# Aquent Studios

> Aquent Studios is a Boston-headquartered global co-creation agency that embeds multidisciplinary teams inside large organizations to design products, make content, improve marketing operations, and implement emerging technology. Its model sits between a traditional agency, a consultancy, and an outsourced in-house studio, with access to Aquent's network of more than 2 million creative, marketing, design, and technology professionals.

- **Founded:** 2006
- **Headquarters:** Boston, United States
- **Founders:** John H. Chuang (Co-founder and CEO, Aquent parent company), Mia Wenjen (Co-founder, Aquent parent company), Steve Kapner (Co-founder and Managing Director, Aquent parent company)
- **Team size:** 501-1,000 employees on LinkedIn; the supplied company record estimates about 700.
- **Products:** Experience & Product, Marketing & Analytics, Content & Creative, Consulting & Operations, Emerging Technologies
- **Notable:** Grew its Adobe virtual studio from 26 to more than 80 team members., Expanded its Merck studio from five to 160 people, supporting more than 40 brands over a 13-plus-year relationship., Reports that its Merck operating model saved tens of millions of dollars compared with traditional agencies of record.

## Products & services

- **Experience & Product** — CX and service design, UX/UI, research and prototyping, product design and build, software engineering, commerce, mobile applications and immersive experience development.
- **Marketing & Analytics** — Brand and campaign strategy, omnichannel activation, growth and performance marketing, data analysis and marketing technology optimization.
- **Content & Creative** — Content strategy and production, copywriting, technical content, content migration, modular content, animation, art direction and video production.
- **Consulting & Operations** — In-house agency design, operating models, organizational design, creative and design operations, design systems, agile marketing and marketing operations.
- **Emerging Technologies** — AI strategy, implementation, training and change management, plus AR, VR, XR, mixed reality, spatial computing and digital twins.

## Achievements

- Grew its Adobe virtual studio from 26 to more than 80 team members.
- Expanded its Merck studio from five to 160 people, supporting more than 40 brands over a 13-plus-year relationship.
- Reports that its Merck operating model saved tens of millions of dollars compared with traditional agencies of record.
- Produces more than 4,000 Merck projects annually through specialized pharma content operations.
- Supports more than 800 Novartis content projects per week through medical, legal and regulatory review.
- Created more than 5,000 brand-aligned campaign assets for Walmart.
- Mobilized a nine-person CVS digital product team in under eight weeks; resulting work included a health dashboard whose soft launch reached 6 million registrations in a few months.
- Has supported HP's migration and management of roughly 80,000 technical documents over more than a decade.
- Built accurate, browser-ready 3D models of spacecraft and terrestrial bodies for NASA public communications.
- Parent company Aquent announced carbon-negative status in November 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — The Aquent Studios site featured new thinking on agentic AI in creative workflows, signaling a focus on practical AI orchestration rather than stand-alone generation.
- **2026-01** — Parent-company founder and CEO John H. Chuang was named to Staffing Industry Analysts' 2026 Staffing 100 North America list.
- **2025-09** — Aquent Studios participated in Content Marketing World 2025 and continued publishing on content factories, team silos and consumer research.
- **2024-11** — Parent company Aquent announced that it had achieved carbon-negative status following a virtual-first shift, efficiency work and investments in solar projects.

## Links

- Website: https://aquentstudios.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aquent-studios/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Aquent
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/AquentStudios

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Last updated: 2026-08-13