies) ✅ 20k Billed On Upwork w/98% job success rating ✅ 100+ Online Reviews On Google, Facebook, Yelp, Trustpilot & More Welcome to Pearl Lemon. Headed up by social media influencer in his own right Deep...
To Honor To Inspire
The Charles NYC is an award-winning full service digital agency specializing in strategic, creative, digital campaigns and websites for forward-thinking media and lifestyle companies and luxury fashion brands. With offices in New York, London and Chicago...