The Backstory – A Cannabis Creative Agency Dedicated To Your Success

Studio 420 is a subsidiary of Planet Media, a privately held Limited Liability Corporation, incorporated in the State of Colorado. The company was established in 1999 in Mountain View, California, and founded by Kurt Whitt, a Silicon Valley business executive with over 25 years of experience in Internet and web-based businesses, interactive television, new media, broadcast and broadband communications.

Studio 420 is a world-class cannabis branding, website design and digital marketing agency dedicated to your success. As a celebrity, investor, grower, marijuana consultant, dispensary, lab, retailer, club, directory, or association, YOU are the backbone of this growing industry. Through smart use of the latest in design technologies and cannabis marketing strategies, we bring your cannabusiness to the forefront and help make you a key player in the marketplace.

Studio 420 is an accomplished agency designed to solve your complex communication challenges. We position brands to improve awareness, engagement and loyalty among customers and employees. As senior-level strategists, writers, designers and producers, we develop strategic programs, messaging platforms and identity systems and we execute on every level of brand marketing and communications. The Studio 420 offices are based in Denver, CO and New York, NY.

Our Mission

As a boutique branding, website design and digital marketing agency, Studio 420 works closely with its clients to define and develop their identity, position and presence in their marketplace. We help clients achieve sustained growth through ideas, strategies and solutions that influence consumer taste and shape culture.?

Studio 420 builds partnerships with its clients by carefully listening and understanding their values and goals. We will help your cannabusiness achieve success and realize market potential through tailored, creative and strategic solutions. Studio 420 maintains its position as an alternative leading-edge agency through adaptability, flexibility and masterful execution.

Our Philosophy

We seek to be on the forefront of establishing credibility for clients in the cannabis industry. We don’t just want to accomplish this for ourselves. We want to be a catalyst for raising standards in the entire market.

We view the realm of business more like an act of gardening than an act of war; our vocabulary and company culture focuses on cultivating rather than competing, tending rather than acquiring, growing rather than winning. In practice, this means we have created and we are continuing to create a culture where we foster and encourage the sharing of information that many companies would withhold. In addition to providing our clients with the best product and service possible, we believe in also teaching them “how to fish” to support their own long-term growth. We train our partners in our approach and processes. It’s an extension of our view of being transparent and upholding people’s freedom. Nonetheless, we are extraordinarily competitive—we just don’t view people as the object of our competitive nature. Instead, we view the tilling of the earth and the scaling of mountains as our external competition. Then people are co-laborers in the toil of surviving and flourishing against that external, non-human, competition.

Qualifications and Experience

Studio 420 has extensive experience in helping clients develop, promote, expand, focus or even reinvent their online presence. For more than 10 years, our Denver studio has deployed targeted, creative online marketing campaigns that drive measurable business results. Our streamlined processes also reduce expenses, resulting in significant cost savings. We build more than successful online projects—we build long-term relationships with the goal of delivering 360 degrees of value and prosperity for all stakeholders.?

The Human Element

While Studio 420 is technically a business, it is more significantly a gathering of like-minded humans who believe business can be used to promote the common good of people and communities. And when a group of people share this belief, it affects what they choose to communicate. We realize the need to articulate the Studio 420 brand position and value proposition, but what you will find, even more so, is a constant emphasis on the humans that make up what folks call Studio 420. More than designers, programmers, and project managers, we are husbands and wives, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, friends, servants to our communities, wanderers, musicians, learners, enjoyers of delicious food, connoisseurs of craftsmanship, athletes, coaches, listeners and storytellers, writers, catalysts for change, and raving fans of things that matter.

Socially Responsible

Our group aims to make social responsibility, in all of its varied incarnations, a small cost of entry into any given market. No matter the industry, we want consumers to first ask, “Does this product or service put the planet and its citizens before the bottom line?” This is a lot to ask of established corporations with complicated structures but like safety in automobiles, portions in food service, and durability in cellular phones, raising expectations raises standards.

Collaborative Thinking

We believe that the design process is a collaboration that fuses our creative strengths with our clients business expertise and vision to produce websites that deliver results. The key to our methodology is finding the best solution for each customer situation.?

Our methodology stresses the use of brainstorming to encourage innovative ideas and collaborative thinking to work through each proposed idea and arrive at the best solution. Meeting the needs and wants of our end user is the most critical concern. Our methodology also employs basic research methods, such as analysis, planning, deployment and testing.

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Studio 420 is a cannabis web design agency specializing in branding, website design, web development, ecommerce, online shopping and digital marketing solutions for the marijuana and CBD industry. Let our Denver or New York studio help GROW your cannabusiness!

Contact the Denver studio for a no-obligation, project cost analysis at 303-653-9855 or?[email protected]?