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Burdette Ketchum (http://www.burdetteketchum.com/) is an integrated marketing communications firm for companies on the grow. We empower innovators, challengers and rethinkers. Emerging growth, early-stage companies with big ambitions. Those determined to change the game.
The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis exists to empower African Americans and others throughout the region in securing economic self-reliance, social equality, and civil rights. The Urban League will be the catalyst for this change through advocacy, coalition building, program services and by promoting communication and understanding among different races and cultures. The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Inc. takes a holistic approach to economic empowerment and self sufficiency. Through community programs in three counties across the bi-state region, it helps its clients to climb out of poverty by helping them to meet their basic needs, providing educational excellence/equality and economic empowerment and encouraging civic engagement. The League’s Meeting Basic Needs Initiative provides clients in need with food, clothing and other life necessities while strengthening families and helping people become self-sufficient. The Education Initiative encourages and enables participants to apply learning to everyday situations, to embrace technology and to achieve academic excellence. The Economic Empowerment Initiative provides resources to strengthen individuals, families, and communities by improving and climbing the economic “ladder” to a better quality of life.
Kinetic is a social data and marketing technology company. Founded in October 2011 and in hyper-growth mode, Kinetic`s core mission is to make sense of the world`s social signal. We analyze social context data, aggregated from a wide universe of digital sources, enabling breakaway insights and predictive modeling to yield the most effective full-funnel marketing solutions for our clients. Our patent-pending statistical optimization engine provides a unique and scalable approach to social marketing and cross-platform effectiveness. The company is a charter partner in the Facebook API Key, Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer, and Twitter Marketing Platform Partner programs.
Aki Technologies revolutionizes how marketers engage mobile consumers. Through Katana, an industry-leading, AI-powered moment marketing science platform, Aki offers unparalleled audience intelligence, interpreting every mobile data signal—including Aki`s proprietary audience data—to predict when and how a consumer is most likely to respond to a marketing message. Leading brands, including Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, Target, Toyota and Taco Bell, use Aki Katana`s insights, mobile ad targeting and optimization to dramatically improve impact on awareness, engagement and in-store traffic.
We are the industry`s largest startup – the oldest and newest advertising agency in Chicago. Founded in 1873 as Lord & Thomas and reintroduced as Foote, Cone and Belding, we create big transformative ideas that drive change. With over 700 employees, we have an entrepreneurial spirit, with scale and best-in-class capabilities all under one roof.