Two Good Agencies.
Different in the Right Ways.
Lounge Lizard is a New York City web design and digital marketing agency founded in 1998. They offer web design, branding, digital marketing, mobile app development, and social media services for businesses across a range of industries.
This comparison exists to help you decide. We'll tell you what they do well, where we differ, and which option is likely the better fit for your situation. We'd rather you make the right choice — even if that's not us.
What They Offer
NYC-based, founded 1998
Lounge Lizard has operated in New York since 1998. They offer web design, branding, and digital marketing alongside mobile app development — a combination not all regional agencies cover.
Mobile app development
They include mobile app development in their service offering alongside traditional web and marketing. If a mobile app is part of your project scope, that's a capability Sidestreet doesn't offer.
Where Sidestreet Is Different
Broadcast-trained production in-house
Lounge Lizard's service model focuses on web, branding, and digital marketing. Sidestreet adds broadcast-trained video production, commercial photography, and drone aerial — built on a background in NBC News and ESPN, not commercial advertising. For projects where storytelling and production quality matter alongside the digital work, Sidestreet covers both from one team.
PR and crisis communications
Sidestreet operates a dedicated PR and crisis communications practice. For businesses that need media relations, earned media strategy, or crisis response alongside their marketing and web work, that's a service category Lounge Lizard doesn't cover.
Senior-led on every account
At an agency of Lounge Lizard's tenure and scale, execution moves through account management layers. At Sidestreet, senior involvement is on every account from kickoff through delivery — no junior handoff after the proposal is signed.
Church media practice
Sidestreet maintains a dedicated practice for faith communities — live streaming, AV infrastructure, production, and communications for churches. If that's your organization type, it's purpose-built at Sidestreet in a way it isn't at a general digital agency.
How to Decide
Lounge Lizard is probably the right choice if: you're an NYC-based business that needs web design, digital marketing, and mobile app development from a single New York agency with a long local history.
Sidestreet is probably the right choice if: you need video production and photography alongside marketing and web, want PR/crisis communications in the same engagement, need church media, or want senior-level involvement at every stage without big-agency overhead.
If you're genuinely unsure, talk to both of us before committing. Any agency worth working with will give you a straight answer about whether they're the right fit — and so will we.