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MTV trusts Nepa to prove TV advertising is key

MTV logo

The story

Launched in 1957, MTV was one of Europe’s first commercial TV companies. Over the decades it has expanded from news and current affairs programming to include streaming services, free TV channels, multi-channel current news, and paid TV channels. MTV is part of Telia Company, one of the Nordics largest TV and telecommunications companies.

Today Finland’s leading commercial TV broadcasting company strategically leverages a long-term partnership with marketing intelligence company Nepa to prove that TV advertising is a key brand-building tool for the Finnish market.

“At MTV, our aim is to enable sustainable business growth for our clients by offering effective advertising solutions. Through our collaboration with Nepa, we have empowered our clients to substantiate impact that TV campaigns can deliver results for their brands.”

— Nina Eriksson, Insight Manager

People watching TV

The plan

MTV and Nepa have a long history of collaboration. Nepa had previously worked on Brand Tracking and Consumer Panel projects with MTV in Finland, along with other campaigns for their sister company TV4 in Sweden.
Adverts are a core component of MTV’s business so it was suggested that the Campaign Evaluations they were running for their advertisers should be managed by Nepa too. The company understood MTV’s business model and competitive landscape and could use this background to supercharge their Campaign Evaluations.

The result

Nepa’s Campaign Evaluations are used by MTV as part of their partnership with their advertising clients. Ads are tested to quantify the impact of the campaign and creative implementation. However, this is not where the benefits end for MTV.

Over the years Campaign Evaluation data was collected for lots of different industries, of lots of different sizes, with lots of different consumers. Nepa realised that more could be done with these insights, and MTV’s Meta Analysis was created. This report takes the historic data and quantifiably proves the benefits of TV advertising, and how it can help with long-term brand building.

The utilization of individual campaign measurements has contributed to the cultivation of enduring customer relationships with our advertising clients. Moreover, the implementation of the Meta Analysis has played a pivotal role in fostering a deeper comprehension and validation of the efficacy of TV and program sponsorship advertising. said Nina Eriksson, Insight Manager.

The result

1957

launched

330

employees

2019

acquired by Telia

Our Approach

We convert data into
opportunities for growth

Marketing is an investment

Many brands are seeing budget cuts. But focusing only on short-term goals means you can miss the contribution of long-term brand building to growth. To demonstrate the ROI of your marketing you need a team that is experienced in linking your brand KPIs to your company’s financial performance, over time. We help you make those connections, which are essential for making marketing decisions that drive growth.

Ensure brand relevance

As technologies, trends, and industries shift, so do your customers. You need to keep on the pulse of people’s perceptions and behaviours by understanding how your brand is used, its personality, and how your communications are working in order to make adjustments over time.

Select the right channels

Assessing the strength of each individual media channel helps you to focus on the right investments. But most media measurement does not integrate and evaluate all the different channels now available. Our Media Mix Modelling assesses the ROI of all media investments including social, allowing brands to make decisions around budgets for every media, execution, campaign duration, and creative.

Increase market share

There are several ways to increase market share. Sell more to existing customers. Expand your customer base. Sell through new channels. However, in order to choose the right option, you need to understand your potential customer base.

 

Our Market Segmentation gives you clear, useful information on both current and potential customers. It splits people into different groups based on needs and values, offering insights on how to grow your brand in these different markets.

Improve campaign performance

As media changes, so do people and their behaviour. To improve performance, you need to evaluate and evolve your campaigns constantly, so that you can make and measure adjustments over time. We help you find the right mix of channels, messaging, creative, and format to increase your impact and ROI.

OUR WIDER OFFER

Adapt to win

Our 360-degree, continuous approach shows how consumers think, helps realise growth potential, and demonstrates return on investment.

Marketing Mix Modelling

Adjust activity in near real-time with models that are continuously learning from your media activity, sales performance, and brand health.

Campaign Evaluation

Running campaigns is all about constant evaluation and evolution. Find the right mix of channels, messaging, creative, and format to get the most out of your communications.

Custom Modules

Use additional modules to manage pricing, brand personality, brand assets and category drivers and place customers at the heart of your marketing decisions.

