Creativity + communications

Marketing, advertising, and brand

Crafting powerful brand stories that drive business results.

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Great advertising and brands go beyond single channels, creating an identity and story that becomes part of our culture. Through Participation, our strategic, data-driven, full-service creative advertising group helps brands become relevant. With a culture of curiosity and profound digital chops, we understand both the rational and emotional side of your brand. We create great work that works, driving game-changing business results for our clients.

Brand strategy

We develop an outside-in perspective of your brand using data and insights to inform meaningful strategic recommendations. Culture and data junkies, we draw meaning from trends, zero-, first-, second-, and third-party data to distill complex inputs into meaningful, actionable insight.

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Campaign creative

From campaign platform development to tactical execution, our designers, writers, art directors, producers, and technologists build ideas at the intersection of three truths: brand truth, cultural truth, and consumer truth.

We execute these ideas seamlessly across digital, social, traditional, video, and experiential channels to build emotional connections with target audiences.

Design

Good design tells stories. It is conceptual, adaptive, and smart—not rigid, gratuitous, or decorative. We believe that good design objectively solves business problems and amplifies ideas.

We use tools like color palette, language, typography, photography, iconography, patterns, and shapes to design advertising, brand identity, packaging, website design, and much more.

Production

Our integrated production team makes the impossible possible. Whether drawn, designed, animated, filmed, read, or recorded, we bring powerful ideas to life in any and all mediums.

From talent and rights management to modern production techniques that create an impact, we solve problems and save you time and money while producing standout experiences.

Media planning and buying

Our digitally focused, full-service media team is passionate about the intersection of data and creativity to achieve ROI (return on investment) for our clients.

Delivering both reach and ROAS (return on ad spend), we get your message to the audiences that matter in ways that excite and motivate across every channel.

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Social strategy, activation, and PR

Owned and earned channels are just as vital to brand marketing as paid media, and our team’s ability to earn your brand attention and drive provable business outcomes stands alone in the space.

We drive some of the world’s most trusted brands and unforgettable campaigns. In the last decade, we’ve been named an “Agency of the Year” by leading PR trades PRWeek and PRovoke six times.

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