by Ignite2X | Jul 5, 2017 | Advertising, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Creative Approach, Shopper Marketing
As an agency, we spend a lot of time walking miles of aisles, learning how consumers choose from the 60,000 products sold in grocery stores or observing tens of thousands of brand booths battling for attention from buyers at trade shows. There is no better way to stay...
by Kevin Justice | Apr 5, 2017 | Advertising, Awards, Creative Approach, Digital Advertising, News, Social Media
We’re thrilled to announce that we have walked away with yet another award for our work with Zebra Pen. Our “Find Zen” integrated marketing campaign garnered a 2017 International Muse Creative Gold Award, selected among the top work from small and mid-sized agencies...
by Ignite2X | Mar 6, 2017 | Advertising, Awards, Creative Approach, Digital Advertising, News
We have always known we’re winners. We hire the best. We work with great clients. We have a fab office. We are #GOALS, as the young people say. But on Friday, we entered the ring with some of the best designers, marketers and artists in the business and...
by Ignite2X | Feb 27, 2017 | Advertising, Creative Approach
So, you consider yourself a smart cookie in the personal branding department, huh? You feel confident in your defined goals, you know your target demographic and you’ve subscribed to some “really informative” blogs. So, that would be “check,...
by Ignite2X | Sep 19, 2016 | Advertising, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
Most Americans claim to be eating better, and 78% say they are making a strong effort to eat more fresh versus processed foods (Technomic 2014a; MSI 2014a). But if all trends are moving toward higher-quality, fresher, healthier food, then why are indulgent (and super...
by Ignite2X | Mar 1, 2016 | Advertising
You’re in a cab, stuck in traffic. Horns are blarin’ and you’re convinced this cab ride will last the rest of your life. The TV screen attached to the credit card machine plays the same 30-second clip of a sitcom for the 5th time. By the end of the ride, you can...
by Kevin Justice | Feb 29, 2016 | Advertising, Creative Approach
They say that 51% of Super Bowl viewers care more about the ads than the game itself, and maybe that’s because animals rule the commercials. In January, TiVo released the results of research, incorporating insights from the Research & Consulting division of Vision...
by Ignite2X | Feb 27, 2016 | Advertising
It all started with a few top-level domain extensions (TLDs). But within a few years of publicly-available domain names, it was clear to ICANN that more were going to be needed – the internet was growing at an alarming rate. In 2001, a test of a few names were...
by Ignite2X | Aug 22, 2015 | Advertising, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
Even if romantic comedies are not your thing, you may recall the movie, “What Women Want” from 2000, starring Mel Gibson, the chauvinistic advertising exec. In the movie, Mel is unsuccessful in his macho ways until he has a freak accident that enables him to read...
by Andrew Morfopoulos | Jul 15, 2015 | Advertising
With the all the attention given to social and digital media, you’d think that no one does TV anymore… or radio, print, outdoor, etc. But an estimated $177 billion was spent on media in 2014, most of it on traditional advertising vehicles. But isn’t TV dead, you ask?...
by Andrew Morfopoulos | Nov 26, 2013 | Advertising, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Shopper Marketing
As we speak to more and more clients about shopper marketing, one thing that comes up over and over is the assumption that if you’re not a big manufacturer you really can’t do much. Certainly not strategic, collaborative shopper marketing. Of course it’s true, big...
