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.
The Motion Agency
Advertising
ALWAYS MORE - We are an eclectic collective of talented problem solvers. Strategists, designers, writers and technicians all working together towards a common goal: create valuable and memorable communications that get people to take action. For six decades our family of curious thinkers has proudly nurtured the habit of “digging deeper” into brand strategy, advertising, digital, social media, public relations, packaging, collateral, videos, events and more. The result? Long-lasting client relationships and cutting-edge creative solutions to today’s business and marketing challenges.
Aisle Rocket
Advertising
FULL-SERVICE MARKETING & CREATIVE SERVICES AGENCY - Aisle Rocket is a different kind of agency, focused entirely on delivering results. By unifying marketing and creative services backed by data and technology, Aisle Rocket drives revenue through best-in-class creative, e-commerce and media execution. Aisle Rocket’s Atlas managed Customer Data Platform (CDP) harnesses a brand’s 1st-party data to inform omnichannel online and offline media campaigns, supported by world-class creative, content, and UX. Aisle Rocket merged with Target Data Corp in 2020 shortly after Target Data Corp. acquired Social Fulcrum in 2019. All three agencies combined and branded under the name Aisle Rocket.
Pendulum Creative
Experiential Marketing
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.
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!
Comrade Digital Marketing Agency
Search
YOUR DIGITAL MARKETING PARTNER - Comrade Digital Marketing Agency is a full-service award-winning digital marketing, SEO, and web development agency based in Chicago. We love solving design, technology, and marketing challenges to elevate our clients to their next levels! We achieve it by: 1. Team. 2. Proven process. 3. Industry-leading knowledge (Legal, IT, eCommerce, Corporate, Professional Services, Construction, and Manufacturing). We believe that any company (regardless of its size) with a good product can compete and win battles with “big-box corporate stores." Our services: Digital Marketing: - Local SEO, nationwide SEO - PPC, SEM - Social Media Marketing - Email Marketing - Mobile Marketing - Inbound Marketing Marketing Automation: - Content Marketing - Web Design and Development Why businesses choose Comrade Digital Marketing Agency: - We are a young, creative and ambitious team of experts. - We provide a full team consisting of an experienced strategist, web designers and developers, content, SEO, PPC, and social media experts for a price of one employee. - We deliver first-page SEO results in 2-5 months. - We have dozens of case studies and happy clients. - We are maybe the most experienced Local SEO team in Chicago. - We run result-driven marketing campaigns. - We are a HubSpot and Google Certified partner. - We are a full-service agency with 20+ full-time employees. - We offer custom designs. - We have very competitive rates and agency quality. - We have industry-specific expertise.
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.
Fresh content society
Social Media
ABOUT US - At Fresh Content Society, we are fully committed to building organic social media communities. There is no one-size-fits-all strategy in social media marketing hence we start our process by understanding your business goals, and we customize our strategies to help you reach them. Our team identifies the gaps in your current marketing strategy to figure out the best ways to help your brand obtain maximum online visibility and exposure. Given our expertise in social media marketing, custom strategies, and proactive execution, we elevate your brand to new heights. If you have a project to discuss with our team, feel free to get in touch. Though we are a digital marketing agency based out of Chicago, we have clients across global locations. Let’s talk about your business today!
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.
HANGAR12
Digital Strategy
THINK CONSUMER FIRST. - HANGAR12 is a leading independent brand activation agency for national and global consumer package goods. We believe that everything starts with your consumer. That’s our only rule. Our Consumer First® approach enables collaboration with your consumers throughout our creative process to ensure successful activation of your brand. We've been leading with this approach for highly recognizable brands in the food & beverage, snacks, household, personal care, retail, and home & office categories. HANGAR12 is ranked a TOP 100 promotion agency in the U.S. for over ten years. We are strategists, creatives and insight specialists who love to connect brands with consumers in innovative and meaningful ways. Our in-house team is fully remote, allowing us to retain a diverse group of top CPG talent and focus on speed to market. - Consumer Promotion - Shopper Marketing - Digital Marketing - Social Media