We are a full-service advertising agency working out of downtown Cleveland for clients across the Midwest and beyond. Every account is run by a small team that owns the work end-to-end — the strategy that opens the door, the creative that earns the look, the media that finishes the sale.
No layers between the people who think it up and the people who ship it. No quarterly retainer paying for slide decks no one will read. Just advertising that does the job it was hired to do.
Advertising is two jobs pretending to be one. The first is figuring out what is true about a business that nobody else has bothered to say out loud. The second is saying it in a way that makes a stranger care for thirty seconds. Most agencies are good at one or the other. We try to be good at both, in that order.
Every account opens the same way: a two-week intake where we talk to your team, your customers, and the people who almost bought from you and didn't. The output is a one-page brief we both sign. If we can't write the brief in a page, we don't know enough yet.
We don't sell volume. A typical engagement produces one campaign idea expressed across three or four executions — not a content calendar of forty posts that all say nothing. The discipline is the deliverable.
Plans are built channel-up from the audience, not template-down from a rate card. We disclose every fee. You see the same dashboard we see. When something underperforms, we say so before you ask.
Every campaign ends with a written retro that goes to your team and ours. What worked, what didn't, what we'd do differently. Year over year these become the most valuable document you own about your own marketing.
Twenty-six locations across Northeast Ohio. Repositioned the offer around the morning commute rather than the menu itself; bought drive-time radio and OOH on the inbound arteries.
A 70-year-old industrial supplier with a thousand SKUs and no story. Rebuilt the identity around what their distributors already said about them, then ran trade press and conference creative against the new line.
Annual subscription drive for a Cleveland performing-arts client. Tested three creative platforms in market for two weeks each, then concentrated buy behind the winner for the remaining six.
The best advertising still works the way it always has — one true thing, said well, in front of the right person, at the right hour.— From the studio manifesto, posted on the back wall since 2007.
Alpha & Omega
Advertising
A working agency in downtown Cleveland since 2007. Independent, employee-owned, and proudly local.
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