WE ARE HATCH.
AND WE ARE A CREATIVE BRANDING AGENCY.

 

CREATIVITY WORKS:
AGREE, OR
SUPER AGREE?

If you believe in the value of creativity, you’re speaking our language. Because creativity isn’t daring or courageous these days — it’s just plain smart. It’s what separates the noticed from the unnoticed; the engaged-with from the scrolled-past-and-forgotten.

But creativity isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. That’s why HATCH The Agency’s model is more creative and less, well, agency-y.

We provide flexible, accessible creative solutions to your branding, advertising, and marketing problems. Read on to see the three ways we do it.

JUMP AHEAD AND SEE THE WORK

We don’t mind — the rest of this page will be here when you get back.

Quicken
The Greater Boston Food Bank

Three ways we deliver creativity for brands:

NO. 1

PROJECT

You need a video or an ad campaign or a brand strategy or a whole new brand. You don’t have time to waste, interest in dealing with layers, or the desire to commit to an AOR relationship.

We’ll accelerate your project with a fast, flexible process that brings you in early and often so we can learn what’s working and what’s not, adapt, and create effective, memorable work.

Some projects we crush:

  • Branding: brand strategy, rebrands, talent & DEI brands, naming, messaging
  • Advertising: integrated campaigns, broadcast/video, digital, social
  • Design: brand identity, logo design, digital design

NO. 2

SUBSCRIPTION

Brands and agencies used to plan out the whole year ahead then sign an ironclad scope detailing everything the agency would (and wouldn’t) do and how much it would cost (very much). In fact, some agencies still work that way. Not us.

Our Subscription is a low-cost, low-commitment partnership for modern brands. It gives you ongoing access to a dedicated agency team and essential creative services at a monthly price that won’t bust your budget. And it comes in different sizes to flex to your evolving needs.

What you get with a HATCH subscription:

  • Creative asset production
  • Strategic & creative ideation
  • A go-to account executive to answer your questions
  • A sounding board or second opinion when you need it
  • Better sleep at night (no weighted blanket needed)

NO. 3

TALENT

Maybe what you needed isn’t a creative agency — it’s a creative human. Our deep agency and brand-side experience has given us keen instincts for who will thrive in a specific role and taught us that, whether it’s a fulltime hire or a key freelancer, having the right talent in the right place at the right time makes creative magic happen.

Through bespoke talent acquisition and placement services, we help you handle your most critical hiring challenges in marketing, advertising, and communications roles.

We can find you a top-tier:

  • Creative Director/ECD/CCO
  • Copywriter
  • Art Director
  • Designer
  • Videographer/Editor
  • Social Media Manager
  • Strategist
  • Account Director/Manager
  • Producer
  • Project Manager
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Brand Manager
  • PR Executive
  • Director of Operations
Our partners in creativity
PEM
• BRAND STRATEGY • ADVERTISING • DIGITAL •
MountainOne
• BRAND STRATEGY • ADVERTISING • DIGITAL •
• EXPERIENCES • COMMS PLANNING • SOCIAL •
Nantucket Historical Association
• BRAND AUDIT •
UMass Boston
• BRAND AUDIT •
Quicken
• ADVERTISING •
HP Hood
• ADVERTISING • DIGITAL •
Babson
• BRAND STRATEGY • CONTENT •
Roxbury Community College
• CONTENT •
Blue Cross Blue Shield
• BRAND STRATEGY • CONTENT •
• DESIGN • EXPERIENCES • COMMS PLANNING •
Boston Medical Center
• CONTENT • EXPERIENCES •
Diameter Health
• BRAND STRATEGY • DESIGN • DIGITAL •
Gray
• BRAND STRATEGY • CONTENT • DESIGN •
CIC
• SOCIAL • VIDEO •
• DIGITAL • RADIO •
RAPID7
• ADVERTISING • CONTENT •
• DESIGN • SOCIAL •
Wellington Management
• BRAND STRATEGY • CONTENT •
• DESIGN • SOCIAL •
Northeastern University
• ADVERTISING • CONTENT •
• DESIGN • SOCIAL •

WHEN TO THINK OF US

1

you need a
lead agency

2

Your current
agency is up
against the wall

3

You’ve got a
project with
huge potential

4

You need
creative firepower
without the RFP

5

You need a
ringer for your
marketing team

6

You just want
to get a
second opinion

IN THE WORLD

How we show up

Whether it’s supporting the rising generation of artists and designers, adding our ideas to industry-shaping conversations or making new connections in the community, we’re energized and inspired by putting ourselves out there.

