Louisville’s digital market reflects the city’s mix of manufacturing heritage, healthcare strength, and a growing creative economy – producing agencies that range from enterprise B2B specialists to boutique studios serving nonprofits and consumer brands.
1. DBS Interactive
Three Horizon Interactive Awards in a single year – 2017 – tells something specific about DBS Interactive’s capability: a Gold for an animated infographic campaign for Leadership Louisville, Best in Category Real Estate for a Mighty Small Homes website, and a Silver for an internal promotion. Those are not participation awards. They reflect a 29-person team operating since 2000 with a genuine commitment to B2B web design that serves manufacturers, healthcare providers, aging care organizations, and technology companies with sophisticated digital requirements. Founded by Cyndi Masters and staffed across four continents for around-the-clock development capacity, the Louisville-headquartered agency brings enterprise-grade accessibility standards and research-driven strategy to clients who cannot afford digital presences that fail their complex professional audiences. Their $13 million annual revenue confirms that the market for this level of B2B work in Louisville is both real and sustainable.
Services
B2B Web Design and Development: DBS Interactive builds high-performance custom websites and web applications for B2B companies in manufacturing, healthcare, aging care, and technology, combining discovery workshops with accessibility-first development. Their process is deeply research-driven, ensuring that site architecture and content organization serve complex enterprise audiences from day one.
App Development: The agency designs and develops custom web and mobile applications for clients requiring functionality beyond standard websites, such as interactive tools, portals, and data-driven platforms. Their global team across four continents enables around-the-clock development cycles that compress timelines without sacrificing technical rigor.
Digital Marketing: DBS provides multichannel digital marketing including SEO, content strategy, and digital advertising, all tied to measurable performance goals tied directly to each client’s business objectives. Their marketing work is positioned as a natural extension of web projects, maintaining messaging consistency across every channel a B2B audience might encounter.
Key People
Cyndi Masters – Founder and CEO: Masters founded DBS Interactive in 2000 to serve Louisville’s B2B business community with digital work of an enterprise standard, building the agency into a 29-person operation with a four-continent workforce and $13 million in annual revenue.
Notable Clients and Portfolio
Leadership Louisville and Mighty Small Homes anchor a documented portfolio that earned DBS three Horizon Interactive Awards in 2017. The Gold-level Leadership Louisville animated infographic campaign demonstrated the agency’s ability to translate institutional mission into engaging digital storytelling, while the Mighty Small Homes real estate website claimed Best in Category recognition in a nationally competitive field. These outcomes reflect consistent quality across both nonprofit and commercial client engagements.
Contact Information
Address: 471 W Main St, Suite 300, Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 562-7895
Website: www.dbswebsite.com
2. Fieldtrip
Louisville’s nonprofit and cause-driven organizations have found a committed creative home in Fieldtrip, a 25-person agency founded in 2006 that operates from downtown Louisville with the conviction that mission-based organizations deserve the same creative quality as commercial brands. The agency has served Louisville Public Media’s WFPL News radio station, rebuilt the digital presence for St. Joseph Children’s Home, and modernized the Portland Metro Chamber’s brand and website – a portfolio that spans public media, child welfare, and regional economic development. Their $150-$199 hourly rate and $25,000 minimum project size position Fieldtrip as a premium creative partner for nonprofits with meaningful budgets and high standards, not a budget production shop. Jane Pfeiffer leads a team that provides brand strategy, web design, advertising, and media buying under one roof – exclusively for purpose-driven clients.
Services
Nonprofit Branding and Web Design: Fieldtrip specializes in building brand identities and immersive websites for nonprofit organizations, translating each mission into a visual and digital presence that resonates with donors, volunteers, and the communities served. Their work spans full rebrands through focused website redesigns, grounded in each client’s cause rather than prevailing design trends.
Advertising and Media Planning: The agency creates and places advertising campaigns across digital, print, and broadcast channels for nonprofits and mission-driven organizations, managing media planning and buying in-house. This integration of creative development and paid media placement produces campaigns where message and media selection reinforce each other rather than operating from separate vendor silos.
