Birmingham businesses have strong options for integrated marketing, brand creative, public relations, and website work. Anderson Collaborative is our first recommendation for a connected growth program; Intermark brings a psychology-led advertising approach, Infomedia focuses on websites and support, and FRED has a distinctive place-branding portfolio. Nativz adds a Dallas-based social specialist for buyers open to a national partner.
Start with the assignment you need delivered. A manufacturer explaining a technical product, a practice seeking qualified inquiries, and a destination launching a new experience should not receive the same proposal.
In this guide: agency comparison, agency profiles, and FAQs.
Compare the agencies
The profiles link to specific campaigns, websites and customer accounts, so you can compare the work behind each agency’s stated services.
| Agency | Service focus | Location context |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson Collaborative | Integrated growth, media, creative, and web | Hoover / Birmingham metro |
| Nativz | Social strategy, content production, and paid social | Dallas-based national option |
| Intermark Group | Marketing psychology and integrated advertising | Birmingham |
| Big Com | Brand strategy, creative, and communications | Birmingham |
| Luckie & Co. | CRM, analytics, media, and creative production | Birmingham and Atlanta offices |
| Lewis Communications | Audience intelligence, brand, content, and media | Birmingham, Mobile, and Nashville offices |
| o2ideas | Creative, PR, and employment branding | Birmingham |
| Cayenne Creative | Brand, campaign, media, and interactive work | Birmingham |
| Style Advertising | Creative strategy, digital campaigns, and PR | Birmingham |
| Telegraph Creative | Brand storytelling and digital creative | Birmingham |
| Copperwing | Visioning, branding, and design-led marketing | Birmingham |
| Brand Neue | Brand identity and digital marketing | Birmingham |
| Infomedia | Custom websites and ongoing support | Birmingham |
| CCG | Performance marketing and business alignment | Birmingham |
| FRED | Real estate, development, and place branding | Birmingham |
| Adam Black Media | Web, social, search, and local business support | Trussville |
| Uptick Marketing | SEO, digital advertising and content | Birmingham |
| Markstein | Workforce marketing, branding and communications | Birmingham |
| Peritus Public Relations | Public affairs, crisis counsel and media relations | Birmingham |
1. Anderson Collaborative
Anderson Collaborative connects strategic planning, paid media, search, creative production, web experiences, and analytics. Its Birmingham metro office is in Hoover, so local businesses can work with a regional contact while drawing on a broader delivery team.
A concrete example is its College HUNKS national CTV program. Anderson connected media delivery with the franchise’s HunkWare CRM, giving the client reporting on matched jobs and revenue across locations. The published case reports $14.5M+ in CRM-matched revenue on $1.32M in media through June 2026. Those figures describe matched revenue, not incremental revenue caused by advertising.
In the same case, Performance Marketing Director Joe Fortunato praises the team’s precision and data-led decisions. For a Birmingham company expanding into several markets, the useful distinction is the connection between national media and local business reporting. Explore the paid media practice and client case studies for the underlying work.
Explore Anderson Collaborative.
2. Nativz
Nativz brings organic content, paid social, creator work, and community management together. Its current portfolio includes social work for brands in restaurants, retail, attractions, and other industries. It is a Dallas-based option for Birmingham buyers comfortable with a remote social team.
Its JAMNOLA case shows how that production model works. The team made ten advertising edits in one month using footage the New Orleans attraction already owned. Social listening informed the themes, and the agency reports 9.4x ROAS over 14 days for the individual winning creative, “Hot in New Orleans.”
For a separate customer view of its organic content work, Axolotl Planet CMO Jake Pak’s December 2022 Clutch interview describes ten TikToks exceeding 15 million views and growth beyond one million followers across platforms. The case and review illustrate two different parts of Nativz’s offering: paid creative testing and organic audience development.
3. Intermark Group
Intermark builds its approach around marketing psychology: understanding why people make a choice and using that insight in strategy and creative. Its services extend through media, production, digital, PR, and social. The official portfolio includes Alabama Tourism, Physicians Mutual, BONA, History Channel, and Mohawk Flooring.
The Alabama Tourism “Take It All In” campaign makes the psychology approach tangible. Intermark focused on the sensory details of a visit, carrying the idea through video, print, experiential installations and outdoor advertising. A Condé Nast Traveler placement included a headset for a 360-degree experience of Little River Canyon; New York activations brought Alabama experiences into the city.
