About us

Who are we?

JPD was founded by James Peltekis in 1994 with a huge vision, to be Australia’s leading independent marketing and advertising agency. His forward-thinking, big ambitions and relentless drive has seen this become a reality, and this is only the beginning.

At JPD, we love to push the boundaries and take brands to the next level. We’ve created an environment where our people can thrive and are not constrained by convention. We’re privileged to work with some of the world’s leading brands across a full spectrum of industries and our high calibre of work and impressive results has forged long-standing relationships with our loyal clients.

We’re agile and adaptive, dynamic, and flexible.
We embrace change and experimentation.
We’re bold, optimistic, resourceful, and strategic.
We nurture our people of unique professionals.
We turn up every day to make a difference.
We have fun and are proud of who we are, and we love what we do.

We build brands for
a better tomorrow

Better for our people

Our people are the heart of our business and we’ve always taken great pride in creating an amazing workplace atmosphere, developing a culture where our team can achieve their highest potential and make a positive impact every day. We encourage working hard and celebrating wins and are delighted to have been officially certified as a Great Place to Work.

Ideas can come from anywhere and anyone, so our team are always encouraged to get involved across the business. This creates a fun, challenging, and rewarding place to grow your career, provides our clients with the best talent on their side and results in staff that want to stay with us.

Better for our clients

Long-lasting relationships enable us to deeply understand your business objectives. We dig into the heart and soul of your brief to provide commercial outcomes that will get things off the ground quickly and effectively. By taking a customer-centric approach, we put emphasis on excellent customer experience to build brand equity. With frequently changing trends, values, demands, and lifestyles, we make sure we are constantly gaining insights to learn, grow and give more.

Better for the community

We love to work with like-minded people, those with a genuine desire to have a valuable role in our society. Job satisfaction is our ultimate reward, and we get this every time we produce something we are proud to put our name on. From innovation that reduces our footprint, to launching client sustainability initiatives, we take every opportunity to present solutions that benefit our planet, our local communities and everything in-between, always with tomorrow’s best interests in mind.

At JPD, we aspire to MADDness – that’s ‘Making A Difference Daily’ – we nurture a culture that encourages giving back and doing good… and that’s why we love what we do.

Our people are the heart of our business and we’ve always taken great pride in creating an amazing workplace atmosphere, developing a culture where our team can achieve their highest potential and make a positive impact every day. We’re delighted to have been officially recognised as a Great Place to Work.

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Community

Our team considers that there is a high sense of “family” at JPD.

84%

Camaraderie

Our team has a high sense of enjoyment in our workplace.

84%

Team

Our team is willing to go the extra mile for other team members.

Our values


C A R E

Collaboration

There’s no I in agency. We need each other and our clients, working together creates success and success is best when shared. It’s very rare that one person takes all the glory, we prefer to play as a team both internally and externally.

Authenticity

We’re so lucky to work in an industry where we’re spoiled with diversity, inclusivity, and personality. JPD encourages its people to be their own unique selves and show up to work feeling comfortable. We don’t put anyone in a box, and we love a bit of individuality, quirkiness, and self-expression.

Respect

R.E.S.P.E.C.T Find out what it means to JPD.

When respect is earned, trust is gained. We respect each other, our clients, and our community because we firmly believe that those who act with respect, will be respected in return.

Excellence

We’re here to make a difference and make a better tomorrow and that won’t happen if we settle for average. It takes big thinking, skilled delivery, and advanced innovation to set the standard. It’s what our clients have come to expect and what we promise to deliver.