Mo the MountainOne Spokesgoat’s storybook won a 2024 American Bankers Association Brand Slam Award for best video campaign! Learn more about the campaign and why a bank made a storybook.

At a pivotal moment for marketers, HATCH brought together leading CMOs across industries to get their takes on brand vs. performance, keeping a seat at the leadership table and more. Read the white paper.

In an era when brands can be called out by consumers at any sign of inauthenticity, the strongest brands live by a single truth in everything they do.
How do you find your brand’s Living Truth?
Read about our tried-and-true process here.

MountainOne served at the Service Industry Advertising Awards, winning six golds including Best Integrated Marketing Campaign. High fives and hoof bumps to all the winners, which you can check out here.

Two of our recent cause-related projects were honored with silver bowls at the Ad Club of Boston’s Hatch Awards, New England’s biggest creative awards show. Check out our winning work here.

Our work for MountainOne and Hood won at the Gail Awards, a new national awards show where 100% of proceeds support women’s rights. Learn more and see the winners here.

We’re excited to sponsor the RAW Art Works BASH 2023! RAW offers a variety of free programming rooted in art therapy for kids. Learn more about this RAW-some fundraiser.

HATCH is proud to once again sponsor the MassArt Auction, the largest fundraiser for the nation’s only independent public college of art and design. Learn about the event. 

For the holiday season, we dreamed up CD on the Tree, a creative director for the holidays (move over, Elf). Adweek picked it as one of the best agency holiday cards of 2022.

CBS Boston covered the Helping Menu, our campaign that lets restaurant diners add charity items to their orders to benefit the Greater Boston Food Bank. Watch the clip.

The Helping Menu, our campaign to help the Greater Boston Food Bank raise funds for Hunger Awareness Month, was featured by Ads of the World. See all the tasty work.

Laura Mastroianni joined the team as Director of Talent, adding a nationally known recruiter to our full-service creative placement agency, HATCH Talent. Learn about Laura.

Our work for Boston Medical Center won silver and bronze bowls at the Ad Club of Boston Hatch Awards (no relation!). Check out the award-winning project.

The Drum named our spot for Hood Cottage Cheese one of its top three U.S. ads of the month, calling it “a lot of fun.” See what else they had to say in the article.

Before your brand leaps into redesigning your logo, there are a few things you need to figure out. Set yourself up for a successful logo design process with the tips in our white paper. Read it here.

For Child Abuse Awareness Month, we helped the Granite State Children’s Alliance show the lifelong impact child abuse can have on a victim. And that intervention can provide the healing they need. See more here. 

Dorothy Urlich joined as President of HATCH Talent, our new, full-service recruiting and placement arm that connects brands with the creative talent they need.
Read more.

For many years, HATCH has been proud to sponsor Horizons for Homeless Children’s Annual Women’s Breakfast. Learn more about the event here.

The Boston Globe covered the HATCH team’s return to the office — an office that looks a lot more colorful than ever before thanks to a new art installation. Read the article.

For Boston Medical Center’s 25th anniversary, we partnered with artist Cedric “Vise1” Douglas to create a meaningful new mural in the community. Watch the Boston 25 News story.

Jen Harrington was a guest on the Gray, Gray & Gray Strategic Thinking podcast, discussing how to align branding with business strategy. Listen at gggllp.com/podcasts.

Our work for MountainOne won big at the New England Financial Marketing Association 2021 Awards, including best rebrand, video and overall campaign.

Our fearless founder Jen won the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s 2021 Pinnacle Award for entrepreneurship. It’s Boston’s premier event for women in business.

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