Secret Sauce
Spectrum builds custom-tailored teams for each client around core pillars of innovation, strategy and creative to deliver indispensable insights and incomparable solutions. This shift from traditional to strategic agency yields the vital ingredients to conquer any business challenge, come hell or high science.
2020
Performance
2020 was a banner year for Triple Threat, with four new account wins. While many agencies had to adapt to remote workday and client management processes, we've been doing that for 15 years.
Culture
Expertise
Creative Chops
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Why Work Here?
Spectrum’s teams of science-loving specialists unleash moonshot thinking—and deliver on it—in an environment designed for you to reach new heights through exploration and experimentation. Come join a growing agency that champions each others’ thinking, values what you value and thrives on collaboration.
“Doing a job you love with people you enjoy is the ultimate sweet spot—and what I’ve found here
at Spectrum.”
Cherise Adkins, Vice President of Media (1 year)
Ally Stubin, Health Tech Account Executive (1 year)
My work never goes unnoticed. Everyone from my manager all the way to the leadership team makes me feel appreciated.
Diversity
+ Inclusion
More than one-third of our staff actively contribute to D&I programming as committee members
All hiring managers undergo interview training to support D&I
100% of agency trained on recognizing
and confronting unconscious bias
As an independent agency, Spectrum bucks tradition by letting talent take free rein. Innovative thinkers want to be unleashed with purpose. We challenge our interwoven group of science-loving specialists to collaborate to take communications and the human condition where it’s never gone before—a place we call Beyond the Science Quo—and value having a diversity of perspectives to get us there.
The Yescarta campaign is a glimpse into a private moment, when a patient receives the news that they are in remission. This raw snapshot of emotion encapsulates what patients want so dearly for themselves. It helps them believe, they too, can have this moment. With YESCARTA, hope can be tangible and safe once again.
Real Expressions of Bipolar Depression shares real patient stories through artwork, reflecting both the depths of their suffering and the triumphs of thriving with the help of LATUDA.
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Spectrum embraces people of all backgrounds with different demographics, thinking styles and lived experiences. We hold diversity and inclusion to equal priority and are committed to proactively and positively impacting these areas—both within the agency and across the industry. Our newly established Diversity Council and its sub-committees keep D&I top of mind in everything we do for both our staff and in our work, ensuring progress toward goals and objectives.
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Brett Care, Media & Measurement Director (5 years)
Spectrum empowers me to chart my own career path, consistently providing opportunities to weave my interests into day-to-day work while encouraging me to flex and grow.
Revenue for 2019
Revenue for 2020
$20M
$14M
Jennifer Matthews, President & CEO
With 15 years of experience practicing remote communications management, 2020 was a banner year.
With science as our sole focus, Spectrum is in the unique position to truly understand and meet healthcare clients’ every need—from seed-funded to big pharma, health tech to consumer science. With capabilities specifically cultivated to support the entire product lifecycle from preclinical through loss of patent exclusivity, seek out Spectrum to work on high-science, high-caliber communications driven by strategy—from advertising to marketing, PR to med comms, and everything in between.
When pitching for Greyhound, David Ogilvy endorsed Grey and walked away from
the pitch.
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Grey did the first bra ad on television, considered a scandal at the time.
3.
Grey created the most recalled image in pharmaceutical advertising—the Cialis campaign with two bathtubs.
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Founded in 1981, we have launched over 60 brands, launched almost 1,500 careers, and have received
33 acquisition letters…
all rejected!
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Fun Facts
Jonathan Wilson
Owner & CEO
Michelle Gross
President
Michelle Strier
Chief Strategy Officer
Justin Rubin
Chief Creative Officer
pure health and science focused
100%
Individualized career pathing to reach your Greatest Potential Self
Fellowship program for recent college grads
of Spectrumites promoted last year
We may be a mid-size agency, but we’ve got the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up and support our staff as the CEOs of their own careers.
See a great learning opportunity? We’ll fund it. Spot a problem you want to solve? Go build it. Want to take on something new? It’s on.
Through our award-winning learning and development program modeled after a teaching hospital, you will explore new ways of thinking, be able to experiment across teams and roles, and get the support you need to chart your unique career path.
Career Growth
~37%