HOW Protege Became Protege

It started with an idea while Chris Gruler was playing professional baseball for the Cincinnati Reds. He noticed the disconnect of athletes not branding themselves online effectively. While still playing, Chris began to search for high-level design and development talent to create these online brands for his friends. After a ton of mistakes and battles, Protege produced a great model of effectively increasing supplemental income online with their clients.

Chris thought the business of branding professional athletes was the path and foreseeable future for Protege Branding. He was wrong. Protege started getting reached out to by local businesses, E-com brands, and consumer product good companies looking to expand their digital and online ROI. Chris realized this was the correct pivot, while still being able to assist athletes if needed. Protege has since produced some of your favorite and memorable content! Many of these creative campaigns have likely put a smile on your face, additionally, you may have purchased one of these products!

Protege didn’t know what Protege was back then, and that’s okay. Now, we know.

Capabilities

We are a Group of hyper-focused marketers whose sole focus is to deliver for our clients. Very Simple.

Strategy

Brand Strategy & Creative

Branding is what our company was founded on. We want your brand and campaign to be MONUMENTAL! Only way we get to that status….you guessed it, creative!

Production

Full Scale Video Production

Full-scale commercial production, cinematography, social media assets, doc style films. Our features have been viewed over 5 million times just these last two years alone!!

Design

Development and Design

Protege has a full-scale senior-level design and development team that are SCARY good! From Apps, full back end software development, to custom WordPress sites, we can build anything!

Campaigns

Marketing Campaigns & Content Creation

Complete campaign strategy capability. Complimented with social and content strategies are the main staple in our approach. Well, obviously!

A photo of Chris Gruler MLB pitcher from marketing brending Protege agency Arizona

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Valley Guardians Chris Gruler Protégé Branding

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Our Charitable Focus

Charity is BIG in
our hearts.

Valley Guardians, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, and the PCH 50 are outstanding Charities that have a specific focus on helping children in all facets.