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.
PEOPLE. IDEAS. RESULTS. - Critical Mass is a Digital Experience Design Agency with a relentless focus on the customer. Founded in Calgary in 1996, the agency has been designing meaningful customer experiences that transform clients' business for 20 years. At 850 people strong, Critical Mass operates globally from offices in Calgary, Toronto, Chicago, New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, Cupertino, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brazil and Costa Rica and is part of Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC), the leading global marketing communications company. For more information on Critical Mass, please visit us at www.criticalmass.com.
BRINGING HUMANITY TO THE DIGITAL AGE SINCE 2000 - Tribal Worldwide is an idea agency with a passion for technology. At the heart of our positioning is a single mantra that guides everything we do: Bringing Humanity to the Digital Age. We revolt against a blind pursuit of ideas or tactics that utilize the latest technology just because it’s the latest technology. We don’t aspire to make shiny objects that are left to tarnish on the shelf because consumers never use them. We exist to connect consumers and brands in meaningful ways that drive business results. These connections are always driven by powerful ideas, and powerful ideas are always a result of insights into human nature, brand essence, business strategies, and relevant technologies. Sometimes our ideas take the form of advertising or content. Sometimes our ideas take the form of always-on platforms. And, sometimes our ideas take the form of innovations to product or service designs. Because powerful ideas must sometimes live as individual tactics, we organize our way of working into a proprietary Battle Planning process. We use these Plans to better align digital and traditional marketing strategies as well as coordinate a vast ecosystem of digital touch points and interactions in ways that achieve specific and measurable objectives. The Battle Planning process is collaborative, analytical, and practical.
THE WORK, THE WORK, THE WORK - BBDO MPLS opened its doors over 80 years ago – as the first outpost of the BBDO network, which now has over 280 offices worldwide. Since then we’ve been proud to serve as both a cornerstone and springboard for the Twin Cities advertising industry. Today our team of almost 50 produces an impressive roster of digital and traditional work for clients including 3M, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Andersen Windows and our longstanding collaborators at Hormel Foods. We’re smart, curious and diligent, delivering brand strategy, consumer insights, media services, and all manner of creative, production and digital development. We also frequently collaborating with our network sisters and brothers around the world to benefit our local clients. It’s this blend of capabilities, connections and talent that make us THE SMALLEST BIGGEST AGENCY IN THE MIDWEST.
CO-ACTIVATION POWERED BY OMNICOM - Our four equal disciplines of advertising, public relations, digital and social all report to one profit center. This equal balance means that every discipline has an equal voice, and Bright Red has the ability to truly prescribe what will work for your brand without prejudice to the solution. Our solutions are based on individual client needs, not the limitations of a traditional agency structure. It’s a model we call CO-ACTIVATION and we put it to work for clients such as Pilot Pen, Domino Sugar, Hunter Fan, Dollywood, Cooper Tire, Krystal and Cayman Islands. The benefit of working with an Omnicom agency is seamless integration with a multitude of powerful companies, generating a resounding impact as a result of the purchasing power and incredible resources available to their agency partners. Bright Red is part of the Omnicom Collective, a group of highly creative and independent minded agencies that bring unique and distinctive benefits to their clients.
WORLDWIDE COMMUNICATIONS LEADER - Ketchum is a leading global communications firm with operations in more than 70 countries across six continents. The winner of 14 Cannes Lions and an unprecedented four PRWeek Campaign of the Year Awards, Ketchum partners with clients to deliver strategic programming, game-changing creative and measurable results that build brands and reputations.
WHY WE'RE UNIQUE - Goodby Silverstein & Partners is a full-service advertising agency based in San Francisco. We are a creative company that puts people at the center of everything we do. We work with both clients and consumers in an atmosphere of honesty and truth, wiping away preconceptions and learning together. Our mission is to create experiences that reach millions and even billions, but seem to speak only to you. We call this effect mass intimacy. The smarter, braver work that results from this approach brings people closer to our clients’ businesses, gets them to care, and urges them to take action. Because great work is only great if it reaps results.
