Chicago Creative Agencies and Design Firms
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DEKSIA
Branding, Digital Strategy, Web, Advertising, and Marketing Strategy
WE MAKE MAGIC - MARKETING BY ENTREPRENEURS, FOR ENTREPRENEURS. We started Deksia because, as entrepreneurs, we were sick of agencies wasting our money on marketing that turned out to be more “creative” art project than sales engine. Fifteen years later, we’ve developed a framework for quickly and efficiently creating marketing that grows our clients’ businesses. The success of our method shows in being a #1-ranked agency nationally according to real client feedback by collected by an independent third party. Our reputation is based on the real results we achieve for our clients, not meaningless industry awards. YOUR VISION MATTERS Our driving mission, the desire that motivates our every decision, is to “Give people a fighting chance.” We believe in the power of an entrepreneur’s vision to change the world when it’s communicated with clarity, passion, and purpose. We’ve seen the way employee’s labor is ennobled the moment an organization finds the right message. We’ve been witness to the many customer lives that have been improved by discovering the right solution to their situation when our clients begin to market well for the first time. Marketing is about a lot more than the transactional, dollars-and-cents nuts and bolts of business. It gives voice to and helps shape the heart, the soul, the values that give every organization its energy and purpose. And that’s the true magic of marketing: it doesn’t just make your business more profitable, it makes everything in your business better.
Propaganda
Branding, Digital Strategy, Web, Advertising, and Marketing Strategy
REALIZE THE POWER OF YOUR TRUE BRAND - We are a fully integrated brand strategy and design firm that creates meaningful brand experiences. We are consumer insights based and strategy driven. We believe in the power of True Branding, a process that binds your organization’s delivery of your promise to the desires and behaviors of your audience around the singular purpose your brand serves in their lives.
avanade
Web, Digital Strategy, User Experience, Mobile, and AR VR
WE TRANSFORM BUSINESSES FOR THE DIGITAL ERA - Avanade is the leading provider of innovative digital and cloud solutions focused on design-led user experiences delivered through the power of people and the Microsoft ecosystem. Our professionals bring bold, fresh thinking combined with technology, business and industry expertise to help fuel transformation and growth for our clients and their customers. Avanade has 30,000 digitally connected people across 24 countries, bringing clients the best thinking through a collaborative culture that honors diversity and reflects the communities in which we operate.
HANGAR12
Social Media, Promotions, and Digital Strategy
THINK CONSUMER FIRST. - HANGAR12 is a leading independent brand activation agency for national and global consumer package goods. We believe that everything starts with your consumer. That’s our only rule. Our Consumer First® approach enables collaboration with your consumers throughout our creative process to ensure successful activation of your brand. We've been leading with this approach for highly recognizable brands in the food & beverage, snacks, household, personal care, retail, and home & office categories. HANGAR12 is ranked a TOP 100 promotion agency in the U.S. for over ten years. We are strategists, creatives and insight specialists who love to connect brands with consumers in innovative and meaningful ways. Our in-house team is fully remote, allowing us to retain a diverse group of top CPG talent and focus on speed to market. - Consumer Promotion - Shopper Marketing - Digital Marketing - Social Media
Blue Chip
Branding, Shopper Marketing, and Media
WE MAKE WHAT MATTERS - Independent, creative marketing agency based in Chicago with proven expertise in brand and shopper marketing. We offer the talent and scale of a holding company with the urgency and ownership of a private agency. We are difference makers. We make what matters. Get in touch: Dan Eisenberg [email protected] 847-418-8082
Upshot
Marketing Strategy, Content Marketing, and Shopper Marketing
WE CREATE BRAND EXCITEMENT - Upshot is a Chicago-based marketing agency with about 150 people. We are part of the Advantage Solutions family. We’ve been inspiring people to engage, share and buy world-class brands for twenty-five years. Culture is truly important to us and we believe creativity throughout the process makes the difference in great work. We’ve been honored for our creativity and marketing effectiveness, and ranked a Top Workplace in Chicago six times by the Chicago Tribune. We’re a top agency in Ad Age’s Agency Report Card; a Hub Magazine Top 20 Shopper Marketing Agency; a Chief Marketer Top Marketing Agency; and listed on Crain’s Chicago Largest Digital Agencies. WE CREATE BRAND EXCITEMENT Excitement is not a buzzword. It’s a biological fact. When we experience excitement, we feel it. And as we feel, we are pushed to act. And as we act, our minds remember. Excitement drives people to feel, act and remember—a perfect circle of physical and psychological state of mind that creates an ideal state for long lasting brand engagement. Our in-house strategy, research, digital and media capabilities are designed to identify cultural and behavioral truths that have the best potential for driving brand excitement. We then create evocative stories and experiences that drive consumer elation, immersion, conversion and ultimately inspire brand admiration. WE’RE BUILT FOR CROSS-FUNCTIONAL SPEED We’re the agile choice for brand organizations that require nimble solutions and don’t want to deal with a staggered process or manage multiple agencies. We’re diverse in expertise and skillset, bringing strategy, creative, media and activation capabilities together under one roof. We close the gap between strategy and execution so you can move at the speed of your business.
