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Introducing the Life Share Index
Uncovering audience insights to drive your business forward
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A&G Third Space Studios
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Frequently Asked Questions
Founded in 1985, Allen & Gerritsen (also known as A&G) is an award-winning, integrated advertising agency.
We have two third spaces located.
- Boston: 125 High Street, Boston, MA 02110 – (857) 300-2000
- Philadelphia: 111 South Independence Mall East, Philadelphia, PA 19106 – (215) 667-8719
Anchored across the Northeast corridor, with a dedicated presence in New York City, Washington, D.C., and broader New England.
A&G exists to help Brands Be Unignorable. We have a common enemy with each of our clients and that’s being insignificant as a brand – – investing precious dollars in campaigns that people scroll past without a second thought. We harness creativity to break legacy or ineffective patterns in how brands are showing up, identifying the dramatic shifts we can make to force a brand’s audiences to look at them in a different light. The types of shifts that shake markets and supercharge growth.
Our sweet spot is helping middle-market challenger brands and marketing leaders navigate unprecedented change and complexity. Our capabilities are the macro challenges we’re solving for them:
- Inspiring Brand Evolution: Helping brands catch up to the speed of business growth and innovation. We create white space through a true audience centric approach to the marketing ecosystem to unlock brand driven growth.
- Driving Leapfrog brand growth: We work with brands to think expansive, not incremental, Get real about where to thrive vs. survive. Set a bold growth standard by aligning on marketing outcomes.
- Maximizing Marketing Investment Strategies: We help brands evolve their go-to-market strategies, providing the formula for where and how to show up in an increasingly fragmented world. Demonstrating business value all along the way, by both forecasting and proving return on marketing investment.
We bring together the best of Creative & Design, Strategic Media & Brand Investment, Public Relations & Creator Relations and Brand Experiences
- Creative & Design We are limit-pushers. Rule-benders. Detail-obsessed makers. At A&G we channel curiosity, stitch mediums together, and turn “can’t” into “watch this.” Big, integrated ideas are our default setting but we love the small and nimble just as much & unignorable is always the brief. If it doesn’t move people, spark change, or raise pulses, we’re not done.
- Brand Strategy & Audience Intelligence
- Brand Platform Development
- Advertising Campaign Development
- Brand Identity & Naming
- Design Systems
- Video & Animation
- Content Production
- Campaign Activation
- Photography
- Print Production A
- Strategic Media Planning & Buying (Paid Media): Built on Creativity. Proven by Data. Most media is planned for efficiency. At A&G we plan for impact. We combine the soul of a creative agency with the precision of a data and intelligence powerhouse to ensure your brand doesn’t just reach your audiences, it builds bonds with them. Because that’s what drives better outcomes now and in the future.
- Quantitative & Qualitative Research
- Investment Strategy
- Go To Market & Communications Strategy
- Media Planning & Buying
- SEO
- AEO
- Measurement & Data Strategy
- Performance Optimization
- Predictive Analytics
- Public Relations (PR) & Creator Relations (Earned Media): A&G’s award-winning PR team moves at the speed of culture because we live, study, and lead it. We understand where it’s heading, what’s about to matter, and how to put your brand authentically in the middle of the conversation.
- Media Relations
- Social Media
- Influencer Marketing
- Creator Relations
- Experiential & Event Marketing
- Thought Leadership
- Executive Branding
- Crisis Communications
- GEO
- Brand Analytics and Marketing Investment Advisory
Get the most from every dollar. The way brands plan their marketing budgets is undergoing a significant shift, with outcomes as both the first and also most important input for planning. What was previously positioned as an “expenditure” can now be more accurately described as an “investment” in growth.- Reshape how marketing investment was planned and budgeted to better align with internal business line goals
- Bring a data-driven, expertise-led case to executive leadership to decide on future product investment decisions
- Quantitatively demonstrate opportunity-loss driven by failure points within the marketing ecosystem
- Uncover high-growth opportunities with multiple pathways to success that match operational & resource constraints
- Remove barriers to acquisition growth based on outcomes scenarios of what could have been
- More confidently invest in marketing knowing the balance of long-term brand investment needs vs. short-term acquisition targets
- Outcomes over Outputs: We use predictive analytics to make smarter, braver brand and marketing decisions. We diagnose before we prescribe, uncovering what truly moves people using behavioral science. And we outthink, not outspend, ensuring every dollar drives real impact.
- Share of Life over Share Of Mind: Brand growth doesn’t come from treating everyone the same or trying to make every customer fall in love with you. It comes from knowing exactly where a relationship is starting, and where you actually have the permission to take it. A&G’s proprietary LifeShare Index determines the intensity of people’s bonds with a brand. Strong bonds result in sales growth, premium pricing, and increased customer lifetime value.
- Audience Obsessed over Audience Immersed: We know it’s not enough to simply listen to our audiences, we have to put ourselves in their shoes. Absolute audience obsession. Every person working on a client’s business at A&G comes from a place of deep understanding of their audiences. That’s the secret sauce in how we help brands Be Unignorable. And it’s the foundation for finding the white space marketing opportunities that drive growth and share of life.
- Accountable over Reliable: In client and agency partnerships, reliable is table stakes. Accountability is what drives partnership longevity and success. We make accountability tangible through a proprietary partnership survey experience that we ask our clients to take twice a year. Our survey measures A&G performance against a number of different dimensions essential to a high value partnership. This constant focus on ensuring our teams feel accountable to partnership success is what drives year over year NPS scores in the “excellent” range. And an average client tenure of 7+ years.
