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Movers+Shakers was one of the first agencies to venture into the TikTok space, and it’s found booming success at the forefront of the social revolution.
Founded in 2016 as a collaboration between Broadway performer and director Geoffrey Goldberg and marketing expert Evan Horowitz, Movers+Shakers has grown exponentially through its smart use of culture and social media, elevating brands through TikTok and other platforms. The agency now has offices in New York and Los Angeles.
“We were one of the first agencies to identify TikTok as an emerging platform back in early 2019, when it was very fringe,” Horowitz says. “Our early work on TikTok became quite famous—it made TikTok famous.”
The agency first worked with cosmetics company e.l.f. to develop the #eyeslipsface hashtag challenge and a 15-second original song called “Eyes.Lips.Face.” Since that blew up on the then-fledgling social platform, Movers+Shakers has gone on to create successful campaigns for other brands, including Amazon, Mattel and Match.
The agency recently surpassed 150 billion views on its TikTok campaigns, but Goldberg and Horowitz note that it isn’t just a TikTok agency.
“One of the things that allowed us to keep growing is that we keep innovating and helping find new ways for brands to connect to culture,” Horowitz says. “We want to help them build cultural relevance, cool-factor buzz, and that’s why brands are really flocking to us in a big way.”
To keep up with that culture, the agency looks not only to social media, but also to microcultures and influencers, and it has started offering unique nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, to super fans in order to raise awareness and interest in brands through the bidding process, and courting brand collaborations, as it did successfully with e.l.f. and Chipotle on a food-inspired makeup line.
Goldberg says the agency is building an agile model that lets it listen constantly to cultural conversations and activate campaigns quickly.
“That’s what’s led to a lot of these really cool campaigns, because they’re really culturally relevant,” he says.
For its ability to keep a finger on the pulse of culture and execute viral campaigns, Movers+Shakers tops Adweek’s Fastest Growing agencies list, with over 2,000% growth over the past three years. —K.O.
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Wpromote challenges every client to think like a challenger—even century-old Whirlpool, which the agency is helping accelerate as a direct-to-consumer business. Wpromote has built that mindset through the development of its talent, investing in every employee to turn them into subject matter experts through training and mentorship.
Chief relationship officer Mike Stone says Wpromote prides itself on giving employees clear career growth. They, in turn, recruit more talent, which results in Wpromote building teams that clients like Avail, Spanx and Transunion love. And all that leads to 1,550% growth over the past three years. The agency is growing rapidly, with nearly 700 current employees, and it projects to grow to 800 by the end of 2021 and hit about 1,000 during 2022.
“We’re able to bring in a lot of high achievers, and we can give them a path for growth within our business,” says Stone.
Wpromote’s success with talent, he says, goes hand in hand with tech. Its Polaris tool fuels the agency’s nimbleness, helping automate tasks like monitoring the pacing and planning of media budgets and how well creative is performing across platforms.
Ultimately, that leads employees to think more about the strategy and less about work that could burn them out. “[Polaris] leads to more strategic conversations with the client to get to a better growth outcome,” Stone says. —Jameson Fleming
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1353427
James Dressing founded KLIK in his apartment bedroom about three years ago after recognizing a blind spot among agencies: When they were fixated on creativity, they often forgot to consider data.
“Agencies really didn’t understand business models well,” says the founder and CEO of KLIK, which now has 49 employees. “They had a really tough time working with data to understand how to hit cost of acquisition goals, performance metrics and awareness numbers.”
KLIK started out with education-technology clients and has ventured into the fin-tech, CPG and nonprofit spaces. Dressing is proudest of his agency’s work with United Way, which focused on reevaluating the nonprofit’s media approach to increase donations at the lowest possible cost.
KLIK helped United Way boost its donations with a TikTok campaign starring Seattle Seahawks’ quarterback Russell Wilson. The agency also helped the nonprofit during an end-of-year giving campaign. As a result, the organization saw six times more donations, a $500,000 increase in individual donations and more than 14,000 content clicks. Among KLIK’s other success stories with clients are leading Golden Gate University to a 50% decrease in cost per lead and boosting online education platform GetSmarter’s leads by 66%.
“The goal at KLIK is to help clients better fit their business model into the marketing space from a data-first standpoint,” Dressing says. —Emmy Liederman
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1353428
Whtwrks is a strategy, production and creative agency whose mission is to depict people of color in a positive and genuine way. The founders describe it as a Black business that connects culturally with consumers, and brands see an inherent value in having Whtwrks’ expertise in the space.
Whtwrks co-founder Martin Ekechukwu tells Adweek his agency has grown because it presented itself “more obviously as being Black-owned with a core expertise in culture, cultural storytelling and authenticity.” It utilizes its unique point of view to help brands better reach Black, brown and Asian audiences.
To keep the agency’s growth strong, Whtwrks plans to showcase its award-winning work to raise the profile of the business, while adding additional team members to help handle the increased workload. “We have not needed to expand out our business development thus far because of how much incoming we receive,” says Ekechukwu. —K.O.
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1353429
RingoFire isn’t shy about letting its clients know the founders started the shop without ever working for an ad agency. In fact, they gave themselves the moniker “unagency” as a nod to their paths through brand marketing and corporate offices to the creation of the Greenville, S.C.-based agency.
“I managed many agencies when I was at the corporate level, so I knew what I liked and didn’t like about them,” says founder Brian Stearns, who is a partner alongside brothers Richard and Marco Carrizales. “I decided to kind of build something that was more like a support system consultancy with agency-type people.”
Stearns says RingoFire, which quickly outgrew its office and has moved into a four-building campus at an old weaving mill, has been doubling its revenue every year since it was founded, while tripling revenue growth in the past year due to its clients’ successes during the pandemic—the agency works heavily with home improvement and consumer goods brands. In total, its three-year growth amounted to a staggering 746%.
RingoFire, which bills itself as a full-service agency with a full production studio, works with Lowe’s, specifically on some of its house brands like Cobalt and Project Source, and it recently launched its first national TV spot on Discovery for Apex Tool Group. —J.F.
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1353430
Neil Patel, a marketing consultant and trusted source of all things SEO, has been tapped by some of the world’s biggest advertisers—Amazon, Facebook and Google, to name a few. But after being overwhelmed by client demand, Patel decided to start his own agency in 2017.
So, working alongside co-founder Mike Kamo, he introduced NP Digital, which has grown from a consulting firm to a one-stop-shop for performance marketing services like SEO, paid social media and paid search. The company is not beholden to shareholders, which CEO Michael Gullaksen says has contributed to its ability to innovate and grow.
“Coming from a consultancy background to a media background is a very unique way to approach performance marketing,” he says. “Not being tied to legacy, nondigital heritage helps us grow a little bit faster than performance agencies that are part of holding companies.”
Clients of NP Digital, which brands itself as the “alternative to the agency status quo,” include Adobe, Party City and Fiji Water. The company expects 2021 revenue to hit $70 million, a 112% increase from 2020.
“Over the last few years, agencies have been so focused on profitability, which has created a difficult relationship with clients,” says Gullaksen. “We deliver a high-quality product while focusing on client satisfaction and our employees.” —E.L.
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1353431
We Are Rosie was founded by Stephanie Nadi Olson in 2018 with a mission of supporting its people while providing a workplace that treats everyone with dignity and access to opportunity. It is a flexible talent platform that pairs Fortune 500 brands and their agencies with independent marketing talent, who can be hired for numerous projects.
“I determined I wanted to dedicate my life to supporting people who are marginalized by the rigid systems of work,” Olson, one of Adweek’s Women Trailblazers, told Adweek earlier this year.
The fully remote agency noted that it saw thousands of highly skilled marketers opt out of the traditional way of working—most of them from marginalized, underrepresented or underserved groups. So, it created a viable way for them to work on terms that work for them, and for brands to access that trove of talent efficiently.
We Are Rosie is now a thriving community of over 9,000 diverse and highly skilled independent marketers, helping companies like Bumble, Facebook and IBM maximize their agility, resilience, inclusion and creativity. New major enterprise client wins for We Are Rosie include Microsoft, Facebook, Diageo and IHG. —K.O.
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1353432
To cut its customer acquisition costs on Facebook, Colgate-Palmolive turned to Amasa to drive down costs for its Hum IoT-enabled toothbrush. Within a few weeks, Amasa had cut that cost in half, says CEO Alex Brown. That success led to working on more services like CRM and media buying across Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok.
“We pride ourselves on being, in addition to a performance marketing agency, a very full-funnel agency,” Brown says, adding the agency dives into its clients’ entire business. “We just really want to understand the entire user experience and the entire customer journey from end to end.”
According to Brown, the agency, which has grown revenue 541% over the past three years, works with clients that spend at least $50,000 on media each year, but also has an incubator program for fledgling ecommerce businesses that can’t hit that threshold. Brown says the program, a 12-week boot camp that provides deliverables including a comprehensive analysis of the client’s business and recommendations on media buying, helps distinguish Amasa from its competitors.
Currently, the San Diego-based agency has about 30 employees, but Brown hopes to reach 50 in 2022 to support the shop’s exponential growth. —J.F.
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1353433
As the CEO of Digible, a Denver-based agency that specializes in multifamily and apartment marketing, Reid Wicoff wants to embrace industry innovation while ensuring every employee is aware of their value. Since founding the company in 2017, Wicoff has hired 53 full-time employees and over the past three years, revenue has grown 460%. He attributes that growth to Digible’s supportive work environment, which he says facilitates a feeling of job security.
According to Wicoff, “Will I be left behind?” is a common sentiment among marketing professionals as technology continues to develop, which is why he remains determined to craft a people-first culture.
“We need to make sure people are developed properly in the industry and know they have value,” he says. “That culture is a big part of why people love working here. In 10 years from now, you’ll see the same faces.”
Wicoff stressed that helping marketers take pride in their work is a crucial part of employee retention. As the company continues to develop, he is most focused on maintaining that supportive camaraderie while embracing technological innovation.
“We work for each other and not for ourselves, and people are encouraged to be super curious,” he says. “That’s a big part of what drives innovation and better strategy.” —E.L.
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1353434
Adesiem, formerly called Tenshi, set out to solve its clients’ challenges and help them build and execute large-scale advertising and marketing campaigns. In recent years, the agency has become more data-driven, leaning heavily on analyses and data science to produce results that exceed industry benchmarks in terms of returns on ad spend and revenue and business growth.
“Since 2018, we have seen an exponential growth in revenue, which has continued beyond 2020,” a company spokesperson says. “We attribute this growth to our proprietary systems, suites, processes and machine-learning AI that have been in development for half a decade.”