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Sinebrychoff trusts Nepa to illuminate their Shopper Journeys

The story

Founded in 1819 in Helsinki, Sinebrychoff is Finland’s largest brewery. Alongside producing their award-winning beers, ciders, long drinks and energy drinks, the company owns the licence for manufacturing several global soft-drinks, such as Coca-Cola, Powerade, and Schweppes. Sinebrychoff is part of the international Carlsberg group.

Sinebrychoff’s focus goal for year 2023 was to understand the complete shopper journey and Nepa was chosen to conduct the work. A deep-dive into the 5W’s – who, what, where, why, and when – by shopper insights experts Nepa has given Sinebrychoff the data they need to fine tune their collaboration with creative agencies and provide a valuable input to fuel their future brand developments.

“Nepa’s solution was chosen due to its holistic approach, giving us ability to utilize the project in brand & marketing planning towards retail customers as well as agency partners.”

— Riikka Tommila, Insight Manager, Sinebrychoff

Cheers! Clink glasses. Close-up shots of hands holding beer glasses and beer bubbles.

The plan

It was important to Sinebrychoff to understand all of the drivers throughout the sales process. These questions started at the beginning – why consumers chose which specific brands to purchase and stores to purchase from – and followed the Shopper Journey all the way down to which in-store touch points were the most important to drive sales, and whether these purchases were considered or impulsive.

It was also important that the results could be used by all departments across the business. Nepa held several workshops with the company’s Insights, Brand & Marketing, and Accounts teams to ensure that all key business needs were going to be met by the study.

The result

A quantitative study was launched by Nepa to unravel Sinebrychoff’s Shopper Journeys in seven key categories. It covered the whole purchase cycle, from decision making and consideration, to point-of-purchase and post-purchase questions. However, the insights did not stop there.

In parallel with the on-going project work, Nepa and Sinebrychoff worked together to further enrich the findings and make the most of the data collected. As a result of this iterative approach, a series of more in-depth analyses were created focusing on specific segments, competitors, and retailers.

This Shopper Journey collaboration has not only given them the insights needed to improve their messaging all the way along the consumer journey, but it has also added great value to their retail chain partnerships. The data will be used widely in trade marketing and customer work.

“Shopper Journeys is our core theme for 2023 as the insights gathered can be used at all levels, from strategic planning to tactical activities”, says Riikka Tommila, Insight Manager, Sinebrychoff.

The result

7

key categories

5W’s

Who, what, where, why, & when

Our Approach

We convert data into
opportunities for growth

Marketing is an investment

Many brands are seeing budget cuts. But focusing only on short-term goals means you can miss the contribution of long-term brand building to growth. To demonstrate the ROI of your marketing you need a team that is experienced in linking your brand KPIs to your company’s financial performance, over time. We help you make those connections, which are essential for making marketing decisions that drive growth.

Ensure brand relevance

As technologies, trends, and industries shift, so do your customers. You need to keep on the pulse of people’s perceptions and behaviours by understanding how your brand is used, its personality, and how your communications are working in order to make adjustments over time.

Select the right channels

Assessing the strength of each individual media channel helps you to focus on the right investments. But most media measurement does not integrate and evaluate all the different channels now available. Our Media Mix Modelling assesses the ROI of all media investments including social, allowing brands to make decisions around budgets for every media, execution, campaign duration, and creative.

Increase market share

There are several ways to increase market share. Sell more to existing customers. Expand your customer base. Sell through new channels. However, in order to choose the right option, you need to understand your potential customer base.

Our Market Segmentation gives you clear, useful information on both current and potential customers. It splits people into different groups based on needs and values, offering insights on how to grow your brand in these different markets.

Measure your performance

As media changes, so do people and their behaviour. To improve performance, you need to evaluate and evolve your campaigns constantly, so that you can make and measure adjustments over time. We help you find the right mix of channels, messaging, creative, and format to increase your impact and ROI.

OUR WIDER OFFER

Adapt to win

Our 360-degree, continuous approach shows how consumers think, helps realise growth potential, and demonstrates return on investment.

Marketing Mix Modelling

Adjust activity in near real-time with models that are continuously learning from your media activity, sales performance, and brand health.

Campaign Evaluation

Running campaigns is all about constant evaluation and evolution. Find the right mix of channels, messaging, creative, and format to get the most out of your communications.