- Value over Time: We do not operate within a time based/cost plus model because we believe hourly billing creates a fundamental misalignment with clients, essentially punishing efficiency and rewarding inefficiency. The value of what we deliver for our clients is not based on time spent, it’s based on whether or not our clients receive the promised work and outcomes they’ve desired. We do not track employee time through a time sheets based system nor do we have billable rates by position or production rate cards. Our compensation approach is rooted in providing a fair, fixed fee price for agreed upon outputs that we mutually determine with our clients.
Brands don’t become unignorable by demanding attention. They become unignorable by becoming indispensable. We don’t chase vague notions of love, loyalty and trust. We build bonds; meaningful relationships between brands and people that take deliberate effort to create, continuous effort to sustain, data to measure and active care to protect. Our process is built around four essential jobs:
- Diagnosing the bond: We start by understanding the current state of the relationship between a brand and its audience. Where is the bond strong? Where is it weak? Where is it broken? And what is preventing it from becoming more meaningful?
- Creating the catalyst: We find the idea capable of changing it. The Unignorable Idea is a catalyst that creates a new kind of relationship between the brand and its audience—a provocative POV, compelling truth or distinctive expression that makes the brand matter in a new way.
- Deliberately building it: A bond isn’t built through a single interaction. It’s built through a series of intentional experiences that make the brand increasingly valuable in people’s lives. Our Go to market plan determines where, when and how the brand should show up to capture LifeShare; A&G’s measure of the strength of your bond.
- Continuously protecting it: Bonds are living things. Audiences change. Culture moves. Expectations evolve. Even strong relationships can weaken. So we don’t walk away when the campaign launches. We continuously monitor the health of the Bond with our LifeShare IndexTM; using data and real-world signals to understand what’s working, what’s changing and where the relationship needs attention.
Brands are measured on data, but they are built on intimacy. Traditional tracking studies are a rearview mirror that don’t predict future behavior or performance.
A&G’s proprietary Life Share Index replaces standard tracking by determining the intensity of people’s bonds with a brand to protect tomorrow’s margins. Strong bonds result in sales growth, premium pricing, and increased customer lifetime value. This is not a “soft” marketing tactic but a high-yield financial strategy.
Our research shows an uncomfortable truth: rarely do more than 25% of customers feel a genuine bond with a brand. Many high-spenders aren’t actually loyal; they are “hostages” who stay simply because it is currently inconvenient to leave. When a better alternative arrives, they’re gone. But, customers with deeper bonds will weather price changes and forgive mistakes. Treating both groups the same wastes resources and does more to alienate, not ingratiate.
The Bottom Line – – Brand growth doesn’t come from treating everyone the same or trying to make every customer fall in love with you. It comes from knowing exactly where a relationship is starting, and where you actually have the commercial permission to take it. We want to help you understand: Which customers are actually secure…and which ones are already halfway out the door.
When you understand the intensity of your customer relationships, you don’t just optimize campaigns. You protect revenue. You prevent churn. You make smarter bets. You stop reacting, and start seeing what’s coming next.
At A&G we uncover what truly moves people. To influence change and drive meaningful impact, marketers must go deep to uncover the underlying drivers of perceptions and decision-making.
Our research blends behavioral science, creative design and practical business insight, resulting in an output that is insightful and actionable (no endless, dry reports found here). The team is a blend of behavioral scientists, psychologists, and analysts, working side-by-side with strategists, creatives and media experts. This unconventional collaboration enables us to immediately connect insights to practical real world opportunities that will make your brand unignorable to the people you want to engage.
Yes, A&G Third Space Studios is our full service production offering fueled by collaboration and creativity. Shortening the distance between concept and creation, our adaptive model assembles the most efficient team for each project, providing custom solutions across a wide spectrum of production needs:
- Pre-Production, Production & Post-Production
- Corporate Films & Videos
- Brand & Sizzle Videos for Trade Shows & Corporate Events
- 2D Animated Videos
- 3D Motion Graphics
- Interactive Media
- Point-of-Purchase Display Videos
- Product Demonstration Videos
- Digital & Social Media Videos
- Presentation & Speaker Support Videos
- Animated Logo & Graphic Design
- Photography & Photo Libraries
- AI generated content
- Podcasting, Voice Over and Online Audio
We work with a wide range of industries that are united in their brand aspiration: Growth. A&G is built for marketers who refuse to let their brands become invisible in an automated world and who demand that their marketing investment works as an economic multiplier.
- Health & Wellness
- Direct to Consumer
- Financial Services
- Retail Food & Beverage
- Tourism, Attraction, and Destination Marketing
- Higher Education
- Manufacturing
- Science & Sustainability
- Energy
- Social Impact Foundations & Organizations
At A&G, we’re all about creating a sense of community, one that’s rooted in a welcoming spirit and built on the brilliance of our differences. We’re proud to be an eclectic mix of people, perspectives, and lived experiences. It’s that mix that sparks our best ideas and fuels the kind of collaboration that makes us unignorable. We’re not just building a team. We’re building a safe, inclusive space where everyone has access to thrive. A&G has been awarded twice by AdAge as the #1 place to work in Media and Advertising.
Our Leadership
Andrew Graff
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer
Monica Lorusso
EVP, Strategy
EVP, Strategy
Jennifer Putnam
Chief Creative Officer
Chief Creative Officer
Darshan Sampathu
EVP, Media & Analytics
EVP, Media & Analytics
Mike Raetsch
Managing Director
Managing Director
Kevin Sweeney
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Eva Wasko
SVP, Public Relations
SVP, Public Relations
Cherie Johnson
SVP, Media
SVP, Media
Janet Freed
SVP, Talent & Operations
SVP, Talent & Operations
Kevin Olivieri
Chief Technology Operations Officer
Chief Technology Operations Officer
Paul Costello
EVP, Marketing
EVP, Marketing