The Best Direct Marketing Agencies

You know how marketers sometimes get stuck, and struggle to improve campaign results (like lead gen and conversions) along the customer journey?

Pluck the sharpest marketing talent from the Chicago area. Put them in a creativity-enhancing space, feed them endless challenges, sprinkle in a few late-afternoon craft beers, and wrap it all up in a culture that’s recognized as one of Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work ForTM.

Our clients will tell you that Peppers give you more than you ask for, think through every detail of a request, ask questions you haven’t thought of, look for ways to deliver greater results and consistently dream up the unexpected. Our seasoned professionals add spice to our clients’ communications and drive revenue and profitability through effective marketing. And on the flip side, we’re thirsty for continual improvement and constant learning.

Matter is a Brand Elevation Agency unifying public relations, social media, creative services and search marketing into strategic, content-rich communications campaigns that inspire action and build value. Founded in 2003, with five offices spanning North America, Matter works with the world’s most innovative companies across high-technology, consumer-technology and consumer markets.

Rhea + Kaiser is a strategic, integrated marketing agency with ingenuity at our core. We know there’s always a person on the other side of the conversation. So whether B2B or B2C, for us it’s always B2P.

Our diverse group of high-energy professionals has a proud heritage of adding value to brands. Our collective range of experience and knowledge is jaw-dropping. You’ll get top-level thinking about your business every day because that’s all we have. Expect nimble, expect passionate, expect brilliance — just a few of the pluses of working with R+K.

Wingman Media is the only response-driven media planning and buying agency to specialize in companies that sell niche products and considered purchases - cars, solar panels, mortgages, windows, high end home goods, engagement rings and other big ticket items. We harness the power of big data to plan and execute profitable and highly scalable media campaigns across every channel, screen and device.With advanced planning tools to make your media work harder, we help our clients reduce ad waste and drive greater response across digital, television and radio. Wingman Media was founded in 2003 with a simple mission: "to make our clients rich and our mothers proud.” Wingman has since grown from a small start-up into an award-winning media agency with a track record for success. Our campaigns scale profitably and have changed the trajectory of our clients’ businesses.

DX Media Direct is a direct response advertising agency. It specializes in helping companies get a measurable return on their advertising investment. We do this in four distinct ways. One - by getting 75% to 90% discounts on the media we purchase. Two - by measuring the performance of each individual campaign with a distinct tracking mechanism. Three - by refining each campaign weekly and re-investing in only the top performing outlets. Four- By developing creative that generates customer action. We have helped small companies grow into large, thriving organizations by utilizing the power of excellent creative, effective audience impact and campaign refinement.

IPNY (formerly Interplanetary) is a brand positioning and messaging firm that grows your business measurably and creatively.

We do the hard stuff: business planning, brand positioning, communications planning, and launches in complex categories such as financial services, healthcare, and nonprofit. We drive bottom-line, quantifiable results.

We create unifying and engaging brand communications and experiences based on rigorous strategic thinking, research and testing. Then we engage our channel and production experts to execute and bring those ideas to life. Once launched, we expect to be held accountable for the results, so we collect and analyze data at every possible step, enabling us to optimize programs and demonstrate proof of ROI to your C-level executives and board.

The partners have spent decades mastering the major forms of communications — classic brand advertising, results-oriented direct marketing, engaging digital and social media, and fully integrated multimedia campaigns— at the world’s largest advertising agencies: Ogilvy, Wieden, BBH, Burnett, Grey, Scali, Ammirati, Chiat, and Wunderman. Our mission is for each partner to work personally with clients to help them achieve their growth goals. We love what we do and are passionate about being craftsmen in each of our own respective fields of expertise.

We’ve evolved an approach that melds these unique disciplines into what smart advertising should be: persuasion leading to conversion, regardless of the media channel.