Top Advertising Agencies Of 2019

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Randy’s mantra has long been to seek first to understand a potential customer’s needs before seeking to be understood. This philosophy serves well in ensuring that we listen to our clients first and foremost. Randy received his MBA from James Madison University.

Paul has been a member of the VistaGraphics team for 25 years and has played a major role in the company’s growth, expansion and product development. He contributes to every aspect of the company’s daily operations and manages a team of sales, circulation, marketing and administrative professionals.

He has over 30 years of sales, marketing and product management experience. Includes positions with well know companies such as IBM, GTE, BellSouth and Dominion Enterprises. He is extremely proficient in areas of digital sales, SEO, SEM, Websites, Mobile Apps and recently Programmatic Advertising.

Holly has been at the helm of the production department for nearly 30 years and has successfully built a production and design team that creates beautiful, quality and creative products. By fostering strong communication with all parties involved and managing the workflow of more than 60 titles.

David’s artistic influence is seen on the covers of the magazines, the editorial layouts and many advertisements within the publications. He has also become familiar behind the lens, as his photos can be seen on the pages of nearly all the publications.

Chris Murphy began her career with VistaGraphics in 1994. Throughout the years she has worn several hats such as Art Director and Lead Designer. She has over 15 years of experience in graphic design, brand development, magazine design & publishing, web design and development and project management.

Lisa joined VistaGraphics, Inc. in 2015 as our first Marketing Director. In her role, she works with events, sales, digital and social media. She brings 15 years’ experience in marketing, sales and communications. She is a proud alum of Old Dominion University.

Brandon creates and designs cutting edge user information solutions by developing, implementing, and maintaining internet/intranet applications; determining and identifying high-level functional and technical requirements on the basis of interactions with the user community and knowledge.

Caleb has developed mobile applications for iPhone and Android using Cordova/PhoneGap and Ionic Framework for both in-house and client-base use. He has over 20 apps in the app stores. Along with producing applications for mobile phones, he helps build/maintain the websites hosted by us and IT task.

Michael Saks is our digital marketing and SEO analyst. His job is to make sure that new or existing websites can perform properly on the Google network and help generate organic results and traffic. He manages the SEO programs for over 25 accounts, as well as a dozen proprietary publications.

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Michael Raven is Founder & Managing Director of Blazon PR: Europe's Leading Crowdfunding Agency. Michael has had two startup exits, and has ran 50 agency campaigns across Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Blockchain platform projects, actively participating in the raising of over $115M+.

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David W Litwin is a passionate artist, author, designer, dad and husband. He has successfully built three agencies in his career, working with clients such as IBM, Sony, HP, Enterprise Rent A Car, Sara Lee and many other internationally known brands.

Robby Smith is the motion, social and animation powerhouse of Pure Fusion Media. Robby has worked with top level entertainment studios in Los Angeles, as well as premiere fashion and cosmetic brands such as Kylie by Kylie Jenner.

Dan Roseblade is our visionary… bar none. His creativity is only trumped by his sublime idea generation. Dan has been in the design industry for over 20 years, having started successful clothing lines, startups, and inventive ideas.

Chad Bahr is perhaps the most artistically gifted of the core PFM team, with a powerful visual aesthetic and a creative thought process like none other. He is the go-to core member for brand and logo concepts. Chad has been designing for over 10 years and is the newest member of the PFM Core Team.

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As CEO at DCS Co., Kevin is a constant reminder of every budget, deadline and job, working hand in hand with clients to ensure that goals, ROI and all that kind of stuff are being handled. He has a “let’s think this out,” type A personality, believes he’s a better golfer than he is and goes by Woods

With over 23 years in the business, John has built a solid reputation on smart thinking and an eye for detail. His “keep it simple” school of art direction has scored awards for him and his clients since he started. When he’s not in creative mode, you can find him wading in a stream with a fly rod.

After 20 years of creating campaigns for some of the world’s biggest, most enduring brands, Brian sums up his life in ideation with one simple, brutally honest thought: “I still can’t believe I get paid to do this stuff.” He’s an award-winning copywriter and a firm believer in not overthinking.

Mazda, Ford, Levi’s, eBay, PacSun, Ken’s been around the digital block. From installations and mobile apps to social media and enterprise websites, this guy’s been on the ad side of the internet for as long as brands have been marketing on it.