According to the agency, it consistently produces an average of 18 times return on ad spend across industries. Its business model is 90% retainer, with all services included, and the agency doesn’t hold its clients to yearly contracts, so the onus is on its teams to perform. Adesiem boasts a 98% client retention rate since its inception over a decade ago.
Adesiem has built a team of data scientists for heavy data analyses and built custom algorithms and systems to understand its clients’ customers at a granular level, to market to them, cut wasted spend and find new avenues of revenue growth. —K.O.
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1353435
Billion Dollar Boy is a global agency that connects content creators with creative brands to deliver influencer marketing campaigns. The agency has produced over 42,000 pieces of content, activated campaigns across 48 countries and in more than 17 languages and sees influencer marketing as a discipline, not an add-on. The main sources of the agency’s growth have been new business, repeat business and referrals. —Kennyatta Collins
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1353436
As a firm with an exclusive focus on the industrial sector, including construction, manufacturing, green energy and resources, SitePartners provides expertise and insight into its strategic and creative work. Its specialized approach has allowed it to generate strong brand awareness and helped it win multiple new major industrial clients across Canada, in addition to project expansion. —K.C.
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1353437
Phiture is a mobile growth consultancy that uses cutting-edge analytics and deep domain expertise to help its clients grow their mobile apps. Aiming to be leaders in mobile growth in particular, the agency provides App Store optimization, retention and CRM, and a host of premium services to help its clients establish competencies they can eventually take on themselves. —K.C.
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1353438
Tech firm Chicory, a digital shopper marketing platform for CPG and grocery brands, looks to bring efficiency and transparency to grocery shopping. The agency partners with leading CPG brands like Campbell’s and grocery retailers like Wakefern Food Corp. to serve hyper-relevant ads to consumers when they’re planning their grocery purchases. A pioneer of shoppable recipes, Chicory creates digital tools, like contextual, in-recipe ad placements, to harness the power of recipes to get brands in front of millions of shoppers and inspire them to buy. —K.O.
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1353439
Growthbuster provides a unique blend of marketing that has developed some of the fastest-growing companies in America, and its mission is to help people, brands and products give the great legacy companies a run for their money. Growthbuster relies on referrals and its reputation for growth, and is looking to become the go-to agency for businesses that want to grow their apps’ user bases. —K.C.
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1353440
During the pandemic, brand agency Born & Bred, which specializes in launching and growing category disruptors, prioritized its growth efforts for industries, like fin tech, cannabis, b-to-b software and DTC, that were less impacted by the pandemic than others. The consultancy touts its value for venture-backed, category-building challenger brands—like Lumanu and Eaze—and has built its business supporting them, which has led to high retention rates. —K.C.
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1353441
With a commitment to developing digital marketing, Trends Paris utilizes data to provide PR results for its clients. The agency consistently anticipates new markets, and it has landed over 30 new clients between 2020 and 2021 as a result. For Trends Paris, “it’s never about what the market can give, but how it can be driven forward.” —K.C.
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1353442
Thinkingbox is a global creative collective shaping the future of brands like Adobe, Intuit, Riot Games and Pinterest with a diverse team that blends business with technology and creative storytelling. Even though the pandemic proved to be a fierce challenge, Thinkingbox leaned on its core services, and instead of layoffs, it tripled its staff during 2020 and early 2021. —K.C.
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1353443
Pattern’s core principle is that design is “the most powerful differentiator,” and the agency uses that to craft digital experiences that help define its clients. Pattern uses its expertise to guide founders, disruptors and creators through the experience economy. With over 30 awards to its credit, Pattern is “willing to live and die on the quality of work” and attributes its growth to word-of-mouth and reputation. —K.C.
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1353444
SourceCode Communications brings humanity to the forefront of all things PR and communications. Its programs have earned over 30 award nominations and wins in just three years. And a testament to the SourceCode experience is that its primary source of growth has been referrals, even as it continues to hold firm in representing its first client, PCI Pal. —K.C.
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1353445
Leaving no industry underserved is a hallmark of this burgeoning agency. Looney serves clients across categories including automotive, beauty, packaged goods and retail. Since its inception, the agency has maintained a media-agnostic strategy that commits to the right solution over being forced into a specific direction of expertise, and it pivots quickly to meet client needs. —K.C.
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1353446
Boasting 55 offices on six continents, Cheil embodies the global agency model with precision and versatility. The agency boasts its speed to market and adjusting to market changes. Its primary growth has come from fostering and enhancing a long-standing partnership with Samsung, with a recent focus on the U.S. market. —K.C.
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1353447
According to Marketing Doctor, the agency is “less about the jingles and more about the metrics,” and a commitment to continuous education, ambition and responsiveness fuels its success. Marketing Doctor’s all-hands-on-deck approach and responsiveness keep it agile and adaptable, and it fosters strong relationships with diverse agencies that complement its services. —K.C.
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1353448
Power Digital helps brands—including new clients Houseplant (Seth Rogen’s cannabis brand) and Black-owned hair care brand Mielle Organics—scale revenue sustainably and increase profits by using data and analytics to guide strategy. Its proprietary, machine-learning platform SPRnova analyzes business growth opportunities and provides a corresponding road map of how to execute and track progress across marketing channels. —K.C.
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1353449
Oliver’s “inside-out” focus for its clients has fueled growth since its 2004 founding. Having created more than 300 built-for-purpose agencies, Oliver’s priority is a “shared roof” perspective, which enables it to operate with speed and nimbleness. Completely devoted to designing, building and operating bespoke in-house agencies for brands, Oliver has thrived on the strength of its focused offering. —K.C.
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1353450
Hylink is one of the largest independent advertising agencies in the world and has been for the past 10 years. Very rarely using outside contracting, Hylink benefits from being fully integrated, with multiple practices, all of which are in-house. Hylink successfully emulates pure performance models from Asia to increase the quality of its output. —K.C.
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1353451
Whalar is driven by tech to leverage influencers and data. As Covid-19 transformed the market’s focus, Whalar pushed new ways of production and took advantage of growth generators like TikTok. The agency leans into connectivity over promotions and has won two Cannes Lions. —K.C.
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1353452
Cashmere is an award-winning lifestyle marketing agency that utilizes social media, creative strategy, experiential, influencer marketing and public relations strategies to provide full-service support for campaigns and brands, and it excels at connecting through community and culture. With its proprietary Dope Data Systems, Cashmere has the capability of identifying trends and quantifying its efforts for its clients. —K.C.
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1353453
Arts & Letters is a relatively new company, but one with a collective entrepreneurial spirit and an empowered and open way of working that its clients have come to value. The agency can quickly pivot to make the work better for its partners and the work environment better for its employees. “We are a group of realistic optimists whose philosophy is summed up not by any proprietary process but by an attitude of ‘we’ll figure it out’—a phrase we inscribed on the wall when we first opened our doors,” founder and ecd Charles Hodges tells Adweek. —K.O.
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1353454
Influencer marketing agency Viral Nation is a group of entrepreneurs, former global agency leaders and talent agents focused on making decisions at the “speed of culture” to create viral and ROI-focused media influencer campaigns. The agency has experienced exponential growth driven by onboarding new clients into influencer marketing and organically growing current clients by offering paid media and content production. — Alexandra Carter
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1353455
Founded in 2015, Atlanta agency Dagger focuses on making brands culturally relevant in a consumer-driven marketplace. It lives by the adage that brands must behave more like media companies and create and distribute content across all forms of media to prosper. Dagger started its own media brand, @Butter.ATL, equipped with in-house content production capabilities and offered free work to world-class brands during the pandemic as an investment in its relationships. —A.C.
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1353456
Since 2007, 829 Studios has crafted integrated marketing solutions with a focus on collaboration and innovation. After years of continued growth, mainly fueled by word-of-mouth and referrals, 829 Studios added new service offerings in the past year, including PR and account-based marketing, that have propelled 829 Studios even further. —A.C.
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1353457
Media.Monks offers digital advertising and marketing services in 31 countries. Its strategy revolves around creating digital marketing solutions that embrace data, content and digital media. Like many companies, the primary sources of Media.Monks’ growth in 2021 came from helping brands quickly adapt to a digital-first world when at-home audiences suddenly became an urgent priority. —A.C.
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1353458
ThreeSixtyEight is a full-service creative agency that operates Big Fish Presentations, a service line that creates professional presentations and speaker training. The division has been instrumental in the agency’s growth, and it boasts clients including Century Link, Rakuten, Louisiana Economic Development and the Louisiana Department of Health. —A.C.
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1353459
When Growth Marketing Systems launched, it only offered Facebook advertising services. The agency has since grown to include a wide array of social media advertising. A pivot in 2020 to a specialization in digital brands has been instrumental in GMS’ growth. The agency has also continued to expand its existing portfolios and has introduced strategic partnerships with complementary agencies and suppliers. —A.C.
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1353460
This Dallas agency believes that cultivating greatness at the individual level is one of the primary drivers of its rapid growth. Alpha focuses deeply in specific verticals—health care, education, transportation and nonprofits—and the agency was intentionally built with diverse talent, so it has insight into all audience segments. —K.O.
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1353461
Several acquisitions in 2019 spearheaded growth at Bounteous, a digital experience consultancy that started in 2003. Despite the fiscal challenges of 2020, Bounteous continued its 20% compound annual growth rate, with over $100 million in revenue, and the firm won several multiyear, co-innovation accounts, exceeding its business development goals. The agency also recently acquired Lister Digital. —A.C.
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1353462
Drive focuses most of its efforts on driving trackable ROI for its partners. The agency has developed a proprietary tracking platform called Marketing Milk that allows clients to log in remotely to view real-time reports on the ROI and RoAS of their social media campaigns. This focused approach is helping accelerate the company’s growth. —A.C.
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1353463
Constellation is a hybrid marketing/SaaS company offering tech-enabled digital marketing and creative services. Constellation’s client roster includes major OEMs such as BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volkswagen. The agency has earned several distinctions for its rapid growth and has doubled the size of its workforce in the past year alone. —A.C.
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1353464
Hathway is a digital growth company that offers omnichannel loyalty strategy capabilities via three solution areas: CX consulting, digital product development and growth marketing. The pandemic accelerated the need for Hathway’s services as customer needs evolved rapidly, and as a result, the company has experienced significant growth over the past year. —A.C.
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1353465
When the pandemic hit and ecommerce became the top priority overnight, ecommerce growth agency Blue Wheel was uniquely equipped to tackle the shift and help clients navigate the journey. The agency had been planning a shift to ecommerce for years; it just came sooner than anticipated. Blue Wheel doubled in size over the past year thanks to its explosive growth and foresight. —A.C.
