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RedHawk50-2025

#38-Brandience

Brandience is a retail-minded advertising agency that blends bold creativity with data insights resulting in bigger, bolder ideas that connect with consumers and deliver powerful results. (So, we’ve got a strong left brain / right brain thing going on). For over two decades, we’ve specialized in restaurants, franchise, healthcare, and retail, applying proven retail marketing practices in unexpected places, bringing sharper strategy and stronger results to our clients & partners. Based in Cincinnati, our team is passionate about community and lives that value daily through our commitment to the people and places that Cincinnati holds dear. Our 4-step process is in our name: Brand, Audience, Science, Experience. We tease out truths that matter, dig for insights that resonate with consumers, and deliver experiences that inspire. We are proud to be early adopters of human-centered Generative AI. Brandience is notably among the first regional agencies to implement a formal AI use policy to enhance creativity, improve efficiencies, and deliver even greater value to our clients. Our people are humble, so we don’t like to brag, but we’ve been recognized time and time again by Cincinnati Business Courier’s Best Places to Work, Ad Age’s Media Maven, Media Magazine’s Top Twenty Rising Media Stars (to name a few). Our clients aren’t shy about praising us either, and the awards back it up. We are an award-winning creative agency, having been honored by industry-leading recognition programs including the Addy Awards (AAF & Cincinnati), Telly Awards, MarCom Awards, MediaPost Planning & Buying Awards, and more.

RedHawk50-2025

#38-Brandience

Design

Founded: 2003
Growth Rate: 25.75%
Cincinnati, OH

brandience.com

Brian McHale

Brian McHale, Owner and CEO

Class of 1988
College of Arts and Science