Fact-checked agency profile
Orbit Media Studios
Chicago web design and development aimed at lead generation, not a brand-only engagement
Vetting score 66.5 / 100 · $50,000+
Orbit Media Studios is a Chicago web design and development studio. Its site dates the client-service practice to 2001 and states that strategists, designers, and developers work in-house.
Expert review
Orbit's published offer is narrower than a global product network: design, build, and optimize marketing sites so they rank and convert. That is useful for a Chicago shortlist when the job is a lead-generating website, and it is not a substitute for a multi-region product system.
The studio's history page says Andy Crestodina and Barrett Lombardo incorporated the client-service company in 2001. The Chicago web-design page publishes the Ravenswood office address.
Directory vetting score
66.5 / 100
Weighted from five public-evidence factors (not a Clutch or Google star rating). See methodology for criteria weights.
- Portfolio & Code Quality30%7/10
- Verified Client Results & ROI25%6/10
- Technical Competency & Stack Depth20%7/10
- Market Reputation & Business Stability15%7/10
- Post-Launch Support & SLAs10%6/10
Ideal client
Organizations that want an in-house Chicago team to design, build, and optimize a marketing site
Starting project price
$50,000+
Hourly rate
$150–$199/hr
Team size
In-house team; public profiles have cited roughly 40–50 people
Founded
2001
Specializations
Web design, Web development, SEO, Conversion optimization
Documented strengths
- + Long published operating history in Chicago
- + States that production is in-house rather than outsourced
Buyer trade-offs
- − Public positioning is lead-generation websites, which may be a poor fit for product-interface or commerce-platform work
- − Rates are not published as a standard card on the pages reviewed
Core deliverables
- Marketing websites
- SEO-oriented builds
- Optimization
Portfolio highlights
- About page says the studio has made websites since 2001 and that design, development, and optimization are in-house.
- Chicago address published at 4043 N Ravenswood Ave.
- Co-founders Andy Crestodina and Barrett Lombardo are named in the studio's own history.
Sources
Profile published on Top Website Agencies. Last fact-check: 2026-10-01.