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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…

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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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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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March 10, 2023

5 Food Tech Trends With Major Potential for CPG

The food tech presentations at The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) are where you can find the latest trends that affect the food and food services industry. This past January, CES showcased advancements in consumer electronics, ingredients, and trailblazing AI products that are sure to revolutionize CPG. EHY walked the floor…

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October 31, 2022

Food Advertising Creative Takes Full Advantage of Fall Holidays

The advent of fall brings Halloween promotions and a proliferation of pumpkin spice to food marketing. Meanwhile, food brands continue to make their presence felt in the metaverse while also appealing to consumer trends, including dining at home and concerns about environmental sustainability. And one QSR travels to a drive-thru…

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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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February 11, 2022

Flavor Meets Fashion: Merch Mania Strikes Food Marketing Creative

Last quarter’s creative review called out a burgeoning food and beverage marketing trend centering on fashion merchandise tie-ins among brands including McDonald’s, Heinz, Goldfish Crackers, and more. Since then, the use of the tactic has increased dramatically with CPG brands including Sunny D and Vita Coco, Commodities like Avocados from…

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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…

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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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January 25, 2024

7 Targeting Strategies Food Marketers Need to Know Now

UPDATED February 2026 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…

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