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- Reigniting interest in buffet-style dining in the last year has been a challenge across the fast casual category. Cicis is using it as an opportunity to energize the brand and enhance onsite customer experiences around food, entertainment, and restaurant design. Cicis Pizza's CMO, Stephanie Hoppe, shares what they've learned along the way about embracing Cicis' roots, driving adaptability, and cultivating an always-on optimization mindset to power a successful "Endless Pizzabilities" brand relaunch that bets big on experiences fueling Cicis' continued growth.
- Both studies fail to note one important statistic: Kia America just completed its best retail sales year in the company's 30-year U.S. history.
- Separately, in a test, Shorts beat TikTok, Instagram Reels and Pinterest Ideas at driving traffic to a B2B website.
- Color is an important aspect of brand identity, and a VidMob study shows it is key to understanding relevant features of a video and how viewers interpret a company's ads.
- As Insomnia Cookies sought to rebrand its late-night snacking model around new flavors and "Cookie-vation," they invented the "Cookie Lab" at their flagship location in Philadelphia. Nicole Geyer, Insomnia Cookies' Brand Manager, explains how the Lab became a genuine research site as well as a branding tool and even a tourist attraction. But it took a strategy - around everything from facility design to customer recruitment and data gathering. From leveraging invisible messaging to unforeseen uses of maple syrup, the lab has rendered more than a few surprising results.
- Designing websites for a broader group of people should consider "invisible disability," or limitations that people may overlook, such as age-related vision loss.
- When Wakefern Food Corp. set out to redefine their Own Brands, they went to their consumer - and let insights drive every step of the process. From brand positioning to packaging design to brand activation, Wakefern treated the launch of Paperbird with the same respect as a best in class CPG brand. Laura Kind, VP of Brand Strategy, shares how her team translated the consumer emotion around messes into highly relatable Paperbird brand work.
- Facebook, Sears and Zara were among brands that redesigned their logos in 2019. Research suggests they may want to rethink those efforts.
- When Eric Bandholz started Beardbrand in 2013, his goal was to provide tools for men to feel confident about growing their beards.
- The team is basically the entire marketing department for OpenConnect. It manages the web, all social media, all new content development (email, blog, product, sales), videos, conference/events development, PR, and analytics.
- Emily Randall, interactive digital media, Chick-fil-A, says her team has rallied around this: When you know someone's story, you can care for them personally.
- "Since the relaunch just weeks ago, conversions have significantly increased, as have interactions, adds-to-cart, and order checkouts," Jumpshot notes on its digitalconsumer.com site, adding: "Just weeks before the website relaunch, conversions were 1.2-1.4% of overall visitors, but after the relaunch, they've jumped to 2-2.5% and holding steady."
