In my role at Agency Spotter, I see a lot of marketing agencies from digital agencies to branding design firms to user data analytics companies. This list of "Agencies That Think Different" highlights some that seem to differentiate themselves better than the norm.
If you are growing a brand, I think how a partner crafts their own message is important. If they take the time and know how to help themselves stand out amongst the hundreds of thousands of marketing agencies and design firms, they may just be able to help your company too. Enjoy. Note: This is an unordered list.
Portland Digital Agency
UpliftCX is a Portland-based agency that exists to rid the world of bad customer experiences – one touchpoint at a time. We do much more than make websites, we provide custom and targeted e-commerce experiences that customers love. Simply having a websi...
RNO1
RNO1 is a Growth—First Digital Design Experience Agency. We guide game-changing Tech & eCommerce brands across platforms & places, through agile thinking. In working with brands like Acorns — to — Airbnb (and all those in between), we understand that havi...
Fun B2B videos for bold companies that want to win!
More often than not, B2B video ads are a bland-factor of 10. LinkedIn feeds are awash with the same color palette, the same stale static ads, and if you do happen upon a video ad, its stock footage of a stapler. We’re here to change all that. B2B is on th...
We Are Craving Creators.
We’re an agency obsessed with delivering the freshest Food and Beverage marketing in the industry. We’re a punch-above-our-weight partner, the secret sauce for some of the country’s smartest F&B marketers. Over the last 20 years, we’ve supported more than...
Taxi Studio
Taxi Studio create unforgettable®, iconic, scalable brand expressions that drive results for global businesses. Taxi Studio is an independent design business home to a collective of global talent doing what we love – without ego or hierarchy – for over 2...
We are the simplicity company.
Siegel+Gale is a global brand strategy, design and experience firm. Using facts, intuition and creativity, we blend science with art, unlocking the power of simplicity to help organizations realize their full potential.
BUILDING BRAND SUCCESS SINCE 1982
Primary is a full-service integrated marketing agency that believes powerful ideas transform anything. We deliver Strategy, Design, 3D Visualization, Web Development, Creative, Media/Social and Analytics. We work with clients to change perceptions, to chan...
Branding through experience — Building brands people love.
BASIC is a branding & experience design agency working at the intersection of lifestyle, fashion, entertainment and digital culture. We believe brands are the cultural connection between companies and their communities. We help brands attract the right p...
We Believe in Stories
twofifteenmccann is a great big little agency. A tiny building in an alley, filled with storytellers and backed by the might and reach of a global network. Storytellers making amazing stories for amazing companies. Stories that make people feel, that make ...
Expertly Crafted Disruption
Ruckus is a marketing strategy and creative agency that practices “Expertly Crafted Disruption.” Our branding, platform design, and campaign work have propelled blue-chip enterprises and early-stage startups alike. We are not a marketing agency that focuse...
Sagon-Phior grows businesses by building better relationships between a brand and their target audience through emotional marketing, branding and technology.
––––––––––––––––––––– As a full service marketing agency, our primary purpose is to create ideas that affect how people feel. Though logic plays a role, feelings ultimately drive behavior and choice. Creative branding, emotional marketing and technology...
We Create Digital Experiences for Physical Spaces
NEXT/NOW is a creative technology agency that produces next-generation digital/physical experiences for world-class brands. We use virtual reality, natural user interfaces, gesture and motion interactivity, innovative display concepts, and breakthrough tec...
The Brand Activation Agency | Experiential, Engagement, Activation
Auctus Agency creates legendary customer experiences for some of the world’s best-known brands. We partner both directly with brands and with advertising, public relations, and marketing agencies to create effective and efficient experiential campaigns tha...
Superior Creative and Technical Expertise
Union is an independent creative & performance marketing agency that creates omni-channel campaigns, unleashing creativity on a data-driven world, helping brands produce memorable, measurable and repeatable results. We specialize in travel & tourism, healt...
A New York Creative Agency.
We are a vibrant, no holds barred creative agency brimming with a motley crew of in-house storytellers and tinkerers, each fiercely devoted to smashing goals and exploding narratives. Guided by compassion, we exist to hawk your wares, amplify your voice, a...
We design, create, and build brands
Founded in 1994, Tank is a full-service, multidisciplinary design and branding studio with offices in Boston (Cambridge), New York and San Francisco. We help transform organizations, re-invigorate brands and grow businesses in many different sectors, fro...
Innovative. User Focused. Silicon Valley, NYC, London
Momentum is an award winning Silicon Valley, New York City, & London based user experience design & development agency serving startups to the Fortune 500. Our services include - Research, Product Strategy, Design, and Development. We specialize in: + Pro...
World's Greatest Independent Agency (According to our moms.)
Brokaw is an independent creative agency and former Ad Age Small Agency of the Year famous for helping brands rise above the blah blah—including GE Lighting, Sherwin-Williams, PURELL, Philips, and Cayman Jack Margaritas. Brokaw Inc. is owned and operated b...
Brand Innovation
Pixelslave provides brand strategy and 360º integrated communications. Interactive isn’t a buzzword or an add-on for us. It’s core competence. It’s who we are. We’re agile and responsive and we thrive in an environment that constantly presents us with new ...
We do more optimization than any other agency. How?
Our mission is to build the world's greatest performance digital agency. Our key services include PPC, SEO, Display, Content, Social Ads and Analytics and we use the best marketing talent in the world to deliver this. In our experience, there is no suc...
Is your advertising as interesting as your business?
L/H is a creative partnership making brands interesting through sharp, clear, witty and tasteful work, generally referred to as advertising. Though we find that limiting. We are firm believers in the late Howard Gossage’s observation, “The real fact of t...