WHY WE'RE UNIQUE - At DDB, we believe that creativity is the most powerful force in the business—while we happen to be an advertising agency, our goal is to help our partners apply creativity across their entire business in any way that will help drive growth for their business. We thrive on finding new ways to build brand experiences that get noticed, people feel something and live naturally in the same world as their consumers. On top of that, we love what we do and we are willing to roll up our sleeves and work alongside our clients. We see ourselves creating products, creating movements, creating habits, and influencing our culture, all in a way that ties back to measurable, meaningful business results. We want to be a beacon for new trends and ideas; we want to be a great place to start or advance our employees’ careers, a place where employees, clients and partners come to harness the power of creativity. We believe in the power of creativity to fuel business growth, and while creativity is at the heart of what we do, it is a means, not an end. Our benchmark is our ability to create successful ideas that tap into our world and the industry’s changing landscape. And our long-term success will be dictated not just by our ability to tell the world what we believe, but by our ability to change the way the world thinks about our industry.
ABOUT MARINA MAHER COMMUNICATIONS - MMC is a creatively-led, digitally-driven agency rooted in the power of influence. We craft the stories, content and conversations that get noticed and shared because they intersect people in the most relevant and effective ways. And although we have over 30 years of experience in PR, earned media and communications, we are a full-service agency that is limited only by our own creativity – so, if we can think it, we can do it. We are Artfully Persuasive. Through equal parts creativity and data/science, we are ridiculously effective at getting people talking, thinking and behaving differently. We are team of brand builders, storytellers, artists, mad (data) scientists, tech junkies and trendsensors, armed with powerful ideas and a strong point of view on what’s going to move the needle. We also rely on our powerful network of influencers to share our clients’ messages and deliver them in authentic and unexpected ways.
ABOUT US - At DDB, we believe that creativity is the most powerful force in the business—while we happen to be an advertising agency, our goal is to help our partners apply creativity across their entire business in any way that will help drive growth for their business. We thrive on finding new ways to build brand experiences that get noticed, people feel something and live naturally in the same world as their consumers. On top of that, we love what we do and we are willing to roll up our sleeves and work alongside our clients. We see ourselves creating products, creating movements, creating habits, and influencing our culture, all in a way that ties back to measurable, meaningful business results. We want to be a beacon for new trends and ideas; we want to be a great place to start or advance our employees’ careers, a place where employees, clients and partners come to harness the power of creativity. We believe in the power of creativity to fuel business growth, and while creativity is at the heart of what we do, it is a means, not an end. Our benchmark is our ability to create successful ideas that tap into our world and the industry’s changing landscape. And our long-term success will be dictated not just by our ability to tell the world what we believe, but by our ability to change the way the world thinks about our industry.
ABOUT INNOVYX - We are an email and messaging agency that leverages best in class tools and processes to deliver game-changing outcomes. By providing our clients with consultative services, exceptional client support, data-driven processes, and flawless execution we create and deliver impactful campaigns that integrate all aspects of digital messaging to generate a greater return on investment and measurable results. We partner with our clients to provide our expertise and knowledge within the digital messaging realm. Innovative and strategic thinking allows us to work collaboratively with clients and partners to optimize and enhance the customer experience and so bring outstanding business benefit.
ABOUT US - Doremus is the B2B specialist of the Omnicom Group. Nobody understands the complexity of B2B audiences and their community ecosystems as well as Doremus—and how to start conversations that drive demand. We connect people, cultures and businesses. Telling great stories with data-driven insights, we connect the dots, making people think, feel and act and have been doing so since 1903. With offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Frankfurt, Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong, we are a full-service, global agency wired to challenge the status quo—delivering state-of-the-art capabilities and cross-disciplinary thinking that not only positions clients but depositions the competition.
