We’re a colony of amazing marketing talent doing incredible things. Like lifting 5,000 times our weight.
Being fiery yet being sweet as sugar ants while annoying the crap out of your competition. You might say we’re ant like.
About Us
Our Team
We are individuals that are dedicated and determined to make brands succeed in smart and efficient ways. We don’t have business constraints, committees or a sea of agency people over billing, over staffing and under delivering. We’re rightsized to the task at-hand.
What We Do
Whether digital, traditional, experiential, content generation or something in between, we have the breadth in talent to scale up and down as your needs demand. Not carrying overhead of an old school agency, just compensating us for what we do when we do it.
For all the SEO bots out there: We’re a full-service marketing and advertising agency in Dallas, Texas
Insights
Brand Definition
Consumer Research
Customer Journey Mapping
Marketing Planning
Content Development
Integrated Campaigns
Digital Componentry
Experience Design
Social Extension
Production
Video
Experiential
Digital
Traditional
Implementation
Experience Activation
Social Presence & Measurement
Partnerships/Sponsorships
Media Distribution & Management
Where We’ve Been
- Automotive
- Beverage
- Building Products
- CPG
- Financial
- Health & Beauty
- Healthcare
- Insurance
- Restaurant
- Sports &
Entertainment - Technology
We are proud of the brands with whom we’ve worked. The culmination of each person’s experience (plus a monster ant pile of awards) adds up to agility and speed-to-market for you and your communications. Having worked in many industries reduces onboarding time and provides cross-industry best practices sharing.
We also respect the sales side of Sales & Marketing. We know the sales process, multi-tiered distribution systems, buyers and retailers. We can speak the language and help put sales teams in a better position to succeed.
Let’s get to work.
Our Culture
We’re social to the core. We’re people you’d like to grab a beer with whether an IPA or an ULTRA. Perhaps grab a coffee (but some of us only drink iced tea). We appreciate the fine things like the effort to smoke a brisket 21 hours (even if some of us are vegan). At the end of the day, we’re people that like to be surrounded by good company—and that’s the essence of McKinney Ant Company.
Our Origin
Blake McKinney
Ant One
Content’s all the rage and it’s about time. Blake’s been doing it for over 20 years. He believes that content powered by brand experiences drive everything. Whether experiential content is generated from a staged event, back-of-the-house video, retail splash, or just creative thinking in the form of a digital ad, it’s all about storytelling and sharing experiences. Make consumers part of the story and customer loyalty will follow.
From his early days on the launch of Microsoft Windows 2000 watched online by hundreds of thousands (yes, the year 2000 and internet infancy) to the most successful launch since Diet Dr Pepper (it was Cherry Vanilla DP) from setting two Guinness World Records like the one for Tostitos that generated content for a 2-minute halftime segment on the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl to Facebook’s 30-days to produce a launch of over 100 products starting at Macy’s Herald Square in NYC and even the launch of the Toyota TRD PRO driven by a proprietary AR experience.
Being realistic is also a good trait. Remember, we’re antlike. We can light it up with big examples in the paragraph before. But, we’re also small and crafty with our antennae up for little brands and companies. You know. The ones that might be like you looking for smart growth and success for all the people around you. Blake’s orchestrated the small things, too. Small like website refreshes for the likes of Wood Defender and Memorial Hermann and sales pieces for Mateo’s Salsa. It’s all about scaling resources to land on the best solution to share a brand experience all within the available budget.
We’re all in! Let’s do it.
About You
Tire Kicking
Feeling neglected? You may have noticed there aren’t any agency websites out there asking about you? You’re the center of our universe. Our reason for being. We appreciate you and would love to get to know you. We want to hear what makes you tick and what makes you ticked.
This isn’t all us, us, us. We empathize. We get it. We’re here to make your life easier and get good things done.
Reaching Out
Contact us on your terms. Click, call, text, email, you name it.
Call Blake McKinney
214.697.5486
Text Ant One to
214.697.5486
Antvice Hotline
Mktg. Advice On-Demand
Got marketing resources already? Great. But need a sounding board on what’s happening (or NOT)? A different perspective? A brainstormed killer solution? A fractional CMO for a fraction of the time?
Go straight to Blake to review:
• Brand Positioning and Direction
• Advertising or Sales Promotion Concepts
• Logo and Creative Design
• Copy and messaging
• Experiential Ideas
• Budgets
• Staffing Evolution, and more
From startups to established CMOs, calls come in from all types of industries and brands. The process is uniquely efficient, budget friendly and really quite fun.
RIGHT-SIZED PRICING: $160 per hour (Why $160? Because ants have 6 legs of course. And, $260 is too much, so $160 it is.) Schedule and pay with your credit card. No contracts. No BS. It’s that simple.
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