Promotion Marketing

What Promotion Marketing does

Promotion Marketing, operating under the legal name Promotion-Marketing, is a privately-held full-service media and marketing services agency headquartered at 300 Broadway Suite 8 in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2009, the firm operates with a very small team of 1-10 employees and offers two principal service lines: Integrated Marketing Solutions and A la Carte Services. Its capability stack spans broadcast promotion, event promotion, media planning and placement (both online and offline), branding and creative services including trans-cultural messaging and translation, broadcast and online promotion coordination with value-added media leverage, and production supervision from concept through traffic. The firm positions itself as capable of operating either as an outsourced in-house promotion department or as a builder of such a function for clients.

The company's primary stated customer segment is media companies themselves — the firm notes, 'Our biggest accounts are the media itself' — with secondary segments including entrepreneurs and startups seeking foundational marketing support and established local-to-national businesses executing multi-market initiatives. The stated differentiator is the team's prior experience on the sales side of media, which enables favorable negotiation of paid-versus-value-added media trades and coop opportunities. Business model mechanics (pricing, contract structure, fees) are not publicly disclosed, and the firm shows no disclosed investors, no parent company, no subsidiaries, no leadership bios beyond a single point of contact (Gary), and no social media presence. The persistence of a 2009 copyright on the company website, combined with the absence of any recent press, funding, hiring, or product launch activity in the available data, indicates a low-profile, independent agency operation with no observable momentum signals.

Name

Promotion Marketing

Legal name

Promotion-Marketing

Website

https://promotion-marketing.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Promotion Marketing is a small, San Francisco-based full-service media and marketing agency offering broadcast promotion, event promotion, media planning, branding, and production supervision services primarily to media companies, entrepreneurs, and local-to-national businesses.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Marketing Services

NAICS

Advertising Agencies (54181), Media Buying Agencies (54183), Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418)

SIC

Services-Advertising (7310), Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Sales Promotion Campaign Design & Management (BPAFAMAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Experiential, Event & Sponsorship Marketing (BPAFAAAH), Media Planning, Buying & Optimization (BPAFAAAC), Sales Promotion Management (Coupons, Rebates, Sampling, Sweepstakes) (MPAAAJAE)

Keywords

• Media marketing services
• Broadcast promotion
• Media planning placement
• Event promotion services
• Integrated marketing solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Promotion Marketing is a full-service media and marketing firm that executes broadcast promotion, event promotion, and entrepreneur-based marketing initiatives for media companies, startups, and local-to-national businesses. It offers two distinct engagement models: Integrated Marketing Solutions (end-to-end campaign execution that can function as the client's outsourced in-house promotion department) and A la Carte Services (modular capabilities spanning branding and creative, media planning and placement, broadcast and online promotion coordination, and production supervision). Its largest accounts are the media itself, leveraging the team's prior sales-side experience to negotiate win-win media partnerships.

Product overview

Promotion Marketing is a full-service media and marketing services company offering two main offerings: Integrated Marketing Solutions (providing comprehensive broadcast promotion, event promotion, and entrepreneur-based marketing initiatives with in-house promotion department capabilities) and A la Carte Services (modular service offerings including Branding & Creative, Media Planning and Placement, Broadcast & On-Line Promotion Coordination, and Production Supervision). The company specializes in serving media companies and building multi-market campaigns for both established companies and startup launches.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Integrated Marketing Solutions

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Heat (advertising agency): Independent full-service advertising agency providing creative, media, and integrated marketing services. Comparable as a similarly-structured independent agency offering the same modular mix of services as Promotion Marketing.
• Mekanism: San Francisco-based independent advertising agency offering integrated creative, media, and production services. Comparable in geographic footprint, full-service model, and independent-agency positioning.
• RPA (Rubin Postaer and Associates): Independent, full-service advertising agency headquartered in Los Angeles with capabilities in creative, media planning, and broadcast promotion. Directly comparable offering across media planning, broadcast, and integrated marketing services.
• MNI Targeted Media: Media planning and buying agency focused on targeted media placements across digital, broadcast, and print channels. Directly comparable as a media planning/placement specialist with broadcast promotion expertise similar to Promotion Marketing's core offering.
• Goodway Group: Independent media services agency providing media planning, buying, and analytics. Comparable as a similarly-sized independent agency specializing in media planning and placement—the same core capability that Promotion Marketing emphasizes.
• Duncan Channon: San Francisco-based independent, full-service advertising and media agency with integrated marketing and brand-building capabilities. Directly comparable to Promotion Marketing in scope (full-service, multi-channel) and geography (Bay Area-based independent).
• Venables Bell + Partners: San Francisco-based independent creative and media agency offering brand strategy, creative, and media planning/buying services. Comparable as a similarly-sized West Coast independent agency competing for the same local-to-national client base.

Broad incumbents

• Publicis Groupe: Global communications group providing advertising, media, digital, and promotional services. Comparable at the broad industry level, particularly in media planning and broadcast promotion capabilities, though it operates as a multi-agency holding company rather than a focused independent.
• Dentsu: Global advertising and media services holding company with extensive broadcast promotion, media planning, and integrated marketing capabilities. Comparable at the service-category level, though it operates at vastly larger scale with a much broader service portfolio than Promotion Marketing.
• Omnicom Group: Global advertising holding company offering integrated advertising, media planning, and promotional services through multiple agency networks. Comparable in full-service scope, though vastly larger and serving enterprise clients Promotion Marketing cannot accommodate.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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