| Type | Digital Agency, held by Cheil Worldwide |
|---|---|
| Industry | Advertising, Marketing |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | New York, New York, USA |
| Number of locations | 3 |
| Area served | World wide |
| Key people |
Founders: Robert Hodgin Rick Webb Jay Sun Benjamin Palmer |
| Website | http://www.barbariangroup.com/ |
The Barbarian Group is an interactive marketing firm founded in Boston, but currently headquartered in New York, with offices in Boston and San Francisco. Founded in 2001, the company reportedly works with traditional agencies and clients on the development of ordinary and viral web marketing. Past projects include the Subservient Chicken for Burger King, AnyFilms for Samsung, and the Beer Cannon for Milwaukee's Best. The company's client list includes Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Margeotes Fertitta Powell, Arnold Worldwide, Crispin Porter and Bogusky, Young & Rubicam, and Wieden+Kennedy. In late 2009, the company sold a majority stake to Cheil Worldwide.[1]
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In addition the software, the Barbarian Group has released a few software titles.
Plainview is a full-screen browser based on Apple's WebKit that runs on Mac OSX. Plainview is designed to be used for presentations and kiosk mode where the user wants a minimalistic user interface.
Magnetosphere is an iTunes visualizer plug-in. A slightly modified version of Magnetosphere has become the default visualizer for iTunes starting with version 8.0.
Cinder C++ framework for writing cross-platform native applications that take advantage of advanced graphics, audio, video, networking, and image processing. Released in 2010, Cinder is open source under a Simplified BSD license.