Entries by Andrew Humphreys

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Heartbeat: 2021

While so much about 2020 tested the agency’s spirit, Heartbeat leaders say they are grateful for the many rays of light that shone through and inspired everyone at the agency to the most successful year in the company’s history. “The way our Heartbeat community came together to support each other and our clients, and to deliver day after day amid the hardships so many faced was inspirational,” says President, Executive Creative Director James Talarico. “That the business thrived in 2020 is all due to the team we’ve built. So damn proud.”

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HyperPointe: 2021

Continuing on its trajectory of new business wins and organic growth from existing clients, HyperPointe has been largely unaffected by the pandemic and is already enjoying a solid 2021. A year after welcoming new CEO Ezra T. Ernst, a 25-year veteran of the healthcare media and marketing industry, HyperPointe has been on quite a roll, management says. 

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Intouch Group (Agency): 2021

In 2017, Intouch CEO Faruk Capan declared the audacious goal for Intouch Group to double in revenue size in just three years, equating to $200 million in revenue in 2020. What he didn’t know at the time was that 2020 would be the year of a deadly global pandemic, widespread social uprisings, and political discontent. Despite the challenge, Intouch made good on that goal – and then some – reaching $220 million in revenue in 2020 – a full 10 percent over goal.

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Intouch Group (Network): 2021

In 2017, Intouch CEO Faruk Capan declared the audacious goal for Intouch Group to double in revenue size in just three years, equating to $200 million in revenue in 2020. What he didn’t know at the time was that 2020 would be the year of a deadly global pandemic, widespread social uprisings, and political discontent. Despite the challenge, Intouch made good on that goal – and then some – reaching $220 million in revenue in 2020 – 10 percent over goal.

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JPA Health: 2021

JPA Health is a full-service, integrated marcom agency that has continued to foster collaboration, growth and dedicated client services even during the pandemic. “Over the last year, JPA focused its efforts in five areas: rebranding based on agency values, financial and staff growth, agency awards, client successes and investment in professional development,” the agency’s executives say. “The rebrand brought to life our passion for ‘Connect’ability’ and is based on five core values.”

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JUICE Global Network: 2021

For the JUICE Global Network (JGN), international borders were blurred like never before in 2020, according to the leadership team. “The global workforce was fully functional though fully remote for most of the year,” JGN executives say. “That accelerated cross-market collaboration and internal crowdsourcing in unexpected ways. The strength of the network – both in terms of its teams and its leadership – contributed to a growth year for global and multi-market assignments.” 

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JUICE Pharma Worldwide: 2021

With several significant new assignments won during late 2019, the leaders at JUICE say they began 2020 planning for what they knew would be a very different and transformative year. “The excitement of new growth and new clients added to the excitement of a move to a new midtown location. In the early weeks of the year, the biggest challenge seemed to be where to locate everyone who would need to be added to support the expanding assignments.”  

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Klick Health: 2021

In a year that was different than any other in modern history, a couple of things remained the same, agency leaders say: “Klick Health’s continued focus on leaning into the people-first principle (on which we were founded) and our ongoing astronomical year-over-year growth and momentum. Unlike most hyper-growth companies, we didn’t just sustain our award-winning culture, we kicked things up a notch – even in the midst of COVID-19 – and demonstrated just how much culture can impact growth.”

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LevLane: 2021

In the words of LevLane’s leadership, “2020 was weird. There is really no other way to say it.” But as an agency, LevLane was paying close attention to the encroaching pandemic and was planning for the necessary shift in work that would need to occur to keep the business moving without any disruptions, management says. “By the time we moved to a virtual environment, we were prepared for all internal and external communications using Microsoft TEAMS. We even enabled our clients and other partners to communicate with us through the TEAMS environment.”

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McCann Global Health: 2021

“We believe ideas, now more than ever, can make the biggest difference in the world,” according to leaders at McCann Global Health. “Our agency was established to find innovative ways to alleviate human suffering and add value to people’s lives, not noise. Our ambitions are not limited to quarterly results. Our ambitions are linked to a belief in what we do. The quality and integrity of our work matter above all else.”