McKinley Marketing Partners

What McKinley Marketing Partners does

McKinley Marketing Partners is a privately held, specialized marketing and creative talent staffing firm headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. Founded in 1995 and operating as a subsidiary of 24 Seven, the company focuses exclusively on connecting marketing, creative, and advertising professionals with organizations across the United States. It offers three placement modalities — contract or freelance, direct hire, and project-based engagements — and serves two primary counterparties: employers seeking marketing talent and marketing/creative professionals seeking career opportunities.

The firm's underlying technology stack is conventional for the staffing industry: a recruiter-mediated process backed by candidate databases and relationship-based sourcing, with a Bullhorn ATS integration supporting employee/contractor timesheet management. No proprietary platform, AI tooling, or differentiated technical architecture is described. Marketing and distribution are conducted through a direct sales motion and content marketing, including a blog that has been used to target vertical-specific talent pools in energy and gas, nonprofit, and financial services.

Commercially, McKinley Marketing Partners generates revenue through transaction fees on placements, structured as a percentage of the placed candidate's compensation and varying by role type and seniority. The company has been recognized multiple times by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. and is consistently acknowledged by the Washington Business Journal and the Dallas Business Journal. It operates as part of the broader 24 Seven Family of Brands, which has expanded in 2025 to include additional sibling brands, and a late-2025 website redirect to 24seventalent.com signals an ongoing brand consolidation under the parent.

Name

McKinley Marketing Partners

Legal name

McKinley Marketing Partners

Website

https://McKinleyMarketingPartners.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

McKinley Marketing Partners is a specialized US staffing firm that connects organizations with marketing and creative talent for contract, freelance, direct hire, and project-based roles. It operates as a subsidiary of 24 Seven and serves both employers and marketing professionals across the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Marketing Staffing Services

NAICS

Advertising Agencies (54181), Other Services Related to Advertising (541890)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Affiliate Marketing & Partner Networks (BPAMALAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Affiliate Marketing & Partner Program Management (MPAAACAD)

Keywords

• Marketing staffing services
• Creative talent recruitment
• Direct hire placement
• Contract marketing staffing
• Talent acquisition firm

Headquarters

HQ city

Alexandria

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Recruitment and Staffing Services: The company generates revenue by providing recruitment and staffing services to organizations seeking marketing and creative talent. They fill contract or freelance, direct hire, and project-based roles. Revenue is generated through placement fees, typically a percentage of the hired candidate's compensation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

McKinley Marketing Partners is a specialized staffing and recruitment firm that connects marketing and creative talent with organizations. The company places candidates into contract or freelance, direct hire, and project-based roles, leveraging its recruiter network and 29+ years of marketing-industry specialization to source candidates on behalf of client employers.

Product overview

McKinley Marketing Partners operates as a single unified staffing and recruitment service rather than a platform with modules. The company specializes exclusively in connecting top marketing and creative talent with leading organizations. They offer three placement types: contract or freelance roles, direct hire placements, and project-based engagements. As a subsidiary of 24 Seven, they leverage the parent company's infrastructure and network while maintaining their own specialized focus on marketing and creative recruitment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Marketing Recruitment and Staffing Services Full-service marketing and creative talent placement service for organizations, covering contract/freelance, direct hire, and project-based engagements through a dedicated team of marketing recruiters.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• 24 SevencoreOthersMcKinley Marketing Partners is a 24 Seven company, operating as part of the 24 Seven Family of Brands which includes multiple staffing and recruitment subsidiaries such as Marketers That Matter, The Sage Group, Simplicity, SketchDeck, The Cydio Group, Filter, Core Resources, Futureman, and MTP.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Aquent: A leading marketing, creative, and digital talent staffing firm. Aquent is the most direct competitor to McKinley, offering similar contract, freelance, and direct-hire placements for marketing and creative professionals across the U.S.
• Creative Circle: Specialized staffing agency for creative, marketing, and digital talent. Operates with a similar placement-modality mix (contract, freelance, direct hire) and competes head-to-head with McKinley for the same candidate and employer base.
• Vitamin T (Aquent): Aquent's temp/contract arm focused on creative and marketing talent. Directly comparable to McKinley's contract/freelance placement offering and targets the same mid-market and enterprise marketing departments.
• The Sage Group: A marketing and creative consulting/staffing firm and fellow member of the 24 Seven Family of Brands. Operates an adjacent model placing marketing talent into consulting engagements, making it a sibling and direct comparable.
• Mondo: Digital, marketing, and creative staffing agency specializing in contract and direct-hire placements. Competes with McKinley in the same marketing/creative talent pool, particularly for digital and technology-adjacent marketing roles.
• Onward Search: Specialty staffing firm for creative, digital, and marketing talent. Similar placement modalities and target client base as McKinley, with comparable focus on contract and direct-hire creative recruitment.
• MarketPro: Marketing recruitment firm placing marketing, digital, and e-commerce professionals. Directly comparable as a marketing-only specialist recruiter with a similar candidate and employer focus.

Broad incumbents

• 24 Seven Talent: Parent company of McKinley and broader creative, marketing, and digital talent staffing firm. Comparable as a larger, more diversified staffing platform operating in the same core market.
• Robert Half: Large generalist staffing and consulting firm with a dedicated marketing and creative practice. Competes with McKinley on marketing placements but operates as a much broader staffing platform across finance, technology, and administrative roles.
• Kforce: Professional staffing firm with significant marketing, creative, and digital practice. Overlaps with McKinley's marketing-talent placement services but offers a broader technology and finance staffing portfolio.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/McKinleyInc
• Facebookfacebook.com/McKinleyMarketingPartners
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/33837

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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