AKQA, an independent Web design and interactive marketing agency, offers online and digital media development for branding, marketing, and e-commerce, as well as consulting services to help its customers use interactive technologies to their advantage. One such project was AKQA's design for the user interface for Microsoft's Xbox 360. AKQA's clients range from small companies to big names such as Nike, Coca-Cola, and McDonald's. The agency has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Washington, DC and was founded in 1995. Private equity firm General Atlantic owns a majority stake in AKQA.

APCO, a majority woman-owned business, was established in 1984. APCO company's specialized services include corporate, investor, employee communication, crisis management, litigation communication, and government relations. It serves governments, industry associations, nonprofit organizations, and FORTUNE 500 companies; clients have included Johnson Controls, Dow Corning, Microsoft, The European Express Association, and The China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO). APCO company has offices in North America, Europe, and Africa and has been aggressively expanding into Asia.

OLSON was founded in 1992 by John and Cindy Olson. OLSON + Co. wants to ensure your brand remains distinctive. The full service marketing agency creates integrated marketing campaigns, offering such services as public relations, interactive marketing, design, brand strategy, advertising, and product development. Its client list has included a mix of regional and national names, such as the Detroit Pistons, Red Wing Shoe Company, and the University of Minnesota. In mid-2010, the agency achieved growth by merging with Denali Marketing, another marketing agency. The deal formed OLSONdenali, its dedicated practice specializing in loyalty marketing.

Booyah Networks is all over digital marketing, but they aren't shouting about it. Consisting of the Booyah Agency and subsidiary SpotXchange, Booyah Networks provides expertise in search engine marketing and online video advertising. The Booyah Agency helps clients improve their prominence on the Web by utilizing search engine optimization, paid inclusion, and pay-per-click marketing options. Focused on online video, SpotXchange connects video publishers with advertisers and allows advertisers to target specific markets through its ad management platform. SpotXchange also hosts the commercials in multiple formats, inserts them into the video, and provides campaign tracking and reporting.

Initiative Media Worldwide is one of the world's leading media planning and buying agencies, operating through 90 offices in nearly 70 countries. Doing business simply as Initiative, the company offers strategic planning services to help its advertising clients reach their intended audiences through the proper mix of radio, television, print, outdoor, and interactive media and purchases the required airtime or publication space. Major clients have included AOL, Bayer, Gateway, The Home Depot, LucasArts, and Showtime. Initiative is a unit of global advertising and marketing services conglomerate Interpublic Group.

Bobit Business Media was founded in 1961 with the launching of Automotive Fleet in Glenview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. For nearly 50 years, the company has grown to publishing over 20 various trade publications covering 5 different markets. Bobit Business Media’s mission is to be a leading business-to-business media company that anticipates and meets customer needs with superior quality publications. We provide ancillary products and services, enabling our customers to attain maximum benefit from our industry knowledge.Due to the creative nature of our business, we recognize that our associates are our primary asset, and we desire to provide them with a positive, rewarding work environment that encourages teamwork, professionalism and excellence while stimulating personal growth and fulfillment.

Creative Group provides a variety of marketing services specializing in building and managing incentive programs, and planning corporate meetings and events. Creative Group incentive programs target sales, reseller, and employees, offering travel, merchandise, and gift certificates as rewards for good performance. Creative Group also offers personal travel services including travel planning and emergency services that benefit from the company's large corporate travel business. Clients have included Abbott Laboratories, Mutual of Omaha, and Johnson Controls.

Founded in 1938 as Selvage & Lee, the public relations firm merged with Farley Manning Associates in 1972. Manning, Selvage & Lee caters to blue chips. The public relations firm focuses on global corporations, providing services in strategic planning, product branding, corporate reputation, and crisis management. A subsidiary of advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe, the company targets four industry groupings: technology, health care, consumer marketing, and corporate and finance. It owns about 55 offices across the globe. Clients have included such heavy hitters as IBM, Eli Lilly and Company, Procter & Gamble, and General Motors.

Sinclair Broadcast Group is a leading television operator with about 60 stations serving 35 midsized markets around the country. Its portfolio reaches more than 20% of US households and includes affiliates of all four major broadcast networks, as well as several affiliates of The CW Network and MyNetworkTV. (Most of the stations are affiliated with FOX.) More than 45 of SBG's stations are owned and operated, while the rest are operated under local market agreements; the company has duopolies (more than one station) in about 20 of markets. The family of founder Julian Sinclair Smith, led by CEO David Smith, controls the company.

Harris Connect has acquired the assets of IDC, Ltd, an established leader providing fundraising programs for non-profit organizations. Harris Connect’s expertise in data research and analytics, and internet solutions will immediately enhance and expand the breadth of fundraising opportunities for their clients. This multi-platform approach will maximize campaign reach and prospect connection by offering the ability to participate via phone, mail, web and/or mobile. IDC’s established PHONE/MAIL®, Telemax®, CallerMax® and other industry leading applications will be the cornerstone of the enhanced fundraising programs, combined with Harris Connect’s comprehensive analytics to provide deeper insight to each prospect. Major benefits to nonprofits include the new HC Virtual Call Center, using VoIP technology, online giving tools hosted by Harris Connect, and real-time credit card transaction processing with the security of Harris Connect’s PCI DSS Level 1 Merchant status.

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