Digital

July 31, 2024

7 Social Media Tools and Trends For Your Next Food Marketing Campaign

For food marketers, keeping up with the latest social media trends and platforms demands constant adaptation. And lately, relying on traditional advertising avenues or even tried-and-true social networks doesn’t cut it. Just in the last year, platforms like TikTok and Instagram have emerged as full-fledged search engines, redefining how consumers…

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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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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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Media

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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Consumer Insights & Trends

May 8, 2023

Food Advertising Aims to Prove Sex Sells, As Do Gaming and Rockstar Rodents

In this quarter’s food advertising creative trends report, CPG brand Pringles turns a hamster into a musical star, Oatly launches a plant-based Philadelphia cream cheese, and Velveeta places a late-night “foodie” call. Meanwhile, QSR Jimmy John’s serves up cookies and MILFS, BK recruits gamers for Call of Duty, and McDonald’s…

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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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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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Media

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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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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