Digital Hive Mind, a Rockford-based advertising, design, and content development agency, celebrates its 15th anniversary this month.
Founded by Jason Farris and Erin Salisbury in September 2011, DHM began with a simple philosophy: cultivate lasting relationships and do good work with good people. Fifteen years later, those same principles continue to guide the agency.
Over the past decade and a half, DHM has expanded its capabilities and client partnerships while navigating an advertising landscape that rarely stands still. Today, the agency provides a comprehensive range of strategic advertising, communications, and creative services, including branding, web development, graphic design, photography, video production, 3D animation, research, digital and traditional advertising strategy, media planning & buys, and content/social media marketing.
Throughout that growth, DHM has remained focused on the core values that have defined how the agency has operated from the very beginning: understanding its clients, solving challenges creatively, and delivering work that generates both memorable impressions and measurable results.
DHM’s client base spans a diverse mix of industries, which has helped shape an approach built around curiosity, collaboration and creative problem solving, rather than a one-size-fits-all formula.
This anniversary marks more than a business milestone. It’s a celebration of 15 years of partnerships—with clients, collaborators and the Rockford community—that have helped DHM grow into the agency it is today.
As DHM enters its next 15 years, the tools, platforms and possibilities of the advertising & creative industry will undoubtedly continue to evolve. The agency’s philosophy around navigating that change remains decidedly familiar: stay curious, keep learning, keep creating, and keep nurturing meaningful relationships with the people who make what DHM does possible.
