INSIGHTS

Perspective on craft, strategy, and modern content creation

Thoughtful observations on visual storytelling, brand building, and the evolving role of content in today’s marketplace. Our insights draw from hands-on production experience, strategic marketing thinking, and years working with food, beverage, product, and CPG brands navigating growth.

Micro-Influencers: What’s All The Buzz About?

Influencer marketing involves engaging influential people to share a brand’s story through their content. It can be executed in the form of brand spokespersons, celebrity endorsements, testimonials, and any other content that qualifies as social proof. Let’s dive into some of the benefits of micro-influencer marketing and evaluate how you can best leverage this technique.

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How Rich Media Enhances Your Content Strategy

A static banner at the top of a page? We’re all too used to seeing that. Chances are, you’ve become accustomed to scrolling right past one. But what if we told you that you can add sound and touch, and allow users to shake, tap, or swipe on a screen to interact with content? Those interactive elements are what we call rich media.

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Why Photography Is An Essential Element In A Brand Marketing Strategy

Great photography is important — so important, it can be the difference between closing a sale and losing a customer. With the proliferation of online shopping, product photography is something that has become especially vital to the buyer’s journey.

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The Convergence Of Marketing & The Internet Of Things (IoT)

Data is extremely valuable for knowing your customers, gauging your business success, and informing future decisions. Whether customer interactions happen online or offline, they generate digital data. It’s the Internet of Things (IoT) that puts this data to use.

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Creating Brand Hype With A Teaser Marketing Campaign

True to its name, a teaser marketing campaign is designed to share just enough information to build anticipation around a product launch, future event, new feature, or recent company update. Also known as a pre-launch campaign, a teaser campaign offers up a series of clues that leaves consumers eager to learn more. It’s equivalent to a “coming soon” page on a website.

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Best Practices for Creative Mobile Ads

Today’s mobile ads are far more diverse than static banner ads of earlier years. From new trends in augmented reality (AR) to more flexible design formats, mobile ads will have more influence than ever before.

If you’re a media buyer, it’s time to take advantage of the rich data points that mobile marketing can offer in terms of targeting, ROI, and a better ad experience.

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What It Takes To Write A Killer Email Subject Line

As a consumer, you are surely bombarded with several emails a day. From marketing promotion to newsletters, from password resets to bill statements, it’s a lot of content to sift through.

And as the presence of email marketing for brands continues to grow, it is imperative that marketers master the art of writing compelling subject lines.

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The State of CPG Brands: Getting Creative As In-Store Shopping Decreases

How do you imitate the convenience of browsing vast aisles of inventory without a physical presence? Or the experience of seeing, feeling, and smelling various products to make a purchasing decision? Due to the coronavirus pandemic, these are questions brands have had to navigate over the past couple of months.

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Best Father's Day Marketing Campaigns

While it seems like Mother’s Day just passed, brands are actively preparing for a virtual Father’s Day. And with a near-record $17 billion at stake for Father’s Day weekend 2020, marketers aren’t taking any chances.

As men reexamine their role in the home, brands reassess their portrayal in advertising. Today’s fathers want to be shown as cuddly caregivers who contribute just as much to parenting duties as the mother as the household.

And many forward-thinking brands have taken note of this.

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Unlocking the Potential of Dark Social

You know the meme, viral video, or inside joke you texted to your friend? There’s actually a name for this phenomenon: dark social.

Messaging apps are now bigger than social networks — which means more people are sharing content through private channels including messaging apps, text messages, and emails. Sharing content privately is referred to as “dark” social — dark being the challenge that marketers face trying to measure the ROI and traffic of these private messages.

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