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1353466
Nimbus Inc.—a strategic marketing and communications agency owned by a Black husband and wife team—captures, communicates and connects brands with diverse consumers who have been historically ignored. “Nimbus’ growth is tied to our ability to provide value that’s rooted in who we are as individuals and by bringing those diverse, individual backgrounds into the work, authentically,” says a company spokesperson. —A.C.
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1353467
Bellwood Labs helps businesses of all sizes build and scale software products. As the market for custom software explodes, the agency attributes its growth to three primary avenues: reputation, referrals and web directories and reviews. “A fast-growing agency cannot exist without a ‘service-market fit’—the industry must authentically need the services, in a big way that is not being well-served,” according to a company spokesperson. —A.C.
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1353468
Tech-driven digital reputation management company Five Blocks analyzes brands’ internet presences to map out more accurate, intentional and strategic online reputations for its clients. While some of Five Blocks’ growth is from referrals, its primary growth driver is the quality of the relationships it builds, which it calls its “secret sauce.” —A.C.
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1353469
Journey Further is a performance marketing agency specializing in paid media, organic search, conversion optimization and creative. Key clients include Sky, Sports Direct, Virgin Money, Liberty London, WorldFirst and Majestic Wine. Journey Further cites effective marketing and sales engines and a powerful culture to attract and retain the best talent as factors that propelled its growth. —A.C.
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1353470
William Thomas Digital is an omnichannel digital messaging and CRM agency that creates relationships through deeply personalized experiences. Clients include Lindt, Shopify, Salesforce and Rogers. A large part of William Thomas Digital’s growth has been driven by referrals and clients seeking out the team’s specialized services. —A.C.
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1353471
Fingerpaint is biopharma’s analytics-enabled commercialization partner for integrated solutions. The health and wellness marketing firm is known for its innovative, data-driven approach to providing integrated marketing solutions to a growing roster of health care clients. In 2020, Fingerpaint gained 24 new clients—a 41% growth rate, and growth from existing clients grew 59%. —A.C.
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1353472
The Variable is a business growth company that combines innovation and advertising. The Variable attributes its rapid growth to strong AOR relationships with clients like P&G, Nestlé, Electrolux, Miracle-Gro and Char-Broil. Another factor contributing to its growth has been offering additional services, like innovation strategy, to its clients. —A.C.
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1353473
Humanaut is an independent project-based agency and production studio that develops creative brand platforms, advertising campaigns and video content for emerging brands. Humanaut harnesses low costs of production to house the entire lifecycle of all projects on its reel, from strategy, creative and scripts to development, production and editing. —Cat Weaver
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1353474
Since its inception in 2016, digitalfarm has grown a 120-plus portfolio of accounts, ranging from small businesses to global brands and government entities. This is thanks to a strategy of pairing affordability and social awareness with scalable packages, investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR), and a small and medium enterprise (SME) wing focused on supporting small businesses in the region. —C.W.
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1353475
PMG is a global independent digital agency with a roster of clients including Apple, Athleta, Beats by Dre, Glossier, McDonald’s, Old Navy, TikTok and Sephora. The company, which was named Adweek’s Breakthrough Media Agency of the Year for 2021, racks up top industry kudos every year, with accolades from Cannes Lions, Deloitte Inc. and Entrepreneur, and has a more than 90% client retention rate. —C.W.
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1353476
Marketing agency Glow creates and produces campaigns for media companies including WarnerMedia, Showtime, Spotify, Nickelodeon, YouTube and Hulu. Over the past year, its portfolio increased by 10%, with the addition of the NBA and the launch of Glow’s health and wellness group. Glow expects to see a 65% growth in revenue over the next two years. —C.W.
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1353477
Creative platform and incubator Flock Creative Network (FCN) dubs itself a “one-stop communications team,” offering a broad suite of creative services. The agency credits its speedy ascent to a reputation for nimble response and a willingness to build out capabilities to suit individual client requests. FCN even responded to one client’s request for video production by creating its own in-house production studio. —C.W.
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1353478
Imre offers an integrated suite of marketing and communications services ranging from creative to PR and analytics. Those at the company say they are “turning consumers into brand believers” and are proud to “orchestrate” that belief for a diverse and growing portfolio, including Airstream, AstraZeneca, Dickies, John Deere, GSK, the NFL, Pfizer, Stihl and Infiniti. —C.W.
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1353479
Boasting scalability and innovative bespoke pricing contracts, Good Apple accommodates clients of all sizes. Launched in 2007, the boutique media agency has since managed over $200 million worth of media for startups like Birchbox and Bonobos, luxury retailer Moda Operandi and various Fortune 500 companies. The agency also does pro bono work for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. —C.W.
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1353480
Marketing agency SmartBug Media provides a full suite of services—mostly digital—to health care, technology, manufacturing, senior living and professional services companies. The shop attributes its swift growth to being its “own best case study”—SmartBug Media uses the same strategies for its own marketing as it does for its clients. —C.W.
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1353481
Coegi provides managed digital advertising, strategy and analytics services for agency partners and in-house brand marketing teams. The agency has experienced double-digit year-over-year growth since its 2014 founding, a feat it attributes in part to agency partnerships and brand-direct relationships, but mainly to its proprietary technology products that bolster brand safety and programmatic performance. —C.W.
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1353482
Digital Hyve is a full-service digital marketing agency. Featured in the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in America four years in a row, the company was acquired in 2021 by Butler/Till. The combined agencies now comprise one of the largest independent marketing and media agencies in the country. —C.W.
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1353484
Digital marketing agency Dept began in 2015 with a goal to expand to 10 countries and reach $ 117.4 million (100 million euros) in revenue within three years—it achieved it in two. Since then, it has grown into a 13-country global enterprise with a client roster that includes Samsung, Patagonia, Google, Netflix, Tesla, Philips and Bose. —C.W.
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1353485
Pavone creates consumer and business-to-business marketing campaigns for clients in financial services, health care, government, entertainment and retail. With offices in Harrisburg and Philadelphia, the agency, which uses acquisitions to bolster service line offerings, covers traditional and digital advertising and marketing, branding, social media, public relations, media planning, research and product innovation strategy. —C.W.
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1353486
Full-service agency The Basement started as an interactive studio in 2008 with a focus on animation, gaming and website builds. These days, the company guides clients through brand strategy, UX/UI design, media planning, analytics and more. In the past few years, The Basement has grown by diversifying into the education and health care industries. —C.W.
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1353487
Hybrid Marketing Co bills itself as the largest cannabis-focused agency in North America, providing branding, marketing and a broad range of creative services to the entire cannabis industry including dispensaries, cultivators, ancillary businesses, b-to-b and b-to-c. The agency likes to “work backwards,” starting with the client’s business goals and reverse-engineering marketing strategies that fit them. —C.W.
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1353488
Digital marketing agency The SEO Works takes pride in its own strong visibility and invests in proactive business development to help it grow. It is a certified Google Partner for SEO and PPC (Google Ads) as well as part of the exclusive Google elevator program, which focuses on helping SMEs. —C.W.
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1353489
Strategic digital consulting agency January Digital racked up key accounts in 2021 with Canidae, Rhone, Tailored, Marolina and Sol de Janeiro. Other recent wins include Vince Camuto, The Sak, Juvenescence and Jenny Craig. Its growth comes from its consulting practice, which it expects to grow more than 100% year over year, while its agency partnerships also continue to thrive. —C.W.
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1353490
United Media Services is a full-service media agency in Bucharest, Romania, covering the Central and Eastern European region. In 2020 and 2021 the nascent company won the accounts of OPPO, Allianz Vivre and Secom. The agency’s omnichannel expertise allows it to cover a range of services, from one-channel strategy to through-the-line communication campaigns.—C.W.
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1353491
In 2019, following Elite SEM’s 2017 acquisition of OrionCKB, and its acquisitions of CPC Strategy and Email Aptitude the following year, newly rebranded Tinuiti became the largest independent performance marketing firm in the U.S. across Google, Facebook and Amazon. With expertise in search, social, mobile apps, CRM and email marketing, Tinuiti wields a proprietary suite of marketing intelligence and media activation technology called Mobius. —C.W.
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1353492
Fortnight Collective is a brand marketing accelerator that promises to help brands “be better faster” through its BrandHacks. In the past year, the young company has seen a 40% increase in its number of projects as new client revenue increased from 22% to 35% with the addition of CrossFit, Vrbo, Peet’s Coffee and Noodles & Company. —C.W.
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1353493
P3 Media is a full-service, data-first marketing agency that accelerates growth for high-volume businesses and Fortune 500 companies. The agency utilizes channel partnerships with Shopify and BigCommerce. As more brands have prioritized digital transformation over the past two years, P3 Media has seen funnel expansion driven primarily by increased demand from replatforming and first-time-online businesses. —C.W.
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1353494
Fig is a fully integrated media and creative agency that covers brand-building, engagement-driving and performance media planning, buying and trafficking—all in-house, allowing for some swift pivots during the pandemic. FIG’s recent account wins include premium pet food brand Stella & Chewy’s, CPG brand Simple Mills, online ticketing platform SeatGeek, MoMA and Major League Baseball. —C.W.
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1353495
New Engen is a digital marketing agency that tags its effort as “the business of breakthroughs.” The agency attributes its swift growth to referrals, with 88% of new clientele coming from the word-of-mouth and first-person testimonials of satisfied clients who have themselves achieved massive growth as a result of their partnerships with New Engen. —C.W.
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1353496
FlyteVu is a full-service entertainment marketing agency that “connects brands to consumers via the power of pop culture and purpose.” Its clients include the American Red Cross, Barefoot Wine, Carter’s, Clean Cause, Cracker Barrel, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Jack Daniel’s, Looped and Norwegian Cruise Line. FlyteVu’s campaigns have earned three gold and two bronze Clio Awards, an Emmy and a Grammy. —C.W.
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1353497
Walker Sands is a full-service b-to-b marketing company. The firm’s integrated approach to marketing drives awareness, credibility and conversions for 100-plus clients around the world. An eight-time Inc. 5000 honoree, Walker Sands is one of the fastest-growing b-to-b marketing agencies, with offices in Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle. —C.W.
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1353498
CMI Media Group is a media agency that aims to elevate health conversations. Although the agency’s roster is confidential, it reports that 2020 brought in clients leading in biotechnology, biosciences and pharmaceuticals, plus partnerships with major technology innovators. It attributes its growth to its Own the Audience partnership program and PROACT, a marketing automation program. —C.W.
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1353499
In 2012, the founders of Reach set out to create a new kind of agency that focused on creating brand stories that people were compelled to watch, share, and engage with. Since then, the agency and its client roster have more than doubled in size. Reach Agency’s client list includes Clorox, Google, Nestlé and Marriott. —A.C.
