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Ad Age 2018 Small Agency of the Year

Some recent work.

NBA 2K Mobile

Mitsubishi

Everyone’s On

Blue Shield of California

Rao’s Homemade

NBA 2K19

Michael Angelo’s: It Tastes Good to Say No

The Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross

Break Out of Your Bubble

Evony: The Kings Return

PowerBar: Clean Start

MINI Super Bowl: Defy Labels

Defy Labels: Olympic Games

About us.

An independent creative company.

Fast, modern, independent and unexpected sum up our orientation and approach. We’re nimble and adaptable. We’re driven by technology and collaboration. We approach everything with innovation in mind. And we strive for the most unexpected solution to any problem.

We’re in the relationship business.

We combine smart strategy and bold creativity to create a deeper relationship between your brand and real people. Today’s consumer has no time and is spoiled for choice. Brands must be innovative, engaging, useful, entertaining and provocative in culture.

It’s only good if it works.

We’re obsessed with finding the most impactful solution to any problem. To do that, we need to be sure we’re reaching the right people in the right places at the right time. With data, analytics and comms-planning in-house, we make sure the work we make, works.

  • We're capable

  • Strategy

    We know consumers. We ensure our work stays true to them and fits within a clear brand strategy rooted in insights. We define objectives and metrics, conduct research, assess communication performance and aim to inspire creativity through collaboration.

  • Media

    We are creative, accountable, transparent and innovative. We have expertise in brand building and performance marketing. We believe our work must live in harmony with the strategic and creative idea to drive the best business results.

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  • Analytics

    We use data to inform ideas, plans and tactics rooted in a deep understanding of our clients’ definitions of success. We create testing and learning plans so we can continuously improve performance. If tools for success don’t exist, we build them. That’s why we made our own DMP, The Goods.

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  • Creative

    We use words, pictures, pixels, Photoshop, pizza, experiences, coffee, art, music, a local watering hole called Smitty’s, YouTube and whatever other tools we can find to create original work that inspires the reactions that help build brands.

  • Design

    We are experts in design, brand identity, collateral, packaging and retail experience. We strive to create work that is unforgettable and meaningful in an overcrowded and poorly kerned marketplace.

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  • Content

    We’re proud of the work we’ve produced over the years. Our full service content studio produces everything from television commercials to social. Sure, we still work with directors and production companies, but we make work here too.

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  • Engineering

    We’re all about integrated solutions. However, showcasing our engineering chops in particular can be helpful. Our digital production skills can support a campaign vision, provide proof of concept for a creative idea, or spark curiosity and digital awareness.

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We've worked with these guys.

News.

BSSP CCO, Matt Curry, on His Favorite Super Bowl Ad of All Time.

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City of Hope Names BSSP as New Agency of Record.

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Muse by Clio: Creative Ideas That Worked in 2018

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CCO Matt Curry Reviews 2018 and Provides Thoughts for The Year to Come

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BSSP Names New Managing Director, Director of Communications Planning

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NBA 2K Launches Data-Driven Campaign

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BSSP Has a New Chief Creative Officer

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Small Agency of the Year

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BSSP Is Ad Age’s Small Agency of the Year

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Sinan Dagli & BSSP Give KG Another Shot in 2K18 Ad

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17 in ’17: What It Is Like to Be 17 in 2017

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Greg Stern Appointed Vice Chair of 4A’s Board of Directors

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John Butler on Purpose

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Four Tech Trends for Brands

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How Marketers Can Help Unite America

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Maintaining Relevance In A World Disrupted

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    • Our Office

      20 Liberty Ship Way
      Sausalito, CA 94965

      T: 415.331.6049

      F: 415.887.7942

    • New Business Inquiries

      Patrick Kiss

      President

      pkiss@bssp.com

      415.339.1215

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      Dir. of Creative Services

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      Dir. of HR and Operations

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    We maintain this website to provide information about our company to clients, potential clients, partners, and anyone else interested in learning more about BSSP. The BSSP website also provides information of general interest to the advertising industry community.

    For our internal use only, we may collect and store general information about what pages you access, the date and time of your visit, the number of times you visit, the average time spent on the site, your IP address and the name of the domain from which you accessed our site, the name of the Internet address of the web site from which you directly linked to our site and other similar data about how you and our other visitors use our site. We also use cookies. The first time you visit our site, we assign you a session ID which is stored as a cookie on your computer. Cookies do not contain any personal information about you. We collect this information solely in order to learn more about the visitors to the different sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful and informative, and we will not share such information with anyone else for any reason.

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