WHY WE'RE UNIQUE - Alcone is a leading Brand Activation agency. With 30 years of promotional marketing expertise and an in-depth knowledge of the latest technology, we conceive and execute promotional, shopper and retail marketing programs for leading brands. As activation experts, we understand what it takes to motivate consumers and shoppers beyond engagement to action. Our strategies drive trial, upsizing, building average transaction size, frequency and loyalty. And, our ideas help differentiate your brand in an ownable way. More than measuring awareness, likes, shares and tweets - we measure the success of our programs with sales. http://blog.alcone.com/
ENERGY BBDO - Based in Chicago, Energy BBDO is a lead global agency offering within BBDO Worldwide, the world's most awarded agency network for creativity and effectiveness. The BBDO mantra has always been "The Work. The Work. The Work." In the absence of great work, nothing else matters. At Energy BBDO, The Work energizes people through the unique combination of evocative storytelling and experiences. Energized people engage with The Work, like when they shared Extra's "The Story of Sarah & Juan" over a million times on Facebook in a single week, driving over 75 million views before a dime was spent on media. Or when they made Ziploc the 2nd highest engaging brand on Pinterest by turning to the brand for tips and tricks for containing life's chaos. Or when they created and shared over 14 million new potato chip flavor ideas for Lay's, resulting in a $99 million sales increase. This type of consumer energy drives a brand's business forward, leading four of our clients to win 2015 Effie Awards for creativity that drives business success.
RETAIL AND SHOPPER MARKETING LEADER - The Integer Group is one of the world's largest promotional, retail, and shopper marketing agencies. Integer lives at the Intersection of Branding and Selling® and creates strategic marketing solutions for clients.
WHO WE ARE - We are a communications agency obsessed with our clients’ success. Great simply isn’t good enough for us. We create connections that count, turning brands’ audiences into activists and stakeholders into strategic partners. We are clever storytellers that help companies find their voice and make it heard. We knock the norm with every aspect of communications, creating custom-designed campaigns that impact and inspire. For more than 20 years we’ve built trusted partnerships with companies who seek to stand apart — from global brand names to emerging growth companies and start-ups. Our obsession extends to our staff. We are committed to every employee’s career growth, continually learning and living in the crossroads of the latest technologies, smarter data and passion for the craft, adding cultural and business savvy that set our staff a cut above the rest. We believe in teamwork and collaboration — the us before the me. And hey, we have fun.
THE LEADING BRAND CONSULTANCY - At Interbrand, we believe that growth is achieved when an organization has a clear strategy and delivers exceptional customer experiences. We do both, through a combination of strategy, creativity, and technology that helps drive growth for our clients’ brands and businesses. With a network of 24 offices in 17 countries, Interbrand is a global brand consultancy, and publisher of the highly influential annual Best Global Brands and Breakthrough Brands reports, and Webby Award-winning brandchannel. Interbrand is part of the Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE:OMC) network of agencies. For more information, please contact us, or follow Interbrand on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
ABOUT US - We use data to connect brands with customers and drive profitable behaviors. Contact us when you want the confidence that comes from customer relationship marketing designed to improve performance and mitigate risk.
ABOUT ADAM&EVEDDB - adam&eveDDB is a unique communications company made up of people from advertising, design, digital, technical, social media and direct. We have a simple mission; to work with our client partners to make brilliant work that works. We are defined by having a highly interactive, open way of working - we have a fast-moving, fast-working and collaborative culture. We all sit together, intermingled so that we create a single family of skills to benefit our clients. Clients and the public respond powerfully to our work because we unlock the reasons why brands are loved and then create inspiring and hugely effective communications.
DISRUPTION AND MEDIA ARTS - TBWA\Chiat\Day is part of TBWA Worldwide (www.tbwa.com) and has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Nashville. TBWA is a top ten ranked global advertising network that holds Disruption® at its core to develop business-changing ideas for the brands it works with. TBWA has 11,100 employees across 323 offices in 97 countries and also includes brands such as Auditoire, BEING, Digital Arts Network (DAN), eg+ Worldwide, The Integer Group® , TBWA\Media Arts Lab and TBWA\WorldHealth. TBWA’s global clients include Accenture, adidas, Apple, Energizer, Gatorade, GSK, Henkel, Infiniti, Kraft, McDonald’s, Michelin, Nissan, Pernod Ricard, Pfizer, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Airlines, Sotheby’s and Vichy. TBWA is part of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) (www.omnicomgroup.com), a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.
