Mobile
Second-screen apps. Shazam!
…get out your tablet.
Customer Insights
Following the thread.
Global site launch. 13,000 man-hours. Just did it.
Social Media
Win while you lose!
Thousands of "likes" turns into lots of "love" for Jenny centres!
Innovation
Adapt
&
Respond
In design, in life, in general.
Adapt & Respond—Responsive Web Design
Being willing to change is what helps us learn new perspectives, create valuable connections and grow closer together.
Mobile
Why is mobile so popular?
Evolution of techniques for creating interactive experiences.
2012 Mobile Trends
The new age of universal content across so many platforms has forced the evolution of techniques for creating interactive experiences.
Customer Insights
Feel like new. Feel like you.
A new look for a new "Jenny."
Social Media
Social link building.
Boost traffic and improve search engine ranking with social marketing link building.
Social Marketing for Link Building
Contests, social networks and directories. Learn how to effectively gain inbound links with social marketing link building.
Innovation
The Nike Vault is open!
Everything you need to know about Nike's history.
Nike Vault
"Document, archive and share stories of inspiration and innovation."
Global access for Nike employees.
Mobile
Hanging with Isaac Mizrahi.
His QVC Fantasy Closet app: What's inside it?
Customer Insights
Get in
the rankings.
Learn how adding Google Authorship markup can lead you to a better AgentRank.
How to Use Google Authorship Markup
Enhance your search results in Google by implementing the Google Authorship markup on your blog or website and learn about AgentRank.
Social Media
This just in.
thenewgroup: Very exciting. We made the Portland Business Journal's Top 10 #marketing firms http://t.co/GNYaXx8E
Tue, 11/27/2012 - 11:05am
Innovation
From brain
to brand.
Socializing sustainable innovation.
Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry
"A hub for research and innovation."
And the community that brings you both.
Mobile
The touchscreen rules.
TNG's initiative "GUM": Give Up Mice.
Give up Mice (GUM), Month 1
The touchscreen has come to rule. To fully embrace it, give up mice completely and let your fingers do the walking!
Customer Insights
The meter is surpassed.
Maximizing the customer communications experience.
Social Media
Your favorite brands are calling.
What's your answer?
User-Generated Advertising?
Levels of brand-to-user engagement seem limitless. So, what exactly is user-generated advertising?
Innovation
A responsive approach.
Designing for a web of successively capable devices.
Design Mobile First
Mobile browser market share is rising. The time has come to embrace the flexibility of the web with new approaches to design.
Portfolio: Highlights from the gallery.
QVC Isaac Mizrahi
Jennycraig.com Redesign
GRAMMY365
NikeU
NikeU
eLearning Program
An incredible visual brand system for the Nike Global Talent Development team.
Nike thread
Nike thread
eLearning Program
Creating a global meeting and learning ground for Nike's merchandisers.
QVC Bare Escentuals
QVC In the Kitchen w/ David
QVC In the Kitchen w/ David
Mobile Application
eCommerce-enabled iPhone application w/ live video feed.
Vote for Your Centre
Vote for Your Centre
Social Media Marketing
Developed a social media campaign/contest to find the most "liked" Jenny centre.
Nike Retail Connect
S.R.Smith
Nike Vault
Go Beyond the Meter
Life Moves You
Ricoh/InfoPrint
Ricoh/InfoPrint
Online Marketing
Broadened their sales from printers to a suite of business offerings in a full web redesign.
Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry
Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry
Online Marketing
A redesigned web presence that extends chemical innovation beyond campus borders.
Services: What we do, what makes us tick.
Talk to us about:
- Brand research, planning and development
- Online advertising and campaign program support
- Full multimedia creative services
- Emerging-technology integration
- Digital business strategy consulting
Our Services
We're a full-service digital agency that lives at that place where creative, technology, culture and business intersect.
Solutions
Unabashedly, our lens is focused squarely on your customers' experience. This requires that we find insights that reveal how, when and where your target audience(s) want and need to receive information from you as a brand. Insights that inspire understanding about how to motivate audiences toward your desired conversion. Insights that empower our strategy, creative and technical teams to build evolutionary, and sometimes revolutionary, communication solutions. Solutions that are: Customized. Impactful. Measurable. Successful.
As a full-service digital agency that lives at that place where creative, technology, culture and business intersect, we are wildly diverse in serving the unique needs of our clients—from websites and communities to mobile to commerce to analytics to holistic social brand revisioning.
GRAMMY365
Areas of Special Focus
Mobile Design and Development
Mobile is now. At TNG, we live it. We work daily with our clients to make sure their business is ready for the future, today.
- Mobile user experience design
- Phone apps and mobile websites
- Tablet-based sales enablement tools
- Mobile business planning
Customer Insights
At TNG we know that insight reveals opportunity and that it's our job to empower our clients with breakthrough understanding.
