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The Agency That Gave Public Policy Better Lighting
Policy communication is usually built to survive a committee. NJI builds it to win attention - then gives the committee something it can actually use.
The Rivals Who Decided Michigan Needed Both of Them
A Republican operator and a Democratic trailblazer stopped competing, joined forces, and built a firm around a useful Michigan truth: the hardest messages must travel through more than one room.
The Agency That Put a Three-Eyed Alien to Work for New Mexico
MediaDesk discovered that public information travels farther when it stops looking like public information. Its proof is an Emmy-winning alien, a water campaign with 1.5 million views, and a business built for clients whose hardest product to sell is participation.
The People Who Renamed a Fish
M. Harris & Kern built a marketing agency out of an editor's oldest trick: cut until the point becomes impossible to miss. Then it used that discipline to sell banned books, revive routine vaccinations and persuade Americans to eat an invasive fish.
The Source Behind 70,000 Stories
Fuente Latina found the missing desk in international news: the one that answers in Spanish. It turned that gap into a donor-funded network of fixers, producers, translators, and fellowships built for reporters on deadline.
The College Visit Moved to a Phone. This Atlanta Company Got There First.
StudentBridge turns virtual campus tours into enrollments for 250-plus colleges. Its founder is a former race-car driver who thinks admissions offices have been showing recruits the wrong thing.
The LA Agency That Ditched 'LA' - And Won the Year
In September 2024, Deutsch dropped the two letters that told everyone where it lived. Three months later, Adweek named it U.S. Agency of the Year.
Thismoment
Thismoment was a San Francisco marketing-technology company that built the Thismoment Content Cloud, a digital storytelling platform that helped the world's biggest brands monitor, moderate, secure rights to, and publish user-generated content alongside professionally produced media across social, web, and mobile touchpoints. Founded in 2007-2008 by gaming and tech veterans Vince Broady, Ankarino Lara, and Scott Bedard, it served more than 150 brands and agencies including Coca-Cola, Salesforce, Sephora, Levi's, Microsoft, Mazda, and AB InBev, and raised more than $50 million across four institutional rounds.