A Place For Mom
When you’re 85 years old, SEO really matters: A Place For Mom story
Families all across North America searching for answers find them at Place For Mom. SEO made it #1. The client’s next goal? A no-agency 44% organic revenue increase. Aquent delivered an in-house SEO/SEM growth team that could set strategic and creative direction.
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AARP
When AARP decided to take on the human brain, they counted on ours.
“Staying Sharp” is a cognitive assessment and brain training program, one of AARP’s largest initiatives. We provide award-winning UX design, interactive media, project management, and social response talent. Aquent works across AARP digital strategy, but Staying Sharp will blow your mind.
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Adidas
In digital newsrooms, speed is everything. Especially when the client is adidas.
We help adidas staff three newsrooms in Portland, New York, and Los Angeles, powering the company’s real-time marketing. Aquent talent connects with musicians, artists, and influencers to bring the brand closer to the customer.
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Booz Allen Hamilton
We scored big with an app for Booz Allen Hamilton that predicts football teams’ plays.
To rapidly expand Booz Allen Hamilton's Mobile and Web App teams, Aquent swiftly assembled developers, UX and UI designers, and content management specialists to work on high profile projects like an app that helps football teams predict opponents’ plays.
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Capital Group
Capital Group Financial, digital-last, had to quickly go digital-first.
Millennials are hungry for content and want to interact with companies in whatever ways suit them. We helped this top financial services firm build an agile marketing team of direct hires, creative and digital specialists, and outsourced partners. Costs went down and performance, up.
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Disney
When you’re good enough to produce for Disney Imagineers, you’re magic.
Aquent’s digital producers helped bring the MagicBand to life. Now, Disney World experiences amaze even more and transactions are frictionless. MagicBands are connected to thousands of sensors, 100 systems, and to guest surprise, delight, and spending.
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Gulf Power
A hurricane blew out 200 miles of utility lines. Gulf Power customers were 95% happy.
Gulf Power asked Aquent for a crisis team of social media specialists to communicate during the storm, and while power was slowly restored. Millions of impressions later, the utility scored record high customer satisfaction ratings.
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LMC Automotive
When LMC Automotive needed more forecasting horsepower, we delivered.
LMC Automotive relies on highly-skilled automotive analytics and forecasting talent. And they depend on Aquent’s insider knowledge of the automotive industry to recruit this specialized talent. Aquent recruits make up 30% of LMC’s Michigan staff.
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L’Oréal
3,689 miles from Paris, L’Oréal had to find big talent in small town America.
L’Oreal’s organic, vegan, sustainable brand Seed Phytonutrients gave us a formidable challenge: find local social media community managers who could attract influencers and build tribes. The results? Magnifique!
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Macy's
Macy’s, a favorite of our great, great grandmothers, had to win the digital age.
No great shock that a retailer founded in 1858 was losing to ecommerce. The mandate: transform, create omnichannel experiences, and ensure great CX at every touchpoint. Aquent helped hire UX team leaders who were up to the challenge, building consensus and confidence.
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Merck
Merck’s digital agency spending had to be slashed with no side effects.
Global pharmaceutical giant Merck supports 40+ brands, and too many agencies. Aquent assembled a design execution team, on-site and off, cutting costs but maintaining quality.
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Microsoft Cortana
Until AI has its own warmth and conversational skill, Microsoft needs writers.
Microsoft envisioned an everywhere-you-go virtual assistant app, Cortana. To keep its conversational style human, we staffed an innovative content mix of screenplay writers, dialogue doctors, and comedians.
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Schwab
Talent benefits offer high returns for Charles Schwab’s internal agency.
When Charles Schwab moved its in-house agency HQ almost 2,000 miles away, it needed our help to rebuild the team. Aquent’s generous talent benefits, professional development, and talent support were a good fit for Charles Schwab’s culture of inclusivity.
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Shutterfly
Shutterfly has a 100% happiness guarantee. We dared not promise less.
Aquent reinvented this digital imaging company’s creative services model to adapt to growing pains and seasonal rapid-fire volume. We’ve supported 1500+ projects and, like Shutterfly, never disappointed.
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SiriusXM
It’s easy to find SiriusXM in cars now. But without us, good luck finding UX and CX.
Aquent helped build SiriusXM’s auto experience team, redefining streaming UX with mobile-first CX. That kind of talent is very hard to find — but not for us. Aquent offers even contract talent high-end benefits, so we attract the best. SiriusXM eventually hired half our freelance team full-time.
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Southern Company
Southern Company may be 75 years old, but it’s just as Millennial as Millennials.
Aquent has digitally transformed this energy company, its 10 subsidiaries, and its relationship with 9 million customers. Talent with fresh skill sets created a bill pay portal, mobile apps, and new revenue streams with an online marketplace of energy saving appliances and accessories.
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Starbucks
Where the art, craft, and theater of Starbucks coffee meet, so do we.
We work with the coffee giant’s marketing team. Aquent Studios handles stores, creative strategy, local ads, apps, and out-of-home, and we are the Starbucks' Reserve brand’s go-to for creative execution.
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Uber Eats
To scale from 15 to 200 cities, Uber Eats needed us to deliver fast too.
Uber Eats needed flexible creative execution as it grew from a start-up to $5 billion in revenue. In less than a month, Aquent Studios became an extension of the company’s in-house teams supporting hundreds of projects.
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Uber Freight
Uber Freight is driving the logistics business forward. We’re helping navigate.
Uber Freight is revolutionizing the logistics industry with an app that keeps trucks profitable. Our embedded team of subject matter experts (writer, designer, project manager, marketing coordinator) helped launch the app on time and above expectations.
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