Digital

October 1, 2024

Engagement Rates: The New North Star for CPG Digital Marketing Success

Finding ways to accurately measure digital campaign effectiveness is always a high priority for food marketers. But pinpointing conversions or calculating hard ROI can be elusive, particularly for top-of-funnel initiatives. And if you’re working with incomplete metrics, you won’t feel confident in your strategy or budget decisions. More and more,…

Andrea Cade, Social Media Director 0

Media

September 23, 2024

Rethinking TV Advertising for CPG Success

You're facing a marketing dilemma. You want to scale and find new audiences, but your current media mix simply isn't cutting it. Your customers are trapped in a closed loop at the bottom of the funnel. Without television advertising, you struggle to fill the top-of-funnel with viable prospects. If you're…

Justin Poe, VP/Media Director 0

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,…

Tori Brumfield, VP/Director of Client Services 0

Consumer Insights & Trends Media

May 14, 2024

4 Reasons Food Advertisers Must Invest in TV Brand Building — Yup, Even Smaller CPG Brands

The performance plateau for CPG brands is real. If you think a performance-based mix of online search, social, and display ads covers all your marketing needs, you may be on the edge of a major sales drop. Once saturation kicks in, you're left with a closed loop of existing customers,…

Justin Poe, VP/Media Director 0

Media

September 20, 2023

Unmute the Myths: Tuning into the Real Benefits of TV Advertising for CPG and Commodity Board Marketers

TV isn’t just the multiplex-sized screen on your living room wall anymore. There’s never been more video content, or such a wide audience consuming it — at home, during commutes, and at work. Yet CPG and Commodity Board marketers remain resistant to TV ad spend. Why? The truth is, there…

Justin Poe, VP/Media Director 0

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…

Tori Brumfield, VP/Director of Client Services 0

Media

June 28, 2022

Data Driven Television: What Food Marketers Need to Know to Make the Most of their TV Spend

With the television upfront season in full swing (i.e., the annual process where advertisers pre-book 50-60% of the total advertising budgets in advance of the television season), there has been much discussion about if this will be the year of the data driven television upfront. In other words, will this…

Justin Poe, VP/Media Director 0

Media

January 25, 2024

7 Targeting Strategies Food Marketers Need to Know Now

These days, food magazines and grocery shelves seem filled with new products for very specific audiences—plant-based meat alternatives; allergen-aware cookies and snacks; sustainably-grown, aquaculture fish and shellfish. Luckily, thanks to the current digital media offerings as well as the shift to digital-like capabilities of more traditional media such as streaming…

Justin Poe, VP/Media Director 0

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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Food PR Other

December 10, 2020

Everyday Agility: A New Imperative for Today’s Food Marketers

What. A. Year. And it’s not over yet. In fact, many of us are in the middle of fine-tuning marketing plans for 2021. But as this year has shown us, plans are really a guide, based on a set of assumptions. (And boy were we knocked on our assumptions this…

Andrea Schepke, PR Director