- Analytics and cross-channel measurement
- Original audience research
- Optimization and testing programs
- User experience design
Innovation and Technology
We love how technology can enable new and exciting customer experiences. We help our clients assess, update and extend their technologies regardless of whether they're ready to crawl, walk or run.
- Developing back-end systems and web services to serve content for mobile devices
- Evaluating and optimizing CMS and CRM
- Creating cross-platform strategies (desktop, web, mobile) to extend reach
- Integrating/distributing web content through social media channels
- Enabling e-commerce on existing web properties
Pretty much fabulous: Most of the time, anyway.
A Little History.
TNG peeked out of the bassinet in 1993. We've grown to be a full-service digital agency with more than 40 staff. We help major brands grow and stay relevant to consumers—in a world where relevance has to be earned daily. How? By thinking with rigor, being open, collaborating, creating bold solutions based on insight, and always serving clients with the right team.
Our Services
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Digital Strategy
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Brand + Identity
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Mobile Strategy
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ATG Engineering
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Flash Design
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Moodle Integration
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Front-end Development
One Big Happy Family
Recent Thoughts
Some of Our Clients
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People: A sum even greater than the parts.
Erik Olson
Client Services
"I walked the Great Wall of China. And I had a mullet. But not at the same time."
Andrew Scott
Client Services
"Canadian….ehh."
The secret to great creative? 1% inspiration then 99% honing it to perfection.
Kat Sampson
Creative
"I love anything dinosaurs. And practicing the lost art of Scherenschnitte."
Jeremiah Radka
Technology
"I rode a Honda CBR600 F3 at 110 mph in the 1/4-mile at PIR raceway. Just sayin'."
Steve Marshall
Management
"I speak Japanese, play golf, and make art out of old yardsticks and rulers."
Terri Sprinkling
Management
"I've held a wild hummingbird in my hand. Then it flew away."
Kory Paulsen
Technology
"I maintain a pretty trick slime farm in the game Minecraft."
Janet VanDyke
Client Services
"The only Portlander who doesn't like beer. There, I said it!"
Shannon Mooney
Client Services
"I've lived in Windsor next door to that lady in Buckingham Palace."
Laura Lothrop
Creative
"I'm convinced campfire cologne is going to be the next big thing."
Technology = curiosity x logic x time + a small percentage of magic.
Ryan O'Reilly
Technology
"I've fly fished nearly every river in Oregon."
Dan Siger
Technology
"Used to have a rathah English accent."
Doug Henderson
Technology
"Caution: You are entering the realm of a 2nd-degree black belt."
Amy Conroy
Client Services
"I'll eat figs and goat cheese for breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snacks."
Doug New
Management
"I found out I can take a 3-month sabbatical and all things TNG run quite smoothly without me. Hmm."
Greg Boggs
Technology
"If I'm not smiling, I'm probably asleep."
Susan Hawkins
Management
"I rode all the way across the USA on my bike."
Steve Schneider
Client Services
"I've tried, but nothing fools my two 6.5-yr-old twin daughters."
The best way for a plan to succeed is to have one.
Jon Antoine
Technology
"Snowboard expert. Wakeboard expert. And recently, diaper expert."
Josh Damis
Strategy
"I'm still convinced Michael Dyer's knee was down."
Peter Schuelke
Technology
"cd /freezer/pizza | grep beer"
Brian Unflat
Creative
"Eagle Scout. Alaska fishing boat veteran. Better watch out, Brawny towel guy."
Kaci Freeman
Client Services
"I really do NOT like to be told 'no'. Especially when shoe-shopping."
Kara Goldhamer
Strategy
"I have a small farm. Er, large garden (5,000 sq. ft.)."
Travis Watkins
Client Services
"I can eat 50 eggs."
George Vakoutis
Client Services
"Most beautiful places on earth: any beach, Augusta National, Paris, McDonald's."
Do all you can to get audiences to embrace a brand, and clients will embrace you.
Daniel Weinsoft
Client Services
"Not only do I do triathlons and marathons, I am Earth's #1 spreadsheet guru."
Tim Krajcar
Technology
"Fastest typist, and slap shot, in the office."
Darren Cools
Creative
"Give me solitude, a book and a cup of coffee and I’m perfectly happy."
Dann Parks
Creative
"Won an Emmy for graphic design. I wonder if the 3-wheel car I invented could win something?"
Dennis VanDyke
Creative
"Gained 5 pounds working on a weight loss client. And no, Dick Van Dyke is not my Dad."
Gerry Sposato
Creative
"If there's a volcano on the West Coast, I've probably climbed it."
Anne Sturdivant
Technology
"Architecture. Portland history. Lichens. Not necessarily in that order."