Consumer Insights & Trends

January 30, 2024

Food Advertising Creative Taps Popular Trends From A.I. to Cannabis

In this quarter’s food marketing creative trends report, the “food meets fashion” trend continues with QSR brands collaborating with popular shoemakers. Meanwhile, AI continues to impact the CPG category, and mainstream restaurant chains court cannabis culture. Finally, Pop-Tarts wins the internet with a college bowl game victory stunt that goes…

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September 12, 2023

Could Covid-19 Turn Out To Be a Win for the Grocery Industry?

In Shakespeare’s Henry VI, written in 1591, Henry’s son says, “Ill blows the wind that profits nobody”. This is generally accepted as the origin of the saying, “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.” Covid-19 was an ill wind for almost everybody, and supermarkets had their fair share…

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Consumer Insights & Trends Food Campaigns

August 18, 2023

From Artificial Intelligence to Real World Comfort Cravers, Food Creative Embraces the Now

In this quarter’s Food Advertising Creative Trends report, QSR brands employ ChatGPT-written ads, CPG brand Impossible Foods creates a meatless musical, Branded commodity Milk PEP spoofs plant-based dairy alternatives, Kraft Foods gets massively comfortable with post-Covid cravings, and Heinz celebrates brand obsessed fans. Read on for more. McDonald’s/Burger King -…

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July 18, 2022

Food Advertising Creative Embraces Stunt and Event Marketing

Brands from CPG to QSR are increasingly engaging consumers tuning out conventional advertising through fun stunt marketing and live events. It’s a great way to create a buzz about a brand through more organic means, such as free exposure via news media. To see what we’re talking about, read on.…

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Consumer Insights & Trends

February 10, 2023

Food Advertising Creative Closes Out 2022, Looks Toward Super Sunday

In this quarter’s food advertising creative roundup, CPG Liquid Death Water stages a “Taze” Test, Ocean Spray Cranberries get “jiggly” with it, and QSR Dave’s Hot Chicken markets FOMO while Dole pushes YOLO. Meanwhile, Chipotle uses AR to encourage people to stick with their resolutions, and snack brands begin to…

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Media

May 20, 2022

From NFTs to Boycotts, Food Marketing Aims for Relevance

In this quarter’s Food Marketing Creative Review, food and restaurant brands enter the metaverse with NFT offerings. Meanwhile, Tillamook hawks a giant hunk of cheese, Zaxby’s appropriates a celebrated internet meme, and Chipotle releases a long-awaited sequel to an award-winning film. And in other food marketing and advertising news, brands…

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Food Campaigns Media

September 27, 2021

Food Advertising Creative Attempts a Return to Normalcy

After struggling to find their creative voice during the pandemic, food advertisers started moving toward a new normalcy in their messaging with the apparent decline of the coronavirus. But with the Delta variant now hot on COVID’s heels, who knows how long this trend will last? At least for the…

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Food PR

March 16, 2021

Empower Your Food PR Team to Say “No” When It Counts

No matter how well-oiled the machine, your food PR team simply can’t be everywhere and act on everything. Nor do you want them to. Only a handful of the “opportunities” that cross their desks have the power to truly move the needle for your food brand. And these “big boulders”…

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Food PR Other

January 19, 2021

An Innovative Approach to a Traditional Ingredient

When it comes to marketing within food commodity boards, innovation is imperative to success. Being able to identify early trends and shifts in the marketplace can help unlock new opportunities for your food commodity’s product to flourish. Here at EvansHardy+Young (EHY), we’ve had the privilege of helping several of our…

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Consumer Insights & Trends Digital Other

October 23, 2020

Boost Your Customers’ Trust and Affinity With Great Food Content Marketing

In the past several months, consumers have made big and small changes to the way they buy groceries. Recently it was reported that 43% of consumers say they shopped for food online in the past six months, versus 24% just two years ago. And what is more interesting is that…

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