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1353500
Brunet-García is a national social impact marketing communications firm focused on improving health and safety, benefiting the arts and increasing cross-cultural education and outreach. In recent years, the company has seen a 413% increase in revenue. The agency achieved growth by aligning its business goals with national priorities. —A.C.
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1482727
The quarantine TikTok boom of 2020 made every brand realize they needed to get on the platform. And while many have improved their ability to candidly connect with TikTok consumers, cringe-worthy dance challenges with outdated viral sounds still run rampant.
However, from its inception, Movers+Shakers has produced TikTok messages that feel more like organic entertainment than ads. An early example is its 2019 creation of the song #EyeLipsFace for beauty brand e.l.f, a disguised jingle that became the most viral campaign in the platform’s history, racking up to 7 billion views and 5 million user-generated videos. This year, the agency has garnered 250 billion total views on all social campaigns for its clients, which include Nerf, Neutrogena and Netflix.
As an early adopter of TikTok, its shift into creating BeReal strategies for brands comes as no surprise. The agency has a way of taking uncool, unsexy brands and helping them find their footing on social media and in culture, according to a spokesperson.
Movers+Shakers has also always put diversity and inclusion at its forefront. The agency was founded by two members of the LGBTQ+ community, is made up of 60% women, and 40% of employees are from ethnically diverse backgrounds. In the past year, all the agency’s campaigns have racked up more than 10 billion media impressions, scoring appearances on Stephen Colbert and Drew Barrymore’s talk shows. —Emmy Liederman
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1482757
Alto founder Hannes Ciatti looks at the agency’s story a bit like a “phoenix rising from the ashes” after he split with JohnXHannes co-founder John McKelvey to form his own agency in 2019. Ciatti and his team have found quick success, first with clients from their JohnXHannes days, but also winning business like Ketel One and Upwork, the latter of which the agency retained following a CMO transition.
“There’s just this virtuous cycle that we’re creating at the moment,” Ciatti said, “where we do great work, we get great talent, and we also attract new, great clients that want to do the same work. That’s how we grew to the size that we are.”
Being independent has allowed Ciatti’s team to be selective about who the shop works for; Alto values clients that are “good for the planet or people” and those that let the agency connect with key decision-makers. In 2021, Alto created the “I Want to Live” campaign, which included a platform to guide people to sign up as living donors for organ transplants. The campaign has led to more than 1,000 people beginning the journey to becoming living donors.
“At the partner level, we all love actually still doing the work ourselves,” said Ed Rogers, managing partner at Alto. “The clients that are attracted to that are also still really passionate about being part of the process in some way, no matter how busy they are.” —Jameson Fleming
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1482760
The Stable was on an acquisition streak of its own when holding group Accenture Song acquired it earlier this year. The Minneapolis-based commerce agency is focused on helping consumer brands build and operate their own digital commerce channels, and Accenture Song got an agency that is helping build the future of connected commerce.
The agency has grown by helping clients throughout their brand journeys, especially on the ecommerce front, “from developing a brand identity, getting a product on the shelf at a major retailer, building a DTC website from scratch or learning from our advanced analytics capabilities,” Chad Hetherington, founder and CEO of The Stable, told Adweek, which he attributed to being nimble enough to invest heavily in his team and adding new capabilities to drive value for clients.
“Now, as part of Accenture Song, we look forward to accelerating this growth and commerce transformation for clients even more,” said Hetherington.
The Stable serves as an omnichannel partner for emerging, mid-market and enterprise retailers, growing and optimizing brands across all channels of commerce, including WD-40, emerging oral care company Quip, plant-based food company Califia Farms and active apparel brand NoBull. —Kyle O’Brien
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1482774
Los Angeles-based MRN Agency has a commitment to three C’s with each of its campaigns: creativity, competitiveness, compelling. Founded by Rebecca Nuñez, who also serves as CEO, The MRN Agency specializes in campaigns that are designed to be as representative and diverse as possible, with a special expertise in U.S. Hispanic and LATAM audiences. “At our core, we are cultural intelligence experts, anchored by the fact that our agency, as a collective, is a representation of the faces, skin tones, languages, ethnicities, backgrounds and identities that our clients are aiming to reach,” Nuñez said.
The MRN Agency is female- and minority-owned and has a 75% diversity and inclusion rate. It has worked with clients such as AT&T, HP and Nutanix. Some notable campaigns and activations include an “autonomous store” for UST Global where customers could walk in with their IDs, shop and leave without checking out; a grassroots marketing campaign with AT&T Mx to support small-business owners across Mexico by providing PPE during the pandemic and other essentials; and a slate of more than 600 fully integrated virtual experiences and events for a variety of clients.
“We believe in replacing random acts of marketing with data-driven decision-making. As a result, we’ve been able to strategically use our creative superpowers to bring to life award-winning campaigns for domestic and international clients, who have entrusted us to be dreamers and calculated risk-takers,” Nuñez said. —Chloé Harper Gold
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1482780
Headlight is a growth marketing agency for challenger brands across mobile, digital commerce and consumer technology. The agency attributes its rapid growth to addressing what it sees as an underserved part of the industry: high growth, internet-native consumer brands. Headlight’s longtime clients include Calm and Tidal, and since 2021 the agency has added telehealth company Ro, ADT, Uber, online art marketplace Artsy, car insurance provider Metromile and IAC, among others.
“Dynamic companies that are trying to scale new markets or disrupt legacy ones can’t just ‘outsource’ their paid media,” Grant Harbin, CEO at Headlight, said. “They need deep product, business model integration and a highly collaborative relationship with whoever is in the driver’s seat on media.”
Harbin said that Headlight has grown exclusively through word-of-mouth and referrals since it started by doing rigorous, strategically focused growth marketing.
Staying at the forefront of performance marketing requires conscious effort and a culture focused on learning and discovery. “Delivering those learnings at scale to clients requires a highly collaborative and long-term-oriented service model,” Harbin said. —K.O.
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When a client increases its investment with performance marketing agency Socium Media, its agency account team gets a cut. Socium’s profit-sharing model bases a portion of employees’ pay on client fees, keeping talent invested in the business’ growth and attuned to clients’ media performance. For Socium founders Sam Sherman and Owen Loft, running a successful agency is all about performance.
“As long as people are advertising on Google or on Facebook, which is really where the lion’s share of the funds go, we want to be the ones that manage it for the long term for our clients,” Loft said.
The duo grew Socium from seven employees in March 2020 to 44 as of August 2022 in its New York office. Sherman and Loft attributed the swift uptick to Socium’s healthy working environment, a claim backed by recent survey results showing all its employees find the agency “a great place to work.”
Retaining passionate employees is key to getting great results for clients, according to Sherman, and those results make Socium popular with its brand-side partners. Loft said he can trace up to 40% of Socium’s client base back to relationships he made while visiting a single client’s office one day each week. When employees left Socium’s existing client and joined other businesses, they brought the agency along with them.
The founders partly attribute their agency’s stark 775% revenue growth it experienced from 2019 to 2021 to the digital marketing wave catalyzed by the pandemic. It lost 30% of its revenue following March 2020, when many nonessential businesses operations came to a halt and slashed their marketing budgets. Socium’s business turned around quickly when marketers started to prioritize digital media investments to push Covid-wary online shoppers toward purchases. “Our accounts that did stick around were spending more than they ever thought possible and getting the best results,” Sherman said. —O.M.
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In 2022, it’s nearly impossible to grow your business without digital marketing, but given the constantly changing landscape, it can be difficult to stay on top of current trends and guidelines. The Snow Agency specializes in digital marketing, especially within the ecommerce sector. The agency boasts comprehensive services, free consultations and effective, data-driven strategies.
Co-founded by brothers Daniel and Jonathan Snow, the agency prioritizes growth, transparency, innovation and teamwork. Across its roster of more than 70 clients, it has generated more than $250 million in revenue and has certifications and partnerships with Facebook, Google, Forbes and more.
In addition to traditional digital ads and email campaigns, The Snow Agency offers influencer and TikTok marketing, media buying, and web design and development. One of the agency’s success stories is how it helped temporary tattoo brand Simply Inked grow its business by analyzing and adjusting its website, increasing the conversion rate and average order value by 15% and 18%, respectively. The Snow Agency also helped the brand expand by taking part in a beta test for TikTok’s value-based optimization to find high-value consumers.
Beyond providing customized marketing services for its clients, The Snow Agency supports veterans and is a five-star National Corporate Partner with the charitable organization Toys for Tots. —CHG
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1482788
Refinery89 operates under the motto #ForPublishersByPublishers to provide the best possible ad-tech solutions for publishers. The agency developed what it calls a single tag programmatic solution that simplifies a publisher’s tech stack because Refinery89’s tag is just one line of code instead of hundreds, like a typical solution.
The results are two-fold. Publishers aren’t burdened by a bulky ad-tech solution that takes months to implement, and Refinery89’s tech allows publishers to maximize their inventory and increase their revenue from display, native and video advertising.
The solution has been so effective that the agency won an IAB award for the best innovation in programmatic tech and measurement. Following the introduction of the tag, Refinery89 has seen significant growth, with revenue soaring 488% over the past three years. The agency, which has offices in Amsterdam, Milan, Madrid and Paris, counts Microsoft, Sony, Netflix and PlayStation as some of the biggest brands it works with. Refinery89 also partners with some 600-plus publishers to improve their inventories. —J.F.
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Founders Josy Amann and Taji Zaminasli attribute Media Matters Worldwide’s growth to 2021’s converging industry trends. Performance media returns had slowed, financially strapped marketers demanded pliable scopes and more work went in-house. To contend with the circumstances, pandemic-era clients craved an agency with a unique set of skills: flexible, analytics-focused and collaborative.
“It was like a fast-forward,” Amann said, with “really quick growth because of all those things coming together.”
Some brands went all-in on performance media investments in 2020, such as campaigns designed to drive immediate sales. But those brands hit a metaphorical wall by 2021 that resulted in “diminished returns,” according to Amann and Zaminasli.
“If you’re in such a performance mindset, it’s really hard to get out of it and figure out [how to reach new consumers],” Zaminasli said.
For answers, brands turned to analytics-savvy MMWW, which monitors a campaign’s metrics while it’s “in flight” so buyers can adjust future activation strategies. To do this, the agency built its own tool that analyzes budget and performance scenarios, helping buyers determine which media investments will be most effective. The tool makes it possible for MMWW to alter media plans as frequently as every week to improve results.
The agency landed notable clients including grocery delivery service Shipt in 2020 and soon garnered more RFPs from brands including Proactiv, financial services company Chime, Glassdoor and software companies Alteryx and Nutanix. Its analytics specialty was its boon, but MMWW’s independent status also meant it offered a simpler alternative for clients that usually partnered with holding companies.
