About Big Rush Marketing

Big Rush Marketing has been dedicated to excellence in digital advertising since it was founded by Clayton Clark and Jonathon Becker in 2016. The two met at a full-service agency servicing franchise locations across the United States and Canada. After hearing countless business owners share frustrations about working with agencies that didn’t understand both advertising at a local level and advertising at a massive scale, Clayton & Jon launched Big Rush Marketing. The goal of Big Rush is to give businesses the best possible return on investment by building custom data analysis for each client and fostering an entire team that has verified expertise in managing digital advertising. You can read more about our expertise and accolades below.

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The Founders

Clayton Clark

Co-Founder • V.P. of Business Development & Partnerships

After graduating from Murray State University with honors while also competing as an NCAA DI tennis player, Clayton started his professional career as a television reporter working at KXMC in North Dakota and then KMPH in California. His work as a reporter earned him Emmy nominations as well as one viral video.

In 2014, Clayton and his wife welcomed their first child, which led to a desire to work a more family-friendly schedule. His work on the digital side of television helped transition him to working in digital advertising. By 2017, Clayton became one of the first certified advertising experts in the United States, putting Big Rush Marketing on the radar for many businesses struggling to succeed in the highly competitive and ever-changing digital landscape.

Clayton later made Big Rush one of the first agencies in the world to be an expert-certified Meta advertising agency, and in 2023, he collaborated with Meta’s corporate team on improving one of the expert-level Meta advertising exams. Now instead of taking the tests, he helps write them.

On top of his work in Meta advertising, Clayton is Google Partner Certified and was recently named one of the Top St. Lousians To Know To Succeed in Business for the 2nd time (2019 & 2023).

Jonathon Becker

Co-Founder, V.P. of Franchise Advertising

Jon is a graduate of Valparaiso University and immediately entered the digital marketing industry after college. His first work covered organic social marketing when businesses were first able to reach customers organically on social media.

Jon later explored his creativity by managing graphic design work along with his copywriting and social marketing tasks.

As the world of digital marketing transitioned to a greater focus on paid advertising, Jon began growing his skills in the paid media side of platforms.

Jon is now a Meta Certified advertising expert who has helped franchises all over the country find advertising solutions that can help businesses grow in foot traffic and online sales. His combination of digital marketing knowledge and incredible capabilities with spreadsheets have allowed him to create systems within Big Rush that can immediately diagnose advertising and business challenges as well as take great advertising results and scale them quickly.

Outside of the office, you can find Jon as a regular chicken wing consumer and Chicken Wing Blogger.

Leadership Team

Courtney Clark

Director of Operations

With over 15 years of experience in the marketing industry and more than a decade in project and account management, Courtney leads our internal business operations and oversees our account management team. She is also the Vice President of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce of St. Louis and on the advisory board of the Very Asian Foundation. Courtney loves traveling and trying new food with her family, and she documents these adventures on Courtney’s Counter.

Taylor Robison

Director of Google Advertising

Taylor joined Big Rush in January of 2020 after working as a Google Ads Specialist with several of the area’s most renowned digital advertising agencies. Now with nearly 10 years of experience, Taylor supervises a team of Google Advertising Professionals. In this role, he helps keep everyone up to date on best practices, and serves as an extra eye for difficult problems. He’s also grown his expertise in Analytics and helped many clients with the transition to Google Analytics 4 in 2023.

Anna Cruzen

Creative Director

Anna makes ideas come to life in visually appealing & impactful ways for Big Rush’s clients. She’s been a valuable member of the team since she joined in 2019 after graduating with a degree in Graphic Design from Webster University in 2017 and spending 2018 working abroad in South Korea. She coordinates the design of the images and videos used in our campaigns to ensure they’re optimized to look their best and produce results.

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Accolades

Over the years as the Big Rush team has grown to include multiple experts in multiple fields, we’ve had the honor of gaining several awards & recognitions both as a team and individually.

Top 100 Small Agencies

We have been identified as one of the top 100 Small Digital Marketing Agencies in the Midwest. Criteria for selection were based on current growth and potential influence on the market.

Meta Certified Experts

We are one of a few agencies in the country to pass Meta’s expert-level Certification courses, formerly known as Blueprint Certifications. Every year we test our knowledge to prove we are still using current best practices.

MDMC Presenter & Panelist

We’ve been a part of multiple presentations at the Midwest Digital Marketing Conference. In one expert panel for Facebook advertising, we helped marketing professionals better understand Meta advertising. In another presentation, Clayton gave a deep dive into the consequences of objective selection in Meta Advertising campaigns.