Marketing & Creative

Marketing & Creative in Chicago, IL

Websites, campaigns, and brand creative that cut through the noise. Built for how Chicago buys.

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Marketing & Creative in Chicago, IL is built for one of the most competitive attention markets in the country. Dozens of Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in the metro, including McDonald's, United Airlines, Kraft Heinz, Mondelez International, and Conagra Brands. Every inbox is full and every feed is crowded. Good creative is not decoration here. It is how you get chosen.

Then there is the trade show calendar. When tens of thousands of buyers gather at McCormick Place for the National Restaurant Association Show or RSNA, the brands that win are the ones with the strongest creative: booth design, show content, launch videos, and the campaigns that keep the conversation going after the floor closes.

We are a marketing and creative team serving clients nationally: brand identity, websites and landing pages, campaign creative, graphic design, digital content, and marketing materials. Work that is as strategic as it is good-looking, because in Chicago, the audience reads the fine print.

What makes us different is proximity to production. The same company designing your campaign also produces events and films video, so your brand shows up consistently everywhere it needs to: the stage, the screen, the site, the feed.

20+

Years in media and brand work

1

Brand system across events, video, and digital

25

Cities served nationwide

Local Knowledge

The market, from people who work it

Our Chicago clients are food and beverage brands launching products, trade show exhibitors branding entire programs, and healthcare and finance companies that need to look like the biggest player in the room. We build brand systems that flex across all of it: an exhibitor identity that works on a 40-foot LED wall and a mobile agenda, a campaign that runs from trade show signage to LinkedIn.

We understand the review realities of this market: legal teams, stakeholder approvals, partner co-branding. The work is built to survive the process, not just the pitch.

Where the work shows up

Where the work shows up: trade show floors and conference stages; corporate offices across the Loop and the suburbs; digital out-of-home and the feed; LinkedIn, web, and print.

Why Simple

Most agencies hand you files. We stay for what happens next. Because events, video, and marketing live under one roof, the campaign we design is the campaign we can launch at your event, film for your channels, and extend across your year. One brand system, one team, no translation loss between the people who designed it and the crew executing it.

Simple is headquartered in Washington, DC, serving clients in 25 cities nationwide. Our world-class creative and production leads fly in for launches, shoots, and key meetings, so you get our standards and one team accountable for the work. For production days, we hire local crews, rental houses, and stagehands, so local labor is covered without shipping gear cross-country. Travel is part of how we quote, never a surprise line item.

We deliver what we say we will. We treat your budget, timeline, brand, and reputation with care. As we get to know your organization, we become the partner you call first.

Frequently asked questions

Do you build websites?

Yes. Websites and landing pages, designed and built to convert, including the landing page systems behind event registration and lead capture.

Can you brand our entire trade show program?

That is a signature service: exhibitor identity systems covering booth design, show graphics, digital graphics, presentation templates, and attendee communications, all from one brand concept.

Do you work with food and beverage brands?

Yes. Chicago's food and beverage cluster, from global brands like Kraft Heinz and Mondelez International to emerging labels, is a natural fit for our launch creative, campaign work, and video.

How do you handle legal and stakeholder reviews?

We build review rounds into the process and design with compliance in mind from the start, so feedback improves the work instead of restarting it.

Can you run a full campaign, not just design assets?

Yes. Campaign strategy, creative, landing pages, and the video and event extensions that carry it into the real world.

How do you serve Chicago clients?

Day-to-day creative runs remote with structured check-ins. Our creative and production leads fly in for launches, shoots, and key meetings, and we hire local crews who know the venues. One team can carry your brand across all of your city markets.

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They don't just produce events; they capture the essence of our brand and move it forward.
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Corporate Event Production

Conferences, summits, galas, and corporate events. Full-service production from planning to show day.

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Video & Content Production

Commercials, corporate video, event content, customer testimonials and interviews, photography, social content, podcasts and more.

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Marketing Agency in Chicago, IL | Simple
Marketing and creative in Chicago, IL: branding, websites, campaigns, and event creative. One team across brand, video, and live events.