The agency has a flexible model, according to its founders, with “plug and play” options, meaning it would take on a performance or brand-specific purview, project-based work or a traditional AOR relationship.
To that end, it’s not exclusively after AOR relationships. MMWW’s “time to shine” is when it joins forces with other agencies or clients’ in-house teams to knock down the silos to craft integrated campaigns, Amann said. For instance, it manages its DTC food delivery client’s brand planning and measurement, but partners with the client’s in-house performance media team and runs analytics across both disciplines. This way, MMWW draws insights that both teams can base strategic decisions on, such as what kind of brand campaigns contribute to performance growth. —Olivia Morley
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1482794
Peter Bray is not afraid to turn down client work. As the founder and executive creative director of Bray & Co., he built the independent agency to help companies launch or relaunch their products and services, which might look like a rebrand or an early campaign to establish a client’s brand identity. This has included creative and strategic transformations for brands including Tide and evaporative cooler company Portacool. According to Bray, holding a specialization while maintaining full-service options for clients allows his agency to “exceed expectations.”
“When it comes to 98% of the work out there, we’re not the right agency,” he said.
Bray and his team are also pioneering mental health action and awareness through its “Dear Mark” campaign, an in-house grassroots initiative that is pressuring Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to label filtered photos across Facebook and Instagram. It was inspired by a 2021 survey from ParentsTogether, which found that 61% of young adults ages 13-21 believe that filters on social media contribute to negative thoughts about their appearance.
The team is differentiating itself from other shops when it comes to client relationships; Bray & Co. does not subscribe to hourly rates and has a zero-day notice period policy, which doesn’t trap clients in a working relationship. The agency takes a creative-first approach to its work, which Bray said is a rarity in an industry that is presently fixated on performance marketing and analytics. The agency, which uses a fully remote business model and combines six full-time staff and about 15 freelancers, flexes the effectiveness of its small team, though Bray worries too much employee expansion will dampen the shop’s intimate relationship with clients.
“Bigger can be better, but it also creates more layers,” Bray said. “With too much growth, we create more complications and lose being personal.” —E.L.
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1482813
From two agency founders and $1 million in business when it began to a team now spread across two states with $60 million in billing, hunterblu media’s startup approach has conditioned it for growth. During the pandemic, the agency positioned itself as a partner to larger agencies to improve its agility and expose hunterblu media to mid-sized companies, including Meineke Car Care, Friendly’s and Do Good Chicken. —Kennyatta Collins
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1482818
Elumynt homes in on a scientific approach to ecommerce advertising by optimizing campaigns around profits instead of arbitrarily calculated KPIs and vanity metrics. It’s the agency’s commitment to applying innovative growth tactics that has allowed it to help 13 clients, including kids’ toy Power Pony, scale faster and be acquired—one for a whopping $800 million. —K.C.
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1482830
Prioritizing partnerships, Eyeful Media uses its collaborative strengths to drive growth for medium–market businesses such as jarred food processor Mezzetta, software company Kyriba and skin care umbrella company Deciem. A disruptive approach to client and agency relationships can also be seen in its decision to remove the account manager role in favor of having no middlemen between the working team and the clients. —K.C.
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1482832
Committed to being the partner for its clients’ internal teams, Supply is an independent, full-service agency that provides comprehensive in-house solutions, from media planning to digital execution. With its persuasive planning, data analytics and commerce strategy, the agency has moved past vanity metrics measurements and instead focuses on business impact to demonstrate success. —K.C.
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1482837
Founded in 2017 by New York Times bestselling author Neil Patel, NP Digital uses its proprietary technology Ubersuggest to drive innovation and efficiencies for small- to medium-sized businesses, including crypto exchange FTX, tech company Cisco, LinkedIn and Claire’s. Harnessing the power of in-depth data analysis, research and digital PR, NP Digital endeavors to provide target solutions. —K.C.
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1482840
Specializing in growth marketing, product marketing and executive visibility management, fully remote SalientMG stands as a b-to-b partner for clients, such as sporting goods retailer SquadLocker, software company Apptopia and social entertainment app portfolio The Meet Group, that are seeking to establish industry leadership and effectiveness. Primarily working on annual retainers, this gives SMG the runway to elevate internal marketing organizations into growth engines that service long-term brand visions. —K.C.
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1482845
Using orchestrated experiences to its clients’ advantage, this agency focuses on the relationship between people and the brands they consume in order to drive brand loyalty across touch points. Boasting a true white glove experience, X-FCTR even manages show flows, sight lines and shipping plans to ensure proper executions for clients that include Nascar, Sunday Night Football and the Kentucky Derby. —K.C.
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1482846
Through segmented sales research and outbound campaigns that have been orchestrated across many channels, Cience offers a blend of managed services and software to deliver results across 200 b-to-b industries for companies such as Siemens, UPS and Hearst Media. Its global footprint includes states within the U.S. and locations in Europe, Asia and South America. —K.C.
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1482852
Markacy services b-to-c and b-to-b brands such as Mars, medical equipment provider Lumenis and golf product manufacturer Acushnet by optimizing the alignment of marketing, brand investments, and infrastructure with financial goals and KPIs. As an agency that is 100% bootstrapped with no outside funding, it’s able to offer strategies through conservative economic situations based on direct experience of building its brand over similar time periods. —K.C.
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1482853
Whether it’s through global talent or API integrations, Media.Monks enables brands to achieve consolidation goals while also developing the customer journey at scale. In 2021, the agency merged its two operational brands—Media.Monks and Mighty Hive—to unite their talent and increase market impact on their clients’ behalf, which include the likes of TikTok, Diageo and Tim Hortons. —K.C.
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1482855
Choosing a performance model approach to service delivery, AdLeg forgoes the traditional agency fee structure in favor of a commission-only approach, once positive ad spend has been reached. As an agency committed to specialization, it focuses on providing high-performing YouTube ads for high-profile sales funnels. —K.C.
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1482858
Dotted Line focuses on utilizing growth marketing tactics for clients like nonprofit health system Bon Secours Mercy Health and Spinnaker Consulting Group, delivering strategy, content and data-driven creative. While the pandemic presented hiring challenges for some, this agency’s hybrid workplace approach helped to accelerate the growth of its workforce from six to more than 20 full-time employees. —K.C.
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1482859
Staking their claim at the intersection of creativity and technology, Thinkingbox brings together strategic storytelling across the digital, experiential, content and social categories. Having hired more than 30 new employees and elevated new leadership, Thinkingbox continues to prepare to meet its clients such as Intuit, Adobe and Starbucks where they are, regardless of scale. —K.C.
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1482865
In-house growth and acquisitions, such as the one they’ve made in 2019 of production company Clutch Studio, have been the competitive advantage for the Israel-based agency Moburst. With its global reach, this agency provides creative solutions that maximize diverse strategies and points of views to improve client KPIs for the likes of fitness app iFIT and shopping rewards app Shopkick. —K.C.
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1482872
Specializing in SEO, link building and conversion optimization for paid media, the LinkGraph service suite turns landing pages into high–conversion platforms for clients that include Shutterfly and software development company Bright Pattern. As a mission-driven company, it’s been able to support clients that share its sustainable values by producing a program that provides for the planet. —K.C.
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1482875
Since its founding in 2012, Unfold’s team of more than 150 employees has homed in on a full-service model that prioritizes digital advertising, website development, social media strategy and full-scaled production for clients such as DC Comics social, TikTok social and Roku social. With service hubs in Los Angeles and Jakarta, Indonesia, it offers a 24-hour media cycle for creative solutions. —K.C.
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1482877
With a blend of content, creativity and technology, Kulfi Collective builds its content studio with both original and branded content at the center for clients like Spotify, Snapchat and Bumble. The agency brings together engaging content creators with state-of-the-art tools to provide scalable media to millennial and Gen Z audiences. —K.C.
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1482882
Anchoring themselves to the construction and industrial industries, SitePartners leans on its experienced workforce of 30-plus to build brands and provide targeted solutions to its clients, including industrial equipment manufacturer Finning, the British Columbia government and construction company Ledcor Group. As full-service specialists, SitePartners also brings speed and agility to creative solutions due to its decision to bring media in-house. —K.C.
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1482883
Founded in 2014, 898 Marketing brings full-scale production, programmatic solutions and an embrace for modern digital tools to drive high-yielding results for clients that include Core Home Fitness and the Pro Football Hall of Fame Village. Holding firm to a culture of accountability and transparency, 898 has taken no agency fees on media buys and maintains a reimbursement to clients if deemed necessary. —K.C.
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1482888
Channel Bakers is a multichannel, full-service agency that prioritizes helping its clients, including NBCUniversal, Revlon and Roku, grow sales and influence in retail and ecommerce verticals. Its prioritization of consumer and market data to drive custom solutions helps the agency to achieve multichannel results for clients without conflict or communication overlap. —K.C.
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1482891
Fortnight Collective is a brand marketing accelerator. Its BrandHack process improves strategic and creative development for its clients with rapid marketing prototyping and without overthinking, commonly within two weeks—thus the agency’s name. Fortnight Collective’s clients include Vrbo, Noodles & Co., Do Good Chicken, Expedia and Steamboat Resort. —Monica Wamsley
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1482895
Fingerpaint Group is a collection of companies solving business and human challenges with data and creativity for biopharma clients through market access, digital media, branding, strategy, and creative and multicultural marketing. Fingerpaint Group’s companies include Fingerpaint for marketing, 1798 for market access, Leaderboard for branding, MedThink Communications for medical communications, MedThink SciCom for medical affairs and Engage for data and analytics. Fingerpaint prides itself on being people-first for inspiration, retention and efficiency, and it brought on 21 new accounts in 2021. —M.W.
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1482896
Dagger was founded in 2015 to help brands be culturally relevant in the consumer-driven marketplace and launched its own media company, @Butter.ATL, in 2019. In 2021, Dagger emphasized public health and entertainment properties and doubled its number of full-time employees. The agency provides brand and content strategy, storytelling, campaign thinking, media connections and more. Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers, Autotrader, hospitality brand OYO, American Spirit Works Distillery, Holiday Inn Express and Staybridge Suites are among the brands Dagger works with. —M.W.
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1482900
Founded in 2016, UAE-based digitalfarm has more than 120 accounts in its portfolio and serves as a social and creative agency for small businesses, global brands and government entities. Digitalfarm focuses on social media for social good, invests heavily in corporate social responsibility programs and offers affordable, scalable digital packages. The agency has worked with UFC Abu Dhabi, NBA Abu Dhabi, Lion King (The Musical) Abu Dhabi, UAE National Archives and the Abu Dhabi Awards. —M.W.
