Crest Communications

Crest Communications runs out of Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, where a team with four decades in the business builds marketing and advertising programs meant to keep pace with a marketplace that moves fast. The agency's own line on its craft, "video isn't just video," points to how it treats content production as a strategic tool rather than a checkbox item, feeding into broader campaigns rather than standing apart from them.

Work spans digital strategy, media planning and placement, social strategy and content production, brand positioning, and website design and implementation. The creative side is led by Executive Art Director Darren Vorel, a multi-platform artist, alongside Creative Director Jess Piet, who focuses on branding overhauls. Senior Copywriter and Social Specialist Lindsay Wade and Senior Graphic Designer Juan Landi round out the content and design work, while Account Director Mark Bando oversees client accounts. Together they handle integrated campaigns that move across platforms, pairing video scripts and storyboards with social media programs and paid media buying, so brand positioning carries through from initial strategy to the channels where audiences actually see it.