MARCUSANDMUSE
Independent programmatic advertising consultancy Est. Ottawa, Canada

Two decades inside ad tech. Now working for you.

Marcus and Muse is a different kind of agency. At our core, we solve problems — and we've turned that experience into a curated media environment for advertisers, and a community where the local industry connects and learns.

Curated. Consultative. Community.

A curated approach to media buying. A consulting practice built on insider knowledge. And a community that exists because Ottawa's industry deserved a room of its own.

01 Curated

TV & streaming advertising, hand-picked

Curated is how we buy: quality-vetted television and streaming inventory, transparent supply paths, and reporting in plain language. For advertisers directly — and for agencies, under your own brand.

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02 Consultative

Media strategy from both sides of the transaction

Two decades inside SSPs, connected TV platforms, and ad serving — plus active buying today. Most shops run one channel in isolation; we plan and buy across the whole system, which is why performance is better.

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03 Community

Founder of the Ottawa Ad Club

The professional community for Ottawa’s advertising and media industry — the room where the city’s agencies, media owners, and marketers actually meet.

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Why it works

We're not just buyers.

Most agencies buy media through platforms they've only ever seen from the outside. We spent two decades inside them — at Sharethrough on the supply side and Samsung Ads in connected TV — so we know where the money goes, where performance leaks, and how channels interact.

That's the difference between running a channel and understanding the whole transaction. Single-channel operators optimize their silo. We plan across television, streaming, out-of-home, display, and social — because that's how your customer actually experiences advertising.

The discipline to see it clearly. The imagination to fix it.

Curated · Consultative · Community

Bring us the media plan — or the revenue problem — you can’t quite crack. We’ll bring two decades of supply-chain pattern recognition.

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