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Started in early 90's and morphed to TM in 1998 focusing on SEO. Creation and implementation of online business plans including development blueprints and revenue generation programs displaying validity to private and public funding sources.

Tyler manages production here at TM, making sure that quality standards are met with each project, workflow efficiency is top notch, and that new ideas are generated to improve our work as a whole every day. He’s passionate about providing a visual eye for good design and helps all stay sharp.

Miranda sets the tone for the agency by maintaining relationships and communicating updates to our clients. She also assists our project manager with resource coordination, project intake and keeping timelines on track.

Josh mainly works on a website’s “front-end,” which involves turning a website design into a living and functional website. He specializes in WordPress and Magento builds, as well as integrating new technologies into our development processes.

Jailyn manages various social media accounts, creates awesome copywriting content, keeps traffic moving throughout the agency, and everything else in between. She keeps her eyes open for all opportunities for clients and the agency.

Lindsey is our fabulous designer and is here to make things look good. She designs interfaces that are on trend and meet brand standards. She also collaborates with other TM team members to help their projects reach a stylistic resolution.

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Our Agency Project Manager Lead. Over 10 years in agency experience managing brand such as Nike, McDonalds, Keds, Sperry or Panamá Pacífico.

One of the Country´s top strategic planners. Over 7 years of experience working with brands such as Nike, McDonalds y Banistmo.

Agency´s founder and managing partner. Creative/Innovative and passionate manager. He has redefined the Ad industry in Panama and has founded successful projects in the region such as REVIVE, Workings Latam and La Media.

Art lead. Our most talented graphic director, oversees all the artistic work at the agency. Over 10 years in experience. Awarded globally for works with brands such as Titán, Diageo and Movistar.

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Ilija Brajković is CEO at Kontra digital agency. He has 8+ years of experience with digital marketing. He worked with clients like Microsoft, Renault and Suzuki helping them with their social media efforts.

Business developer & Co-founder at Kontra (digital agency). Throughout the years, I have worked with big clients such as Walt Disney, Discovery Channel, Kinder, Renault, T-Mobile, Istraturist – Umag hotels, Pepsi, Alpro etc.

Account Manager at Kontra. Dog lover, foodie and Harry Potter fan for life. She is absolutely calm and concentrated in the most stressing situations.

Traffic manager at Kontra. Crazy Liverpool F.C. fan. Love to eat, cook, drink, watch movies and listen to music. It's amazing what he can do with advertising budgets.

Music and travel enthusiast. Copywriter at Kontra with a knack for wordplay. Always up for hard work & having fun.

Social Media Manager at Kontra agency, journalism and PR major, animal lover and a travel enthusiast. Knows social media by heart. She's efficient and precise.

Dina is a digital graphic designer at Kontra. She loves plants, enjoys a good craft beer and doing someone's nails relaxes her. Over the years, she's been working with clients such as Coca Cola, Heineken & Unicef.

Designer at Kontra. Lego builder and collector. Movie fanboy and big F1 fanatic. He loves and creates clean design, and is always educating himself.

Front-end web developer at Kontra and a car enthusiast. Code is basically his mother language, and full-stack developing is his jam.

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Since founding CP in 1999, Steve has methodically built a company based on empathy, humanity and creativity. Steve has used his gifts for human insights and passion for connecting with people to create not just a growing business, but a working environment awarded “Best Agency Culture” by AdAge.

26-year ad veteran. Founder of nutrition brand Goodee™. Former gymnast. Alyssa is all of these. Since calling CP home 18 years ago, she has helped grow the agency from four to 170, established a Wellness Practice and assembled a robust creative group.

Since joining 16 years ago, Scott has pioneered CP’s empathy engineering philosophy and proprietary IQ/EQ/BQ process, emphasizing the importance of identifying shared values between brand and audience. He’s a national industry speaker and professor of evolving marketing strategies at Boston College.

With 20+ years in the business, 16 at CP, Dana has worked with national and regional clients in all categories. Overseeing the brand department means he’s always in pursuit of a true client/agency partnership. He is also managing director of Breaktime Media growing our shopper marketing practice.

10+ years ago Richard joined CP to forge a media department that has been growing ever since. Clients of varying budgets and resources have benefited from his deep understanding of media. He’s a true believer in integrated campaigns, working in lockstep with all departments to develop smart plans.

