A small New York agency has built its offer around a useful idea: the message, the picture, the event and the media plan should behave like parts of the same sentence.
Solterra Strategies built a business by spotting the detail a committee overlooks and a traveler remembers. Its real product is not publicity. It is a usable story about place.
Barbara Gorder built UNLO around a quietly radical premise: the right agency team does not have to share an office - it only has to share the problem.
A propane driver, a grape growers’ seminar, a charity dinner: the Paso Robles agency’s work shows how much publicity can begin with ordinary local life.
Ashley Teplin revived her mentor’s Napa agency with a broader brief: turn wine, food and hospitality into stories people can encounter anywhere. Then the events disappeared, and the brief got a real-world test.