A marketing agency that specializes in industry-defining brand partnerships & collaborations

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Case studies

Our team ideates, negotiates, and activates dynamic and pressworthy partnerships that move the needle.

Intuit Mailchimp

Pinterest

Laurel Road

  • “I love working with Clear Sky Collective. It's rare to find a team who is so versatile. From building a sales pipeline and coming up with innovative ideas for partners that hit their marketing objectives, to negotiations and overseeing activations, they can do it all-- and with a positive attitude and persistence. They've also helped establish partnership processes and have killer instincts about how sales & marketing teams should be organized.”

    Adam Roth, SVP Business Development & Partnerships, The Recording Academy (The GRAMMYs)

  • “The Clear Sky team is creative, a blast to work with, and has helped Mailchimp conceptualize and secure brand partners that have enhanced the Mailchimp brand experience. We love working with this team and can’t recommend them enough for any brand partnership or project management needs."

    Megan Spellman, Director, Brand Experience at Intuit Mailchimp

  • “The Clear Sky team is composed of true rockstars. They are strategic, thoughtful, super-connected, diligent, and all around wonderful to work with! They came up with out-of-the-box partnership ideas, leveraged their vast network to make connections, and ensured everyone they reached out to had a very positive experience with our brand.”

    Shiza Shahid, Founder & CEO, Our Place

  • "The Clear Sky team managed major brand activations at The Infatuation's annual food festival, EEEEEATSCON for many seasons. They also managed post-sale deliverables for brand partners inclusive of overseeing branded content, social, newsletters, and more. They are super agile--being able to oversee all components of brand partnerships, whether that be experiential or digital, and are tireless executors."

    Andrew Steinthal, Co-founder and Head of Talent Bookings and Partnerships, The Infatuation

  • "I had the pleasure of working with this team when I was Head of Marketing at Getaway. Clear Sky Collective helped build Getaway's partnerships arm and ideated and secured partnerships with incredible brands such as Away, Columbia, Origins, Eddie Bauer, Lodge Cast Iron, and more. I'd highly recommend working with this team of marketers and project managers."

    Rachel Mansfield, Marketing Executive

  • “Alexandra and Kristine are two of the most prolific modern marketers in digital media today. There is no task too big, no stone unturned. The ideation is second to none, and best yet, they take the ball and run with it. We've worked together on at least half a dozen projects and the output is always focused and flawless.”

    Brandon Perlman, Founder & CEO, Social Studies, Inc.

  • "Clear Sky Collective helped The Jane Club define our partnership revenue strategy and also came up with dynamic ideas that partners would love and project managed them from soup-to-nuts. They also secured partnerships with leading brands like NBC Peacock, Rae Wellness, Pvolve, BetterHelp, and more. We loved our experience working with this team!"

    June Diane Raphael, Founder & CEO of The Jane Club

Areas of
expertise

Pre-sale & Ideation

Our team will plug into your company to ensure we are bringing forth partnerships that suit your company values and business needs. We ideate, write proposals for, and secure both revenue-driving and co-marketing brand partnerships.

Negotiation

Our seasoned team of marketing executives will secure and negotiate with brands, talent, and/or influencers of your choice to create dynamic, multifaceted programs that break through the clutter.

Activations & Project Management

We pride ourselves on exceptional client services. To complete the partnerships cycle, our seasoned marketers will bring the partnerships to life and deliver on all KPIs.

Strategy & infrastructure

Are you a company without a brand partnerships team or playbook? We’ll start your brand partnerships department and give you the infrastructure and tools to forge ahead beyond our work together.

Press

Our story

Alex Friedman & Kristine Keller

CO-FOUNDERS

Clear Sky Collective was founded by partnership and integrated marketing experts Alex Freidman and Kristine Keller. Alex and Kristine met while building the multi-million dollar brand partnerships business at The Wing (a global network of co-working spaces). They noticed that brand partnerships are more important than ever for driving a business forward. Partnerships not only increase revenue but they also acquire new customers, yield significant lead gen, earned media, and more.

Leveraging expertise that they acquired from years at The New Yorker, The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), & start-up space, they formed Clear Sky Collective and hired an incredible team of integrated marketing & partnership experts.

For each client, Clear Sky customizes their services and expertise to best deliver on marketing goals and objectives. Brands can either tap into a full suite of services or simply select one (e.g. pre-sale, post-sale, or securing brand partners).

We’d love to hear from you! Please reach out at info@clearskycollective.com