Recently named to Adweek’s Agency 3.0 List – as an agency who has mastered how to move forward in a digitally-driven marketplace, Erwin Penland was founded in 1986 as an agency of makers, building worlds around brands to drive business for awesome clients.
Working from SC and NY, we’re filled with talented people & equipped to handle any job: digital, experiential, social/content marketing, direct, video/audio production, media planning & buying, analytics, research, and PR – and living into the agency’s mission of Creating Headroom for Category Defining Brands.
Clients include: Verizon, Denny’s, Tumi, Califia Farms, Lenovo, Strayer University, The Leading Hotels of the World, Michelin, Voya, Cellular Sales, and The UPS Store.
We consider ourselves a 30-year-old start-up. Because these days problems are never the same. So we never sit still. We are always changing, evolving, rethinking, tinkering and pushing. So, um, bring it on.
We are pretty good at making advertising-like things, but advertising isn’t exactly advertising anymore is it? The idea that solves the problem can come to life in all kinds of ways. So we rethink how an agency should be built, staffed and should work. In the end it looks a lot less like an ad agency, and more like a scrappy problem solver, who likes strong coffee.
Because real-time ideas can’t wait for 3 bids, 5 conference calls and 3 treatments, sometimes we make stuff ourselves. It’s faster. It’s cheaper. And gosh darn it, we love doing it.
