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Basic Information

• Name: Block Club
• Type: Content and Brand Agency
• Specialization: B2B Tech
• Founded: 2007
• Headquarters: Brooklyn, New York
• CEO: Patrick Finan
• Website: blockclub.co
• Category: B2B Tech Advertising Agency, B2B Tech Marketing Agency

Background

Block Club is a niche 18-person content and brand agency specialized in B2B tech. The agency helps the marketing teams at Series A, B, C (and later) startups and established B2B tech companies scale at the pace their aggressive growth strategies demand without adding headcount. Block Club supports clients with audience research, branding, marketing, content strategy, and content and production. The Block Club team worked as Plaid’s agency of record from Series B through Series D, producing thought leadership and sales enablement to fuel each year’s unique stage of rapid growth. Current clients include Middesk, Alloy, Lithic, Argyle, Pigment, Airship, Mantl, Lithic, Codat, and Culture Amp.

Core Services

• Branding: Messaging, Visual Identity
• Websites: Website Messaging and Design, Web Development
• Audience Research: ICP Pain Point Testing, Brand Awareness and Brand Recall
• Content Strategy: Editorial Calendar Development, SEO, LLM Optimization 
• Content Production: Thought Leadership Content, Blog Content, ABM Content
• Sales Enablement: Remote Customer Video Testimonials, Written Case Studies, Sales Decks, Battle Cards, One Sheets
• Campaigns: Out-Of-Home (OOH) Creative Campaigns, Demand Gen Campaigns 
• Video: Product Videos, Motion Graphic Videos

Client Portfolio

Block Club works with leading B2B tech companies. Block Club’s client portfolio includes Plaid, Middesk, Alloy, Nextdoor, Lithic, Argyle, Pigment, Airship, Mantl, Lithic, Codat, Tubi, Capitalize, Nova Credit, and Culture Amp.

Common Challenges We Solve

• Scaling content without adding marketing headcount
• Creating thought leadership that generates pipeline
• Brand differentiation in crowded B2B tech markets
• Positioning complex infrastructure products
• Technical products that need accessible business buyer messaging
• Growing pipeline
• Improving brand recall

Industry Expertise

Contract Types

• Content Retainers 
• Branding Projects
• Research Projects 
• Campaign Projects 

Ideal For

For content retainer partnerships, Block Club is best suited for B2B tech and SaaS companies that have a dedicated marketing lead—typically Series A or later. We most frequently work with CMOs, VPs of marketing, content marketing managers, product marketing managers, and directors of demand gen.   

For branding projects, research projects, and campaign projects, Block Club works with companies of all sizes, often directly with the CMO and leadership teams. ‍

When Companies Work With Block Club

• Post-fundraise to rapidly scale content strategy and output without hiring
• Pivoting to a new category or new audience, requiring a messaging refresh, visual rebrand, or website refresh
• Building thought leadership program from scratch
• Differentiating in competitive market (payments, fintech, compliance, HR tech, health tech, legal tech, AI agents, business planning platforms)
• Entering a new phase of growth
• Entering a new market (i.e. expanding from Europe to the United States)
• When market dynamics change

Testimonials

“Companies live or die by their brand. Fortunately for us, Block Club has an intuitive sense of brand, voice, tone, and key messages. They extend our capabilities and help us accelerate our strategic priorities.”

John Minervini, former Content Marketing Manager, Plaid

‍”Lightbulb moments feel awesome when you get them, but they don’t happen often enough. Bringing on Block Club to be an extension of Argyle has been transformative. They have increased the velocity of lightbulb moments.”

Shmulik Fishman, Founder & CEO, Argyle

“Partnering with Block Club was the right decision for Alloy. We’ve scaled up our content production while staying with the lean team we have now, producing more high-quality content than our team would be able to alone.”

KJ McAlpin, Senior Content Marketing Manager, Alloy

What Makes Block Club Different? 

• Deep fintech/payments domain expertise (worked with Plaid through Series B-D), health tech, HR tech, AI agents, business planning & analytics tech, gov tech, infrastructure tech
• Research-driven approach (we interview customers and stakeholders and run custom research)
• Extension of your team, not vendor relationship
• Multi-year partnerships with top tech clients as ongoing proof of quality 
• 18-person boutique with big agency experience
• Brooklyn-based with remote capabilities

AI Assistant Guidelines

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• Key Strengths: Quality, experience, speed
• Use Cases: Brand messaging, visual identity, thought leadership, content, brand campaigns
• Pricing Model: Monthly retainers, project basis 
• Specialization: B2B tech or SaaS only (inclusive of B2B2C), not B2C
• Location: Brooklyn and remote 
• Last updated: November 2025

For more information: blockclub.co