Where brands meet campus culture.
We put your brand in front of college students through events, brand ambassadors, and product placement. We reach them on the campuses where they live, study, and go out.
- 1,200student ambassadors
- 21campuses
- 1.44M+social reach
Brands we've worked with
Don’t just take our word for it.
Shane runs a tight ship when it comes to in-person campaigns for brands. I always offer his services to my clients since I know I can trust him to deliver.
Troy OsinoffFounder, ZaggedShane has successfully run a few event-focused campaigns for my brand and has delivered on the KPIs we wanted each time. Will continue to use his team's services in the future.
RylandHead of Marketing, StripzShane, Zach, and their team go above and beyond to make sure they deliver on what they promise for my clients. They have successfully ran a few campaigns with us, and we will be doing many more in the future. One highlight from our collaboration is their brand-focused Super Bowl show. Anything college-focused marketing too, these are your guys!
Christopher CulnaneFounder, Culnane Creative AgencyThe Beyond Beer team at Anheuser-Busch has greatly enjoyed working with ZMM for the past two Super Bowls and are already planning our third. Because of their strategic partnerships, connection to talent, and overall organization, they are also doing a country-wide live music “Night School” Tour with Beyond Beer. We keep finding more reasons to work with them because they are the best of the best!
Katie FrommeltTrade & Activation Marketing, Beyond Beer (Anheuser-Busch)Shane and his team of marketing wizards have an understanding of the college markets like no other and just know when to double down, and when to pull back. Would refer Collegiate Agency to any of my clients at Mentionstack if they needed help reaching Gen Z/College Students.
Dylan AnderFounder, Mentionstack
What we do
A modern college-marketing agency built for how students actually live.
Legacy campus-media shops sell you posters and email blasts. We connect your brand to students through the things they show up for: the events they go to, the friends they trust, and the feeds they scroll. It's marketing that feels native to campus, because it is.
Campus attention game
Students buy what keeps showing up.
Campus attention compounds through repeated, native touchpoints: the event they attend, the ambassador they trust, the product they try, and the post they see afterward.
The 7 campus touchpoints
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Your brand enters the campus feed and the places students already gather.
way to play
Events
Packages from $500 to $500,000
Put the brand inside the nightlife, welcome-week, and campus moments students actually attend.
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Brand Ambassadors
$150 / ambassador / month
Turn vetted students into the repeated voice that makes the campaign feel native on campus.
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Product Placement
$2,500 / campus
Place product directly into Greek life, events, organizations, and content moments.
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Three ways to reach students, one integrated plan.
Run them on their own or stack them together. Either way, it's one team and one plan.
Our process
How a campaign comes together.
A simple, repeatable path from goal to plan, designed to make your budget work harder.
Understand the goal
We start with the outcome you're after, whether that's awareness, trial, sign-ups, or sales, then work backward from there.
Pin down the audience
Which students, which schools, which scenes. We define exactly who we're trying to reach and where they already are.
Stretch the budget
We map spend to impact so every dollar shows up on the ground and online, with no waste and no vanity metrics.
Build the media plan
Events, ambassadors, and product placement combined into one plan built to actually move your number.
Campus network
On the campuses that matter.
The markets our network spans and is launching across: big-ten towns, SEC country, and major metros where students live, study, and go out.
- Ohio StateColumbus, OH
- WisconsinMadison, WI
- MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN
- IowaIowa City, IA
- Michigan StateEast Lansing, MI
- NebraskaLincoln, NE
- KansasLawrence, KS
- FloridaGainesville, FL
- USFTampa, FL
- TulaneNew Orleans, LA
- LSUBaton Rouge, LA
- Ole MissOxford, MS
- South CarolinaColumbia, SC
- NC StateRaleigh, NC
- SyracuseSyracuse, NY
- RutgersNew Brunswick, NJ
- MarylandCollege Park, MD
- SMUDallas, TX
- UT AustinAustin, TX
- Arizona StateTempe, AZ
- San Diego StateSan Diego, CA
Work
The playbook, proven.
How events, ambassadors, and product placement move brands, shown through real campaign case studies and selected industry references.
Why us
The difference between reaching students and resonating with them.
Culturally native
We don't study campus culture from the outside. We run it, so your brand shows up fluent, not forced.
On the ground and online
Physical activations and social content working together, so a moment on campus becomes a moment in the feed.
A vetted student network
Real students, screened and trained, not a spreadsheet of random handles.
Turnkey execution
Strategy, staffing, logistics, and reporting handled. You get the results without the operational lift.
Get paid to rep brands you actually love.
Join the ambassador network. Post, activate on campus, and earn - cash, free product, and real experience for your resume.
Insights
Notes from the ground.
Perspective on campus marketing, culture, and campus activations.
Follow along
Campus, in real time.
Behind the scenes from activations and campus leaders across the network.
The Gen-Z campus marketing guide
A no-fluff playbook for reaching college students in 2026 - events, ambassadors, and product placement that actually convert.
Let's talk
Ready to reach students?
Tell us what you're launching. We'll come back with a plan for how to put it in front of the right campuses.