B2B Marketing for Global Leaders & Challengers
Modo Modo is an award-winning Top 20 Strategic B2B Agency. We are strategy, marketing, advertising and branding people who don't think like agency people. We think like business people. We help high-growth businesses accelerate the way they capture & grow...
Marketing Agency Built to Grow Leader Brands
We don’t just build brands. We grow category leaders. ----- Ramey is an agency built to help leader brands succeed. In the 80’s, we partnered with Viking Range and over a 25-year relationship, helped them redefine the home kitchen. Today, we are group ...
Breakthroughs, not bandwagons
Burns Marketing ignites great brands by delivering creativity with a purpose. Our expertise in brand, digital, content, and campaigns spans companies in technology, life sciences, and beyond. But our true value lies in the ability to get into the heads of ...
Experience matters.
Everything at Launch begins with strategy: learning about your company, your challenges, those of your customers, so we can work together on creating actionable plans to meet your company's objectives. Our clients come to us for everything from better unde...
Human-to-human advertising for purpose-driven brands
CVLN is a performance marketing agency with a humanistic approach. We build purpose-driven brands through human-to-human advertising that creates real feeling, inspires real behavior and drives real business growth.
We design digital commerce experiences that make happier customers and healthier businesses.
- eHouse Studio is a digital commerce company located in Charleston, SC. We are experts in creating highly engaging user experiences for brands looking to grow their online marketplace and differentiate themselves from competitors. Our team of e-commerce ...
Digitally led design & Branding
Every member of Zero comes from a deep foundational understanding of the web, digital & branding. Our breadth of experience gives us a nuanced and holistic view of the current landscape - and the multitude of considerations across the customer journey. Th...
WE HELP AMBITIOUS BRANDS PUNCH ABOVE THEIR WEIGHT
Fueled by curiosity. Grounded in strategy. We're a small and mighty hybrid marketing agency focused on delivering creative solutions to marketing challenges. We work with ambitious brands that share our belief that marketing is not the savior but the ampl...
A Bold and Fearless Approach to Elevate your Brand
Fearless Media is a full-service media agency built around the Millennial audience. We are so much more than your traditional advertising agency. From the relationships we foster with our clients to the out of the box thinking we use to cultivate cutting...
WHY OH
OH Partners has gathered the best, the brightest and, yes, some of the craziest together in Phoenix and Southern California to make marketing magic. We combine elements of a traditional full service national agency with the ninja-like reflexes of a startup...
We design growth
THRIVE is an experienced group of researchers, strategists and designers based in Atlanta, Georgia. We work at the intersection of design, the social sciences and business to help companies create new value. Our expertise in reinventing categories, connec...
Digital Agency in San Francisco
Since 2001 we have shaped digital experiences at every touch point. We are storytellers, designers, technologists, writers, and builders. COG1 is a premier San Francisco-based interactive design and development agency that has been producing highly innova...
Get to the Space Your Brand Is Meant For
BooneOakley is a full-service agency dedicated to learning new truths, making meaningful creative, and doing better than good. We're committed to doing great work with people we like, and have been doing just that since 2000 with clients like Bojangles', S...
Think Critically. Act Creatively.
Smarthinking Inc. is an integrated brand development agency with a distinct focus on real estate and hospitality. Our task is to solve business challenges through the creation of compelling brands. We believe everything communicates. Every single thing...
We're a full service creative agency that tells the stories of small and medium sized brands.
Seeing our clients succeed as they “level-up” is one of our greatest thrills. Our process is simple. We talk to your customers and potential customers, we clarify and simplify your story, we refine and craft your core elements (website, brand ID, collatera...
Committed to extraordinary results
Pace is a leading full-service creative agency that develops brand storytelling experiences that move audiences to action. We believe there is power in “why,” and it serves as a creative catalyst for ideas and insights. Our clients include some of the wo...
Why We're Unique
Obility is a digital marketing agency focused on helping B2B companies. Our in-house Revenue Operations team provides reporting, analysis, data governance, and system administration that allows us to optimize campaign performance and deliver better-than-be...
We are Agenda
An independent brand agency that blends strategy, creativity and craft to help brands flourish and businesses grow. We work with the Fortune 500, challenger brands and new companies in equal measure. Our unwavering ambition? Find your awesome and make it ...
We design for cool brands...
ArtVersion Interactive is an independent creative agency, graphic design and web design firm with headquarters in Chicago. Our experiential design process creates emotion and engagement between the brands and consumers through UX, web design, graphic desi...
Strategically Classic, Digitally Remastered
We are a bold collection of talented professionals on a mission to create inspired solutions that move merchandise, build brands, and change lives. At Bigbuzz we believe that growing a brand in the connected age begins with creating meaningful relationship...
Traction is a marketing accelerator.
We are a new breed of brand experience consultancy designed to help your team get traction—fast. Our roster of subject matter experts accelerates your in-house team’s ability to execute experiences that deliver business growth. We are structured to deliv...
AWARD-WINNING SEO AGENCY
✅ Page 1 Rankings On Google And Bing (w/case studies) ✅ 20k Billed On Upwork w/98% job success rating ✅ 100+ Online Reviews On Google, Facebook, Yelp, Trustpilot & More Welcome to Pearl Lemon. Headed up by social media influencer in his own right Deep...
To Honor To Inspire
The Charles Group is an award-winning full service digital agency specializing in strategic, creative, digital campaigns and websites for forward-thinking media and lifestyle companies and luxury fashion brands. With offices in New York, London and Chica...