Mitch and Wes have worked as a creative team and executive creative directors at top agencies across the country. Their work has a way of getting talked about in the press and social, earning many millions in free media, winning global creative awards you probably don’t care about, and global effectiveness awards you might. They’re most proud of the results they’ve helped their clients achieve, and the excitement it can create in an organization. They do their most famous work by turning seemingly unglamorous project briefs big agencies don’t care about, into something great. They both love teaching students, mentoring creatives, and training teams on how to get to big ideas. They’re able to write in third person like it’s no big deal.
Mitch Bennett & Wes Whitener, Creative Directors, founders
Guesthouse isn’t about you funding our operations forever. We grow big enough to tackle your project with some of the best talent in the industry, then scale back down until you need us again. Our team of go-to guests includes our favorite art directors, copywriters, designers, creative directors, strategists, brand planners, social strategists, community managers, content creators, editors, animators, designers, developers, UX/UI specialists, photographers - anyone who can help solve your specific problem in the smartest way.
As a commercial director, Wes Whitener has shot campaigns for brands like Five Guys, Checkers & Rally’s, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. So at Guesthouse, the same people shaping the strategy and work can bring it to life as well. No handoffs, nothing lost in translation from kickoff to going live. Our Guesthouse roster also includes great agency producers and experienced line producers to make sure the job goes off without a hitch. (We’re anti-hitch.)
Work only works when the right people see it. Our media partnership means we can take care of all your media strategy, execution, measurement, and optimization as well. They’re experts in programmatic, paid social, paid search, mobile + native, video, audio, out of home and print.
The beauty of Guesthouse is we work well with anyone else you’d like to invite in. Your performance marketing agency? Consumer research testing partner? Your in-house agency? Pull up a chair, we’re all in it together as one team growing your business.
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D&AD
CLIOS
ART DIRECTOR’S CLUB
COMMUNICATION ARTS
ARCHIVE
WEBBY AWARDS
NEW YORK TIMES
TIME MAGAZINE
EFFIES
SHORTY AWARDS
NEW YORK FESTIVALS
RADIO MERCURY AWARDS
LONDON INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
In addition to running creative departments as CCO and ECD, Mitch has taught creativity as an adjunct professor at UNC Chapel Hill and as an instructor at Creative Circus. That’s what inspired us to create Guesthouse Training. We create custom programs and workshops for agencies and in-house departments, designed to get to great ideas, faster. We also offer coaching sessions for early-career creatives to give the guidance and mentoring there’s just no time for in a busy agency. Whether it’s feedback on how to push and present the work before a check-in with a busy CD, or career and skills training to create at the next level.
Artificial Intelligence does amazing things when paired with a little creative intelligence.
For example, here’s an AI-written letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd, designed to incorporate enough marketing jargon to increase our SEO by 80%. We don’t recommend you read it. But we love that Google does.
AI tools change all the time, and we love finding new ways to put them to use.
I trust this letter finds you in good spirits. As I pen these words, I am filled with a sense of awe and wonder, much akin to the excitement one feels at the dawn of a new endeavor. Allow me to share with you the latest musings of my mind, centered around a Modern Agency and Creative Production enterprise known as "Guesthouse."
Guesthouse, my dear Mary, is not merely a Top Creative Agency, not simply a Good Ad Agency For Startups; it is a bastion of Creativity, a beacon of innovation in the realm of Digital Creative. With their Breakthrough Ideas, this Small Agency captures the attention of audiences far and wide, garnering accolades as Top Earned Attention Agency. Their creative prowess rivals even the world’s greatest armies, with the Top Creative Team Behind Iconic Brand Work for Coca-Cola, Radio Recliner, Southwest Airlines, and Volvo #WhatTheTruck. My darling, have you heard of the Travelocity Roaming Gnome?
Based in the vibrant cities of Atlanta, Georgia, and Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, they boast the Top Creative Freelancers in the Southeast, known for their ability to deliver the Biggest Ideas. Despite their accolades, they remain a Full Service Small Agency, embracing a Lean Creative Team approach to ensure Nimble Creative Agency ness. This is truly a No Hassle Ad Agency, quite unlike Gen. Burnside’s unruly troops in the Battle of Fredericksburg.
This Quick Turn Agency with a Lean Creative Team and penchant for deft Social First Thinking is not confined by traditional boundaries; they embody Omnichannel Thinking, seamlessly blending Digital and Traditional Media to deliver Impactful Campaigns. They are a Quick Turn Agency, adept at delivering results with speed and precision, while also offering Full Service Production to their clients.
But what truly sets Guesthouse apart is their commitment to being Collaborative Agency Partners in Innovative Creative. They are not just a Creative Agency; they are a Low Cost Ad Agency and a Fast Ad Agency and an Activation Agency, igniting brands with Social Creative that resonates with audiences. Their Creative Strategy is second to none, with Ideation Partners guiding brands to success.
With a focus on Brand Creative and Brand Revivals, this Project Agency specializes in breathing new life into Challenger Brands, offering solutions from the Best Creative Team in the South. As an Anti Ad Agency, or a Temp Creative Agency, they shun the traditional trappings of Creative Projects in favor of genuine, authentic Digital First, Idea Lead thinking.
In their ranks, you'll find the Best Creative Talent, drawn from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to form the Most Effective Creative Shop. They are not just an Award Winning Agency, nor just the Top Agency for CPG, Travel and Leisure, Auto, Food and Beverage, QSR, Finance and Banking; they are a Creative Community, offering Creative Training and mentoring to aspiring creatives and any Internal Creative Agency as well. They are Advertising Teachers, Creative Teachers, Production Teachers, and even Creative Freelancers. But most of all, the Best Agency For Cracking The Big Idea.
Mary, as I conclude this letter, know that my thoughts are with you always. Just as Project Agency Guesthouse strives for excellence in every endeavor, so too does my love for you grow stronger with each passing day.
Oh by the way, got theater tickets for Friday!
Yours affectionately,