The agency’s 2018 Birmingham ADDY announcement records Best of Show for Experiential and 13 additional awards, largely tied to this tourism work. The award record identifies the specific executions recognized, including experiential and outdoor work.
4. Big Com
Big Com combines strategy, creative, and communications with an earned-media perspective. Its published work includes Made in Alabama, Seek Alabama, UAB Callahan Eye, Sloss.tech, and Sidewalk Film Festival, giving buyers concrete regional examples to explore.
Its UAB Callahan Eye campaign addressed a specific problem: patients were choosing the apparent convenience of retail eye care while Callahan had available clinic capacity. Big Com replaced a clinical look with colorful, lifestyle-led creative and used localized media near the clinics.
The agency reports a 37.7% year-over-year increase in clinic visits for the campaign. The case connects a recognizable Birmingham healthcare brand, an identified patient-choice problem and actual media decisions. It is a strong example of creative and local distribution working on the same assignment.
5. Luckie & Co.
Luckie’s services combine CRM strategy, advanced analytics, marketing technology planning, media strategy and buying, web development, and production. Its Birmingham office is one part of a multi-office agency.
Its Myrtle Beach customer-data-platform work explains how those disciplines connect. Luckie combined first-party website behavior with third-party travel insights to help the destination tailor content to travelers who were dreaming, planning or already visiting. The experience also helped visitors move toward booking.
The work spans owned and paid communication, making it more relevant to a destination or consumer brand with an ongoing customer relationship than to a one-off ad request. The case shows how traveler data informs both the content and the next step toward a visit.
6. Lewis Communications
Lewis connects audience intelligence, brand experience, content production, and marketing-return planning. Its service and industry pages cover areas including healthcare, banking, education, retail, and tourism. Birmingham is one of its three listed offices.
For HighFive Healthcare, Lewis refreshed the brand around its team culture, then created a trade-show campaign featuring a monster made from the administrative tasks dental specialists wanted taken off their plates. The agency reports 57 leads from the first trade show featuring that creative. Its subsequent work extended into identities, websites and practice materials.
On Lewis’s healthcare page, HighFive Chief Growth Officer Angela Trull describes the team as prepared and professional and says it stood out during the agency search. That named feedback sits alongside a portfolio buyers can examine directly.
7. o2ideas
o2ideas offers creative, public relations, and employment branding. The agency identifies itself as minority-owned and NMSDC Certified. Its public work and client references include Vulcan Park & Museum, Cahaba Brewing, Grapico, and BBVA.
For Vulcan Park & Museum’s Alabama auto-racing exhibit, o2ideas needed to attract people who were not racing fans. The campaign concentrated on the personalities and risks of the sport’s pioneers, using ads, posters, invitations and social posts. The agency reports more than 6,000 additional visitors and an extended exhibit run.
Its published customer feedback includes BBVA’s Steve Creel, identified as SVP and Director of Web and Mobile, praising the team’s creative, strategy and responsiveness across digital initiatives. These are distinct museum and banking examples, demonstrating more range than a service list alone.
8. Cayenne Creative
Cayenne is a full-service creative and media agency. Its published capabilities span brand and go-to-market strategy, creative direction, media, website and app design, motion graphics, photography, video, and social.
A well-documented example is its workplace-giving campaign for United Way of Central Alabama. The idea turned the familiar thought that somebody should help into an invitation for employees to become that person. Cayenne carried it through workplace experiences, posters, pledge materials, social filters and physical installations.
The 2025 AMIN Worldwide Globey Awards announcement names Cayenne the Most Creative winner for that work. The award organizer’s account provides both a named client and a description of the campaign, making Cayenne a relevant option for organizations seeking a central creative idea that can work across many formats.
9. Style Advertising
Style Advertising brings creative strategy, digital marketing, and public relations together. Its Birmingham office and multidisciplinary communications offering make it relevant to organizations that need coordinated messages across advertising and public-facing communication.
Its official company updates document work on Birmingham Restaurant Week, including creative strategy, branding, PR, digital marketing, social media, event management and media planning. That is a substantial local assignment where restaurant participation, public attention and on-the-ground coordination all matter.
The same source describes a branding and website project for RMR Firm, a property and real-estate law practice: strategic messaging, visual identity, collateral and a new site. Together, the examples show both event communication and professional-services branding.