Campaign Strategy and Digital Marketing: Fieldtrip builds data-informed campaign strategies that drive audience growth and donor engagement for nonprofit clients, applying the same analytical rigor to mission-based marketing that commercial agencies apply to consumer brands. Their work for Louisville Public Media documented an ability to execute coordinated digital campaigns for established community institutions with complex audience relationships.
Key People
Jane Pfeiffer – Leadership: Pfeiffer leads Fieldtrip’s operations and client engagements, guiding the agency’s exclusive focus on nonprofit and cause-driven organizations as Louisville’s most experienced creative partner for the mission-based sector.
Notable Clients and Portfolio
Louisville Public Media, St. Joseph Children’s Home, and Portland Metro Chamber represent Fieldtrip’s documented client work, spanning public radio, social services, and regional commerce. Their modernization of St. Joseph Children’s Home’s website and the Portland Metro Chamber’s full brand and site rebuild demonstrate proficiency across both institutional and organizational communications – two distinct audience relationships managed with the same strategic discipline.
Contact Information
Address: 642 S 4th St, Suite 400, Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 339-0991
Website: wearefieldtrip.com
3. Hatfield Media
A policy of taking only one client per industry per region is the most direct statement Hatfield Media makes about their service model – each client receives exclusive competitive attention without the conflict of interest that comes when an agency serves competing businesses in the same market. Founded in 2009 by Drake Hatfield as a multimedia production studio, the agency has grown into an east Louisville operation covering web design, 4K video production, SEO, and digital marketing for clients including the Kentucky State Fair and the Louisville Slugger Museum. Their BigCommerce partnership for the Louisville Slugger Museum’s e-commerce platform – which included a custom bat builder – demonstrates both technical e-commerce capability and an understanding of the merchandising requirements of heritage consumer brands. With $7.2 million in annual revenue and a 10-49 person team, Hatfield operates at a scale that enables enterprise-quality delivery without the overhead structures that slow response times at larger agencies.
Services
Custom Web Design and Development: Hatfield Media builds lead-generating custom websites with a focus on UI and UX, technical performance, and enterprise application development for clients across healthcare, manufacturing, and consumer markets. Their one-client-per-industry policy ensures each client receives dedicated competitive analysis and strategy with no dilution of attention to a competitor operating in the same vertical.
4K Video Production: The agency provides full-cycle video production including corporate, promotional, event, and live webcasting content at broadcast quality, integrating video assets directly into web and marketing campaigns. This multimedia production capability enables clients to build cohesive multi-channel brand content rather than managing web and video with separate vendors.
SEO and Digital Marketing: Hatfield Media provides search engine optimization, social media management, email marketing, and analytics as ongoing services that extend the life of each web project. Their marketing team works alongside developers throughout each engagement to ensure that digital strategy and technical implementation remain aligned from inception through post-launch optimization.
Key People
Drake Hatfield – Founder: Hatfield founded the agency in 2009 as a multimedia production studio and has led its growth into a full-service digital marketing and web design operation with $7.2 million in annual revenue and a distinctive one-client-per-industry service commitment.
Notable Clients and Portfolio
Kentucky State Fair’s website at kystatefair.org and the Louisville Slugger Museum’s e-commerce platform represent two high-profile Kentucky institution clients served at significantly different scales. The State Fair website serves a mass public audience across an annual high-traffic event cycle, while the Slugger Museum’s custom bat builder e-commerce tool serves a collector and tourist audience with specific product configuration needs – demonstrating Hatfield’s adaptability across both audience types and technical requirements.
Contact Information
Address: 12450 Lake Station Place, Suite 210, Louisville, KY 40299
Website: hatfieldmedia.com
4. 301 Interactive Marketing
Chamber memberships with both the St. Matthews and Greater Louisville chambers signal something about how 301 Interactive Marketing operates: rooted in the Louisville business community, serving the small and medium-sized businesses that form the backbone of the local economy rather than pursuing enterprise accounts that require a different service model. Founded in 2009 and led by President Sara Jane Marcum, the 10-person team on the Brownsboro corridor has built its practice around practical, results-oriented web design and digital marketing for local and regional businesses that need effective online presences without enterprise agency overhead. Custom website development, technical SEO, and managed paid advertising campaigns are delivered at price points accessible to growing businesses, with SEO integrated from the planning stage so that new sites launch with search visibility as a built-in feature rather than an add-on.
