Special Circumstances is a consulting studio specializing in media and branding strategy for clients who respect their audience. We are unique. We counsel brands from the worst of times through the best of times. We have been trusted to develop and re-imagine distinctive brands, while also developing strategies to grab the attention and loyalty of real people, not hypothetical muses or undifferentiated masses. We’re more than just theorists. We have built and sold companies and developed retail products; hired, fired, and grown entire departments from the ground up; and built media brands that have generated billions of pageviews. We understand the work behind the work. We listen to everyday people with the same respect as we do experts and executives. We have been reporters, researchers, customer service reps, burger flippers, flare-wearing steakhouse servers, landscapers, and gas station attendants—and we remember. We have line-of-sight to where the brightest minds working today aim to take their industries, as well as the row-to-hoe challenges and sacrifices of modern life.