Engine Room
 
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THE WORKING CLASS OF ADVERTISING

HEADS THAT CRACK IDEAS AND HANDS THAT SHAPE THEM.

We’re a team of craftspeople in love with the engineering behind great ideas. We’re compelled to create. So we built our own studio for creativity. Because advertising is our business but the business of advertising has lost its way. Unwieldy and unfocused. Suffering an identity crisis and asking clients to pay for it. This is driving a wedge where there should be collaboration. So we offer the alternative - Rolling up our sleeves and getting to work. With you.

 
 
 
 
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Here’s what we do

Branding • Film & Content development • Production • Design & Photography • Experiential • PR & Earned Media • Print & OOH • Social • Mobile • Direct & CRM Assets

 

Our POINT OF VIEW

Let’s cut to the chase. SUCCESSFUL brands do this:

 

FRAME

‘Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you: the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends’ - George Lakoff, American Cognitive Linguist. He’s right.

ADAPT

Inflexibility only strengthens your competition and turns minds against you. Every audience is owed its own words. Carry a wrench and use it on your message.

Provoke

Emotion triggers memory and that’s the only absolute truth in marketing. Above every trend and accompanying jargon is simple human psychology.
Use it.

 
 

 
 

OUR PROCESS

SUCCESSFUL IDEAS ARE BORN IN AN ENGINE ROOM

We create open collaboration platforms, or rooms, for every idea -  workspaces that are critical in developing ideas that frame, adapt and provoke. We believe that success is achieved when good partners talk. And talk often.

So we give our clients a forum alongside our ideas where we can discuss the work, make comments and provide faster responses. This means, unlike traditional agency back-and-forth, we don’t just present ideas and hand them off. We invite our clients into the process and under the hood.

 
 
 
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ABOUT US

IMAGINATION ISn’T A FINITE RESOURCE.
It’s CURRENCY that we creatives ARE DYING TO SPEND.

 

We’re on it. Call it passion or agility or mania, but we have energy to spare. Because, we love what we do. We’ve made Super Bowl ads. We’ve earned our Cannes Lions and One Show Pencils and Clios and Webbys and ADC Tomorrow Awards over years of experience. But none of that matters if we don’t move the bar for our clients. We’d like to think we have.

 
 
 
 
 
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EXPERIENCE

There wouldn’t be an Engine Room without
the clients that helped us get here:

 

Find a more in-depth look into our category experience here.

 

PROJECT FROM OUR PAST

FILM: JEEP ‘ANTI-MANIFESTO’ CREATED FOR SUPER BOWL LII

Talk with us

We’re located just outside New York City in Montclair, NJ.

For new business enquiries: make@engineroom.studio

General information: info@engineroom.studio