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Stacey Nelson Smith changed the business. Then she changed the name.
She founded AdEase in 1999. By the time she renamed it Civilian, Stacey Nelson Smith had turned the agency toward a different assignment: persuading people to do something useful for their communities.
Maria J. Rodriguez and the Internship That Nearly Didn’t Happen
An unpaid placement pulled Maria J. Rodriguez away from finance and into public relations. Decades later, the Vanguard Communications co-founder is making sure other students can afford their own change of direction.
The 503 Percent Question: How IQ Solutions Turns Public Health Into Something People Can Use
A federal health message can be accurate and still fail. For more than three decades, IQ Solutions has built a business around the last mile between official information and a human decision.
Candace Muggerud Built a Different Kind of Reach
The former bank president turned a Bismarck communications shop into a national network - pairing financial discipline with a stubborn belief that useful messages must first earn attention.
The Agency That Sells the Moment Someone Changes Their Mind
For more than 50 years, Hager Sharp has worked in the awkward space between a fact and an action. Its real product is not publicity. It is the carefully researched nudge that gets a parent, teacher, patient or policymaker to do something different.
Eight Tickets, One Circle, and the Business of Being Remembered
Circle of One Marketing helped turn a nearly empty Miami Gardens concert into a 60,000-person ritual. Its method is less mysterious than it sounds: know the room, fix the message, and do the unglamorous work until people show up.
The Parents Were the Audience All Along
TMNcorp built a communications business around a useful humiliation: the first audience, phrase, or format you choose may be wrong. Research finds the mistake before the media budget makes it expensive.
The Ad Agency That Measures a Message by What Happens Next
MORE Advertising builds public-interest campaigns for the moment between knowing and doing. Its unusual advantage is a habit many advertisers skip: listening before it speaks.
The Price of Free Airtime
The Public Service Network built a business around advertising's leftovers - then mixed them with guaranteed placements, unlikely venues and unusually visible reporting. One statewide campaign shows why free airtime is valuable, but never really free.
Octane Bet the Campaign on the Audience
A Washington communications firm discovered that the fastest route to action begins with an unfashionable move: giving the audience a hand in the message.
The 39-Year Bet on Saying No
Vanguard Communications built a durable agency by refusing the usual agency premise: that every paying client is a plausible client. Its narrow filter - communication in service of public good - became a surprisingly wide field of work.
The Agency That Had to Grow Into Its Own Name
For 37 years, an Anchorage communications firm answered to Northwest Strategies. Then its owner gave the agency a name that carries an obligation: make work worthy of the people who will live with its consequences.
The Little PR Firm That Learned to Move More Than Headlines
Brown·Miller sells communications. Its more interesting product is the moment a wary voter, landlord or parent decides to do something differently.
Before you change a mind, change the message
Young Communications Group helps public institutions speak to the communities they need to reach. Its work shows why the useful part of a campaign often happens before anyone writes the ad.
SGA Marketing and the fish that stayed off the dinner table
A former environmental engineer built a communications firm around the stubborn distance between knowing better and doing differently. Its work takes marketing out to the pier, into the classroom, and down to the recycling bin.
Mediasol buys attention. What happens next?
From drought warnings to mental-health outreach, this Sacramento agency puts public-service messages in front of millions. Its work reveals the distance between buying attention and proving what attention achieves.
Civilian lets the audience into the writers’ room
The agency behind California’s Never a Bother campaign gave young people a say in the message, the design, and the messenger. Its most useful lesson begins before anyone buys an ad.
Fraser Communications Wants You to Change Your Mind
A psychologist’s Los Angeles ad agency turns audience research into campaigns about vaping, parenting and public health. Its most revealing work starts with a question: what is stopping people from acting?
SGA Marketing Knows Why the Paint Is Still in Your Garage
The California communications firm turns everyday obstacles into public-interest campaigns. Its work starts with an unfashionable question: what is actually stopping people?
Uptown Studios sells the next step
A Sacramento creative agency makes complicated causes easier to act on. Its most revealing work starts before the logo, the camera or the first line of code.