Hub Strategy is an independent advertising agency

Advertising agency

An advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients. An ad agency is independent from the client and provides an outside point of view to the effort of selling the client's products or services...

 in San Francisco. Founded in 2002, it specializes in integrated marketing that builds brands fast. The agency employs a full-time staff of 17, and up to 100 freelance contractors at any given time. By hiring independent contractors, Hub is able to pair its clients and creative staff on an “ideal-for-project” basis.

Hub is best known for its work for Slingbox

Slingbox

The Slingbox is a TV streaming media device made by Sling Media that encodes video into the VC-1 format for transmission over the Internet and provides an infrared blaster. The video encoding and IR blaster can both be operated remotely over the Internet...

, which won Gold in the 2009 Graphis Inc. Advertising Annual. It has also achieved notoriety for the Nike 6.0 Ill Mobile vehicle, which has been recognized by Communication Arts

Communication Arts

Communication Arts is the largest international trade journal of visual communications. Founded in 1959 by Richard Coyne and Robert Blanchard, the magazine’s coverage includes graphic design, advertising, photography, illustration and interactive media. The magazine continues to be edited and...

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Clients

• Nike, Inc.
  Nike, Inc.
  Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
  
  
• Sling Media
  Sling Media
  Sling Media Inc. specializes in audio and video placeshifting technology. The company is a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation and is based in San Mateo, California...
  
  
• MacGregor Golf
  MacGregor Golf
  MacGregor Golf is a sports equipment company based in Albany, Georgia which specializes in golf, producing a full range of golf clubs, accessories and clothing....
  
  
• Sega
  Sega
  , usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...
  
  
• ShopStyle
• Clear Channel
  Clear channel
  A clear-channel station is an AM band Radio station in North America that has the highest protection from interference from other stations, particularly concerning night-time skywave propagation. Usually known as class A stations since 1982, they are occasionally still referred to by their former...
  
  
• Colorado Crush
  Colorado Crush
  Colorado Crush were an Arena Football League team that began play as a 2003 expansion team. The Crush played in the Central Division of the American Conference until the Arena Football League suspended operations in 2009...
  
  
• SIDI Cycling Shoes
• Expression College
• Namco
  Namco
  is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006. Namco Ltd. was re-established to continue domestic operation of...
  
  
• Konami
  Konami
  is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...
  
  
• Lombardi Sports
• KCBS (AM)
  KCBS (AM)
  KCBS is an all-news radio station in San Francisco, California, that is a key West Coast flagship radio station of the CBS Radio Network and Westwood One. Its transmitter is located in Novato, California. KCBS currently has studios on Battery Street, where it shares the location with co-owned KPIX...
  
  

External links

• Hub Strategy
• Funny videos from Hub Strategy

See also

• Hub on AdverBox Advertising Blog (Nike - ILL Mobile)