Media

April 1, 2025

The Food Marketer’s Strategic Prompting Playbook for Effective AI Collaboration

CPG food marketers who've dabbled with AI know the frustrating feeling all too well: They spend precious time and resources experimenting with a growing list of prompts and parameters, trying unsuccessfully to wrangle the AI model du jour into meaningful food marketing solutions. As inconsistent and lackluster outputs stack up,…

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Consumer Insights & Trends

February 4, 2025

Gaining a Competitive Edge with AI: A Quick Start Guide for Food Brand Marketers

Food brand marketers like you often feel like they’re walking a tightrope. On one hand, you’re contending with rapid shifts in how people discover and choose products, which means you must innovate and stay on top of trends. On the other hand, budgets have never been tighter, which means you…

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Digital

January 10, 2025

How Can CPG Food Brands Master Seasonal Price Fluctuations in Paid Social Advertising?

In the world of advertising for CPG food brands, the seasons bring more than just changes in weather. They usher in predictable fluctuations to the cost of capturing your audience’s attention via paid social media advertising. As the cost of advertising rises and falls along with industry-wide and category-specific seasons,…

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Digital

June 17, 2024

Your Food Brand Website Isn’t an Ecommerce Engine — It’s the Driver for Brand Engagement

The consumer’s path to purchase just isn’t as straightforward as it used to be. Hybrid shopping — shopping in person and online — is now the norm. And if consumer packaged goods brands are to keep up with consumer behavior, they must re-evaluate their owned digital channels — their websites,…

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Consumer Insights & Trends Digital

November 28, 2023

Fast-Breaking, Ongoing, and Macro Trends: Which Ones Are Worth the Chase?

You might be skilled at capitalizing on macro trends in the food industry, like healthy eating, certain sauces and condiments, or flavor pairings. Fast-breaking trends? Not so much. When you do identify a trend on social media, it feels like you’re late to the party. And by the time you…

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Food Campaigns

May 31, 2023

3 Metrics (Besides Sales Data) to Report Campaign Performance

As a marketing director of a commodity board or association, you may not have access to robust retail sales data — or at least not as much as you may like. Your team builds programs to promote the industry at large, so you may only be getting the bird’s eye…

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Digital

May 8, 2023

Food Marketers’ Secret Weapon: 4 New Instacart Features That Elevate Your Ad Tactics

Most food marketers know that sponsored product ads are tried and true, and Instacart is a boon to any CPG marketing strategy. Why? Because few e-commerce apps make it easier for marketers and retailers to market their products, or consumers to add products like yours to their carts. What you…

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Consumer Insights & Trends

December 20, 2022

4 Ways to Reduce the Impact of Food Inflation on Consumers — Without Cutting Your Prices

To cope with spiraling food costs during the inflation crisis, consumers are doing two things. First, they're finding different, cheaper supermarkets, like Lidl, Dollar General, Food4Less and Family Dollar. This means higher-end retailers like Sprouts, Wegmans, Fresh Market, Harris Teeter and Publix are lagging behind in in-person visits. Secondly, consumers…

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Consumer Insights & Trends Retail

June 27, 2017

Millennial Dads Tackle Grocery Shopping

It’s been a long-standing convention that food brand marketing should be directed toward women – moms in particular – as females have traditionally been the ones purchasing groceries on behalf of their families. But with the rise of the Millennial generation and accompanying gender role changes, it’s time to rethink…

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