Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2022
Company Size
13
Founded in 2022, Boost is an innovative growth marketing agency leveraging a data-driven approach to deliver high-impact solutions. Specializing in branding, content creation, market research, and growth strategies, Boost focuses on maximizing ROI for its clients. Using results-driven methodologies and cutting-edge analytics, Boost delivers measurable, sustainable growth for every client.
Branding & Development Agency
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2022
Company Size
10
Ignite Lab is a product-first branding and development agency. They specialize in working with startups to launch new websites, web apps, or mobile apps. They work closely with founders or product owners to deeply understand their market and business to create products that engage users and drive results. As experts in growth marketing and SEO, they have expertise in creating sites that engage users and scale in today's competitive market.
Specialized Service Agency (Digital & Branding Agency)
Headquarters
Hillsboro, OR
Founded
2007
Company Size
19
Speak! is a digital brand marketing agency based in Portland, Oregon, with a satellite office in Minneapolis. They work with a wide range of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to tech startups, across various industries, including finance, insurance, healthcare, construction, professional services, and manufacturing. They specialize in helping clients with complex products or services communicate their brand story and product values to purchasers and decision-makers in their target clients. For this reason, they work best with B2B brands that need to rebrand themselves or need help communicating more effectively with their target market.
Specialized Service Agency (Digital PR Agency)
Headquarters
Portland, Oregon
Founded
2014
Company Size
6
Veracity is a Portland Digital PR Agency that serves as a boutique firm for the local area. They have a unique background, with their founder coming from a traditional PR & sales background and their CEO coming from a digital marketing background. They have merged this to create a digital PR offering that has given them a base of SEO clients benefiting from organic links with high domain authority from media and traditional PR clients benefiting from digital assets for content marketing, increased SEO value, and social media.
Specialized Sector Agency (Food & Beverage Marketing Agency)
Headquarters
Portland, Oregon
Founded
2012
Company Size
8
Heart Creative is an award-winning, women and POC-owned content + digital marketing agency based out of Portland that is focused on the Food & Beverage and wellness industries. While they are a full-service agency that can help companies across the digital realm, their core expertise lies in creative work. With in-house test kitchens and production studios, they excel in making and amplifying beautiful food & beverage content through social and digital marketing.
Specialized Service Agency (Advertising Agency)
Headquarters
Portland, Oregon
Founded
2006
Company Size
176
NORTH is an advertising agency based out of Portland. Founded in 2006 by two big agency expats, they sought to make a purpose-driven agency. To this end, they have created an ethos called "Brand Retaliation." Through this process, they attempt to identify what is uniquely real and meaningfully inherent to a brand, its origin, or its place in culture. They then match these through media segmenting and indexing to users who share those cultures and beliefs. Remaining a creative and advertising agency at its core, NORTH has now scaled to become a global agency with team members throughout the world, including a big base in England and regional offices in India, Brazil, and France. Their site has transparent pricing for branding, advertising creative, and media services, starting at $40K for a single campaign.
Specialized Service Agency (Digital Marketing Agency)
Headquarters
Portland, Oregon
Founded
2002
Company Size
325
Thesis is a full-service digital agency based in Portland, Oregon. Its digital prowess has helped it become one of the largest agencies in the U.S. They are a people-first agency that humanizes digital marketing. Through a deep dive into data, customer interviews, and market research, they come up with creative and thoughtful solutions to problems that focus on users and user experience. A top digital agency, they will be the best fit for more prominent brands with larger budgets, enabling Thesis to bring their full team and process out to bear.
Specialized Service Agency (Advertising Agency)
Headquarters
Portland, Oregon
Founded
2019
Company Size
37
Theo is an advertising agency in Portland, Oregon, that works with well-known brands and startups to launch full-funnel marketing activations centered around paid digital, traditional, and social media. They are extremely data-driven and technical, capable of leveraging financial, marketing, operational, CRM, and website data to create models that drive advertising decisions. In addition, they are experts in UX, having worked with large brands like the Portland Trail Blazers to optimize their sales funnels, boosting conversion rates. They work best with brands that have significant media budgets and are comfortable taking a data-driven approach that will typically require changes in strategy or even web assets.
Specialized Service Agency (Creative Agency)
Headquarters
Portland, OR
Founded
2001
Company Size
78
Headquarters
Portland, OR
Founded
2003
Company Size
244
Headquarters
Portland, Oregon
Founded
2008
Company Size
19
Headquarters
Portland, Oregon
Founded
2012
Company Size
16
Headquarters
Portland, OR
Founded
1974
Company Size
38
Specialized Service Agency (Creative)
Headquarters
Portland, OR
Founded
1982
Company Size
1875
In this era of digitalization, marketing agencies have primarily transitioned to digital platforms. To thrive in today’s business environment, companies need marketing agencies to convert their target audience into customers, retain their existing client base, boost sales and revenue, and scale their operations.
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A good marketing agency stays current with the evolving trends and behaviors of various industries. They have teams that analyze market trends and gather diverse data to determine which marketing strategies resonate with consumers. As times and preferences change, consumers are continually seeking new experiences, making it crucial for agencies to remain aware of these shifts.
Marketing agencies are engaged to promote brands and boost sales. They employ a team of experts who analyze market trends and create tailored strategies for each brand they represent. Effective marketing agencies design tactics that cater specifically to the target audience rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach.
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