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1482903
Oliver, established in 2004, is dedicated to designing, building and operating in-house agencies for clients and has created more than 300 of them. The agency has worked with many leading brands in the CPG, retail, and health and wellness spaces. Oliver’s nimble, collaborative approach with its clients enables marketers to “outsource in–housing” with strategic, creative and production talent. —M.W.
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1482907
Ada, a data and AI company, partners with leading brands in south and southeast Asia to drive their digital and data maturity. The agency designs and executes integrated digital, analytics, marketing and ecommerce solutions with data-driven creative strategies. Ada provides business insights, data enrichment and advanced analytics to support its clients’ growth and goals. Among its clients are Facebook, Estée Lauder, BMW, Burger King and GoDaddy. —M.W.
Growth
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1482911
Billion Dollar Boy is a global influencer marketing agency that specializes in integrated, creator-led advertising, viewing influencer marketing not as an add-on but as its own discipline. The agency breaks down campaigns into bite-sized chunks of work and tasks in creative, production and reporting. Billion Dollar Boy reports it has delivered 956 million impressions, 47 million engagements and 54,000 posts and commissioned more than 7,800 influencers in the past year. Billion Dollar Boy’s clients include Heineken, P&G North America, Bacardi Ltd., Meta and Nintendo. —M.W.
Growth
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1482916
Fully remote YML serves a range of businesses from early-stage startups to top-tier brands like Twitter, Destination Pet and AAA as a technology and design agency, “exporting Silicon Valley to the world.” YML provides digital products, prototypes, customer experience and digital transformation for its clients, which include The Home Depot, State Farm, PayPal and others. The agency began in 2009 as a team of two and has grown to more than 500 employees. —M.W.
Growth
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1482927
For 10 years, Create Group and its full in-house production team have been delivering content creation, building platforms and communities on the web and through social media, engaging paid media and customer-relationship management techniques. The agency values data and analytics and serves government and multinational brands across the Middle East with clients that include VW, Dubai Tourism and the Neom smart city project. —M.W.
Growth
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1482928
Founded in 1996, Mediassociates specializes in media planning, media buying, programmatic and analytics services for mid-market clients. The agency focuses on media thought leadership, provides forecasting and consulting, and has additional expertise in direct–response media. Mediassociates reports that more than 90% of its clients, which include the likes of Fannie Mae and fitness-tracking app Strava, retain it in media AOR relationships. —M.W.
Growth
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1482934
Looney Advertising and Branding specializes in brand strategy, creative development, branded content, in-depth digital experiences, and integrated media planning and buying. It has supported its diverse roster of clients, which include HVAC company Carrier Enterprises, Nestlé and Edgewell Personal Care, in achieving more than $10 billion in growth over the past 20 years. The firm works with no more than 20 clients each year to focus on individual client needs. —M.W.
Growth
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1482935
Founded in 2010, PMG provides strategy, creative, media and insights in an economy shaped by digital and ecommerce so brands can engage consumers instead of only pushing ad impressions, which reflects its Digital Made for Humans principle. A quarter of the company is focused on data, technology and engineering. PMG’s clients include Michael Kors, Crate & Barrel, The Economist and Shake Shack. —M.W.
Growth
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1482937
Pattern specializes in experience, helping brands find their place where culture, community and commerce meet. The agency focuses on design and storytelling for differentiation in crowded markets. The majority of Pattern’s business is new, rather than retainer project work, across many different verticals with clients that include Jonathan Van Ness’ JVN Hair, Netflix and Seth Rogen’s cannabis brand, Houseplant. —M.W.
Growth
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Location
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1482939
Fifty Digital works with brands, teams and rights holders to activate events, reposition sports and encourage sports participation among underrepresented groups through strategy and creative campaigns. Over the last year, the agency tripled its size from 30 to 90. Fifty Studios produces creative, design and content for clients like FIFA World Cup 2022, Volleyball World and NBA Europe. —M.W.
Growth
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1482941
FPW Media provides ideas, digital experiences and physical brand representation, and is home to a variety of its own creative studios. The “un-agency,” as it calls itself, prides itself on always finding a solution and applies a holistic approach to marketing needs through its brand, films and merch divisions. FPW Media’s clients include motocross brand Dirt Bike Kidz, machinery manufacturer Papé Machinery and defense manufacturer Aardvark Tactical. —M.W.
Growth
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Category
Location
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1482942
GALE was founded in 2014 to provide creative, media and management consultancy backed by data. The agency has experience growing large and small businesses across automotive, retail, gaming, telecommunications and other industries, with clients that include Aetna/CVS Health, H&R Block and Goldman Sachs. —M.W.
Growth
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Location
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1482945
Arm Candy partners with ad-tech companies and uses proprietary data applications to provide media intelligence and create equitable engagements, bolstering trust and transparency. Instead of many levels and departments, Army Candy has two teams, each of which plans and buys across the media mix. The agency has experience in programmatic, social, TV, sponsorships and Amazon. Among Arm Candy’s clients are Fairway Independent Mortgage and Caliber Collision. —M.W.
Growth
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1482958
Power Digital Marketing is a tech-enabled firm that prides itself on combining art and science in integrated marketing strategies for its b-to-b and b-to-c clients, which include Pura Vida and Magic Spoon, to increase revenue and brand interaction. The firm pairs its data warehouse with its clients’ first-party data to guide strategy and produce road maps for growth. —M.W.
Growth
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1482961
Ovative Group was founded in 2009 as a media, measurement and consulting firm to help clients be more customer- and data-centric. The agency assesses media performance based on the total incremental effects on a business, both online and offline—which it calls the enterprise marketing return metric—to manage and measure client marketing programs. Among Ovative Group’s clients are Domino’s, Five Below, GNC and Patagonia. —M.W.
Growth
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1482965
RingoFire is a marketing, advertising and product innovation agency in historic Greenville, S.C., specializing in strategic and creative marketing solutions for retail and direct-to-consumer brands. The agency works with its clients to drive sales both in store and online through various marketing programs. RingoFire’s clients include Home Depot brand Green Machine, manufacturer Jeld-Wen and Serta mattresses. —M.W.
Growth
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1482966
Founded in 2018, Lafayette American targets the intersection of logic and emotion to create “highest common denominator” advertising with its strategy, creative, design and media. The agency works on both project-based assignments and retainers, with sensitivity to economic shifts and long-term planning, allowing Lafayette American to hire carefully and manage costs. Among Lafayette American’s clients are Amazon, Chewy and Netflix. —M.W.
Growth
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Location
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1482973
Real Chemistry provides scientific, technology and communications solutions for health care companies. The agency centers patient experiences and combines real-world data, proprietary artificial intelligence and analytics to guide when and how health care brands can intervene, from diagnosis to compliance. Real Chemistry’s integrated marketing communications, commercialization, and data and AI solutions drive profitable growth and efficiency for its clients, which include Amazon Care, Day One diary app, Dexcom and Vertex Pharmaceuticals. —M.W.
Growth
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Location
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1482975
Founded in 2015, Bospar launched a virtual firm providing media and investor relations, crisis communications, social media marketing and other advertising in “politely pushy” ways. The firm serves clients in fin tech, med tech, health tech, insurance tech and cybersecurity. Bospar increased its revenue 83.4% year over year, reaching $12.4 million by the end of 2021. Its clients include information technology company Unisys, Neura Health and branding agency Reflex Media. —M.W.
Growth
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Category
Location
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1482980
Erich and Kallman was founded in 2016 to focus on entertaining and emotional advertising that builds brands and drives business results. The agency provides business strategy, strategic and creative platforms, communications planning, account management, integrated campaigns, design and production. Erich and Kallman doubled in size over the past year, from 25 full-time employees to 50. Among its clients are Great Wolf Resorts, iRobot, Friendly’s and mobile game developer Supercell. —M.W.
Growth
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Category
Location
Size
1482990
Founded in 2010, Grain Group provides media planning and buying, brand consulting, modeling, go-to-market planning, digital transformation and turnaround engagements. The agency also builds digital and data architecture for some of its clients. Grain Group’s clients include Zoa Energy Drinks, private travel brand FXAir, MyMuse flavored waters and Casa Azul tequila. —M.W.
Growth
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Category
Location
Size
1482998
One of a few fully remote agencies, SmartBug Media is a globally recognized, people-focused marketing agency that helps b-to-b and b-to-c ecommerce businesses generate leads, scale revenue operations and build market awareness. Founded in 2008, the agency provides inbound marketing, digital strategy, design, marketing automation, revenue operations, public relations, paid media and web development. SmartBug’s clients include software company OpenComp, 24/7 Software and payment processor Repay. —M.W.
Growth
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Category
Location
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1483004
Tinuiti is the largest independent performance marketing firm across streaming TV, Amazon, Google and social media. The firm’s marketing intelligence and media activation technology suite, Mobius, helps Tinuiti’s clients understand their data and plan next moves. Tinuiti’s workforce increased 57% year over year in 2021, surpassing 1,000 employees. Among Tinuiti’s clients are PacSun, Masterclass, ThirdLove and fitness brand Onnit. —M.W.
Growth
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1483009
Owned by a Black husband and wife team, Nimbus leans into cultural nuances to create what it calls “brand resonance,” helping brands speak to diverse consumers that have been historically ignored. The strategic marketing and communications agency works to make clients’ existing business stronger and explore new opportunities for growth, working with the likes of KFC, Metro United Way and Pama Liqueur. —M.W.
Growth
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Category
Location
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1483013
Planit serves national and global clients through a variety of media channels, public relations, social media or “the next big thing.” The agency aims to be the voice of the consumer for its clients, rather than only the voice of its clients to the consumer. Planit’s clients include CareFirst of Maryland, garden brand The Toro Company, SECU Maryland and engineered building producer Oldcastle Infrastructure. —M.W.
Growth
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Category
Location
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1483018
With roots in mobile design and development, WillowTree has led design and development for the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show app, Fox’s first weather app and work for Dairy Queen. Since 2008, WillowTree has delivered more than 700 apps and websites for Fortune 500 clients, passed 1,000 team members and expanded to seven global studios. —M.W.
Growth
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Category
Location
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1483019
Founded in 2011 by brothers Alex and Michael Melen, SmartSites is a website design and digital marketing agency with a focus on search engine optimization, pay per click, conversion rate optimization and email marketing. The agency works with businesses of all sizes in home services, medical, legal, automotive, b-to-b, retail and industrial. —M.W.
