Kepler Named Digiday's Most Innovative Media Agency for the Second Consecutive Year
For the second year in a row, Kepler has been named Most Innovative Media Agency by Digiday as part of the 2026 Media Buying & Planning Awards.
The recognition reflects a year of continued evolution for Kepler as we expand beyond the traditional boundaries of a media agency and deepen our role as an intelligence-led growth consultancy powered by technology, data, and AI.
While the media landscape continues to change at an unprecedented pace, our focus remains the same: helping brands make smarter decisions, move faster, and drive measurable growth.
Innovation Beyond Media
Innovation has never been about chasing trends. It's about building capabilities that create meaningful advantages for clients.
Over the past year, Kepler has continued investing in proprietary technology, advanced measurement solutions, AI-powered intelligence, and strategic partnerships that help brands navigate an increasingly complex ecosystem.
At the center of that strategy is Kip™, Kepler's proprietary intelligence platform that unifies audience insights, media activation, creative production, and measurement into a single connected system. By bringing together data, technology, and decision-making, Kip helps teams operate with greater speed, clarity, and precision.
As AI reshapes how consumers discover information, evaluate brands, and make purchasing decisions, Kepler expanded the platform with the introduction of Kip AIR™.
Helping Brands Win in the Age of AI
AI-powered discovery is rapidly changing how brands are found, understood, and recommended.
Kip AIR™ was built to help brands understand and improve their presence across generative AI environments, including platforms such as ChatGPT and Gemini. The solution provides visibility into how AI systems recognize brands, how they compare them against competitors, and how frequently they are recommended in key decision-making moments.
By helping brands better understand the emerging AI landscape, Kip AIR creates a new layer of strategic intelligence designed for a future where recommendation engines increasingly influence consumer behavior.
Stronger Partnerships. Greater Impact.
Innovation is accelerated through collaboration.
Throughout 2025, Kepler continued expanding its strategic partnerships across the technology ecosystem, including deeper integrations and collaborations with organizations such as Google and Amazon.
These partnerships help bring new capabilities, enhanced measurement approaches, and emerging AI solutions to clients more quickly, creating opportunities to drive stronger business outcomes across commerce, media, and customer experience.
Combined with our proprietary technology investments, these relationships strengthen our ability to deliver connected solutions that bridge strategy, activation, measurement, and growth.
Building What's Next
Being recognized as Digiday's Most Innovative Media Agency for a second consecutive year is an honor, but more importantly, it reinforces the direction of the work we are doing alongside our clients and partners.
As media, commerce, and AI continue to converge, Kepler remains focused on building the tools, intelligence, and capabilities that help brands grow in a rapidly evolving environment.
Innovation isn't a destination. It's a continuous commitment to what comes next.
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