Putting clients, brands and people in a position of strength, to live with conviction and win on results.
What happens when a fiercely independent Nashville-based agency specializing in building brand conviction meets Australasia’s largest independent full-service agency that puts brands, organizations and people in a position of strength? You get unified scale and amplified capabilities. A vision to be the world’s strongest independent agency network and the ability to deliver it for clients.
We solve clients’ hardest problems.
Built for the Modern Marketer
BastionBUNTIN’s unification accelerates our U.S. momentum, unlocking seamless, coast-to-coast capability with global scale. We bring together deep expertise and specialty practices into three core offerings, built to deliver disproportionate impact through the most advanced thinking across every touchpoint.
World Building
BastionBUNTIN’s World Building approach
is a proprietary brand-building process providing a central system for strategy, CX, storytelling and innovation to build from.
By aligning all brand activity through a consistent framework, World Building ensures brands are optimized for performance at key moments of truth
and engagement.
Radical Collaboration
Radical Collaboration is BastionBUNTIN’s internal operating ethos that ensures our integrated service offering is utilized to its fullest extent.
By prioritizing collaboration over silos, BastionBUNTIN delivers integrated client outcomes rather than isolated solutions from individual service lines.
Super Human
Super Human is BastionBUNTIN’s next-generation, leading offering where human expertise meets intelligent technology to harness the full power of talent + technology to drive transformative marketing outcomes.
It’s a philosophy built around the belief that the future of marketing belongs to those who can masterfully blend the art of
human creativity with the precision of
machine intelligence.
Our
Capabilities
When you partner with BastionBUNTIN, you tap into the full strength of Bastion globally, combining the scale and breadth of a network with the expertise and talent of an independent, ensuring access to the very best thinking, talent and execution to deliver results that matter.
Communications
BastionBUNTIN Communications helps organizations shape and deliver powerful messages that protect reputation and engage audiences. Services include consumer PR, corporate communications, media relations, crisis and issues management, influencer marketing and public affairs.
Advertising
BastionBUNTIN Advertising creates compelling campaigns that build conviction and drive brand impact. The team delivers end-to-end advertising solutions across strategy, creative, design, omni-channel media management and production.
Digital
BastionBUNTIN Digital connects brands, customers, and technology to create meaningful digital experiences. Through advisory, analytics, automation and activation, the practice helps organizations deliver measurable business and customer value.
Experience
BastionBUNTIN Experience brings brands to life through partnerships, experiential activations and creative storytelling. By combining commercial strategy, partnerships and experiential delivery, the team creates moments that build engagement and lasting brand connection.
Insights
BastionBUNTIN Insights delivers research and data-driven insights that help organizations make smarter decisions. The team provides tailored solutions across consumer insights, communities, social and government research and cross-cultural intelligence.
Media
BastionBUNTIN Media ensures brands reach the right audiences through strategic, insight-led media planning and buying. Combining research, technology and data optimization, the team delivers effective campaigns that maximize performance across channels.
Proprietary Tools
StrengthOS
Driving sharper strategy and delivering faster growth.
Leading with AI to improve questions, StrengthOS is purpose built to strengthen briefs, accelerate delivery, power smarter strategy and drive connected growth across teams and partners.
NCS – Net Conviction Score
Metric that quantifies conviction for brands.
Establishes measurable benchmark from which to drive targeted growth across Practical, Emotional, Personal and Causal drivers of Brand Conviction.
CBI – Conviction Business Index
Correlation of conviction to business results.
Ability to quantify business lift realized as a measurable outcome of Brand Conviction. Can be modeled across Comp Sales, Margins, Traffic Counts, Transaction Averages and other like-KPIs.
Global Leads
Fergus Watts
Founder & Chairman
Cheuk Chiang
Group Chief Executive Officer
Jeremy Jenkinson
Group Chief Financial Officer
Toby Sellers
Chief Executive Officer
Bastion Aotearoa
Jeffrey Buntin Jr.
Co-Chairman
BastionBUNTIN
Jeff Browe
Chief Executive Officer
BastionBUNTIN
Madeleine Leonard
Group Chief of Staff
Jack Watts
Executive Director
U.S. Leads
Fergus Watts
Co-Chairman
BastionBUNTIN
Jeffrey Buntin Jr.
Co-Chairman
BastionBUNTIN
Jeff Browe
Chief Executive Officer
BastionBUNTIN
Erika Machamer
Executive Vice President
Connections & Innovation
Steve Chavez
Executive Vice President
Chief Creative Officer
Shari Dennis
Executive Vice President
Client Leadership
Ann Moran
Executive Vice President
Chief of Staff
Michael Buck
Executive Vice President
Chief Financial Officer
Vanessa Dziura
President Insights
Chris Bretschger
Managing Partner
Marketing Services
Jody Sowa
Managing Director
Public Relations
Irene Cabanas
Head of Experience
Partners we’ve made stronger through
the power of conviction
BastionBUNTIN
Awards and Recognition
- Communication Arts Advertising and Design Annuals
- ADDY Awards (Local, Regional and National, including Best of Show)
- OBIE Awards, including Hall of Fame and multiple Golds
- The Webby Awards
- Graphis Awards
- Art Directors Club Golden Cube
- The Drum Awards
Our
Locations
USA
Nashville
New York
Los Angeles
Australia
Melbourne
Sydney
Brisbane
Aotearoa
Auckland
Wellington
U.S. Inquiries
Jeff Browe
Chief Executive Officer, BastionBUNTIN
jeffb@bastionagency.com
Media Inquiries
Madeleine Leonard
Group Chief of Staff
madeleinel@bastionagency.com