Kyle started Blakely + Company, a full-service ad agency, in late summer, 2001, a week before 9/11. Not the best time to start a company, but the agency endured and has grown from the three original partners to 13 employees today.
During the economic downturn that fall, we were fortunate to find clients who understood that often the best time to increase market share is when many others have stopped advertising. With less noise and competition, many clients’ increased their share of voice and made significant gains in market share.
As our business has grown, we’ve had the privilege of working with a wide variety of interesting clients of all sizes. We don’t specialize in just one industry, we have considerable experience in a variety of areas and feel that diversity of knowledge and experience is an advantage when it comes to developing strategic marketing plans for clients.
The planning process is very similar, regardless of the business or industry — What are trying to accomplish? Who are you trying to reach? What do they need to know to make a decision? And what resources are you committing to marketing? Answering these questions in detail is what gives the plan direction.
Many clients use all of our services, many use a select number of services, and some call us for projects when they need us. We have clients who range from a one-person operations to corporations with several hundred employees. We work as full-service partners, liaisons to marketing departments, strategic business consultants, and have even played the role of in-house marketing department. Given our decades’ worth of experience, we are a versatile and flexible advertising agency – able to work with whatever structure works best for our clients.
Awards & Recognition keyboard_arrow_rightWe’d like to thank the Academy
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American Advertising Federation
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UCCS Viewbook
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2017
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2017
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2017
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Emergicare Medical Clinic Recruitment Video
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2017
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American Advertising Federation
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Catalyst Campus for Innovation & Technology Campus Video
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2016
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American Advertising Federation
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Colorado Springs Utilities Water Quality Report
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2016
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American Advertising Federation
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Major League Baseball Player Alumni Mailer Series
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2016
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American Advertising Federation
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2016
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American Advertising Federation
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UCCS Excel Center Retention Campaign
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2016
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American Advertising Federation
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Boecore, Inc. Website
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2016
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American Advertising Federation
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Academy School District 20 Yes for D20 Kids Campaign
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2016
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Colorado College Athletics Hockey Campaign
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2016
We started Blakely + Company because we saw the need for a different kind of ad agency – one that partnered with its clients to help them rise above the daily minutia to see the big picture more clearly.
Kyle Blakely
CEO