kettle
Piping hot digital solutions
We are a New York based interactive agency specializing in creative digital strategy, product design, and social media marketing. We take an absurd amount of pride in our work, combining bleeding edge marketing solutions with best practice UI, AI, design and technical development.
Our Latest Work
TheyMakeApps
Because it's easier for Indiana Jones to recover the Sankara Stones than for someone with an idea for an App to find a decent iPhone developer. And because we wanted to have a place to send friends and clients who constantly ask for recommendations in finding mobile application developers. The result? TheyMakeApps, the first directory of iPhone and Mobile Developers for hire.
2010 Webby Award winner in the IT Hardware/Software category; nominated for Best Navigation/Structure
2010 SXSW Web Award Winner in the Business Category
Hey Walkies
Hey Walkies is a website and iphone application designed in partnership with our friends at Jackson/Laycock. Hey Walkies brings people and puppies together by helping dog owners discover and discuss new dog parks throughout NYC. Hey Walkies also taps into Facebook, bringing people and their pups to the world's largest social network.
Featured in Apple's TV commercial: Dog Lover
The IdeaLists
Kettle was contacted by Adam Glickman, the founder of The IdeaLists and Tokion mag, and tasked us with re-imagining the homepage of his online Creative Placement service. Our primary objectives were to reassure users about privacy concerns, and to more effectively communicate the philosophy of the site. Since the implementation of the new redesign, conversion rates have increased dramatically, and we are happy to report that we are now working with Adam at a strategic level, collaborating with a great pool of talent on the next iteration of The IdeaLists.
Our Portfolio
You may not know us by name, but you probably know our work.
We've been around, and we have a track record of success to prove it.
Earlier this year we took home a SXSW Web Award for best site in the business category.
We were also nominated for two Webby awards this Spring - best site in the IT Hardware/Software category, and best Navigation/Site Structure. We are happy to report that we won in the IT Hardware/Software category!
Those are two pretty big wins this year already.
It's probably also worth mentioning that our "Hey Walkies" app is featured in Apple's latest iPhone commercial.
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check out some of our work
- we're pretty proud of it. But first you'll need to drop us a line so we can set you up with access to those projects. We want to make this a personal experience. Tell us what kind of work you're interested in seeing and we'll go one step further. We will hand-pick the campaigns we worked on that you will find most interesting. If we're this attentive now, just imagine how attentive we will be when you're our client!
We Love Happy Clients
We've been providing a lot of strategic and technical consulting in the social media space recently. We have been doing it well. Really well. And it's been making our clients very happy. There is nothing we love more than happy clients. Let us make you happy. Go ahead and…
Hire Us
Kettle delivers relevant, successful digital concepts, strategies and products, while pushing the boundaries of technology and creativity, leveraging the low cost per acquisition opportunity the Internet provides. We are anxious to begin developing long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with best-of-breed clients and partners. Put our brains to work for you! Tell us a little about your next project and we'll start conceptualizing solutions to help it deliver against its objectives.
So, what's with the name?
The word kettle originates from the Latin catillus, which translates roughly to funnel. So why a funnel? Because your digital strategy is a funnel. Imagine every potential customer or client is a marble (hang in there), just rolling around the Internet. You want to snag as many of those marbles as possible, and pass them through your funnel, hoping they drop a little cash on their way (marble cash... we know, we're reaching). That's where we come in. We help make your funnel larger, wider, easier to find. Hell, we make your funnel unavoidable! We're also into funnel maintenance - we'll patch holes in your funnel, give it a fresh coat of paint, splash some cologne on it! Best of all, we put the tools in place to make sure your funnel keeps funneling as best it can by keeping an eye on it. Always.
So why "kettle" and not "funnel"? It doesn't sound as cool. Now go re-read that section about hiring us.