Origin is an agency, an approach, a union of original creative thinkers, and craftspeople bound by a spirit for imaginative communications solutions. Origin is an unusual blend of intelligent and experienced, passionate creatives, and meticulous, detail-driven developers, designers, and account people. It all adds up to incisive, on-target work for their clients that make the most of every marketing dollar.

JJR is one of the fastest-growing branding and public relations firms in Chicago. They practice accountability that leads to high-performance results, extra value that leads to an enjoyable relationship. Every engagement is an objective to place the product in the center of their most influential media making buzz, leads, growth, and, at the end of the day, loyal brand advocates.

At Popskull, they delve into your brand, target market, and competitive space. They uncover the Common Ground that connects them all. They then do the critical and most difficult task: they translate the Common Ground into sophisticated creative executions. They are clear, focused, and relevant brand experiences that compel people to pause, consider and engage.

Streng Agency believes that truly impactful brands inspire loyalty and move audiences to dream, to change; they leave an impression on their audiences and wield genuine influence. Crafting and positioning emotive work like this is our passion, it’s what brought us together, and it’s what keeps them moving forward. Streng Agency, where business meets creativity.

Mekanism is a creative advertising agency with offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago. Mekanism creates advertising at the intersection of technology, design, culture, and brand stories. They help brands build loyalty, authenticity, and love. Mekanism has a great reputation for creating shareable content and for great storytelling.

Golin is a progressive public relations marketing company, developed to reach a profoundly diverse world market. They proudly reclaim and redefine PR at a time when revenue attention has never been important. Their teams bring a diversity of strategy and expertise to execute the boldest creative plans for their customers.

Ketchum has been honored as Global Creative Agency of the Year at PRovoke’s Global SABRE Awards. Their blend of empathy plus intelligence leads them to find unexpected connections which inspire work that matters and lasting relationships with clients. The most creatively awarded firm in our industry, they’re equal parts human-centered and business-focused, empathetic and intelligent.

Digital Kitchen is an experienced agency located in Los Angeles. Founded in 1995, the award-winning agency is a collective of artists and producers that focus on transforming businesses through creative experiences in the form of environments, branding, marketing, & content for brands such as Warner Bros., Netflix, Facebook, HBO, Canada Goose, and Amazon.

88 Brand Partners are a full-service experienced company that designs, elevates, and extends businesses. At 88 Brand Partners, they integrate all points of the marketing, advertising, and research to develop communications that cultivate more meaningful links between product and their users. They're also gratified that while working remotely, 88's culture has continued to thrive.

Lipman Hearne is partners only with firms and agencies in the nonprofit sector. Their clients understand the value of wide thinking. They put their hearts into everything they do. And they inspire them to deliver far-reaching ideas and compelling, gorgeous creativity. They’re a full-service company that offers product marketing, and enrollment/membership marketing to customers around the world.

Someoddpilot launched in 1999 as an indie record label, and that DIY spirit has guided them ever since. It taught them the importance of sincerity, the value of an epic edition, and the level of action required to develop meaning, value, and a true movement. So, they work with brands who want to stand for something and do good.

UpShift is a strategic branding and design agency with teams in Chicago and Los Angeles. They develop award-winning product identities, website development, brochures, sales collateral, social media advertising, and marketing for BtoB and BtoC companies in real estate, hospitality, and luxury consumer goods. As the branding experts, they shift your results higher by combining exceptional design with a solid strategy.

Otherwise is Chicago-based advertising, ideas, and graphic development firm that develop and designs inspiring products, enabling their customers to navigate moments of change. They assist their customers from some of the globe’s most respected businesses to promising up-and-coming ventures understand, illuminate and position their business for impact and scale.

Damen Jackson is a Chicago brand, packaging, and design agency focused on using the philosophy of simplicity to inform creative solutions. They establish a strategic foundation for every project, to assure solutions are developed and reviewed against objective criteria. This makes creativity a problem-solving method. They create Branding, Packaging, and Design programs to differentiate your business and dominate your market.

Soulsight has zero-tolerance for any form of racism, bigotry, or hatred. Their organization stands for justice, equality & fair & respectful treatment of all people. They support all of those who are working to achieve a racially-just society & encourage everyone to use their talents & privilege to proactively work against inequity & injustice.

At Jacobson Rost they exist to tell true stories. All this ways is that they do the hard work of producing a brand’s most compelling truth and they tell that story in an engaging, audience way that will lead to transactions. They tell their stories with iframes and apps, web videos and TV spots, experiential events and trade shows, and more.

VSA Partners is a team of experts, dedicated, collaborative, and kind staff that value smarts over egos. They assist very hard to develop human-centered, insight-inspired assist that moves users, changes behavior and answers real strategic issues. They started as a design company over 30 years ago and operate today with a “design thinking” approach to everything they do.

At Equator Design, From strategic brand creation, design, and development through to artwork and production; their entire team works collaboratively in one building. Their collective output to a brief ensures the assistance they produce stays true to their creative objective; guaranteeing quicker, slicker solutions that are impressionable on the bottom line.

Multiple works with their customers to develop the brand and corporate communications that provide strategic advantages by reinforcing great attributes and enhancing every interaction. They partner with them to research, visualize, and understand their challenges and opportunities, and to assist them to define, articulate, and communicate the things that set them apart.

GSD&M is a creatively driven, full-service agency born and raised in Austin. They’re in the business of growing their clients’ businesses and have helped grow some of the world's most successful brands. They’re a full-service advertising agency, but their work goes beyond just making ads. They are a company that uses the power of purpose to drive success with their client.

Carat is the world’s first media agency and privileged to work with some of the most storied and innovative brands in the world. Most recently named a leader amongst global media agencies by Forrester, Carat is consistently ranked the #1 media agency in the world. With over 12,000 experts in over 100 countries.