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Shift Pandemics suck. All things considered, you probably wouldn’t pick the dead center of a global health emergency to start an online used-car company in competition with Carvana, Cars.com, and the gaggle of major and minor auto sellers in this end of the market. Still, fortune is supposed to favor the brave, and that resulted ... Read more

California Energy Conservation: 99% Perspiration. In a blistering heatwave, when the demand for energy threatens the supply, government has a binary choice: either accept rolling brown- or blackouts, or convince people to take unselfish action like dialing down the a/c. Which is why California energy authorities commissioned a public engagement campaign that would persuasively tell ... Read more

PG&E: Simplifying serious complexity. As the nation’s 5th largest energy utility, PG&E contends with a bewildering array of service, regulatory, and competitive challenges. Beginning with a single small project in 2011, we’ve built a partnership role that involves us in everything from marketing energy efficiency programs, to redesigning the company’s entire SEO outreach, to tackling ... Read more

Colorado River Indian Tribes: Equity and inclusion. Persuasively marketing a concept as “distant” as tribal gaming reform demands something special from the creative: turning the premise from “it’s only relevant to them” into, “this is important to all of us.” In Arizona that meant leveraging a key fact about the tribal realities and leveraging that ... Read more

Diablo Canyon: Nuclear is green. What? Not exactly your usual public affairs advertising assignment: our initial task was to build public support to California policymakers in reversing course on nuclear power and keeping the state’s last nuclear power plant up and running. Success! Step two: expand awareness of the vital role this power plant is ... Read more

Yale New Haven Health: The brand that began before the brand. The CEO of Yale University’s teaching hospital wanted to build an integrated health delivery network — we didn’t know what that was, either — to improve everything from regional medical outcomes to his organization’s competitive position. The only wrinkle: he wanted to get started ... Read more

Chevron: Hyperlocal know-how. Unless and until the community rallied behind the concept, Chevron’s $1B Richmond Refinery modernization project was destined to stay stuck in its cement starting blocks. The hyper-local brand solution: translate economic and environmental benefits into a reason to take new pride in this upward-looking city. By celebrating the progress being made all ... Read more

Recology 100% opportunity, zero waste. Once upon a time, a company with the unlovely name of NorCal Waste Systems decided that the path to accelerated growth mandated a transformation from basic garbage utility to resource recovery leader. The assignment: develop the new name and identity system, introduce it with maximum pop, and then give the ... Read more

VoteWatch: It’s not democracy if your vote doesn’t count. Before the madness of the 2020 presidential election and its aftermath, there was the travesty of a presidential vote that gifted us with those two indelible words: “hanging chads.” We were asked to help build awareness of a new organization determined to make sure 6,000,000 votes ... Read more

Minnetonka Peewee Hockey: That’s my kid! In Minnesota, hockey is a 24/7 obsession with a charming intensity that not-so-virtually begins in utero. That’s why generations of boys and girls of all ages have been encouraged to join one of the best run youth programs in the US of A—Mites, Squirts, Peewees, and Bantoms, all living ... Read more