What We Do
Content Creation
Our Head Monkeys know Jake from State Farm, they've shot hundreds of hours of Olympic video, socially drove thousands of fans to watch a Hot Dog Eating Contest, and worked at many of the biggest media companies. Now it's time to let us start to Monkey Around with your social media marketing.
Social Media Activations
We develop creative to sell products & services without sacrificing brand. Our focus is putting experienced professionals to work at an affordable level utilizing high quality video, social media targeting, mobile relevant messaging, and experiential event marketing tactics.
Brand Consulting
Simply put, why hire a big agency, or a boutique agency that doesn't understand that it's all about developing creative messaging that works in today's social media driven world?
Behind The Scenes
The Monkeys
Dave Kirk
SVP Account Management
Dave Kirk brings 25+ years
of media sales and custom content development experience with Time Inc., Pace Communications, RR Donnelley and StudioNow for clients ranging from Caesars Entertainment to Deloitte to
Abbott and many others.
Mark Traverso
SVP Video Production
Mark is a Telly, Communicator and Cable
ACE award winning Executive Producer and
Director with over thirty years of experience in television programming and digital media for clients worldwide. His programs and projects have spanned the news, sports, corporate and entertainment worlds, numerous live concerts and special events. Mark has worked with companies and organizations such as the U.S. Olympic Committee, Nike, Sears, AT&T, Humana, United Airlines, the Alzheimer’s Association, the American College of Gastroenterology, Glaxo Smith Klein, P&G and McDonald’s.
Dan Bowens
SVP Experiential Marketing
Dan Bowens, creative director, brings 25+ years of integrated marketing experience. Leveraging the power of one-to-one interactions, Dan has developed award-winning creative programs that include experiential, consumer promotion, shopper marketing, event/sports marketing as well as local market customized programs for major brands such as Coca Cola, Kraft, CenturyLink, Citibank, Chase, BCBS and Nabisco.
Becca Mensing
SVP Social Marketing
Becca is a Social Media Marketing enthusiast that enjoys diving into data & analytics. Throughout four years in the Chicago Marketing community she managed brand campaigns both large and small, across both organic and paid tactics. A few of her favorite recent brand campaigns were for Intel, Petsmart, Bel Cheese, Cars.Com and Intelligentsia Coffee. She enjoys growing brands organically through one-to-one interactions across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Barry Burdiak
SVP Creative Development
Barry Burdiak, Group Creative Director with over 25 years major agency experience, 5 Cannes Lions Awards, 3 Emmy Nominations and 17 Top Ten Super Bowl spots including three #1’s for McDonald’s, Bud Light and State Farm.
Scott Burditt
B2B Strategic Creative Director
Scott has been writing copy and guiding creative development ever since falling hard for the business during a college class. While just about everything in advertising and marketing have evolved since then, two fundamentals he cares a lot about haven’t: Clients still need smart strategy and great ideas. Today he develops a lot of written content to drive people to client websites. Develops websites. Writes and produces video. Loves learning new stuff. Clients served include Zoetis, Living As A Leader, Stewart-Peterson and Miller Brewin