DISRUPTIVE IDEAS THROUGH MEDIA ARTS - TBWA creates and manages brand behavior in the modern world through Disruptive Ideas brought to life across the Media Arts landscape. Our focus is not only to be the best advertising agency network but also to be one of the most creative companies in the world. And with the world, and our network, growing even more complex, it is important to have common ground. Disruption is always our starting point for any brand, global or local. Not only does it drive the strategic development of our client solutions by challenging and overturning the conventions of any marketplace; it also creates a common language and understanding across our network for the brands we lead. Defining the Disruptive Strategy, however, is only half of the equation. The other half is to make sure that we craft an idea brief from the right perspectives and engage the right disciplines so that we make full use of the Media Arts landscape. Every agency in the TBWA network is fluent in Disruption and Media Arts. It means that we are all constantly evaluating and documenting the shifts in the media landscape and their impact on audience behavior. And it is this commitment that allows us to serve global brands differently than our competition. TBWA is ranked as a top-10 worldwide advertising agency and was recognized by Advertising Age in 2010 as the “Best International Network of the Decade.” Fast Company magazine placed TBWA 24th on its 2009 list of “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” and as an Innovation All-Star in 2010.
WHY WE'RE UNIQUE - Welcome to PHD. We launched as the first planning-led media agency in the UK in 1990 and today we have over 4,000 people in over 80 offices worldwide. Our agency has been built on a culture of smart strategic thinking, creativity and innovation that delivers effective solutions for the business needs of our diverse client base of local, national and international clients. Driven by our philosophy of ‘finding a better way’, we are renowned for being one of the most forward-thinking media agencies, by challenging convention and breaking new ground in communications thinking. PHD is today one of the most acclaimed media and communication agency networks. We were named Media Network of the Year 2015 by Campaign magazine and our offices around the world are recognised too – from our founding office in the UK being named a Sunday Times ‘Best Company to work for’ for the past 3 years, through to over 50 Agency of the Year awards across the network in the same period. The PHD network is part of the Omnicom Media Group (www.omnicommediagroup.com), a division of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC)
DIGITAL. INTEGRATED. GLOBAL. - A global leader in marketing and communications and one of the industry’s most recognized public relations agencies, Fleishman-Hillard Inc. has built its reputation on creating integrated solutions that deliver what its clients value most: meaningful, positive and measurable impact on the performance of their organizations. The firm is widely recognized for excellent client service and a strong company culture founded on teamwork, integrity and personal commitment. Based in St. Louis, the firm operates throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa and Latin America through its 80 owned offices. Fleishman-Hillard continues to live by the code of ethics we established on day one. They’re guiding principles we believe should never go out of style — mutual respect, teamwork and old-fashioned “client comes first” customer service. At the same time, the global tapestry of talent that is “our team” continues to cultivate new knowledge, growing and evolving along with an industry we’ve been an integral part of since 1946.
ABOUT US - Hearts & Science has been inspired by confident marketers seeking business advantage in a world of personalized digital marketing, where CRM and addressable channels converge, and decisions must be made in real time to aggregate effective reach and deliver the right message at the right time. Designed to inform brand strategies with real-time insights, Hearts & Science is a data-driven marketing agency with expert media planning and buying capabilities, among other services that include shopper marketing, marketing innovation and content activation.
WHY WE'RE UNIQUE - Porter Novelli is one of the world’s leading public relations agencies. With 90 offices in nearly 60 countries, Porter Novelli delivers best-in-class service to clients around the globe. As the agency that pioneered social marketing, Porter Novelli’s heritage is grounded in influence – motivating people to change deeply ingrained behaviors that are rooted in cultural and social norms. This is achieved by identifying and activating against key insights that drive transformational change-- going beyond just “solving a problem,” The result is greater than just influencing people – Porter Novelli makes them believe. For additional information, please visit www.porternovelli.com. Porter Novelli is a part of Diversified Agency Services, a division of Omnicom Group Inc.
