For years, marketers have talked about unifying brand and performance. Yet in practice, TV still gets treated as the “brand” bucket while digital shoulders all the pressure for results. Marketing Architects and New Engen are teaming up to put an end to that split.
The All-Inclusive TV agency has announced a partnership with New Engen, a high-growth digital shop known for its performance roots, $1B+ media spend management, and recently awarded title of Digiday’s Most Innovative Agency of 2025. The goal: help brands build connected, full-funnel campaigns where TV and digital no longer operate on separate islands.
For marketers trying to align brand storytelling with measurable outcomes, this partnership lands at the right moment.
Why This Matters: Full-Funnel is No Longer Optional
The TV–digital divide has become one of the biggest structural inefficiencies in modern advertising. Budgets get split. KPIs compete. Creative disconnects. And consumers—who jump effortlessly between screens—experience none of those boundaries.
Marketing Architects brings national-scale TV capabilities and creative development. New Engen supplies deep experience in digital media, analytics, and hands-on performance management. Together, they offer something marketers have been asking for: a single strategy that stretches from awareness to conversion without losing the thread.
“Marketing effectiveness depends on aligning brand and performance, not treating them as tradeoffs,” said Heather Johnson, Sr. Director of Strategic Partnerships at Marketing Architects. “This partnership connects strategies so campaigns work harder at every stage.”
The End of the Brand vs. Performance Divide?
New Engen’s Kevin Goodwin puts it bluntly: “The days of treating TV as a brand channel and digital as a performance channel are over.”
It’s a sentiment spreading quickly across the industry, especially as brands face rising media costs and increased scrutiny on ROI. The agencies argue that collapsing the divide not only improves efficiency but also sharpens creative, strengthens attribution, and unlocks incremental reach at scale.
With New Engen’s measurement rigor and Marketing Architects’ TV-led full-funnel approach, the partnership signals a broader industry shift toward integrated planning—where campaign success isn’t defined by a single channel but by the consumer journey as a whole.
A Strategic Move with Long-Term Intent
For Marketing Architects, the partnership adds another specialist to its growing ecosystem of expert collaborators focused on performance, creativity, and durable marketing effectiveness. For New Engen, it extends the agency’s brand-building capabilities into national TV without diluting its performance DNA.
More importantly, it reflects where the market is headed: toward campaigns that don’t care whether the screen is “brand” or “performance”—just whether it moves the consumer.
