marketing design founded 1999 area served worldwide key people aaron shapiro ceo number of employees 700 parent interpublic group of companies website hugeinc.com huge is a digital agency providing strategy marketing design and technology services to fortune 100 companies . the company was founded in 1999 and was named the fastest growing marketing agency in 2009 by advertising age . huge currently when has offices in brooklyn los angeles portland san francisco washington d.c. london s o paulo rio de janeiro and atlanta . since 2008 huge has been a member the interpublic group of companies . 1 2 contents 1 structure 2 history 3 management 4 references 5 external links structure edit huge employs around 700 people . 3 most employees work in the company s dumbo headquarters . 4 staff work across seven main disciplines including strategy analytics research visual and interactive design technology interactive marketing and social engagement . the company also operates an audience monetization division . huge s designers are evenly divided between graphic designers and interaction designers who collaborate with each other while also working with others in the company from other disciplines . 5 6 history edit huge was founded in 1999 by david skokna and sasha kirovski childhood friends and former colleagues from advertising agency deutsch s interactive department and originally operated out of an apartment in brooklyn . after a couple years david and sasha brought on gene liebel as a partner and then aaron shapiro as an employee then partner . in october of 2010 skokna and kirovski departed huge and aaron shapiro took on the role of ceo . the agency s first client was ikea who hired huge to redesign its websites . 6 in 2006 the company opened an office in sweden 7 and in 2007 the agency expanded into bigger premises in dumbo and opened an office in los angeles . 8 9 huge was acquired by the interpublic group in 2008 10 and was named the fastest growing company across all marketing disciplines by ad age . 11 in 2010 interpublic group announced an investment estimated to be between 8 million and 10 million to accelerate global expansion for huge with new offices in brazil china singapore and japan . 6 in october 2015 huge was named 2015 imedia agency award finalist for agency of the year . 12 management edit huge is owned by the interpublic group which bought a 51 % stake in the firm . company partners own the remainder of the agency . in 2010 aaron shapiro was named ceo . shapiro joined the company in 2005 as its 10th employee . other agency executives include shirley au coo and raj singhal cfo . 6 references edit huge promotes stewart to ecd chow to cd . mediapost . 30 july 2010 . art nouveau 2.0 . omma magazine . 1 november 2010 . novellino teresa . how a mid size company like huge still feels like a startup . retrieved 10 october 2013 . a tour of new york s startup silicon beach . fortune november 2010 . 6 december 2010 . mattel designs web properties with advertisers in mind . susan kuchinskas clickz . 22 november 2010 . a b c d warren berger november 2010 . huge . communications arts 38 47 . cite error invalid ref tag ; name huge profile defined multiple times with different content see the help page . huge inc pt . 2006 huge inc. 2007 archived july 12 2011 at the wayback machine . huge inc. 2007 archived february 22 2011 at the wayback machine . interpublic group 2008 ad age 2008 archived december 31 2010 at the wayback machine . finalists announced for the 2015 imedia agency awards . marketwatch . retrieved 2015 10 28 . external links edit official website net magazine profile huge v t e interpublic group of companies campbell mithun cassidy & associates fcb golin harris international gotham hill holliday huge ipg mediabrands universal mccann jack morton worldwide jay advertising mccann worldgroup mccann erickson mrm worldwide mullen advertising octagon r ga rogers & cowan the martin agency tm advertising weber shandwick retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title huge digital agency & oldid 737635836 categories companies based in new york cityadvertising agencies of the united statesinterpublic groupinternet marketing companieshidden categories pages with reference errorspages with duplicate reference namesarticles with wayback machine linkspages using infobox company with unsupported parametersvague or ambiguous time from september 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 september 2016 at 03 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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