Growth
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Location
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1483020
Minds + assembly provides design, measurement, strategy, communication, technology and science services for health care organizations, pharmaceutical companies, property management firms and others. Minds + assembly’s name highlights the thinking and creating the agency does for its clients and the way employees are “pluses,” adding to the agency and its culture. Among minds + assembly’s clients are Currax Pharmaceuticals, pharma group Kyowa Kirin and nonprofit One Love Foundation. —M.W.
Growth
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Category
Location
Size
1483028
Native Digital is part brand studio, part performance media shop serving fast-growth brands. The agency provides positioning and value props, naming and logo identity, customer acquisition, analytics and other services. Native Digital has up to three meetings with prospective clients before moving on together and does not pursue AOR engagements. Native Digital’s clients include nursing software company IntelyCare, AI platform LivePerson and nonprofit USAFacts. —M.W.
Growth
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Category
Location
Size
1483031
A project-based agency with no retainers or long-term contracts, Butchershop Global helps brands with strategy, performance, media and digital offerings. Its Beat Failure method helps its clients work through inflection points with increased awareness, interactions, conversions and revenue. Some clients include the Ironman triathlon, software developer Appfire and personal injury software developer Justpoint. —M.W.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1483036
LDM serves clients across Latin America and the U.S. The agency consults on scalable business models, media investment and planning, audience insights, omnichannel strategy, marketing automation, digital experiences, direct-to-consumer marketing and b-to-b marketing. LDM’s clients include retailer Soriana, cloud computing company Rackspace Technology LATAM, Whirlpool LATAM and Nivea. —M.W.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1483039
Founded in 2011, January Digital has offices in New York and Dallas and was recognized as best in class by multiple publications in 2021. The agency provides paid search and social, programmatic media buying, SEO, influencer management, analytics and more. January Digital’s clients include retailer Shinola, David’s Bridal and designer retailer A.L.C. —M.W.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1483042
Mindgruve serves companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500, including First Horizon Bank, Bay City Brewing Co. in California and Vector Laboratories. The agency provides research, strategy, creative, media buying, social media and community management, content and storytelling, brand communications and design, technology, data science and analytics, ecommerce and public relations. —M.W.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1483045
With six offices across the United States, Wpromote helps challenger brands such as Adobe, Frontier Airlines, TransUnion, Whirlpool and Zenni with real-time data and intentional marketing strategy in a profit-focused approach. The agency provides paid media, earned and owned media, creative and email, all supported by its client services and digital intelligence teams. Wpromote’s clients include Martha Stewart, MeUndies and Spanx. —M.W.
Growth
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Category
Location
Size
1483046
Drive Social Media’s proprietary tracking platform, Marketing Milk, allows its clients to see real-time results both online and offline. In 2019, the agency drove $171 million in revenue for its clients, which includes the likes of Miura Golf, Mayweather Boxing + Fitness and Home Loan Expert. Drive Social Media provides social media, websites, SEO, pay per click, branding, video marketing, email marketing and public relations. —M.W.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1483047
Founded in 2014, Day One Agency applies its “Shape, Share, Fuel” approach to storytelling, based on the idea that people share stories rather than content, and uses its Day One Studios for production and social media photo shoots. Day One Agency provides public relations, digital and social for clients like American Express, Chipotle Mexican Grill and Nike. In 2021, Day One Agency hired its first evp, head of client service, Jenny Bohuslavsky. —M.W.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1483048
In business for more than 30 years, CMI Media Group serves as a media resource for health care, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies. The agency provides strategy and planning, search, social media, data and analytics, audience development and insight, media buying and investment, multicultural, and direct response and customer experience. —M.W.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1483050
B-Reel was founded in Stockholm in 1999 during the first internet bubble and now has additional offices in Barcelona, Los Angeles and New York. The agency provides brand strategy, communications and digital products, such as apps, exhibitions and wallpaper, for clients like Amazon Prime, HelloFresh, H&M Man, Inter IKEA and Google. —M.W.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1483051
Joan Creative was founded in 2016 by women dedicated to diversity, people and culture. The agency itself values environmental partnerships, mentorship programs and diversity initiatives, offering services including creative and strategy, diagnostic tools, a production studio, an IP company and merchandise. Among Joan Creative’s clients are eBay, Fitbit, S&P Global, Sheetz and University of Massachusetts–Boston. —M.W.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1483053
Founded in 2014, Coegi has worked with more than 400 brands, with clients like Athene USA, Moderna and agency Pivot Design. In the last two years, it has added more than 10 new account wins and developed three new departments. For brands and agencies, Coegi provides marketing strategy and media activation services across paid social media, programmatic media, paid search and influencer marketing. —M.W.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1483054
Max Connect Digital is based in Utah, outside the industry’s typical markets. The agency provides account analysis, content creation, paid search and social, web development, dynamic remarketing and more. It also developed a real-time intent and audience attribution platform, Kudos. Max Connect Digital’s clients include Sportsman’s Warehouse, Visionary Automotive and Navistar Trucking. —M.W.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1557920
Adweek is the leading source of news and insight serving the brand marketing ecosystem.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1564313
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565023
CourtAvenue, a global agency composed of industry entrepreneurs and experts, has seen a rocket-fueled rise, growing an astonishing near 4,000% over the past three years. The agency concentrates on digital transformation for companies, working with clients to find new paths to digital and business growth. “CourtAvenue’s rapid growth has been a result of world-class experience and relationships. We have a history of building award-winning digital agencies, along with bringing together best-in-class talent,” said CourtAvenue founding partner Kenny Tomlin. “Over many years, we’ve built high-trust relationships with incredible clients and employees, which has allowed us to drive innovation and growth.” —Kyle O’Brien
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565032
With fewer than 20 employees in its Southern California-based office, the PR and advertorial shop achieved 2,920% growth when comparing 2020 to 2022 revenue. The 3-year-old agency’s novel business model allows its lean team to serve more than 300 clients. It purchases advertorial content from its publisher partners in bulk, allowing for price negotiation. The model mirrors how large media agencies often purchase media for their clients and veers away from the quota-based models many PR firms fall back on. The shop is growing its relationships with publishers—this year it signed new contracts with more than 200. —Olivia Morley
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565498
Said Differently, a global innovation consultancy devoted to optimizing work and amplifying talent, calls itself an untraditional agency. The agency serves clients better, faster and less expensively by designing teams with a lean, on-demand talent model, which means that clients pay for work, not overhead. Since launching in 2020, Said Differently has grown its talent network to more than 3,000 creative and technology experts across the world under the leadership of CEO and co-founder Rachel Barek. The agency continues its rapid rise, growing nearly 3,000% over the last three years. —K.O.B.
Growth
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Category
Location
Size
1565501
It’s another instance of creative and media finding a way to remarry. The small media agency began collaborating with creative shop Mother. Before long it moved into Mother’s office and brought its clients along with it. Although it’s part of the Mother Industries agency network, it operates under its own LLC and has a separate P&L. “We took a gamble when we started Media by Mother. Not just because it was Covid-19 but because we are building a media agency that by design, makes less money than a regular media agency,” said David Gaines, the agency’s CEO and founder. The bet is paying off, since the small shop’s wrangling large assignments. In May 2022, it won AOR duties for Amica Insurance, an account worth approximately $200 million. —O.M.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565502
The small full-service agency is nabbing a number of AOR relationships for clients like Nature’s Bakery, Red Kap, Bolt and Intuit. It’s small and integrated by design, and creates bespoke teams for each client it serves. Holding companies employ similar strategies, but Apollo Partners believes its leaner, client-dedicated teams give it an edge on the big competitors. “We believe that a small, dedicated team versus a large, fragmented one leads to a stronger impact on our clients’ businesses,” an agency representative told Adweek. In 2022, it grew client contracts by more than 107%. As it scales, it’s working with industry DEI experts to create an inclusive hiring process, plus an infrastructure that supports diverse employees as their careers progress. The agency’s founder, Eric Perko, is a stage IV cancer survivor who underwent extensive medical treatment. Informed by his experience, he guarantees employees generous benefits packages that small agency employees often forego. —O.M.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565503
BeInfluence Europe, which calls itself a nano- and microinfluencer agency, is able to drive business results through creative creator-centric campaigns and social first strategies. Co-founders Thomas Angerer and Boris Kaisin launched BeInfluence Europe when they were still students in business school. They knew next to nothing about influencer marketing nor the advertising world, and had zero industry connections. What they did have was ambition, determination and a gut feeling that the way advertising was done on social media needed to change. Four years later, the agency has offices in Brussels and Paris, and has conducted several hundred campaigns for some of the world’s top brands. —K.O.B.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565504
This publisher-turned-agency gained momentum after creating some of TikTok’s most popular channels. The publisher launched a TikTok Studios services unit in 2021, and by the next year categorized itself as full-service. Fittingly, TikTok became the agency’s first client. One of several fast-growing agencies unafraid of touting its freelance workforce, Attn: flexes its head count depending on project volume and scope, creating the bandwidth necessary to accept new assignments. Now Attn: manages creative content across social, out-of-home, television and print channels. Those freelancers make up about 15% of Attn:’s workforce, and it’s intentional about its full-time hiring practices too. Its staff is 38% BIPOC and 66% female. The shop continues to partner with minority-owned recruiting agencies to improve its strategies for hiring diverse talent. —O.M.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565505
Refinery89 helps create ad monetization solutions for small and midsized digital publishers. The agency was founded in late 2018 out of the founders’ frustration of not being able to find a suitable ad-tech partner that worked with their interests in mind. The Madrid-based agency utilizes technologies that help publishers gain a competitive advantage, boosting the quality, quantity, innovation and distribution of their respective ad inventory, which in turn increases revenue. Increasing revenue is a draw for new clients, which have helped the agency grow more than 600% since 2020. —K.O.B.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565506
Creative agency Party Land’s revenue has risen nearly 600% over the past three years due to the buzz created by its edgy and humorous work for clients including Dave’s Hot Chicken, Liquid Death, Drizly and PBR. It also has a 93% client-return rate. In addition, the agency won 12 new client pitches over the last year. “From day one, we’ve been all about creating unignorable, convention-breaking work that works. We stuck to our passion for comedy, collaborating with clients that want to have fun with their audiences and turning those audiences into genuine fans,” said Andy Silva, managing partner at Party Land. “Once they step into the Party Land experience and see the impact these ideas can have on their bottom line, they keep coming back. We’re so grateful to our clients for their trust and for saying yes to getting scared at Party Land.” —K.O.B.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565509
Media and data-savvy agencies often describe themselves as technology companies or consultancies. That’s the case with Chartis Interactive, a marketing and technology consultancy boasting digital marketing AOR clients like the WNBA, Nasdaq and Bloomberg. It’s grown fast by accepting 6- to 12-month assignments and offering clients different payment models. Today’s marketers scrutinize their partners’ flexibility or ability to improve complex processes. Chartis makes it easy: It charges interested clients a flat fee to work with specialist agency employees, even if they aren’t scoped to the project. Agencies can benefit from reducing the relationship friction, the excessive negotiation and even the paperwork that can sour partnerships, Chartis’ growth suggests. —O.M.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565513
This year, Recess doubled its locations, and in 2022, the agency nearly doubled its revenue. Recess acts as a co-creator on personalized creative solutions for globally recognized brands. The agency said it becomes an extension of its clients’ teams, fostering deep relationships with them. —Kennyatta Collins
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565514
Carving out a clearer focus and delivering results grounded in strategy have helped the Tulipe team see an increase in peripheral and significant mandates from existing clients. “We don’t do campaigns. We help clients perform better internally and unlock value for their customers by helping them be closer to their customers,” said Evan Luxenberg, analyst and internal communications lead at Tulipe Management Consulting. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565515