Custom Modules

Use additional modules to manage pricing, brand personality, brand assets and category drivers and place customers at the heart of your marketing decisions.

CONTACT

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Telenor trusts Nepa to understand their business needs

The story

Telenor is one of the world’s largest mobile telecommunications companies, with operations worldwide. Based in Norway, the company has 172 million subscribers across Scandinavia and Asia.

But how does Telenor maintain their position? By fully understanding their brand insights, and where they should be heading next.

A long-term partnership with brand tracking experts Nepa has resulted in B2B and B2C
trackers being set up in key markets, with regular insights meetings to help Telenor
make the most of their data.

“We really appreciate the collaboration with Nepa, as they are genuinely interested in understanding our business challenges. We also love the Nepa dashboard, which is a valuable, hands-on tool to quickly help us with market insights.”

— Jessica Håkansson, Insight Manager, Telenor Sweden AB.

The plan

Over seven years, Nepa has set-up continuous brand trackers for three of Telenor’s key markets – Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. These trackers collect insights on all major KPIs including preference, NPS, and awareness, and offer Telenor the data to measure the changes in their brand across time. But pure data was not enough. They needed to be put into context, and have clear, actionable next steps.

Nepa were really driven to understand and meet Telenor’s business needs. Regular meetings with different teams in different markets were set-up so the two companies could ensure that the trackers were collecting all of Telenor’s business critical insights.

The result

Frequent meetings between the two teams have helped Telenor to really drill down into their insights. Nepa understands Telenor’s business needs, how they work, and Telenor’s working language, so they can make sure that reports are immediately relevant to the business. With such a close working relationship, it means that Nepa can also use this knowledge in other types of projects for Telenor. For example, using Nepa´s advanced package analysis whenever Telenor needs to create the right package deal, at the right price, for the right people.

By being flexible and really listening, Nepa can offer Telenor the real-time data they need to make faster, better business decisions.

“This insight analysis will play a crucial role when building our future strategy. Understanding customer preferences, attitudes, and behaviour is key for us to build a strong brand, to generate trust and create relevant services as a mobile, broadband, and TV operator.” said Jessica Håkansson, Insight Manager, Telenor Sweden AB.

The result

7

years

3

key markets

Our Approach

We convert data into
opportunities for growth

Marketing is an investment

Many brands are seeing budget cuts. But focusing only on short-term goals means you can miss the contribution of long-term brand building to growth. To demonstrate the ROI of your marketing you need a team that is experienced in linking your brand KPIs to your company’s financial performance, over time. We help you make those connections, which are essential for making marketing decisions that drive growth.

Ensure brand relevance

As technologies, trends, and industries shift, so do your customers. You need to keep on the pulse of people’s perceptions and behaviours by understanding how your brand is used, its personality, and how your communications are working in order to make adjustments over time.

Select the right channels

Assessing the strength of each individual media channel helps you to focus on the right investments. But most media measurement does not integrate and evaluate all the different channels now available. Our Media Mix Modelling assesses the ROI of all media investments including social, allowing brands to make decisions around budgets for every media, execution, campaign duration, and creative.

Increase market share

There are several ways to increase market share. Sell more to existing customers. Expand your customer base. Sell through new channels. However, in order to choose the right option, you need to understand your potential customer base.

Our Market Segmentation gives you clear, useful information on both current and potential customers. It splits people into different groups based on needs and values, offering insights on how to grow your brand in these different markets.

Measure your performance

As media changes, so do people and their behaviour. To improve performance, you need to evaluate and evolve your campaigns constantly, so that you can make and measure adjustments over time. We help you find the right mix of channels, messaging, creative, and format to increase your impact and ROI.

OUR WIDER OFFER

Adapt to win

Our 360-degree, continuous approach shows how consumers think, helps realise growth potential, and demonstrates return on investment.

Marketing Mix Modelling

Adjust activity in near real-time with models that are continuously learning from your media activity, sales performance, and brand health.

Campaign Evaluation

Running campaigns is all about constant evaluation and evolution. Find the right mix of channels, messaging, creative, and format to get the most out of your communications.

Custom Modules

Use additional modules to manage pricing, brand personality, brand assets and category drivers and place customers at the heart of your marketing decisions.