10. Telegraph Creative
Telegraph pairs brand and campaign creative with digital execution. Its portfolio includes Birmingham Promise, The Fennec, and Protective Stadium work, offering local examples of institutional, hospitality, and community storytelling.
The Birmingham Promise redesign provides a close look at its execution. Telegraph retained the program’s purple and white foundations, added warmer accent colors and a custom hashtag symbol, and developed photography treatments and patterns for a more recognizable identity.
The website work included clearer access to resources and a Success Stories section centered on students’ experiences. It is a useful local example of a brand refresh reaching the pages people actually use, rather than ending at a logo presentation.
11. Copperwing
Copperwing’s work centers on visioning, branding, and marketing. Its portfolio includes Alabama Department of Mental Health, Neptune Technology Group, Alabama ABLE, UTeach Alabama, and KW Container. Those examples span public service, education, and industrial communication.
Its UTeach Alabama campaign promoted a route for STEM students to earn teacher certification alongside their degree. Copperwing built the “U CAN” concept around real stories, then carried it through video, a website, digital advertising and social content for students and the people advising them.
The agency reports 17 initial program applications and more than 200 visits to partner-university sites in the first 30 days. The campaign offers a specific education-recruitment example, while the broader portfolio shows how the firm handles complex public-service and industrial subjects.
12. Brand Neue
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Birmingham, Brand Neue combines brand strategy, identity, web, video, and social capabilities. Its featured work includes Mercedes-Benz, Fortera Credit Union, Mars Petcare, Christ Health Center, AmFirst Credit Union, and Chester’s.
Its Fortera Credit Union portfolio shows the breadth of an ongoing relationship. Brand Neue says the partnership began in 2023 and includes product promotions, messaging, digital and print work, direct mail, internal branding and communications. The case displays actual social posts, outdoor work, annual-report design and other materials.
The emphasis is consistency across a member’s experience, from an advertisement to a branch or employee message. That makes the work particularly relevant to a financial-services organization seeking continuing brand stewardship rather than a single redesign.
13. Infomedia
Infomedia specializes in website strategy, design, development, media, and support. Its emphasis on continued involvement after launch distinguishes a website engagement from a one-time design handoff.
The Central Alabama Water website project involved more than a new visual design. Infomedia reorganized customer information and access to pricing, issue reporting and FAQs, then managed technical continuity during a name, logo and domain change. The case explains how billing access, important links and public resources were preserved.
A separate testimonial from Brasfield & Gorrie on Infomedia’s site praises the corporate-site design process, guidance and ongoing support. It is attributed to the company rather than a named individual. Both examples support the agency’s emphasis on the work that continues after launch.
14. CCG
CCG blends consulting and marketing through an evaluate, understand, grow, and evolve process. Its site specifically addresses fragmented systems, sales-and-marketing alignment, customer retention, B2B marketing, and Medicare Advantage marketing.
Its VIVA Medicare annual-enrollment campaign focused on an Alabama plan competing with larger national carriers. CCG used predictive analytics to identify likely prospects, developed creative around the local plan’s benefits and adjusted the channel mix throughout the campaign. The published case reports a 312% year-over-year increase in digital leads.
The case also contains feedback attributed to VIVA Medicare: the client describes CCG shadowing its sales and service teams to understand the business. That detail is particularly useful for a regulated or complex service company whose marketing team needs to learn how customer decisions actually happen.
15. FRED
FRED’s portfolio is especially useful for place-based work. Examples include Parkside with REV Birmingham, Pepper Place with Sloss Real Estate, The Lyric with Birmingham Landmarks, and The DENHAM Building with Third & Urban.
The Parkside project shows that approach in detail. FRED developed an identity based on converging urban trails, connecting the district’s parks, ballpark, breweries and homes through a visual language intended to encourage exploration. Its website positioned Parkside as a walkable starting point for downtown Birmingham.
The portfolio includes identity and website examples that can be reviewed directly. For a developer or district organization, the relevant capability is making several destinations feel like one coherent place, while leaving each attraction recognizable.
16. Adam Black Media
Adam Black Media serves medical practices, local businesses, legal practices, home services, and nonprofits. Its capabilities include custom websites, social management and ads, paid search, photography, branding, print, video editing, and email.
Its customer testimonials identify practical local assignments. LeeAnne and Michael Erwin, owners of Crystal Clear Plus, describe a straightforward website-creation process. Scott Walker, owner of Nichols Nook Coffee Shop, says the team took time to understand his story before creating the brand and website.
