What worked? How did it work? What did we learn?
The MediaPost Cases focus these three key questions on some of the best examples of successful marketing across channels and segment. These cases explore how brands defined their marketing challenge, conceived, executed and course corrected their solution, and measured results.
Drawing from MediaPost’s live events, awards programs and reporting, MediaPost Cases cut across all of the channels and industry segments we cover. Whether you are looking for what the auto sector is doing in ecommerce or how DTC brands make digital video accountable or other fresh insights, you will find lessons and inspiration from this library of more than 250 cases.
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- As the cost of customer acquisition climbs, D2Cs are looking for new and exciting ways to partner with other brands. BARK, makers of BarkBox, is doing just that, with partnerships including Dunkin', Subaru, Marvel, Warner Bros., Netflix and more. This strategy has enabled them to reach new audiences and tap into new customer data. BARK's VP of Brand Activation, Dave Stangle, covers their strategy behind finding other brands with the right affinities and how they are structuring their co-branding relationships.
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Lively's Rapid-Fire Full-Funnel Hits the Road
As their consumers returned to IRL shopping last summer, Lively brought its full-funnel approach to re-engaging their community. WearLIVELY's Senior Manager of Lifecycle Marketing, Hayley Squire, walks us through a month-long tour of the brand hitting the road: coordinating partnerships, social, local influencers, retail, SMS and email (even swag bags) into a community-based surround-sound messaging model. What did she learn about the discrete and integrated impact of so many syncopated channels?
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Automotive Community Comes Together To Save Dogs
A group of automotive influencers and journalists and several OEMs came together in December and drove 3,200 miles to save four beagles and to bring an outfitted rig to one lucky rescue as part of Operation Frodo. The story began in 2018 when Miles partnered with Nissan to show how a pickup truck could be modified to serve as a rescue vehicle to save and transport animals after natural disasters. The truck was displayed at the SEMA show that year. That led to the founding of AnimalRescueRigs.com to encourage animal rescue. Editor and Publisher of Rides and Drives, Harvey Briggs …
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Affiliates & Partnerships: Where Brand and Lower Funnel Merge
Who says Brand and lower funnel marketers can't play nice? In the world of Affiliates and Partnerships, not only can teams play nice, but there's also an opportunity to create win-win strategies and tactics for everyone! As a lower funnel marketer at Big Island Coffee Roasters, where Partnerships have become her second word of the day (after 'coffee.....'), Head of DTC Kristina Smith shows how these channels have given her the ability to help out her Brand colleagues, and vice versa, with some out of the box thinking to create new opportunities and results outside of traditional Brand and PR …
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Organizing for Cross-Channel Messaging
It takes more than fancy tools to enable and successfully execute a cross-channel marketing strategy. You must align internal teams, ensure your data is connected, and have the right technology partners in place. Eddie Bauer's Director of Digital Merchandising and Email, Angela Gow, shares what Eddie Bauer has learned as it internally aligned email, SMS, and site teams. Angela discusses how working from a single source of truth data sources drove coherent multitouch messaging and how choosing the right tech partners helped execute a fleet and responsive cross-channel marketing strategy.
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Building the More Neighborly Tech Stack
A truly functional next-gen MarTech stack doesn't just assemble tech solutions but builds relationships with vendors that optimize execution. NextDoor extends its good neighbor brand to vendor RFPs, transparency with partners, and expectations for aligning on sustainability and inclusion. NextDoor's Marketing Technology & Operations Lead, Krish Sailam, explain building the better partner stack.
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