Iheartcomix began in 2004 as a concert promoter and record label but has since evolved into a creative agency that services pop culture, with clients including Spotify and Marvel Studios. From its first substantial activation with Marvel Studios to now, the agency’s sales and revenue are on track to surpass last year’s projections. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565517
Clients such as Dropbox and Athenahealth look to Gale, an independently run agency within Stagwell, as an alternative to a traditional media agency. Since its founding, data has guided the full-service agency’s work in business strategy, CRM, brand storytelling and content marketing. More than 60% of its new clients come from referrals, and its revenue surged by 133% year over year. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565525
Founded in 2020 with just 15 employees in a small Toronto office, Salt XC has grown to more than 225 staff members with locations across three countries and two continents. By diversifying its client portfolio, from Mercedes Benz to Kraft Heinz, it has expanded revenue streams and maintained steady monthly growth since opening its doors. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565529
New York-based Makeout uses its creative strengths and production capacity to deliver experiences and events that support larger initiatives. Fiercely independent, the experience-focused agency has added conference clients, helping Sistas in Sales organize a multiday conference and Bored Ape Yacht Club put together its Apefest event. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565531
Being a remote-first agency born during Covid-19 allowed Daybreak Studio to use internal efficiencies and collaborative client tools to its advantage. Advances on multiple fronts have yielded an increase in head count, revenue, capabilities and services, and an opening of its first office in Toronto. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565532
The 100% women-owned agency Quantious specializes in product marketing and outsourced marketing services for technology companies, emphasizing emerging technologies. Though small, the agency has grown quickly in the past three years while reducing its carbon footprint and also supporting clients in achieving their ESG and sustainability goals. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565534
From humble beginnings in a garage to working with more than 300 brands including Ikea and Walmart across various industries, this youth-led agency focuses on solutions that maximize results across digital platforms. The entrepreneurial spirit that drives this agency has also driven its three-year revenue growth, making it one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565535
Since opening in 2019, New York-based Socium Media has continued to be nearly 100% referral-based due in part to acquiring top talent and investing in its work experience. The shop was founded on the belief that no two clients are the same, which has positively impacted the agency’s growth of 339% over the past three years. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565553
MVR Digital’s growth comes from word-of-mouth referrals, high client retention and a focus on performance marketing. “MVR Digital … started to help a few female founders in my life grow their businesses, which turned into a huge success. To this day, 85% of our clients are female and/or minority founders,” said Mark Rosenthal, founder of MVR Digital. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565554
Founded more than three decades ago, Yes& is a midsized, independent marketing agency focused on government associations, not-for-profits and commercial clients nationwide. The agency has balanced its strategy with both organic growth and acquisitions. After teaming up with Lipman Hearne marketing firm, it has staff in more than 22 states. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565556
Bray & Co. specializes in launch and relaunch campaigns that include audiences as active participants. By harnessing the power of “when” to build momentum, Bray & Co. has gone two years without losing a single client, which it attributes to a heavy investment in talent and a simple but sustainable growth model. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565579
Movers+Shakers, founded in 2016, saw early growth because its remote-first team was uniquely positioned to support brands during the Covid-19 pandemic as it sought new ways to engage with audiences digitally, especially on TikTok. The Movers+Shakers team is “on a mission to spread joy,” believing that the best way to grow brand love is through evoking positive emotions. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565582
Cheil North America focuses on experiences that drive the business forward. Introducing Live Commerce across the Samsung mobile suite, for example, was a notable accomplishment for the team. With a focus on proactive solutions as trusted partners, the agency has exceeded growth metrics while growing its staff across multiple locations. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565620
Founded in 2018, Bold Orange Company’s growth has come from providing holistic solutions to customer experience challenges. In 2022, the agency invested heavily in infrastructure to support its 80% win rate and 100% client retention rates. Most notably, Bold Orange achieved these results without increasing its attrition rate above 10%. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565622
Joining forces with digital development firm Layer in 2022 to offer web and app development services, Moburst strengthened its position as a globally recognized digital and mobile-first agency. This focus on new degrees of expertise and service operations has translated to partnerships with brands including Dropbox, Microsoft and TikTok. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
Size
1565627
Fohr has rolled out new services and products to suit the demands of the digital landscape. With business coming from both influencer management and the SaaS subscription model for its marketing tech platform, Fohr achieves a level of symbiosis that retains clients for the long term, working with brands including Best Buy, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Sephora. —K.C.
Growth
Name
Category
Location
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1565630
Since launching in 2015, Shine Talent Group has experienced consistent and measurable growth without having to lean too heavily on any one brand partner or influencer on its roster. In 2022, the California-based agency opened a London office due to an increase in demand from both brands and talent seeking representation. Shine’s clients include Revolve, American Express and BMW. —K.C.
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In 2022, WongDoody acquired digital marketing agency Oddity and grew from 130 to 600 employees. A commitment to design-led business allowed WongDoody to grow to 2,000 creators in 21 studios across the globe as well. The agency’s select clients include P&G, Nissan and Amazon. —K.C.
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1565659
With its headquarters in the UK, Brainlabs has additional locations in North America, Brazil and the Asia-Pacific region. In 2022, it opened an office in Mexico to expand its offering in Latin America. The agency was built without dependency upon any one vertical, so when challenges came, Brainlabs managed to reap the rewards from an increase in clients looking to succeed in ecommerce. The agency’s clients include Capital One and WeTransfer. —K.C.
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Homegrown has leveraged a keen sense of authenticity to drive the creator economy forward. Over the past three years, the agency’s revenue has grown 240% due to a focus on strong culture, creator partnerships and the introduction of HGStreet, a lifestyle festival in South Asia. —K.C.
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1565663
Before the pandemic, Hanson Dodge built in-house media capabilities, which opened new service offerings ranging from media to design, ecommerce and digital development. Today, the agency has clients including KEEN Footwear, Kohler and Now Vitamins. With these business wins, Hanson Dodge has evolved from a regional player in the Midwest to an agency serving clients on a national scale. —K.C.
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1565665
As a certified B Corp, Dept is committed to using its growth to achieve even higher sustainability and DEI benchmarks. In the last year alone, the agency has grown to more than 4,000 employees across five continents. The full-service agency’s clients include BMW, Canva and Gucci. —K.C.
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1565667
Muddy Shutter Media, initially a production firm based in the Midwest, expanded its footprint to Dallas as it increased postproduction services to clients. The agency has pivoted to ecommerce, strategy and social media as key growth drivers. Muddy Shutter Media’s ecommerce strategy and DTC marketing have fueled client onboarding and revenue since 2020. —K.C.
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1565668
Hunterblu Media thrives as a nimble, remote-first agency that attracts midsized brand clients. With 35% of revenue funneled back to an employee-centric model that sees talent flourish, the agency’s organic growth has surged over the last three years through client referrals and expansions. In the past two years, the agency has added wins including Take 5 Car Wash and a Row 7 Seed Co. campaign launch for Whole Foods. —K.C.
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1565670
Full-service agency Create. has achieved growth since its 2010 founding due to its investment in a fully integrated, in-house solutions suite. The agency works with clients including Emirates airline, positioning itself as a “go-to agency for tier 1 brands.” —K.C.
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1565671
Media.Monks recently expanded its footprint with more than 1,600 professionals across three new offices, partly due to its merger with California-based, full-stack engineering and design company TheoremOne and the largest merger among agencies in the Brazilian market. Over the past year, the agency has also increased conversions among its existing clients. —K.C.
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1565672
Digitalfarm’s growth is evident as it opens a second Abu Dhabi location and looks forward to opening another in Saudi Arabia. By adding small businesses and open-event opportunities to its portfolio, digitalfarm saw more than 30% growth in its staff in 2022. —K.C.
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1565675
SitePartners has seen a significant increase in revenue, staffing, infrastructure investment and client wins in the industrial sector in the past three years. “The general public does not realize this, but the roads we drive on, homes we live in, and the schools where our kids learn are all impacted by the industrial sector,” said Andrew Hansen, president at SitePartners. —K.C.
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1565799
Mindgruve is a data-driven agency for online DTC brands. Its growth can be attributed to prioritizing data science and analytics to provide insights at scale that deliver measurable results for clients. Consistency in results compels clients to continue working with Mindgruve, even after moving to other brands. —K.C.
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1565811
During the past 12 months, NP Digital has expanded its global presence, resulting in 224 net new clients to its portfolio. To keep up with new business, it has also increased staffing by 36%. With the acquisition of AnswerThePublic in the middle of 2022, NP Digital’s proprietary technology, Ubersuggest, saw a massive increase in capacity for insight generation, data analysis and visualizations for marketers. —K.C.
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1565815
The MRN Agency’s strong commitment to diversity, inclusion and thorough representation across all levels of the agency is a competitive advantage in creative marketing. The Los Angeles-based boutique agency’s international success with Hispanic audiences helped spearhead new growth opportunities domestically. —K.C.
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1565819
By acquiring Verb Data, Revive Media shifted to a more product-led business and maintained control of its service model. Thanks to relationships with the Amazon Delivery Service Partner Program and sales leadership reps, Revive Media benefits from a 100% word-of-mouth organic growth strategy as it continues to focus on Amazon marketing solutions. —K.C.
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1565834
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1565847
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1565853
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1565867
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1565869
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1565870
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1565873
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1565874
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1565876
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1565877
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1565879
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1565880
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1565883
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1565884
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1565885
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1565886
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1565889
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1565890
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1565892
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1565894
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1565895
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1565898
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1565899
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1565900
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1565902
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1565903
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1565906
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1565908
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1565909
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1565911
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1565920
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1565921
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1565923
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1565924
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1565925
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1565927
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1565929
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1565934
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1565939
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1565943
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1565951
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1565959
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1565960
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1565961