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Apparent

Creative & Production
Open roles
0
Founded
2010
Employees
201-500
Offices
5

About Apparent

Apparent is an independent Australian creative, customer experience, digital and media agency founded in 2010. The agency combines brand thinking, design, content, technology and media to help organisations build campaigns, digital products and customer experiences across business and consumer audiences.

Its work spans strategy and insight, including brand strategy, audience research, CX architecture, B2B go-to-market planning, analytics and performance measurement. Creative and content capabilities include conceptual development, art direction, copywriting, visual identity, social-first content and interactive prototypes. The agency also delivers website and product design, design systems, UX and UI audits, and digital development.

Integrated production and activation

Apparent’s production offer covers motion graphics, 3D modelling and animation, storyboarding, post-production, sound-design coordination and cross-channel asset delivery. These capabilities sit alongside media strategy, planning, programmatic buying, paid performance, search and experiential activation, enabling the agency to work across the full path from creative development to distribution.

The agency supports clients in technology, automotive, telecommunications, travel, financial services, retail, sport, government and social-impact sectors. Its client work includes assignments for Google and Google Enterprise, Cisco, VMware, LinkedIn, Volkswagen Group Australia, Audi F1 Team, Optus Business, Corporate Traveller, Vanuatu Tourism Office, Tip Top Australia, Cricket Australia, Tourism Australia, NSW Health and Transport for NSW.

Notable campaigns include Vanuatu Tourism Office and GTI’s Answer the Call and The Wake Up Call, as well as Corporate Traveller’s All Heart, No Hassle integrated B2B brand and acquisition campaign. Apparent has also undertaken digital transformation, interactive platform and CX work for Volkswagen Group Australia and the Audi F1 Team, alongside creative, motion-design and product-storytelling programmes for Google.

With a global delivery model supporting visual design, motion, digital production and technical execution, Apparent positions itself as a full-service partner for large-scale digital experiences and integrated campaigns.

More about Apparent

Leadership and workplace approach

  • Phil Smith founded Apparent and serves as CEO. Suzy Smiley is Managing Director, while the leadership team also includes Chief Creative & Experience Officer Hamish Stewart, Chief Media Officer Simon Pugh, Chief Strategy Officer Jason Hill and Executive Creative Director David Jackson.
  • The agency describes an egalitarian, “ego-free” culture focused on craft standards and employee wellbeing. Its stated workplace policies include reproductive health leave, paid summer days and gender-neutral parental leave.

Methods and recognition

  • Apparent has embedded proprietary AI workflow models across its creative and design pipelines.
  • In September 2026, it won Agency of the Year (over 50 employees) at the 44th Australian Marketing Institute Marketing Excellence Awards. Its Vanuatu Tourism work also received honours for Content & Social Media Marketing and Creative Effectiveness.
  • The agency’s workplace policies were recognised by Campaign Global among its top-five Best Places to Work worldwide.

Notable credits

8 credits
  • Answer the Call
  • The Wake Up Call
  • All Heart, No Hassle
  • Volkswagen Group Australia and Audi F1 Team digital transformation and CX work
  • Optus and Optus Business creative and marketing partnership
  • Google and Google Enterprise creative, motion design and product storytelling programmes
  • Cricket Australia creative and media management
  • Tourism Australia, Austrade, NSW Health and Transport for NSW campaigns

Offices

Where Apparent is based

5 locations
  • Sydney office

    Headquarters
    Level 4, 8 Central Avenue, South Eveleigh NSW 2015, AustraliaSydney, New South Wales, Australia
    About this office

    Global headquarters housing agency executive leadership, account service, creative direction, design, strategy, media planning and production.

  • São Paulo office

    São Paulo, Brazil

    Regional creative and motion design hub integrated with Apparent’s global design operations.

  • Brazil

    Brazil
  • Philippines

    Philippines
  • San Francisco office

    San Francisco, California, United States

    International client and delivery hub.

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