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WEMAKEBRANDS 

Creative, Strategy, and Production all under one very cool roof.

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The Problem

0%

of CMOs say their top challenge is proving marketing's value to the business.

Identifying KPIs that confidently demonstrate marketing's impact remains an unsolved problem for most marketing leaders.

Source: The CMO Survey, Spring 2025 — Deloitte

Our Solution

TURN ATTENTION
INTO INTENTION
AND INTENTION
INTO ACTION...

Hi. We're Icehouse.

We use our proprietary Decision Engineering framework across your entire funnel (whether it's just a piece of your ecosystem or end-to-end) to make your brand more engaging, more valuable, and more actionable—ultimately making it easier for your consumers to say, “Yes!”

We call this Buyability.

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EVERY DAY
YOU'RE NOT WINNING

BUYABILITY

YOU'RE LOSING MONEY.

Request a Buyability Analysis for your brand.

Our Capabilities

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Strategy & Decision Engineering

From Buyability Analyses and brand consulting to data-driven insights, performance analytics, and opportunity identification—we are Decision Engineers focused on what matters: cultivating the conditions for true and measurable growth. We dig into what’s actually driving (or blocking) consumer decisions and give brand teams the clarity, strategy, and reporting they need to act with confidence.

Full-Funnel Creative

From campaigns and social content to video production, branding, web, print, and everything in between—we do it all. No creative challenge is too big, too niche, or too complex. We’re just as happy with the entire pie as we are with one slice—and applying Buyability every step of the way. Because we are way more interested in winning you market share than we are winning ourselves shiny trophies.

Ridiculously Reliable Production (and Post)

Our story began as a post-production shop over 40 years ago (shoutout to PPS!). Over that time, not only have we continually added more capes, but we’ve gotten really good at bringing big ideas to life. With producers, DPs, editors, colorists, and animators on staff, our mission is to remove uncertainty from production. Because we’re here to elevate the work, not the invoice.

In-House Augmentation

We specialize in helping brands with internal agencies and in-house creative teams—whether that’s strategic consulting, filling in specialty gaps, handling overflow, ideation sprints, production and execution, or even getting you started and building your team. As your “agency’s agency” we offer more consistency than freelancers and more efficiency than big agencies.

Some Brands We've Made More Buyable

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City of Covington logo
Paycor logo
Ohio Tourism logo
LaRosa's logo
Head & Shoulders logo
Blake logo
University of Cincinnati logo
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IF WE SHOW YOU OUR CAPES,

WILL YOU SHOW US YOUR

BRIEFS?

Leadership

Executive Team

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CEO
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tony desjardins

Nathan Zwilling portraitNathan Zwilling frost portrait
Executive Strategy Director
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nathan zwilling

Peter Herbert portraitPeter Herbert frost portrait
Executive Creative Director
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peter herbert

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Executive Production Director
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Trent Pekkala portraitTrent Pekkala frost portrait
Executive AI Director
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trent pekkala

Thought Leaders

Thought Leading

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Get in Touch

Contact Us

Wanna talk Buyability? We got forms. We got phones.

Bill Mann

Bill Mann

Director of New Business

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The Icehouse

424 Scott St

Covington, KY 41011

859.292.1100[email protected]

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