What we do

Helping brands solve hard problems.

If your brand and performance live in silos, you're wasting money and losing out on the customers you need to grow your business. Traction arms the right talent across disciplines with AI and proven strategies to drive the marketing outcomes you need—all in an affordable, zero-waste model.

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Accelerate Transformation

We assess, optimize and implement every aspect of your data, martech, AI, UX design, development, operations and people to futureproof your marketing.

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Catalytic Strategies

We unearth knowledge and understanding with research and analytics to deliver breakthrough strategies that unlock the business results you're on the hot seat to deliver.

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Activate Ideas

Our creative and media teams imagine, design, produce and deliver irresistible ideas that connect the dots from brand to CX to performance throughout the entire customer journey.

Solutions

Here are the problems we help brands solve.

Delivery Optimization

We'll audit, assess and recommend how marketing is executed across your partners and in-house team to improve delivery while unlocking dramatic efficiencies.

Marketing Technology

We design infrastructure around your audience’s journey to help you unlock data and get one-to-one with your customers.

AI Adoption & Futureproofing

Traction's Futureproof Framework for AI adoption—vetted by the ANA—gives you a strategic roadmap to crawl, walk and run with AI. And our leadership of The Futureproof Project community gives us unparalleled insight from our 200 brand members and access to AI talent.

Unlocking Data

Data science geniuses use advanced analytics and measurement to structure, clean, and connect your data so it will reveal insight, harness AI, and fuel growth.

Understanding Audiences

Our research approach blends AI with human interaction—yes, we talk to customers. This ensures the work we do for you is grounded in the needs, desires and behaviors of your audience.

Brand Narrative & Identity

We position brands, craft stories and design identities that set you apart and convey why you’re better than the other guys.

Experience Design & Development

We use design and code to build experiences people love and value on a digital-first planet.

Catalytic Ideas

We bring ideas to life that incite the actions and reactions that will move your business forward, coordinated through every step of the customer journey.

Customer Journey Mapping & GTM Planning

The customer journey is the key to results that matter. We help you understand the attitudes, perceptions and behaviors you need to elicit every step of the way, and craft a coordinated blueprint to achieve outcomes that drive toward your bottom line.

Integrated Media

We unite brand and performance with savvy media experts and business-minded creatives to fuel your growth. We have exceptional talent and strong relationships throughout the value chain from strategy through optimization.

Video Production

We tell stories that inspire audiences with savvy production talent that can deliver all forms of video in a digital world.

Social Media & Influencers

We help you thrive in the hive. We understand that winning in social media is about crafting influence in a world where people put far more weight into one another than they do with brands.

Expertise

B2B,FinancialServices,ConsumerTech,Internet,Sports&Entertainment,Food&Bev,CPG,Retail&E-Commerce,Energy,Healthcare.

What makes us different

Our secret sauce.

These four ways of working unlock the power to accelerate your marketing.

Our Liquid Workforce is our secret weapon.

We provide the very best talent from our Liquid Workforce talent collective of over 300 remote creatives, strategists, media planners, developers and mar-tech consultants. This zero-waste model delivers a ton of value to our clients who get more senior people for the same price.

In-house experience. In-house disposition.

At Traction, accounts are led by senior executives with brand-side experience at companies like lululemon, Hilton, Canva, Citi, Nordstrom and CNN. This helps us meet in-house teams where you are to fill gaps and accelerate your marketing. That matters because while 78% of brands say capability building is very important, only 5% say they have the capabilities they need.

Full-funnel design thinking.

Our journey-driven approach begins empathy, ends with testing, and marries data with creativity every step of the way. This is the foundation of our approach to infrastructure, media and creative development—and the underlying approach to how we connect the dots between the top and bottom of the funnel.

The Futureproof Project.

We help our clients apply foresight to their marketing through an invite-only community of 200+ brand leaders at the forefront of emerging tech. We share learnings, inspiration and expertise about Generative AI and Web 3 to help one another turn marketing innovation into competitive advantage.

What’s your problem?

At Traction, we’re a group of inspired problem solvers with an informed point of view. Our superpower is building super-teams designed to solve the problems that are keeping you up at night.

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Traction is a new breed of marketing agency and consultancy—a marketing accelerator for brands and their in-house teams.

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