The Republik

The Republik has decades of experience executing innovative ideas covering every facet of integrated marketing communications from corporate ID packages to multi-million dollar television campaigns. In addition to developing internationally acclaimed business-building concepts for clients such as Triumph Boats, Fayetteville Area CVB and Consolidated Shoe Company brands like nicole and Palladium, our partners have also helped create and grow some of the most successful brands of the last two decades.

Brands like Pepsi, Lipton Brisk, RCA, Aetna, Absolut, Bermuda Tourism to name just a few.

The Republik partners have also been behind some of the most successful new product launches in the last decade. These include, RCA’s Digital Satellite System, Smirnoff Ice (the most successful new product launch in UDV’s history), Frito-Lay’s Wow! Chips and Lifesavers Holes.

Testimonials

At The Republik, we have a bad habit of coming up with ideas that require programming that's never been attempted before. Impossible to execute ideas. For these ideas, the only developer we trust is Rob Ruchte of Thirdparty Labs.

Here's how we described what we wanted him to do for our website:

"The site needs to be filled with little animated spheres that move with liquid fluidity and cling to our clients' brand names like bubbles clinging to a piece of food floating in a glass of effervescent beer. Oh yeah, and the bubbles need to change colors based on the user's input and we need a real simple to use CMS to change clients whenever we want."

Not only did Rob and his team deliver the above, they delivered it on time, under budget and even better than we imagined. In fact, CA picked it as one of their Web Picks of the Week.

Or how about the time we asked for a fully functional social networking site where users could upload and share videos, photos, podcasts on message boards for 65 different college sports teams - in less than three weeks - including time for us to design the darn thing. Did Rob shake his head and say, "No way. Can't be done?" Of course not. "Can't" is simply not in Rob's vocabulary.

I could go on and on about how great Third Party Labs is and tell you about other amazing projects we've collaborated on but right now, I need to think of some more impossible ideas for them to execute for a few of our other clients.

So, if you're smart you'll consider Thirdparty Labs for your next project.
If you're really lucky, you'll hire them before I do.

David Smith,
ECD, EVP, Partner

It's difficult to describe what working with Rob is like, but let me give it a shot: reliable, flexible, honest, friendly, genuine, hard-working enabler, bend-over-backwards, intelligent, extremely creative, get-it-done team player, always prompt, trustworthy, very valuable, incredibly quick, extremely focused, multi-multitasking, bad ass.

And for those who don't know me..., I rarely hand out compliments.

Rob has spoiled me through the years. Not a single person in his industry can come close. I consider it a privilege to have Rob at my side on any project.

Robert Shaw West,
Chairman/CEO

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