TARGETING PROFITABLE GROWTH - We are experts in multi-channel customer acquisition who help our clients make complex targeting decisions, optimize marketing investment and generate profitable growth. WHAT WE DO We make targeting and channel integration simpler and more profitable by leveraging strategy, analytics and creativity. HOW WE DO IT We use lifetime value as a lens to focus on strategic marketing opportunities. We generate a Predictor Score and apply it to online and offline databases for modeling purposes. We segment your most valuable prospects based on needs, attitudes and behaviors and map each segment’s unique shopping pathway. We rank order customer acquisition marketing opportunities across multiple channels and recommend your most profitable strategy. We create highly engaging, breakthrough multichannel campaigns that leverage our proficient understanding of each channel and your prospects. WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT Our experience in regulated markets like insurance, financial services, telecom and healthcare allows us to understand complex customer acquisition challenges that face marketers in these industries and others. We create unique solutions that optimize your marketing investment in response to your prospects’ behavior. We help you leverage data so you can rapidly and precisely recalibrate your marketing mix. We have the “can do” attitude of a small agency, and the resources and strength of Omnicom, the world’s most respected Agency network.
THE WORK, THE WORK, THE WORK. - Who We Are: BBDO is the world's most awarded and effective advertising agency with 15,000 employees in 289 offices across 81 countries. Our Mission: In 1989, our Courts Furnishing client said, “I just want to sell more carpet.” It was a simple request, but one that continues to get to the core of why we exist. Because we’re here to create great work that works great. We help our clients ‘sell more’ through The Work. The Work. The Work. - Work that changes consumer behavior. - Work that tells a brand’s story across all channels and mediums. - Work that is an economic multiplier for our clients businesses. We believe, quite simply, that in the absence of great work, nothing else matters.
ABOUT OMD - Most Creative Media Agency Network, 11 years in a row || Gunn Report Agency Network of the Year, 2016 || Festival of Media The Most Medaled Media Agency in Cannes, 2016 || Cannes Lions Global Media Agency of the Year, 2014 & 2013 || AdWeek As a part of the Omnicom Group, we represent $42.3 billion global clout, 100+ countries, 140+ offices, and 11,000+ employees. Our core philosophy drives us to deliver insights that unlock demand potential, ideas that ignite consumer desire and results that accelerate business growth for our clients. We are a dynamic, creative and influential agency network that collectively combines to make OMD the most awarded agency network in the world.
WHY WE'RE UNIQUE - WHO Tribal Worldwide is a global digital agency. A full horse stable creative enough to help our customers through economic downturns, help those who are growing, and even help those who do not know they need help. WHAT It is safe to say that we do great, fantastic and unusual work. WHY If you've worked with us in the past, you know that our passion is contagious. It's the same passion that helps us overcome limits and creative obstacles.
WHY WE'RE UNIQUE - SpikeDDB, a joint partnership between filmmaker Spike Lee and Omnicom Group's DDB Worldwide, opened its doors in 1997. Now headquartered in the creatively burgeoning D.U.M.B.O. area of Brooklyn, the agency focuses on fully integrated communications targeted at trendsetter, transcultural and millennial audiences. Its mission is to help evolve brands by activating their cultural connections. SpikeDDB has a range of clients including General Motors' largest automaker, Chevrolet and Cadillac the nations fastest growing luxury brand. More information can be found at www.spikeddb.com.
ABOUT US - We are a full-service, integrated marketing agency offering strategic solutions to our clients across all disciplines. We were founded as an agency that removed the boundaries between strategy, content, and delivery. We moved from the traditional linear communications model, in which ideas are handed off from strategy to creative to media, to one that is the sum of strategy+creative+media working seamlessly to develop solutions. It made us different in the past; it makes us ideal for the future. Unlike most agencies, we have never unbundled our media, digital, design, and CRM disciplines. They all live here in the same space and on the same P+L. Our approach gives us a full-angle view of the possibilities. Boundaries stifle success; removing them breed it. And we like to have a lot of fun in the process!
ABOUT US - In 1949, three enterprising gentlemen, Bill Bernbach, Ned Doyle and Maxwell Dane gave the advertising industry a wake-up call. They introduced a new approach to marketing that relied on insight into human nature, respect for the consumer, and the power of creativity. In short, they said: Let's stop talking at people and let's start conversations that lead to action. This heritage is a unique strength that continually tells us who we are, what we believe and how we should behave. It inspires us to continually challenge standard convention. From Bill Bernbach to Keith Reinhard to the present generation of DDB leaders, we are continuing the revolution.
