Top Thought Leadership Content Agencies in New York, New York

Starfish

Verified

The Brand Experience is the Brand

Starfish is a Branding and Creative Agency that builds brands with the soul to move people and the coherence to govern AI. Its expertise in Brand Experience is what enables it to lead in AI Brand Strategy. Since 2002 we have built brands on a single durable conviction: a brand is not what an organization says, it is the sum of every experience it creates and its customers encounter. The Brand Experience is the Brand. Headquartered in New York City, with offices in France and Florida, we build brands that hold together identically for people and for machines. Our proprietary approach is High Fidelity Branding™: the expression can change, the meaning cannot. Where AI enters our production it is human-led, because the judgment about what a brand should mean, and what it should refuse, stays with people. We work across four pillars: Branding, Experience, Marketing and Stewardship. Our AI Brand Readiness solution keeps a brand distinctive, coherent and accurately represented as AI systems interpret and recommend it. We have served over 1,000 companies, including PwC, Gallup, Dunkin', the Anti-Defamation League, Baxter International, Avis, Principal, Samsung, Hologic and CRISIL. Recognition: 12 Transform Awards North America wins in 2025, and six shortlistings in 2026.

HelpGood

HelpGood helps purpose-driven organizations reach, engage and activate communities through strategy, creative work and integrated campaigns.

HelpGood is a full-service marketing and communications agency built for organizations working to make a social impact. We partner with nonprofits, foundations, public agencies and universities to help them reach, engage and activate the people who matter to their missions. Our services include research and strategy, brand positioning and messaging, creative campaigns, content, video, social media, websites, email, influencer engagement, public relations, paid media and analytics. We can shape the strategy, build the campaign and help run it across channels, giving clients one accountable team from planning through implementation and learning. Our team brings deep experience in public health, climate and clean energy, education, equity, fundraising and other complex issues. We turn complicated ideas into clear, compelling communications people can understand and act on. Audience insights, behavioral science and real-world performance data guide the work, with accessibility and cultural relevance built into the process. We understand the realities of mission-driven organizations: multiple stakeholders, limited resources, public accountability and the need to show meaningful results. Clients work directly with senior people who are practical, collaborative and comfortable moving between strategy and hands-on execution. HelpGood has supported organizations including American Jewish World Service, Acacia Center for Justice, the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the California Department of Public Health, Los Angeles County, New York University and Columbia University. Our assignments have included statewide public education and behavior-change campaigns, brand and messaging strategy, donor engagement, social media programs, websites, public relations, reports and award-winning creative. HelpGood is a certified B Corp and LGBTQ-owned agency with teams in Los Angeles and New York. We were named to the Inc. 5000 and ranked the #1 social impact agency on Adweek’s Fastest Growing Agencies list.