Venables Bell & Partners

Specialties

advertising (TV, print, radio), digital, communications strategy, brand strategy, media planning, web design

History

Established in 2001.

Venables Bell & Partners is an independent San Francisco advertising agency. Founded in 2001 by ex-​Goodby Silverstein Creative Directors Paul Venables and Greg Bell, and AKQA veteran Bob Molineaux, this non-​traditional creative shop has seen continued momentum and unprecedented growth in both staff and revenue (exceeding 40% since 2008). In 2010, Ad Age named the agency to its agency «A-​List» of top ten agencies in the country for showing «moxie, effectiveness and fearlessness.» Additionally, Ad Age named the agency an «Agency to Watch» in 2009.

VB&P’s clients include Audi of America, Barclays, Chef Boyardee, ConocoPhillips, Intel, The Meth Project, Orville Redenbacher’s, PG&E, and Slim Jim, among others. The agency is perhaps best known for re-​launching Napster in 2003 and for creating breakthrough and effective brand efforts such as Audi’s «Truth in Engineering,» Intel’s global «Sponsors of Tomorrow» and the Meth Project’s «Not Even Once» campaign.