Services
Web Design and Development: 301 Interactive Marketing builds custom websites and e-commerce solutions for small to medium-sized businesses, focusing on user experience and conversion optimization within realistic budgets. SEO is integrated from the planning stage, ensuring that new sites are built to rank from day one rather than requiring post-launch optimization work.
Search Engine Optimization: The agency provides technical and content SEO services including keyword research, on-page optimization, and link building for local and regional businesses seeking improved organic search visibility. SEO performance is tracked through detailed analytics reporting, giving clients clear visibility into campaign progress and measurable return on their investment.
Digital Advertising: 301 Interactive manages pay-per-click advertising on Google Ads and social media platforms, coordinating paid campaigns with organic strategies to maximize total online reach. The 10-person team handles campaign setup, monitoring, and ongoing optimization to maintain a consistent pipeline of qualified leads for client businesses across Kentucky.
Key People
Sara Jane Marcum – President and CFO: Marcum leads 301 Interactive Marketing’s operations and finances, guiding the agency’s focus on practical, accessible digital marketing and web design for Louisville’s small and medium-sized business community.
Notable Clients and Portfolio
Named client examples are not published. The agency’s sustained presence since 2009 in the Louisville market – with chamber affiliations, consistent online reviews, and a 10-person team built on local business work – documents a client base of practical, relationship-driven engagements with regional businesses that value performance over portfolio prestige.
Contact Information
Address: 6013 Brownsboro Park Blvd, Suite H, Louisville, KY 40207
Phone: (502) 614-8205
Website: www.301interactivemarketing.com
5. RedTag
Thirteen AIGA awards including Best in Show, $15 million in annual revenue, 40 professionals working from downtown Louisville – and the agency still describes itself as the largest digital agency in Kentucky. RedTag was founded in 2006 and built into an award-winning operation with deep partnerships with both Google and Facebook that give clients access to platform-level media buying capability that smaller competitors cannot match. Google certification in mobile website design and development reflects technical depth that goes beyond creative output, while their dual media buying capability across digital platforms and traditional channels – television, radio, outdoor – means that RedTag can execute integrated campaigns at scales that pure digital shops cannot serve. CEO Russ leads a team that serves consumer, sports, retail, and B2B brands across the full spectrum of web design, video, social, and traditional media.
Services
Web Design and Development: RedTag builds custom websites and mobile applications for consumer, sports, retail, entertainment, and B2B clients, with Google certification in mobile website design and development. Their development team focuses on performance, user experience, and conversion architecture, applying best practices refined through direct partnerships with both Facebook and Google.
Brand Development and Creative: The agency provides full brand development services including identity systems, campaign creative, video production, and print collateral for bold brands across Louisville and beyond. Their award-winning creative team has earned AIGA Best in Show alongside multiple Gold recognitions from the AAF Awards, confirming creative quality that competes nationally from a Louisville base.
Digital Advertising and Media Buying: RedTag manages digital advertising across Google, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Pinterest alongside traditional media including television, radio, and outdoor. Their platform partnerships and media buying scale deliver reach for regional and national campaigns that boutique digital agencies working without direct platform relationships cannot replicate.
Key People
Russ – CEO: Russ leads RedTag’s 40-person operation, guiding the agency’s growth into what it describes as the largest digital agency in Kentucky through partnerships with Google and Facebook and a consistent record of AIGA and AAF award recognition.
Notable Clients and Portfolio
Archdiocese of Louisville Catholic Schools and ShopCaterpillar.com anchor a named portfolio that also includes WeRideTogether.Today, Wildman Triathlon, HexHead, and several branded e-commerce properties. The range – from religious education to industrial e-commerce to athletics – reflects the breadth of a 40-person agency with integrated media buying capability that can serve audience relationships requiring television, digital, and direct channels simultaneously.
Contact Information
Address: 217 E Main St, Louisville, KY 40202
Website: www.redtag.digital