What We Do
Through media strategy and marketing thought leadership, we’ve been successfully advancing client brands and their market shares since 2003.
At our core we’re a media agency, harnessing omnichannel media platforms to influence target audience behavior. To that strength, we add a proprietary planning toolset we call Discovery and Roadmap to help interested clients clarify and prioritize their broader marketing context.
And finally, because we understand the importance of all variables in a marketing mix working in concert, we’ve built strong collaborative relationships with strategic partners who complement our own capabilities with proven expertise in brand and message creative development and execution, and digital marketing platforms that augment those that we manage.
The result is an integrated approach to seamlessly grow client brands, revenue and market share.
Our Core Values
We are driven to accomplish amazing results. And our efforts are guided by core values that dictate our approach to what we do, how we behave and how we live.
Our Process
There are two ways our clients typically work with us. The first way is to hire us for media stewardship as dictated by an established marketing plan and budget. In this role, we provide integrated planning, negotiation, buying, analytics, optimization and reconciliation of online and offline media to influence audience behavior.
We often also help clients beyond media planning and implementation, working with them to clarify and understand their broader marketing framework. Using our proprietary Discovery and Roadmap process, we can help articulate the overall marketing opportunities, planning roadmap and budget that ultimately drive a successful media strategy and intended results.
Our four-step process:

Discovery
Brand Audit
Marketing Audit
Stakeholder Audit
Media Audit
SWOT Analysis
Market Research

Roadmap
Marketing Pillars
Media Modeling
Persona Mapping
Creative Brief
Partner Alignment

Rollout
Media Plan
Budget and Calendar
Asset Management
Measurement
Implementation

Refinement
Analytics
Optimization
Goal Completion
Reporting
Expertise
Explore the four key reasons why we succeed at what we do.
Experience
We are pleased and proud to partner with these fine organizations and help them reach their marketing goals.












Past as Prologue. Beyond our current client roster, our team experience includes successful past partnerships with large companies and small, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurial start-ups and established national brands, applying our marketing and media solutions to help them realize their goals. Proven success is in our DNA.
We’re happy to share details about prior experience in these categories.
Apparel
Automotive
Ballot Measures
Banking/Finance
Casino/Gaming
Computers/Electronics
Consumer Products
Cultural Attractions
Education
Energy
Entertainment
Food/Drink
Health Care
Health/Wellness
Hospitality
Media
Nonprofits
Political Races
Planned Communities
Public Policy
Real Estate
Restaurants
Retail
Sports Teams
Sports Equipment/Apparel
Technology
Telecom
Tourism
Utilities
Success Stories
A sampling of our demonstrated successes.
Good Stuff to Know
Timely articles and insights that help illuminate the rapidly changing media landscape.
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Is Google Analytics going away? What marketers need to know.
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How DOOH, streaming audio and CTV connect the cookieless, multi-device world
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Marketers to focus on Gen Z in 2023 with dollars moving to TikTok
Throughout 2022, marketers focused more on advertising to Gen Z, oftentimes replacing its attempt to cater to millennials in an attempt to reach the younger generation as they enter the job market and their early adulthood years, placing more ad dollars on social media platforms like TikTok where Gen Z spends the majority of its time and where marketers’ creative approaches became more authentic and unfiltered to reach them - This trend will continue in 2023.
Facebook Can Rest Easy. Nobody Does Old People Better.
Younger generations will grow up and need the same kind of services that their parents are getting from the social media platform.
Instagram in 2022: Global user statistics, demographics and marketing trends to know
Instagram’s maturity is its biggest strength. Facebook’s photogenic younger sibling is all grown up, both in the size and age of its user base. As the second-largest of the major social platforms, it has a substantial user base, a still-appealing aesthetic, and signature features such as Stories that will help keep it an important vehicle for global marketers.
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CSBimpact: PO Box 9186 Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 - 619.501.6254