OuterBox, a digital marketing agency and web design company, is expanding its location in downtown Akron to accommodate an increasing staff, the firm announced Wednesday, June 20.

The company, currently housed on the 6,000-square-foot third floor of the Kaiser Building on South Main Street, will expand its offices to the second floor as well, adding about 2,500 square feet of space, CEO Justin Smith said in an email. The new space includes three conference rooms, a video room and a new area of open-concept desks.

The move allows the growing company to stay in its current building.

"We love being in downtown Akron and particularly in the Kaiser Building," Smith said in a news release. "It's been our home for the last six years and has a lot of character that we worked hard to build into it. Moving is not something we want to do, but the need to expand as we near 50 employees is a pressing issue. The second floor alleviates some of these pains for now, and we'll continue to investigate options for our next expansion, which we know is right around the corner."

Smith said the company is hoping to get an additional 3,000 square feet of space in the building, which is owned by Tony Troppe. Retail shops occupy the first floor of the building, while the Great Escape Room takes up part of the second floor.

OuterBox, founded in 2004, provides custom web design, e-commerce website development and search marketing services such as SEO and paid marketing search.

The company has doubled its staff size in the past two years, Smith said, including adding about 15 workers in the past six months. OuterBox is in the process of hiring about five to 10 more people, he said.

"The reason we can be so successful for clients is that we have the knowledge and expertise, having been in this space for almost 15 years now," chief operating officer Nick Nolan said in a prepared statement. "There are very few companies who have all of the data points we have at our fingertips. We can look at every task, how we did it and why we did it for hundreds of clients over years and years. That data is invaluable."