Megan Lally
The agency’s first CEO — the operator behind Highdive’s independent growth.
Independent creative agency · Chicago & New York · Est. 2016
The leap is
the point.
We make the ads people are still talking about on Monday — the shop that topped the USA TODAY Super Bowl Ad Meter multiple years running, with the healthiest client relationships in the business.
The leaps that landed
Selected films — their own work. A fraction of the reel; the full library drops in at handoff.
Batman vs. Bateman
Not all protection is the same. Jason Bateman meets the Dark Knight — proof a :30 can out-swing the movie it borrows from.
Groundhog Day
Bill Murray relives the best day on repeat — the spot that topped the Ad Meter and defined the game.
Comfortable
Jason Momoa takes it all off at the front door. A whole nation, suddenly at ease in its own home.
Golden Memories
Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen turn a single bag of chips into a lifetime — the ad that made a snack feel like a story.
Stanley Cup Playoffs
The rawest moment in sport, cut to feel it — the league’s biggest stage, made bigger.
Raccoon Recycling Force
A crew of very committed raccoons recycles the paperboard bottle. The Freshmaker, reforested.
Brands that jumped with us
What the leap earned
#1
USA TODAY Super Bowl Ad Meter — multiple years running
3
Emmy nominations for commercial work
2016
Founded & independently owned — Chicago
$42M
2024 revenue — up from ~$32M in 2023
- Ad Age Small Agency of the Year, 2020
- Campaign US Independent Agency of the Year, 2025
- Ad Age Best Agencies, 2024 & 2025
Figures sourced from Ad Age, Campaign US, USA TODAY Ad Meter and PR Newswire. Displayed in a redesign concept — Highdive confirms final figures at handoff.
The idea
Anyone can make an ad. We make the jump — the bet that only pays off if it’s brave.
Highdive is built on a simple, stubborn promise: the healthiest client and agency relationships in the world. No holding-company layers, no house style to protect — just a room full of people who’d rather be talked about than be safe. That’s the leap. It’s the whole point.
“The healthiest client and agency relationships in the world.”— Highdive’s founding promise
Who’s on the board
Mark Gross
Co-founder. Left big-agency life to build a shop that bets bigger.
Chad Broude
Co-founder · Ad Age 40 Under 40.
Nimisha Jain
Leads the strategy that makes the brave idea the right one.
Chicago · HQ
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 1710
Chicago, IL 60654
New York
56 Greene Street
New York, NY 10012
A concept from Intense Visions
Your work is fearless. Your site should be too.
The current highdiveus.com is clean and it works — but for the shop that owns the Super Bowl code, a tidy portfolio grid undersells the swing. This is a concept for a homepage that feels like a Highdive film: cinematic scale, one committed idea, and a page that performs the leap instead of just describing it.
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Lighter, faster, sharper. The whole hero is type on color — no multi-megabyte hero video to stall on a phone. Built on Cloudflare’s edge with a designed share card and real structured data.
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One ownable idea. “The leap is the point” threads the mark, the motion, and the copy — a homepage as considered as a :30 spot.
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Built to grow. A reel CMS your team updates without a developer, per-campaign case pages, and analytics that show which work converts.
Concept designed & built by Intense Visions · chad@intensevisions.com