Since joining CP in 2011, Scott has led delivery of high-impact creative and tech solutions while expanding our digital capabilities. Scott touches all aspects of digital including UX, SEO, analytics and creative tech. Before CP, Scott held senior roles at Arnold, Molecular and Isobar.

One of the agency’s original partners, Steve has been managing operations to keep CP running smoothly for 18 of his 32 years in the industry. Whether it’s HR, finance, IT or the beautiful space we call “work”, Steve is responsible for ensuring every aspect of CP is firing on all cylinders.

After Arnold, Modernista, ISM, and client-side at Fidelity, Courtney brought her expertise in business development, strategy and brand to CP. In her 23 industry years she has helped lead award-winning campaigns for the likes of Volkswagen, RadioShack, Cadillac and CVS.

Lindsay has grown digital and traditional agencies Digitas, 360i and Kirshenbaum (KBS) over 15 years. She’s successful at solving client business challenges with the best use of strategy and integrated advertising. At CP she sharpens our story overseeing sharing of and winning with it unique to CP.

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Bruce has spent his 25+ year career in brand advertising, relationship marketing and digital marketing in top creative positions at Ammirati & Puris, Scali McCabe Sloves, Leo Burnett, Grey, Wunderman and OgilvyOne. In 2012, Bruce joined with four former colleagues to start his own agency, IPNY.

As an award-winning senior creative director with nearly 20 years experience, Jill has the rare ability to combine creative vision with practical implementation. Before founding IPNY, she spent the prior 15 years at OgilvyOne, as Group Creative Director.

With 30+ years in brand advertising, direct marketing, CRM and public relations, Andy is dedicated to building impactful creative that drives results for clients. While at Ogilvy and Mather, Andy played a major role in building and subsequently growing the Ogilvy Healthcare Practice.

Joe is a recognized marketing strategist and client advocate through and through. He successfully led global client engagements for Fortune 500 brands and worked closely with CMO’s to deliver tangible results. Clients refer to him as a “trusted advisor” because he speaks their language.

Chris creates campaigns that become consumer success stories and redefine categories. For two decades he progressed from Designer to Art Director, sometimes as a Writer and then Creative Director, working on both the agency (BBDO, DDB, JWT, Ogilvy, TWBA/Chiat Day, Wieden+Kennedy), and client side.

Tim followed his father into advertising, starting in media, then account management at agencies like Scali McCabe Sloves, Doremus and Merkley+Partners. Tim eventually moved client-side to manage media and marketing for TD Ameritrade and BlackRock.

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Susan has more than 25 years of business experience spanning several industries. Areas of focus include: Recruitment Marketing and Employment Branding; Sales, Advertising, Promotions and Publicity Campaigns; Marketing Plan, Strategies; Events and Corporate Sponsorships; and Client Relations.

Tami's career includes 20 years of corporate sales and marketing experience in retail, tourism, and telecommunications, plus entrepreneurial experience with her own retail business. Specific area of expertise include - Digital Marketing, Social Media, Paid Ads, Website Design, SEO, Email Marketing.

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John formed the Public Relations and Marketing Group in January of 2002. The firm provides integrated services to attorneys and other professionals, governmental entities, non-profit organizations, retailers, restaurants, destinations, other corporations and political candidates.

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Nicole Curran is the founding partner and creative director of Foster & Create. A strategist and designer with a proven record of success, Nicole has been widely recognized for her ability to produce creative solutions that distinguish brands with impact, meaning and relevance.

Frank Hekel is a partner and creative director of Foster & Create. He leads a wide range of large scale brand strategy, experience and communication initiatives for healthcare clients focused on innovative treatment therapies.

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With over 20 years experience, Elizabeth brings the expertise, creativity and award-winning strategy of a big-time ad agency to small and scaling businesses. Elizabeth develops brand strategies, engaging copy, and executes marketing and media plans.

Clare has 20 years of experience crafting design solutions for companies and organizations large and small. In 2001, she co-founded Brown McClaren Design, a multidisciplinary design firm in Pasadena, CA. Brown McClaren went on to receive some of the highest honors in the design industry.

With her expertise in the packaged goods, retail, restaurant and catering industries, Kelly serves our diverse client roster well. Kelly helps retail clients meet sales objectives through retail execution, proper product placement and developing an effective marketing program.

Abby is a graphic design graduate of Pittsburg State University. Abby has an acute attention to detail that is a great asset to the team and keeps us sane. She works with clients and our team to produce artwork and designs, managing the production process of getting assets to clients and the team.

