Digital

March 24, 2026

Why Your Video Budget Isn’t Translating to Sales (And What to Do About It)

Over the past few years, we’ve had the same conversation with food marketers again and again: video budgets are increasing, performance dashboards look healthy, and yet connecting those investments to real sales growth still feels harder than it should. Food brands are investing more in video than ever. CTV budgets…

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Consumer Insights & Trends

March 6, 2026

Redefining Value in the 2026 Economy – A Playbook for Food Brands

The food marketer’s guide to navigating consumer contradictions, protecting pricing power, and building lasting loyalty without discounting your way to irrelevance The Value Contradiction Every Food Marketer Faces The rules of consumer behavior are rapidly changing. Today's shoppers aren't choosing between premium and budget, they're curating a mix of both…

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Media

August 25, 2025

5 Strategic Shifts That Help Small CPG Brands Compete Like Industry Giants

Small and medium CPG food brands face unprecedented pressure. Lean teams juggle multiple responsibilities while managing tight budgets. Retailer expectations continue to rise as retail media networks explode across the landscape. Marketing teams are held accountable for every dollar while lacking the time to become experts in every channel -…

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Challenger Brand Strategy

June 16, 2025

Private Label is Rising. Here’s How Your CPG Food Brand Can Rise Above It.

When you walk down the freezer aisle of your local supermarket and reach for a bag of french fries, what guides your hand? The comfort of the familiar brand you've trusted for years, or the retailer's private label option that's $2 cheaper with surprisingly similar packaging? For millions of shoppers,…

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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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