For Immediate Release: Drake Cooper Acquires Gigasavvy

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BOISE, July 14 2026 – Drake Cooper, the 100% employee-owned independent agency headquartered in Boise, ID, with an office in Los Angeles, has acquired Gigasavvy, a leading Orange County-based award-winning ad agency with a particular focus on consumer and lifestyle brands. Founded in 2008, Gigasavvy is the go-to creative partner for a select group of brands including HI-CHEW, Toshiba, AAA, Flexfit, and one of America’s most sought after burger brands. 

Gigasavvy’s team joins Drake Cooper, with former President Kyle Johnston stepping into the role of Executive Director, Integration at the combined agency. The Gigasavvy brand will be absorbed into Drake Cooper, with the merged company continuing to staff an Orange County office. This adds to Drake Cooper’s currently established Los Angeles-based team. The agency will operate under the Drake Cooper name.

It was clear that our organizations share the same values, mindset, and commitment to doing great work for our clients and our people.

Both independent advertising agencies are coming together by choice, with a natural culture fit and an expanded geographic footprint. Gigasavvy brings to the table a tradition of innovative design and creative for top-shelf consumer brands. Drake Cooper brings full-service advertising capabilities, including creative, analytics, martech, interactive, media strategy, planning, and buying.

“Anyone who has been through an acquisition knows that success starts with culture,” said Mindy Stomp, CEO, Drake Cooper. “From our earliest conversations with Gigasavvy, it was clear that our organizations share the same values, mindset, and commitment to doing great work for our clients and our people. By coming together, we’re not only strengthening that culture, we’re also expanding Drake Cooper’s presence in Southern California and creating a larger independent agency with broader capabilities, deeper talent, and greater opportunities for our clients and employee-owners.”

“Amazing things can happen when good, talented people share common goals,” said Johnston. “Combining teams and processes can be a risky business, but the chemistry and shared values between our two teams was apparent very early on, and I expect that to continue as the broader teams begin to integrate. This partnership creates exciting opportunities for our clients to tap into broader expertise and for our people to grow inside of a larger organization. The future is bright at Drake Cooper!”

Drake Cooper leadership team. Back row, left to right: Patrick Hoopes, Executive Creative Director; John Drake, President and Chief Strategy Officer; Kyle Johnston, Executive Director of Integration. Front row, left to right: Mindy Stomp, CEO; Katie Reid, VP of People and Finance.

About Drake Cooper

Drake Cooper is an independent, 100% employee-owned advertising agency founded in 1978. The agency focuses on building brands for ambitious organizations and has developed a particular expertise with mid-market companies. With nearly 100 full-time employees, the agency offers creative, analytics, martech, interactive, and media strategy, planning, and buying services for regional, national, and international brands. Drake Cooper has client tenure that is four times the industry average, according to the American Association of Advertising Agencies, and was a recent Ad Age Small Agency of the Year award winner.