Top Portland Marketing Agencies
Note: While agencies are listed in order we recommend reviewing each of their strengths to find the best fit for your company.
Boost Agency
About
Boost Agency
Founded in 2022, Boost is an innovative growth marketing agency leveraging a data-driven approach to deliver high-impact solutions. Specializing in branding, content creation, market research, and growth strategies, Boost focuses on maximizing ROI for its clients. Using results-driven methodologies and cutting-edge analytics, Boost delivers measurable, sustainable growth for every client.
Services Offered
<a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/top-branding-agencies" class="service-category" target="blank">Branding</a><div class="service-category">Content Marketing</div><div class="service-category">Growth Marketing</div><a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/top-market-research-agencies" class="service-category" target="blank">Market Research</a><div class="service-category">Public Relations</div><div class="service-category">Web Design</div><div class="service-category">Web Development</div>
Subject Expertise
<div class="sector-category">B2B</div><a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/cpg-marketing-agencies" class="sector-category" target="blank">CPG Marketing</a><div class="sector-category">Cybersecurity</div><div class="sector-category">Finance</div><div class="sector-category">Food</div><a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/hispanic-marketing-agencies" class="sector-category" target="blank">Hispanic Marketing</a><a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/pet-marketing-agencies" class="sector-category" target="_blank">Pet</a><div class="sector-category">Tech</div>
Highlighted Clients
• Lookout
• Task Rabbit
• Williams Sonoma
• See's Candies
Ignite Lab
About
Ignite Lab
Ignite Lab is a product-first branding and development agency. They specialize in working with startups to launch new websites, web apps, or mobile apps. They work closely with founders or product owners to deeply understand their market and business to create products that engage users and drive results. As experts in growth marketing and SEO, they have expertise in creating sites that engage users and scale in today's competitive market.
Services Offered
<a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/top-branding-agencies" class="service-category" target="_blank">Branding</a><div class="service-category">Conversion Rate Optimization</div><div class="service-category">Growth Marketing</div><div class="service-category">Web Design</div><div class="service-category">Web Development</div>
Subject Expertise
Highlighted Clients
Speak
About
Speak
Speak! is a digital brand marketing agency based in Portland, Oregon, with a satellite office in Minneapolis. They work with a wide range of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to tech startups, across various industries, including finance, insurance, healthcare, construction, professional services, and manufacturing. They specialize in helping clients with complex products or services communicate their brand story and product values to purchasers and decision-makers in their target clients. For this reason, they work best with B2B brands that need to rebrand themselves or need help communicating more effectively with their target market.
Services Offered
<a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/top-branding-agencies" class="service-category" target="_blank">Branding</a><div class="service-category">Content Marketing</div><div class="service-category">Creative</div><div class="service-category">Digital Marketing</div><div class="service-category">Web Design</div><div class="service-category">Web Development</div>
Subject Expertise
<div class="sector-category">Construction</div><div class="sector-category">Finance</div><div class="sector-category">Healthcare</div><div class="sector-category">Insurance</div><div class="sector-category">Manufacturing</div><div class="sector-category">Professional Services</div>
Highlighted Clients
• True Measure
• LogRhythm
• Tradeshift
Veracity Marketing
About
Veracity Marketing
Veracity is a Portland Digital PR Agency that serves as a boutique firm for the local area. They have a unique background, with their founder coming from a traditional PR & sales background and their CEO coming from a digital marketing background. They have merged this to create a digital PR offering that has given them a base of SEO clients benefiting from organic links with high domain authority from media and traditional PR clients benefiting from digital assets for content marketing, increased SEO value, and social media.
Services Offered
<div class="service-category">Content Marketing</div><a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/top-crisis-communications-agencies" class="service-category" target="_blank">Crisis Communications</a><div class="service-category">Public Relations</div><div class="service-category">SEO</div><div class="service-category">Social Media</div><div class="service-category">Thought Leadership</div>
Subject Expertise
Highlighted Clients
Heart Creative
About
Heart Creative
Heart Creative is an award-winning, women and POC-owned content + digital marketing agency based out of Portland that is focused on the Food & Beverage and wellness industries. While they are a full-service agency that can help companies across the digital realm, their core expertise lies in creative work. With in-house test kitchens and production studios, they excel in making and amplifying beautiful food & beverage content through social and digital marketing.
Services Offered
<div class="service-category">Email Marketing</div><a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/top-market-research-agencies" class="service-category" target="blank">Market Research</a><a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/marketing-consulting-firms" class="service-category" target="blank">Marketing Consulting</a><div class="service-category">Media Buying & Planning</div><div class="service-category">SEO</div><div class="service-category">Social Media</div><div class="service-category">Video Production</div><div class="service-category">Web Design</div><div class="service-category">Web Development</div>
Subject Expertise
<div class="sector-category">Food</div><div class="sector-category">Health & Wellness</div>
Highlighted Clients
• Sprig
• Tofurky
• Julia's Table
• Chosen Foods
NORTH
About
NORTH
NORTH is an advertising agency based out of Portland. Founded in 2006 by two big agency expats, they sought to make a purpose-driven agency. To this end, they have created an ethos called "Brand Retaliation." Through this process, they attempt to identify what is uniquely real and meaningfully inherent to a brand, its origin, or its place in culture. They then match these through media segmenting and indexing to users who share those cultures and beliefs. Remaining a creative and advertising agency at its core, NORTH has now scaled to become a global agency with team members throughout the world, including a big base in England and regional offices in India, Brazil, and France. Their site has transparent pricing for branding, advertising creative, and media services, starting at $40K for a single campaign.
