Chicago Creative Agencies and Design Firms
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Web, Search, Social Media, Inbound Marketing, and Advertising
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Daniel Brian Advertising
Healthcare Marketing, Branding, Advertising, Digital Strategy, and Media
BETTER BRANDS FOR A BETTER HUMAN CONDITION - DBA specializes in innovative and measurable advertising campaigns to engage families via retail, healthcare (hospitals & wellness products) as well as food, family entertainment and sporting goods. In addition to traditional advertising services and brand consulting, DBA provides integrated expertise in emerging social and digital media including branded entertainment, digital TV and content marketing.
Damen Jackson
Branding
BRANDING, PACKAGING & DESIGN - We use the power of branding, packaging and strategy to differentiate your brand, helping you more closely connect with your ideal consumer. Celebrating our 24th year of helping brands grow.
Bell
Digital Strategy
NEED HELP IMPROVING YOUR ROI? - At ESV Digital, we started by pioneering paid search software development in 2004 and manage more than $300m media spend for our clients across the globe today. Our 200 clients range from huge brand names like Toys’R’Us, Sandals Resorts or Papa John’s to smaller mid-sized businesses. We combine our in-house technology with a team of 180 consultants and analysts to help our clients across a wide range of digital challenges. Do you need help turning around your SEM campaigns? Launching a new format? Analyzing cross-channel sales attribution? Talk to us – we are data driven, results focused and pleasant to deal with!
NEXT/NOW
Innovation
WE CREATE DIGITAL EXPERIENCES FOR PHYSICAL SPACES - NEXT/NOW is a creative technology agency that produces next-generation digital/physical experiences for world-class brands. We use virtual reality, natural user interfaces, gesture and motion interactivity, innovative display concepts, and breakthrough technology to create unforgettable moments of connection between people and organizations. Our team hails from diverse disciplines, spanning brand development, museum management, and computer science to high-level video game development. Our focus on creating new approaches to existing challenges ensures an aura of innovation runs through our studio. Our proprietary code-base allows rapid prototyping of new-to-the-world concepts. Our integrated physical prototyping shop ensures a seamless interplay between digital and real-world elements. Our creative philosophy begins with a deep respect for our clients brand and audience. Every idea, emotion, innovation, and execution builds upon that foundation. Our insistence on best-in-class creative and development processes and formalized user testing ensures a ‘no surprises’ launch of projects and initiatives. We believe the future belongs to those who create it.
Upshot
Advertising
EMPOWERING BRANDS TO OWN THE MOMENT. - We use creativity, digital fluency, and cultural agility to lead brands through a world of change and unleash their full potential. Upshot finds clarity and opportunity in a world where commerce, culture, media, and technology have blurred conventional boundaries. For brands like Corona Extra, Google, Quaker, Newell, Bibigo, Therma-Tru and Karo we develop brand-building ideas that break conventions, inspire participation, and build equity. Since our founding in 1994 by members of the LGBTQ community, Upshot has set out to create a creative agency fueled by cultural curiosity and a progressive mindset. In fact, 6 of the 8 members of our executive leadership team identify as female or a member of the minority community. Upshot is proud to be one of a select group of agencies to participate in BLAC: Building Leaders and Creators, an internship program focused on bringing more Black talent to the advertising industry.
Demo Duck
Advertising
DEMO DUCK | AN AWARD WINNING VIDEO AGENCY - At Demo Duck, we believe video has the power to humanize your brand, educate your customers, promote your products, and so much more. It’s not just about having one good explainer video on your homepage. Video, like any marketing effort, is an ongoing strategy. We create video for any business mission. Get to know us and what we do at demoduck.com.
O'Malley Hansen Communications
Digital Strategy
PR + INFLUENCER + DIGITAL + SOCIAL + CORPORATE - O’Malley Hansen Communications (OHC) is a brand-building agency with core competencies in consumer public relations, cause marketing, social media, issues & crisis management and corporate communications. We specialize in areas including food & nutrition, travel, pet, fashion and beauty, agriculture, manufacturing, marketing to parents and Latin American communications. OHC infuses the high quality of big firm work with the focused client service and cutting-edge strategy that only a nimble, independently owned agency can offer. Our approach breaks through a noisy environment with a deep understanding that brand equity and reputation is built by endorsement from a wide range of influencers that receive their information from a variety of sources. We appreciate that to be successful, we first need to help our clients define who they want to be, thoughtfully identify who needs to hear from them and skillfully uncover the best methods to start a discussion with their key stakeholders. Our specialty is creating positive conversations and dynamic programs to ensure that our clients are heard clearly and consistently. OHC has offices in Chicago, St. Louis, New York and Los Angeles.
Youtech
Digital Strategy
INNOVATING THE WAY BUSINESSES SHOULD RUN - Youtech specializes in website design and development, SEO, and social media marketing, but offers so much more. Youtech is the Integrated Marketing & Development Agency bursting with creativity and engineering experts in the field of design and technology. The Youtech team brings experience, dedication, and enthusiasm to a variety of businesses, both large and small. Because each client vision is unique, Youtech prides itself on distinctive customizations, specifically designed to capture target audiences and realize client objectives. Whether it’s a sleek design facelift to rejuvenate the “status quo,” or a fresh, innovative marketing launch, the Youtech team is ready to go! Here at Youtech, our strategic approach begins at the core level . . . incorporate revolutionary advances in design and 21st-century technology with all facets of your ever-evolving business. Personalized marketing material integration, creatively tailored website designs, and social media platform advantages translate into increased customer attention, that translates into increased sales and bottom line profit. It’s an end result that your company expects and most certainly deserves!
Pendulum Creative
Experiential Marketing
FULL-SERVICE EXPERIENTIAL COMPANY WITH AN AGENCY MINDSET - Though we partner with leading brands and artists throughout the country, our creative agency calls Chicago home. As one of the city’s leading production houses, our range of expertise includes projects like experiential brand campaigns, museum exhibit fabrication, large-scale concert production, and more. To develop original activations curated for your brand, we channel our passion for bringing people together. Each member of our team brings distinct experiences to the table, enabling us to keep creativity, versatility, and innovation at the heart of each project. We combine our love for dynamic experiences with creative and technical expertise to deliver the latest in experiential marketing. As your one-stop shop for event production, fabrication + installation, and technical AV, we bring your vision from rendering to reality.
STUDIO KAST
Branding
THOUGHTFUL, CUSTOM, FAST CREATIVE - STUDIO KAST is an award winning full service graphic design firm. We offer branding services, identity programs, infographics, marketing communications pieces, packaging, print design in all forms: ads, signage, conceptual work, production, custom illustration and digital design. We partner with clients that need custom, thoughtful creative combined with fast turn around times. We excel at pushing projects forward–both creatively and physically–with the least amount of work for our clients, always striving to produce the highest quality product–on time and on budget. The firm was founded to address the needs of clients who require a simplified way to get custom creative. We are uniquely structured, employing full time designers and managers on staff and utilizing freelancers, photographers, illustrators and multiple employee firms to combine and recombine talents and ideas in new ways. Highly skilled people of all different levels are brought together so that our clients receive fast moving, specialized tasks all under one central management structure that controls cost, increases the quality of the end product and reduces the amount of management work for our clients.
Yeah Design Works
Branding
ABOUT YEAH DESIGN WORKS - Yeah Design Works is a small company that feels big and works with big players. More than 60% of our clients have been Fortune 500 companies, and we do work for some of America’s most famous and best-loved brands. Together, our team has years of design experience, specializing in packaging and branding. Our expertise is creating distinctive, memorable design in a variety of communications media that bring brands to life.