# Marcus Thomas LLC

> Marcus Thomas is a Cleveland-based independent agency that combines advertising, media, public relations, social, analytics, digital product development and marketing technology. Its unusual calling card is not simply breadth: after accepting private-equity investment in 2021, its insiders completed a majority ownership buyback in 2025, arguing that extra voices and competing priorities had slowed the work. The agency now has roughly 200 professionals across Ohio, Argentina and Chile and serves brands including Dexcom, the Ohio Lottery, Akron Children's, KeyBank, Sherwin-Williams, Vitamix and Stanley Black & Decker.

- **Founded:** 1937
- **Headquarters:** Cleveland, United States
- **Products:** Integrated agency services, Digital Ecosystems, Devs United, Nucleus CMP, Lottery Solutions
- **Notable:** Built what the company describes as Ohio's largest media-buying department., Won a 2024 national Gold ADDY for the Ohio Lottery's playable-radio campaign., Earned PRSA Bronze and Silver Anvil recognition and awards from The One Show, Campaign Media, The Drum and the Content Marketing Awards.

## Products & services

- **Integrated agency services** — Research and strategy, creative, media, content production, social media, public relations and analytics delivered by one cross-disciplinary team.
- **Digital Ecosystems** — Digital strategy, experience design, platform integration, custom development and data management for connected marketing systems.
- **Devs United** — Salesforce-based CRM, marketing automation and customer-engagement consulting acquired in 2018.
- **Nucleus CMP** — A campaign-management platform created inside the agency to organize, deploy and monitor multichannel marketing work using a client's existing technology stack.
- **Lottery Solutions** — Specialized lottery marketing and technology, including digital campaigns, loyalty programs and a mobile cashless-payout system.

## Achievements

- Built what the company describes as Ohio's largest media-buying department.
- Won a 2024 national Gold ADDY for the Ohio Lottery's playable-radio campaign.
- Earned PRSA Bronze and Silver Anvil recognition and awards from The One Show, Campaign Media, The Drum and the Content Marketing Awards.
- Named an Ad Age Best Place to Work in multiple consecutive years, including 2025.
- Maintained an average client-partner tenure of 10 years, according to the agency.
- Helped Akron Children's win a Central Great Lakes Emmy for the children's program More childhood, please.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Appointed veteran agency leaders Patrick Kiss and Clayton Reid to its board following the prior year's internal majority ownership buyback.
- **2026-06** — Published a research perspective arguing that AI can expand access to audience insight where conventional research is absent.
- **2026-05** — Announced executive appointments and continued expanding its integrated leadership structure.
- **2025** — Completed an internal majority ownership buyback and returned to independent control.
- **2025** — Nucleus CMP emerged publicly as the agency-built campaign-management workspace.

## Links

- Website: https://mtllc.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/marcus-thomas-llc
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/MarcusThomasCle
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcusthomasllc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarcusThomasCLE/

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Last updated: 2026-09-24