Projects
Shift 1 Design

For 20 years we were an ad agency, proven to be good at turning small businesses into big ones. To be clear, we’re not an agency anymore. Today we start, capitalize, operate and develop companies of our own. It’s a natural progression, really. It allows us to apply the virtues of branding, disruption and creative expression to the growth of our proprietary business assets.

Building businesses in a multi-screen environment

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For 20 years we were an ad agency, proven to be good at turning small businesses into big ones. To be clear, we’re not an agency anymore. Today we start, capitalize, operate and develop companies of our own. It’s a natural progression, really. It allows us to apply the virtues of branding, disruption and creative expression to the growth of our proprietary business assets.

projects

Vehix

Vehix project

As an early-stage investor in Vehix, we named the company and helped set an affiliate development strategy that was unique to the auto industry. Almost two years after the sale of the company to Comcast, we continue to be responsible for all brand strategy, UX design, content creation and aggregation, marketing and promotion. Right now, we’re particularly focused on mobile and apps, and a UX strategy that emphasizes the “last mile” of the car-buying process.

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The Hooch Life

The Hooch Life project

Our latest start-up, Hooch is a multi-platform lifestyle brand that launched in December, 2011 — a brand that, ultimately, will be integrated across web, mobile, film, television, books, and events. What to drink, how to drink, where to drink. These insights come from the best possible source: the coolest, most knowledgeable, most connected bartenders in major cities across America. For us, it’s an exciting category that takes the most recent trends in craft and small-batch spirits brands and returns the classic cocktail to popularity.

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Shift 1 Entertainment

Shift 1 Entertainment Project

In partnership with our sister-company, Elastic Lab and their national network of video content creators, we’re engaged in a number of development projects driven by the most important trends in video: hockey-stick-like growth in online video engagement and advertising, branded entertainment, and the need for video to figure prominently in cross-platform content and marketing programs. In categories from automotive to sunglasses, media has become content, and brands have become publishers across all screens and platforms.

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