Grow
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- Founded
- 2004
- Employees
- 51-200
- Offices
- 1
About Grow
Grow is an independent digital experience, brand innovation, and creative technology agency based in Norfolk, Virginia. Founded in 2004, it creates interactive experiences, campaigns, and digital platforms for brands and organizations. Its work brings together design, technology, and storytelling across websites, applications, installations, and event experiences.
The agency organizes its services around digital activations and digital destinations. Activations include multi-channel campaigns, physical-digital installations, event-based experiences, and social content. Destinations range from immersive websites and interactive microsites to product demonstrations, digital tools, mini-games, augmented and virtual reality experiences, brand websites, and digital products. These formats support work that can live online, connect to a physical setting, or extend across several channels.
Interactive experiences and platforms
Grow's portfolio spans technology, sportswear, gaming and entertainment, food and beverage, retail, arts and culture, and nonprofit organizations. Its Google projects include the Creator Labs platform, Pixel launch experiences and interactive demonstrations, a small-business marketing materials generator, and a digital-physical holiday retail installation. For adidas, the agency developed event-based interactive highlight films for marathon runners, while its Don Julio work translated Jalisco into an immersive web experience.
Its cultural and educational projects include the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's brand website and archival digital experience, alongside the New-York Historical Society's Women & The American Story educational platform. Other work includes the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's No Escape Room interactive film, Spotify onboarding experiences, a Madden NFL real-time meme generator for EA and Google, and digital brand platforms for PING and the Tory Burch Foundation. Together, these projects illustrate the agency's work across campaign experiences, interactive storytelling, and substantial digital destinations.
Company development
The business began as Drewmedia Studios, initially creating web solutions and Flash-based applications. It adopted the name Grow Interactive in 2006 and later shortened its public brand to Grow. Throughout that development, the agency retained Norfolk as its primary base while building a portfolio for national and international clients.
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Leadership and working model
- Founder Drew Ungvarsky serves as CEO and Executive Creative Director. He studied computer science at Old Dominion University.
- Grow describes its production model as entirely in-house, bringing together technologists, art directors, copywriters, and producers.
Industry recognition
The research reports more than 14 Cannes Lions, 37 FWAs, and recognition from Ad Age's Small Agency of the Year and Best Places to Work programmes. It also identifies No Escape Room as a Webby Award winner and Creator Labs as an FWA Site of the Day recipient; these distinctions apply to the named projects.
Community development
Ungvarsky spearheaded Assembly's development in 2019–2021, adapting three historic department-store buildings, including the Ames & Brownley and Sears buildings, into a creative hub. Grow also spearheaded the Selden Market retail incubator in partnership with the Downtown Norfolk Council.
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Where Grow is based
- Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Norfolk offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: 400 Granby Street, Suite 200, Norfolk, VA 23510, USA Email: hello@thisisgrow.com Phone: (757) 431-7710 Opened: 2021 Current overall headquarters and anchor tenant at Assembly, following relocation from 427 Granby Street in 2021. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 427 Granby Street, Norfolk, VA 23510, USA Closed: 2021 Former premises; Grow relocated across the street to Assembly in 2021.
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