Founded in 1989, Osborn & Barr has offices in St. Louis; Kansas City, Missouri; and Des Moines. You can take the ad agency out of the country but, well, you know. Osborn & Barr Communications has built its reputation on its work in the agriculture, rural-lifestyle, and outdoors markets, but its portfolio also includes work in government, finance, and leisure industries. The agency offers advertising, public relations, brand management, creative services, social marketing, digital marketing, media services, and strategic marketing for clients across North America. Clients have included Michelin, the USDA, Intervet, and Monsanto.

The Q story begins in 1994, when, under the name Interactive Coupon Marketing Group, the seeds of a mission were planted – to help advertisers connect with their target consumers. By 1998, CoolSavings.com launched – and with millions of members, it remains a top coupon printing site and a leading consumer savings destination. Further expanding its core mission of connecting brands and consumers, the company began to help publishers better monetize their online audiences via lead generation and email, and by 2003, sat on the Lead Generation Committee of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, helping to craft the bureau’s reports "Online Lead Generation: B2C and B2B Best Practices for U.S.-based Advertisers and Publishers," “Marketer & Agency Guide to Lead Quality,” and “Lead Generation Data Transfer Best Practices.”Rebranding CoolSavings as Q Interactive in 2006, the company reached 10 million unique consumers per month while maintaining its core values of relevancy, permission and privacy. Q Interactive, with its web properties such as CoolSavings, has expanded further with acquisitions: In 2009, Q Interactive acquired Postmaster Direct (a pioneer of double opt-in permission email) and Vente (a permission-based marketing leader). And in 2010, ClickGen (an incentivized lead generation network) and ThruChannel (a premier list management company) were acquired, making Q Interactive’s value proposition to agencies, advertisers and publishers broader than ever. Q Interactive is a Selling Source company.

I C Interactive (doing business as InfoPros) provides technical documentation (user manuals, online help, operator's guides) and instructional design services (online, self-paced, and instructor-led training; train-the-trainer courses; multimedia demos) for companies that have technical info to convey, including heavy equipment manufacturers, IT companies, medical companies, and others. It also provides technical marketing materials like white papers and case studies. InfoPros works from five offices in Colorado, Wisconsin, Oregon, and North Carolina. Horizon Interactive was formed in 1994; it merged with InfoPros in 2006 and adopted the new name.

Kerasotes ShowPlace Theaters owns and operates movie megaplexes in three cities. Operating in Chicago and Minneapolis under the ShowPlace ICON banner, two of its theaters offer a premium movie-going experience with a lounge area in the lobby featuring cocktails and appetizers, VIP seating area, and an upscale concessions area that offers pizza and other upscale treats. The company also has a more traditional megaplex in New Jersey operating under the ShowPlace name. Gus Kerasotes started the family-operated company in 1909 as a storefront nickelodeon in Springfield, Illinois. Kerasotes ShowPlace Theaters is backed by Providence Equity Partners.

Newsday, LLC publishes the daily newspaper Newsday serving readers primarily in Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, New York, as well as in the borough of Queens in New York City. The paper boasts a daily circulation of about 330,000 and Sunday circulation of about 400,000. In addition to its daily newspaper, Newsday, LLC publishes amNew York, a free daily that serves New York City commuters, and through Star Community Publishing the company publishes and distributes weekly shoppers throughout Long Island and in some sections of New York City. Newsday, LLC is a subsidiary of cable system operator Cablevision.

The feisty firm dedicates entire sections of its Web site to how and why Adworks provides better service than big agencies, including a "translator" to help potential clients decode "deceptive" industry jargon. Adworks has worked to shed its image as a regional agency, landing a few national clients through the years. The firm's clients have included The Library of Congress, The Washington Post, Virginia Hospital Center, and L.L. Bean. The independent agency was founded by Creative Director Mark Greenspun in 1979.

Silverpop Systems specializes in planning, executing, and managing permission-based e-mail marketing campaigns. Silverpop company blends strategic services that include policy development, campaign strategy creation, and list development services with software, analytics, and creative services to produce efficient targeted e-mail campaigns. Clients have included AMR Research, Fossil, Overstock.com, and Plantronics. Silverpop company increased its international presence when it acquired UK-based interactive ad agency Digital Oxygen. Silverpop's investors include venture capital firms D. E. Shaw, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, ePlanet Ventures, European Founders Fund, NeoCarta Ventures, and Total Technology Ventures.

Wishoo was founded in 2000. Wishoo brings event sponsors and consumers together. The event marketing firm creates promotional campaigns for its clients using photo and video attractions that build brand recognition and generate leads. The programs can offer print-on site photos that incorporate logos in a souvenir photo; pictures with promotional mascots or props; or pictures that integrate participants into fanciful situations. Participants are directed to a Web site to retrieve their photos and sign up for future marketing messages.

Mass Connections is banking on the fact that if you try the product, you'll likely buy it. Offering services for managing and implementing in-store promotions, Mass Connections provides design, sourcing of components and premiums, and fulfillment as well as related IT services. The company's programs encompass national product rollouts, re-launches, or promotional events. Mass Connections has developed promotional events for consumer products and retail companies such as L'Oreal USA, ConAgra Foods, Albertson's, and Target. It traces its roots back to 1976, when founder and CEO Caroline Cotton Nakken launched, what was at the time, a staffing agency.

DeLaune and Associates offers the services of advertising, marketing, and public relations to its clients in the financial, health care, retail, and technology industries. Advertising expertise includes media buying and planning, as well as TV, radio, and print ad creation. Other services include collateral materials creation, media relations, crisis management, and media training. DeLaune and Associates founded as a consulting firm in 1980 by president Renee DeLaune, has added expertise in graphic design and marketing services as it has grown. DeLaune and Associates primarily serves clients in the Central Texas region.

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