Madelynne is a journalism and marketing graduate of the University of Arkansas. She specializes in content strategy and development by creating engaging written content, social sharing, and tracking analytics. She has experience in SEO, project management, and writing for a variety of voices.

Anne graduated from Northwest Missouri State University. Anne assists with social media marketing, marketing strategy and media planning. Coordinating projects, conducting research and using her graphic design background whenever she can are what she enjoys most about her work at the Brandhouse.

As an expatriate from the corporate world with decades of experience in interactive publishing, marketing and website development, Scott builds and maintains websites for Novella clients.

With a 25-year career in advertising, creative design, art direction, and web development under his belt, Skeet brings an immense amount of experience to Novella. As part of the Novella team, he works with clients creating cohesive brands that work both online and off.

Behind every good writer is a great editor. Prior to publication, Mary checks all copy for grammatical errors and style consistency, testing that it makes sense for the intended audience. Mary is also part of our website testing and troubleshooting process for new sites.

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James regularly conducts intensive workshops to help organizations and leadership teams answer fundamental strategic questions and turn those answers into operational behavior and business results.

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Annie Liao Jones has 17 years of experience in business development, corporate identity, brand management, social media marketing, search engine optimization, content strategy, earned media, naming, branding, digital marketing & advertising. She focuses her time on creative direction.

Jake is tasked with brand management, driving creative strategy for each of the clients, and managing internal projects along with client relations. As managing partner, Jake helps to ensure that each of Rock Candy Media's clients feel loved and know where they stand with the company.

Kelsie is tasked with managing the designs for websites, UI/UX elements, emails, social artwork across all channels, as well as overseeing the top-level art direction for Rock Candy Media and the agency’s clients. As managing partner, Kelsie helps with client relations, managing internal projects.

Yvette performs administrative duties for CEO and Senior Management. As Operations Manager, oversee the production of goods and provision of services. Responsibilities include screening calls, managing calendars, and meeting arrangements. Prepare research, internet marketing research, reports.

Neha is tasked with creating engaging and interactive websites for Rock Candy Media clients by implementing WordPress theme and plugins from scratch. She is also responsible for assigning work to all developers in the team as well as testing and integrating newly developed module.

Bruce is a direct response marketing expert responsible for the optimization and ROI of all paid traffic. His main areas of focus are Lead Generation, SEM, Social Media Advertising, marketing funnel design and direct response copywriting.

Max is charged with content ideation and strategy direction for each of Rock Candy Media's distinct clients. When formulating brand architecture, Max focuses on the messaging and voice that the client projects and looks for new and exciting ways to reach their audiences.

Chelsea develops, executes, and optimizes all paid social campaigns for Rock Candy Media's client's to increase lead acquisition, customer retention and overall brand awareness. Chelsea creates a custom-tailored plan of action that is unique to our client's industry.

Vandal develops visual concepts that communicate powerful brand massaging whether that be in motion, print, or web media. He most recently graduated with a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and is ready to make his mark in the world of marketing.

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Stefanie is a Co-Founder and develops innovative concepts for digital workpieces.

Karsten is a Co-Founder of UFOMAMMOOT and creative lead.

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Founder, MD and head of brand strategy, Anna has worked in Australia and the UK across FMCG, Health, Education, Utilities, Fashion, Property, Entertainment, News and Technology - which is just about everything. Anna is focused on the emotional connections between brands people & CX.

Paul creates memorable and authentic brand experiences leading his team of designers, copywriters, content writers, video & film producers and just about every kind of creative person required to bring brand strategy to life through creativity revealing the authentic story of a brand.

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With more than 35 years as CEO/Creative Director of The AD Agency, Ms. Gasper provides creative direction on all projects and executive oversight on all agency operations.

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It all begins with aspirations and startups. But startups don’t succeed all the time. More startups fail than those tasting success. That is where my services becomes relevant. My knowledge and expertise is your gateway to successful entrepreneurship.

Multi-disciplinary designer for over ten years, focusing on effective design and seamless experiences. Coming with a diverse background of design, engineering, and marketing in addition to a keen sense of curiosity and problem-solving skills.

With more than 7 years of experience in graphic design, 2 years of experience in web design UI / UX and 2 year of experience in web development.

Thanks to my career as a graphic designer, I have managed to obtain a high work experience, which I can apply in my current focus work in the area of ​​2D digital illustration and animation.