Brand Agency
An ideas factory
What’s in a Brand?
“Motion Sickness is more than an agency – it’s an ideas factory”
“Motion Sickness Makes Literal Blood Oath to Creativity”
“Motion Sickness, Creative disrupters keeping it real”
These headlines are our way of showing you that we’ve managed to position ourselves as a business that, from a national perspective, is known for ideation, creativity, and disruption. As a brand agency, that’s our proof in the pudding, because shaping how people talk about you is half the game.
The other half is giving them something worth saying in the first place. We help brands find the best way to translate the vision they have for themselves into something the public can perceive, understand, and genuinely give a damn about.
Our Mission As a Brand Advertising Agency
As a brand agency, our mission is simple: make people understand why you matter. Our methods are less so.
We build brands through a mix of moving parts that can, broadly, be split into a soul and a system. The soul is the strategy and creative thinking: the part that gives a brand its point of view, its stance, and a clear sense of what it’s here to do. The system is everything that brings it to life, from identity and design to brand advertising campaigns, content, film, tone of voice, and whatever shape the idea decides to take once it leaves the room.
Humans First, Brand Agency Second
Our best work as a brand agency is born out of understanding people before trying to move them. From Proud to be Māori, where identity became a source of pride, connection, and participation, to Keep It Real Online, where humour opened the door to harder conversations, we know just how far a brand advertising campaign can go when it gives people something to feel first.
If you’re after heart, heat, provocation, or a reason for people to care, get in touch. We’d love to help your brand find what it wants to say.
FAQs
Does your brand agency work with new brands, or only established ones?
Both. Some brands come to us fully formed and ready for a sharper public life. Others arrive in concept. We can help either way.
How do we know if our brand needs strategy or advertising?
If people don’t understand what makes you different, start with brand strategy. If they do, but aren’t hearing from you in the right way, a brand advertising campaign may be the better next move.
When is the best time to invest in a brand agency?
Usually, when the business is changing shape. A launch, a new market, a repositioning or a growth phase are all excellent times to invest in brand identity.
We want our brand to be international. Is it still worth working with a brand agency in NZ?
Yes. In fact, a brand agency is especially useful during international expansion, when businesses risk being watered down or awkwardly translated into a market that doesn’t quite understand them yet. We shape Kiwi brands so they travel well, without losing what made them worth taking further in the first place.