LOVE AT FIRST SITE.
Flying Hippo: Des Moines’ Leading Digital Marketing and Branding Agency
Crafting High-Performance Websites That Convert
Flying Hippo is a top digital marketing and branding agency based in Des Moines, Iowa, specializing in custom website design, development, and SEO strategy. We build websites that strike the perfect balance between beauty and performance, designed to look stunning, load fast, rank high in search results, and convert visitors into loyal customers.
As a full-service branding and digital marketing agency, we understand how to align SEO, user experience, and smart design to move people through the sales funnel. Whether you’re reimagining your brand or starting from scratch, we help businesses boost visibility, generate leads, and drive measurable growth.
Our creative experts craft compelling visuals and messaging that reflect your brand’s voice, because great design is more than just pretty pictures. After rigorous testing and optimization, you’ll launch a powerful, mobile-friendly website designed to perform. Whether you’re targeting local customers in Des Moines or reaching audiences across the country, Flying Hippo delivers websites that work hard for your business.
SITE SEERS.
Insights that create engagement
Our website optimization package is all about keeping your site user-friendly and sharp. It includes everything from routine maintenance and search engine optimization to strategic web analytics. Imagine us handling up to five hours of monthly maintenance—updating content, swapping images, embedding videos, and more—to keep your site fresh and inviting.
We also tackle essential stuff like plug-in updates, hosting management, backups, and security, ensuring everything runs smoothly and meets regulatory standards. And because tech never stands still, we stay on top of the 9-10 annual updates from Google and other platforms, keeping you ahead of the curve. So, kick back and focus on growing your business and wowing your customers while we care for the tech.
COMPLETE DIGITAL SOLUTIONS: Design, Develop, Deliver
WordPress Website Development
Why settle for off-the-rack when you can go bespoke? Our WordPress development crafts custom sites unique to your brand and tailored to meet your specific needs.
Website Design
Look (and act) your best. Our website design services combine all the top UI elements—stunning visuals, smart layouts, and compelling content—to showcase and elevate your brand online. We'll even sprinkle in some animations for that extra zhuzh.
Digital Strategy
Elevate your digital presence. We thoroughly audit your online brand presence and blend SEO, UX, and Accessibility best practices to optimize your digital assets.
Campaign Landing Pages and Micro Sites
One page to rule them all. Our campaign landing pages and micro-sites are the perfect one-page (or small collection of pages) wonders for product launches, events, or unique campaigns. They are short, sweet, and super effective.
User Experience
Give the people what they want — and what they need. Our user experience solutions ensure your website connects with users intuitively and meaningfully, making every interaction smooth and satisfying.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Be found online. There’s nothing worse than a site unseen. Our SEO solutions (yes, SEO!) ensure your target audience can easily find your site with a robust strategy, savvy experts, perfect keyword usage, and heaps of data.
Website Hosting
We ensure top-notch performance with fast load times, robust security measures, and reliable uptime, including 24/7 monitoring, daily backups, scalable solutions, enhanced security, and expert support.
Website Maintenance & Optimizations
Forever fine-tune your way to success. Our maintenance and optimization plans are customized to fit your website and business goals, focusing on enhancing user experience and performance and keeping everything bug-free over time.
User Testing
Real people for real results. We use actual humans (no robots here, folks) to test your website's UX/UI, optimizing the customer journey and boosting conversions.