Services Offered
<div class="service-category">Advertising</div><a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/top-branding-agencies" class="service-category" target="_blank">Branding</a><div class="service-category">Media Buying & Planning</div><div class="service-category">Video Production</div>
Subject Expertise
Highlighted Clients
• Humane Society
• Columbia
• Ledlenser
• Straightaway
Thesis
About
Thesis
Thesis is a full-service digital agency based in Portland, Oregon. Its digital prowess has helped it become one of the largest agencies in the U.S. They are a people-first agency that humanizes digital marketing. Through a deep dive into data, customer interviews, and market research, they come up with creative and thoughtful solutions to problems that focus on users and user experience. A top digital agency, they will be the best fit for more prominent brands with larger budgets, enabling Thesis to bring their full team and process out to bear.
Services Offered
<div class="service-category">Advertising</div><a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/top-branding-agencies" class="service-category" target="blank">Branding</a><div class="service-category">Copywriting</div><div class="service-category">Content Marketing</div><div class="service-category">Email Marketing</div><div class="service-category">Digital Marketing</div><div class="service-category">Graphic Design</div><div class="service-category">SEO</div><div class="service-category">Social Media</div><a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/top-market-research-agencies" class="service-category" target="blank">Market Research</a><div class="service-category">PPC</div><div class="service-category">Web Design</div><div class="service-category">Web Development</div>
Subject Expertise
Highlighted Clients
• Taco Bell
• Dollar Shave Club
• John Hopkins
• aramark
Theo Agency
About
Theo Agency
Theo is an advertising agency in Portland, Oregon, that works with well-known brands and startups to launch full-funnel marketing activations centered around paid digital, traditional, and social media. They are extremely data-driven and technical, capable of leveraging financial, marketing, operational, CRM, and website data to create models that drive advertising decisions. In addition, they are experts in UX, having worked with large brands like the Portland Trail Blazers to optimize their sales funnels, boosting conversion rates. They work best with brands that have significant media budgets and are comfortable taking a data-driven approach that will typically require changes in strategy or even web assets.
Services Offered
<div class="service-category">Content Marketing</div><div class="service-category">Media Buying & Planning</div><div class="service-category">SEO</div><div class="service-category">Web Design</div><div class="service-category">Web Development</div>
Subject Expertise
Highlighted Clients
• Portland Trail Blazers
• Ford Motor Company
• Papa Murphys
• LA Galaxy
Roundhouse Agency
About
Roundhouse Agency
Services Offered
<div class="service-category">Advertising</div><a href="https://www.hubscore.io/agencies/top-branding-agencies" class="service-category" target="_blank">Branding</a><div class="service-category">Digital Marketing</div><div class="service-category">Experiential Marketing</div><div class="service-category">Graphic Design</div><div class="service-category">Social Media</div><div class="service-category">Video Production</div>
Subject Expertise
Highlighted Clients
• Reebook
• Ivy Park
• Mophie
• Reebok Basketball
Intuitive Digital
About
Intuitive Digital
Services Offered
Subject Expertise
Highlighted Clients
Wieden+Kennedy
About
Wieden+Kennedy
Services Offered
Subject Expertise
Highlighted Clients
• Evian
• Allianz
In this era of digitalization, marketing agencies have primarily become digital. To survive and excel in today’s business world, companies need marketing agencies to not only convert their target audience into customers but also retain their customer base, improve sales and revenue, and scale their business.
The role of a marketing agency varies depending on the requirements of each client, as well as the specific niches or services they offer. Broadly, a marketing agency’s duties range from market research to establishing a marketing budget as well as creating and implementing marketing campaigns. Their services may include social media, content creation, advertising, SEO, PPC, CRO, branding, PR, web design and development, etc. A marketing agency may perform some specific services such as social media management, specialize in a particular niche like B2B — or it may even offer a complete suite of marketing services from A to Z.
What is a marketing agency?
Every product, service, business, or individual needs marketing. Even if it is a not-for-profit organization or an individual working only on philanthropy, the business will need to be promoted. A marketing agency strategizes and develops promotion tactics, helping businesses bring awareness about their products and services to their target audience.
Why are marketing agencies important?
Whether you are a business or individual, if you are selling a product, a service, your content, or doing philanthropy, you need marketing. Even governments require marketing when they campaign. Marketing agencies develop creative strategies based on your promotional needs. They employ different channels of promotion and ensure that your brand gets the right kind of attention.
There are different tactics in marketing, and all of these can have various kinds of impacts on your brand. Depending on your requirements, a marketing agency can strategize a 3-month, 6-month, yearly, or 5-yearly strategic plan for execution. Consistent marketing delivers more impact than a small-term campaign.
Functions of a marketing agency
Every marketing agency functions differently, but there are a few things that they must do in order to be qualified as a good agency:
1) Identify the trends of the target market
A good marketing agency keeps up-to-date with the changing trends and behaviors of different industries. They have teams that study market trends and collect various data to analyze what kind of market strategies work for consumers. With changing times and choices, consumers are constantly exploring new things, so it’s important for agencies to be aware of that.
2) Develop creative strategies
Marketing agencies are hired to promote brands and increase sales. They have a team of experts who study market trends and develop customized strategies for all the brands they work with. Good marketing agencies develop tactics that are specific to the target audience and not used for general marketing.
3) Executes and evaluates impact
Marketing agencies must report back on the impact of their projects and campaigns. Clients and marketing agency teams need to understand how their strategies work. If an agency does not work on reporting the impact and evaluation of the tactics, it would waste money and time on future strategies.