Flair Interactive Services Inc.
Web, Search, and Inbound Marketing
ABOUT US - TRANSFORM YOUR MARKETING AND GET BETTER RESULTS WITH FLAIR. Flair Interactive is a digital marketing agency based in the Chicago area. It was founded in 1995 by Lisa Kirschner. We are a certified Hubspot partner, a certified Digital Marketer agency and a member of the Google Partners program. We help companies get results with their online marketing efforts, including web sites, landing pages, blogs, social media, keywords, forms and calls to action (CTAs). Whether you need help defining a marketing strategy, choosing a web content management system or executing your day-to-day marketing tactics, you can count on us to get it done on time, under budget and with great results.
Novus Media
Advertising, Direct Marketing, and Media
100% BUILT AND FOCUSED ON LOCAL MEDIA - Our Specialty: Understanding who and WHERE people are is more important than ever to drive incremental business results—be it store foot traffic, improved ROI, or sales volume. We know from our work with dozens of clients and categories that customized geography equals incrementality. The Key: We use local insights to create balanced, relevant, customized programs for every partner we work with. Our insights light a clear path toward connecting with your customers — not just where they live, but wherever they go. PRINT, DIGITAL, OOH, VIDEO, AUDIO OUR ANALYTICS INFORM ACTION At NOVUS, we build profitable strategies from a foundation of robust data, powerful tools and intelligent analytics. We get to know your objectives, then discover detailed nuances about your customers and your market — and it all results in a customized program to boost performance and growth CONSUMER + MARKET INTELLIGENCE MEASUREMENT + OPTIMIZATION TARGETING DATA MANAGEMENT
Aisle Rocket
Advertising and E-Commerce
FULL-SERVICE MARKETING & CREATIVE SERVICES AGENCY - Aisle Rocket is a different kind of agency, focused entirely on delivering results. By unifying marketing and creative services backed by data and technology, Aisle Rocket drives revenue through best-in-class creative, e-commerce and media execution. Aisle Rocket’s Atlas managed Customer Data Platform (CDP) harnesses a brand’s 1st-party data to inform omnichannel online and offline media campaigns, supported by world-class creative, content, and UX. Aisle Rocket merged with Target Data Corp in 2020 shortly after Target Data Corp. acquired Social Fulcrum in 2019. All three agencies combined and branded under the name Aisle Rocket.
Pendulum Creative
Experiential Marketing
CREATIVE PRODUCTION HOUSE - With our extensive background in the experiential industry, we bring a curated network of co-creators together to execute & expand upon any objective set in front of us, operating as the ideal agency partner. As experts in live event production, technology, and fabrication, we channel our passion for immersive experiences to bring your event from rendering to reality.
Magnani
Innovation
CRAFTING BEAUTIFUL DIGITAL EXPERIENCES. - Magnani is an experience design and strategy firm. We partner with our clients at the intersection of human-centered design and business strategy to craft beautiful digital experiences, products and brands people love. Inc. Best Workplaces 2018, Top 15 UX Companies in the USA by UpCity, Top UX/UI Designers by Clutch.co, Top Marketing Consultants in the USA by UpCity, #2 by Agency Spotter
STUDIO KAST
Branding
THOUGHTFUL, CUSTOM, FAST CREATIVE - STUDIO KAST is an award winning full service graphic design firm. We offer branding services, identity programs, infographics, marketing communications pieces, packaging, print design in all forms: ads, signage, conceptual work, production, custom illustration and digital design. We partner with clients that need custom, thoughtful creative combined with fast turn around times. We excel at pushing projects forward–both creatively and physically–with the least amount of work for our clients, always striving to produce the highest quality product–on time and on budget. The firm was founded to address the needs of clients who require a simplified way to get custom creative. We are uniquely structured, employing full time designers and managers on staff and utilizing freelancers, photographers, illustrators and multiple employee firms to combine and recombine talents and ideas in new ways. Highly skilled people of all different levels are brought together so that our clients receive fast moving, specialized tasks all under one central management structure that controls cost, increases the quality of the end product and reduces the amount of management work for our clients.
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