ErgoScience owner Deborah Lechner separately describes a website project delivered on time, with the team listening to ideas and guiding the design and navigation. These are attributed client accounts of delivery and communication, giving a small-business buyer more useful context than a broad promise of growth.
17. Uptick Marketing
Uptick offers digital advertising, SEO and content marketing from Birmingham. Its current service model allows clients to combine individual services rather than select a fixed package, making it relevant to organizations that need to build a program in stages.
The same page includes a detailed account from Avanti Polar Lipids describing work across PPC, SEO, social media and blog content. The Avanti team praises Uptick’s ability to explain technical concepts and learn the business. A separate testimonial from Newcastle Homes discusses SEO and website support, while ProcessBarron describes a plan built around its available budget and industrial audiences.
These published customer accounts show the range of ongoing work beyond a single campaign. Uptick attributes these statements to the client organizations.
18. Markstein
Markstein combines branding, communications, digital experiences and workforce marketing. That last discipline gives it a distinct place in a Birmingham shortlist for employers, industry groups and organizations competing for talent.
Its National Tank Truck Carriers campaign began with research and interviews with drivers. “See Yourself in a Tank Truck” brought the findings into a careers microsite, an interactive opportunity map, advertising, member materials and truck wraps. Markstein says the six-month pilot following its 2023 launch generated 170,327 new website users and 5,124 leads. The case measures inquiries, not confirmed hires.
For a separate local customer view, Markstein publishes feedback from Dr. Olivia J. Howell of Good Jobs Birmingham, who praises the team’s responsiveness, creativity and attention to detail. The combination of recruitment work and communications experience is particularly relevant when the business problem concerns people as much as customers.
19. Peritus Public Relations
Peritus focuses on strategic communications, public affairs, crisis and reputation work, media storytelling and training. It is a specialist option when an organization needs to explain a sensitive issue, build public understanding or prepare its leaders for scrutiny.
Its Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau case documents work around the city’s 60th anniversary civil-rights commemoration in 2023. Peritus coordinated with local civil-rights foot soldiers and the CVB, brought national journalists to Birmingham and developed an itinerary around historic sites and the anniversary event at 16th Street Baptist Church.
The case identifies coverage in outlets including ELLE, CNN, The New York Times and NPR, and reports first place in the PRGN media-relations category. The case includes examples of the resulting coverage. Its separate Milo’s Civics campaign shows how the agency also connects local community activity with a consumer brand launch.
Explore Peritus Public Relations.
Find the right Birmingham partner
A local launch, a national media program and a website rebuild call for different experience. The examples above let you compare what each agency actually delivered, including the campaign’s audience, creative, channels and reported outcomes. Match that work to your assignment, then compare the team and scope proposed for your account.
For a website-led brief, review our web design and development capabilities. For an integrated marketing assignment, bring the current website, channel results, and sales process to an initial strategy conversation.
Anderson Collaborative publishes this guide; Nativz is its sister agency.
Frequently asked questions
How should I shortlist Birmingham marketing agencies?
Choose agencies whose recent work resembles your assignment. Compare the proposed team, deliverables, reporting, and local access. A brand launch, a website rebuild, and an ongoing lead-generation program need different capabilities.
What do marketing agencies in Birmingham charge?
Fees depend on the scope, staffing, production, media budget, and engagement length. Ask each finalist to separate agency fees, creative production, software, and media spend, then compare the same deliverables and approval assumptions.
Should I hire a full-service agency or a specialist?
Choose a specialist when one defined problem, such as a website rebuild, brand identity, public relations, or paid search, is holding you back. Choose a full-service agency when several channels must share one strategy, budget, creative system, and measurement plan.
Do Birmingham agencies work with clients outside Alabama?
They can. Digital advertising, SEO, development, branding, content, and public relations can span markets. Ask how the proposed team handles local research, production travel, meetings, and reporting outside Alabama.
What does a Birmingham SEO agency actually do?
An SEO scope can include technical improvements, useful content, local listings, and measurement of organic traffic and inquiries. Separate Birmingham-area lead generation from national organic growth, and ask which work is included in the proposal.
Do I need to hire a local Birmingham agency?
Not always. Local access helps with on-site production, community knowledge, and Alabama media relationships. For work delivered remotely, relevant capability, clear ownership, and accountable reporting may matter more than the agency’s ZIP code.