Make Your City Cinematic
Your people, places, and origins make you unique.
Down every block and inside every home and storefront reside stories waiting for you to tell.
Join Our Session at the
2026 Iowa League of Cities Conference!
Your Community is Cinematic: Telling Your Town’s Story
Thursday, September 24
9:30 – 10:30 AM
Isle Casino Hotel Bettendorf, Salon C
Years of experience working with cities of all sizes on initiatives big and small—from engaging community members to boosting tourism—have made us experts in the field.
Marketing strategy. Communication planning. Optimizing your website for peak accessibility.
We know refreshingly meaningful creative work puts your community centerstage.
Put Your City on the Map
Realize the power of location analytics.
Placer.ai aggregates information from hundreds of mobile applications to provide you with powerful data centered around both your residents and visitors. From evaluating top attractions to tracking growth and movement trends, see how we can use Placer.ai to give your city valuable insights and a competitive edge.
Your Website is Your Front Door
People go to your website as their one source of truth for most information. It’s often your first impression to both prospective visitors and community members. These are your website non-negotiables:
Easy to navigate • Dynamic and interactive • Visually appealing
A modern, accessible, and well-designed website will keep people engaged, help them find what they’re looking for, and prompt action.
Seeing is believing, so just look at these before-and-after photos from our recent web project with the City of Eldridge.
Dyersville: The Dream Goes Beyond the Field
We partnered with the city to craft a brand campaign that spoke to current citizens, visitors, and prospective residents. Complete with storytelling videos, a new logo, and rollout plan, we showed that Dyersville has plenty of magic—everywhere you look.
Website Accessibility Deadline Approaching
The deadline for website accessibility requirements is April 2027. Are you ready?
Discover how we worked with the City of Eldridge to transform their website to meet accessibility requirements, provide an easy user experience, and meet specific city needs. And we did it in a matter of months.
de Novo had a streamlined process to help us develop the perfect site to fit our needs. It was quick and easy. It has only been live a few weeks, but we have received many comments from residents giving the city accolades for creating this new user-friendly website.
—Jeffrey Martens, Assistant City Administrator, City of Eldrigde
Community Branding is Your Foundation
Start with determining what your community loves about and envisions for itself.
The key is engaging with your residents and building a vision together, then empowering those people to become ambassadors. We can then bring that to life through messaging, video, and design.
Our approach—research first, creativity from within, and strategy based in experience—helps your community reach its goals.
We Wrote the Book on Community Engagement
Well, the e-book. Discover how to engage your residents, define your city’s brand, and position your community for future growth and success.
How Can We Help?
Let’s make meaningful work. Fill out the form below to get our wheels turning.
