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Reimagining Modern Marketing with Machine Learning

Ashlyn Allebach-Bergey
Ashlyn Allebach-Bergey Account Executive

Digital marketing strategy has always been a moving target. Great strategies from a year ago might fall flat in today’s ad landscape. Innovation is the name of the game. New platforms, trends, and tools are constantly changing the way we approach the brand-consumer relationship. Savvy marketers and forward-thinking agencies are harnessing these new tools and turning them into big wins for their clients.

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AI is Taking Shopper Marketing To the Next Level

Rick Wiener
Rick Wiener Media Director

Two of the hottest topics in food marketing are Shopper Marketing apps and the emergence of Artificial Intelligence. The conversation really gets interesting when these two topics collide, and we start to understand how AI can supercharge these apps to the benefit of the consumer, the supplier, and the platform.  

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3 Food Brands Living the D2C Dream

Bob Hunsberger
Bob Hunsberger Senior Copywriter

In an era when social platforms have their own in-app shopping functions and affordable skynet-tier algorithms to target the masses, the direct-to-consumer model (D2C) is having a bonafide moment. More and more brands are prioritizing a robust ecommerce strategy, and much to the chagrin of the middleman wholesalers and retailers, it’s working.

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3 AAPI-Owned Brands To Follow

Aksa Asgher
Aksa Asgher Digital Advertising Manager
Allebach Communications

May is AAPI Heritage Month—a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. With the month winding down, we want to spotlight some of our favorite AAPI-owned food brands. As a member of the AAPI community who works in digital advertising, I’m always searching for thought leaders and brands that find unique ways to incorporate their culture and share it with others. Here are three small business food brands doing just that!

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How To Develop A Brand Persona

Nathan Allebach
Nathan Allebach Creative Director
The Steak-umm Twitter Guy
Adweek Top 100 Creative

Who are you? Who are your consumers? What’s your history? Your product? Your values? Your distinction? Identity is the bedrock of any brand. It’s marketing 101, baby. Netflix. Apple. Nike. The most iconic brands know who they are. They know their workers and customers alike. They own a unique aesthetic and sell more than just a good or service—they sell a lifestyle to aspire toward. Capturing that essence is rare for a range of reasons. A common one is that many companies have a disjointed idea of who they are. The CEO might see the brand differently from the sales team, who may see it differently from customer service. The identity has to be unified from within through policies, practices, and messaging—it’s who a company hires, how they treat their workers, what their offices look like, and how they give back. Brands often hire consultants or agencies to help guide this process that culminates in a unified front.

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Driving Store Velocity

Jamie Allebach
Jamie Allebach Chief Executive & Creative Officer

“Our brand is really growing—we’ve gained distribution in 1,000 (or more) new retail locations. And, we’re getting more and more and more distribution by the day.”

I’ve heard this scenario a thousand times—and it doesn’t always turn out as well as you may think for the brand. Is new distribution a good thing? Of course it is. But it can also be the beginning of the end for a brand. I’ve seen it happen many times over the years…Death by Distribution.

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“I pledge to be faithful to your brand…” said no consumer ever.

Jamie Allebach
Jamie Allebach Chief Executive & Creative Officer

You hear a lot these days about how consumers are no longer loyal when it comes to CPG food and beverage brands; that they quickly trade-off for private label or newer, emerging brands. And this is quite true. But I’d like to suggest that “brand loyalty” is largely a myth fabricated by overzealous marketers. One of the many snake oil sales tactics in this business.

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Is Your Food Brand Functioning?

Jamie Allebach
Jamie Allebach Chief Executive & Creative Officer

Functional foods. We’ve all heard the term. We know that in the past functional foods were considered to be foods that had a potentially positive effect on health beyond their basic nutritional value. For instance, oatmeal contains soluble fiber that can help lower cholesterol. Or salmon is an excellent functional food because the omega-3 fatty acids can reportedly decrease the risk of heart disease.

But today, functional foods mean so much more to both consumers and brands.

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