Ascend Integrated Media is a 27 year-old integrated custom media company.  The company creates work in partnership with well over 50 clients each year and produces nearly 500 projects for those clients.  Our portfolio of clients as well as their communications objectives are diverse and represent a broad array of American commerce.  Clients include:  Many major national pharmaceutical companies like Astra Zeneca, healthcare associations ranging from The American Heart Association to The American Academy of Family Physicians , government entities like The National Parks Conservation Association, international trade shows including The American Sport Fishing Association and National Mining Association, corporations including MacDonald’s and Ace Hardware, event properties ranging from Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and The Chicago-headquartered Merchandise Mart Properties to The Las Vegas World Market Center.  In addition, we’ve produced work for clients as diverse as The Country Music Festival, The Baseball Hall of Fame, The Big 12 Football Championship and The Sundance Film Festival.

Ascend Integrated Media is uniquely positioned to work with companies to develop and produce brand enhancing communications products.  The company’s highly skilled team of media professionals is increasingly being asked to engage on behalf of clients in creating and managing both sites and content associated with social media initiatives.  Many clients have come to realize how time demanding and skill-specific this work is and choose to work with us as their content creation and management partner.

From a talent perspective, our 60 employees are uniquely positioned to provide turnkey media development and management services.   We have professional teams with skills ranging from content and graphic design creation, production, distribution, and sales.  Our eMedia team is producing cutting edge work covering web sites, digital editions, interactive maps, smart phone applications, as well as Twitter management.  Because of our strength in media sales, we often turn a cost center into a profit center through both cost reduction and the sale of print and digital advertising and sponsorship.  Plus, our proprietary data base and list management process allows us to product sophisticated and user-friendly products for our directory clients.

Our suite of fully integrated products and services include print and digital magazines, print and digital newspapers, enewsletters, print and digital membership directories and product buyers’ guides, print and digital exhibit guides and maps, hotel door drop services, healthcare study guides and patient care information, event-related web sites, smart phone and client-specific hand-held device application development and Twitter account management.