Impact Marketing + Communications, an Inc 5000 Company, is a full-service, integrated marketing and communications firm with a growing national and international presence. We provide a personalized and research-based approach to increase brand awareness, elevate missions, and drive ROI.
We offer marketing and communications strategy, branding, writing and editing, graphic design, web programming, social media and awareness campaigns, photography, videography, animation, research translation, formative research, technical assistance and training, and facilitation services.
We are an award-winning, certified woman-owned small business with offices in Silver Spring, Maryland/Metro, Washington DC and in the Albany, NY area. We are the recipient of numerous Hermes International Creative Awards, Muse Creative Awards, MarCom Awards, a PRNews Best Places to work in PR Award, a PRNews Digital Agency Elite Award, Clarion Award, and a Top Agency Elite 100 Award.
Media Makers was founded in 1993 by Jon Bowen. Jon loves production and design and enjoys helping people use video to deliver messages effectively. Jon grew up in Los Angeles and began his career at an early age working with his father, Al Bowen, an industry pioneer. Jon's love of production started with his first big project, the CBS Pro-Bowlers Tour in 1978. Jon co-founded Bowen Video Facilities in 1980. While working full-time, Jon got a degree in Media Management from Cal Sate Northridge in 1984. He worked on hundreds of projects providing broadcast services to network and regional TV productions - commercials for Robinson's, Sears, Stater Brothers, to name a few. Jon also worked on many music industry projects, including Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's Born in the USA Tour (receiving album credits), hundreds of sporting events including the LA Olympics for ABC, many projects for TV Ministries, and numerous corporate videos. Jon won an EMMY Award and has been nominated for another, both for work he has done for ABC. In 1990, Jon began working on more specialized projects for different entities and this led to the formation of Media Makers in 1993. Media Makers came about from a need to provide service to a few businesses and non-profit clients for select and particular video production needs. Media Makers is dedicated to helping businesses with promotion, marketing, and video production. Among many other projects, Media Makers has produced Project ALERT for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation for the past twenty years . Project ALERT is nationally acclaimed and recognized as one of a few scientifically validated programs that teach kids the dangers of using substances. The program is video-based. It has been a very satisfying project to be involved in and Jon has received many industry awards for his work in the program.
Creamarketing's strength is based on many years of expertise in web technology and online marketing. We customize everything from very advanced technical solutions to simple, fresh and easy to use websites and web applications.
For us it is most important to start from our customer needs, our guiding principles are customer service, personal contact and cooperation.