About Us

Full service, fully integrated communications company

* Research

The most successful communications efforts are founded on solid up-stream research and strategy. At Brown, we emphasize the importance of research to help inform your decision-making and provide pointed consumer insight to your planning.
* Planning & Strategy

Excellence in communication doesn’t happen by accident. It requires knowledge, skill, planning, effective execution and measurement, as well as the engagement of internal and external stakeholders.
* Branding

Brand building is one of the most important challenges facing organizations today. Recognizable brands are a critical component of communication programs injected into a cluttered media environment with mixed messages.
* Social Marketing

The objective of social marketing campaigns is to effect behaviour change for the benefit of individuals, organizations, and/or society.
* Creative

So, what's the big idea?
* Interactive

Today's innovative brands are finding new ground in the hearts and minds of consumers using the web. In 1996, Brown saw the potential of the Internet for marketing and communications and launched one of the first agency interactive divisions in Canada.
* Media

A subsidiary of Brown Communications Group, Octane Media is a member of the DSA Media Network founded in 1997. Today, the DSA Media Network employs more than 20 full-time media professionals in three markets.
* Advertising

For more than 40 years Brown has been developing striking and original advertising campaigns by combining strategic thinking, creativity and targeted media placement to enhance brand equity.