CONTACT

Get in touch

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GANT trusts Nepa to help it grow

Bordeaux , Aquitaine / France - 11 25 2019 : Gant sign store luxury shop in street boutique

The story

Beginning with shirts in 1949, GANT has expanded to become a global lifestyle and clothing brand. Operating in 70 markets, its products are available in over 4,000 retailers and GANT stores all over the world. But how do they maintain their position as market leaders? By thoroughly understanding their markets.

A partnership with global brand health experts Nepa helped GANT to understand their opportunities for growth, how their competition was perceived, and to understand their relative brand strength and positioning in all of their main markets.

“We chose Nepa as a brand insight partner after doing a study with them where they really showed their skills in understanding our brand and our opportunities. Since this is a global assignment, the collaboration will be an important component in our strategy going forward since our brand’s strength is of highest priority for us.”

— Eleonore Säll, Executive Vice President of Global Brand.

GANT Lifestyle Image

The plan

A deep dive into each key market was the first step of the plan. In order to understand areas for growth, GANT needed to have a strong base to work from. Nepa helped establish exactly where they currently sat as a brand and who their competitors were in each individual market.

Core KPIs were then established from this information, which formed the key assessment criteria for GANT’s new continuous health trackers. Developed and operated by Nepa, these trackers offered the GANT team the granularity they required to understand what exactly was happening, why, and most importantly, how to turn this into tangible actions.

The result

GANT’s continuous brand health tracker has now been expanded to cover eleven of the company’s main target markets. All insights are available 24/7 via Nepa’s easy-to-access KPI dashboard, so the GANT team can access the data whenever they want to easily pivot their marketing and business strategies as individual market situations change.

Regular insight meetings between the two companies also allow Nepa to use their industry knowledge to drill into the data and answer business questions that the GANT team may have. By having a firm foundation of knowledge, and being able to track year-on-year trends, Nepa can offer GANT solutions to their important business questions along with informed ‘next step’ actions.

Our collaboration with NEPA is important for us. Understanding our consumer and their view of GANT is imperative for us to succeed.” said Alexander Nilsson, Global Brand Strategy & Insights Director.

The result

11

markets covered

24/7

monitoring

Our Approach

We convert data into
opportunities for growth

Marketing is an investment

Many brands are seeing budget cuts. But focusing only on short-term goals means you can miss the contribution of long-term brand building to growth. To demonstrate the ROI of your marketing you need a team that is experienced in linking your brand KPIs to your company’s financial performance, over time. We help you make those connections, which are essential for making marketing decisions that drive growth.

Ensure brand relevance

As technologies, trends, and industries shift, so do your customers. You need to keep on the pulse of people’s perceptions and behaviours by understanding how your brand is used, its personality, and how your communications are working in order to make adjustments over time.

Select the right channels

Assessing the strength of each individual media channel helps you to focus on the right investments. But most media measurement does not integrate and evaluate all the different channels now available. Our Media Mix Modelling assesses the ROI of all media investments including social, allowing brands to make decisions around budgets for every media, execution, campaign duration, and creative.

Increase market share

There are several ways to increase market share. Sell more to existing customers. Expand your customer base. Sell through new channels. However, in order to choose the right option, you need to understand your potential customer base.

Our Market Segmentation gives you clear, useful information on both current and potential customers. It splits people into different groups based on needs and values, offering insights on how to grow your brand in these different markets.

Measure your performance

As media changes, so do people and their behaviour. To improve performance, you need to evaluate and evolve your campaigns constantly, so that you can make and measure adjustments over time. We help you find the right mix of channels, messaging, creative, and format to increase your impact and ROI.

OUR WIDER OFFER

Adapt to win

Our 360-degree, continuous approach shows how consumers think, helps realise growth potential, and demonstrates return on investment.

Marketing Mix Modelling

Adjust activity in near real-time with models that are continuously learning from your media activity, sales performance, and brand health.

Campaign Evaluation

Running campaigns is all about constant evaluation and evolution. Find the right mix of channels, messaging, creative, and format to get the most out of your communications.

Custom Modules

Use additional modules to manage pricing, brand personality, brand assets and category drivers and place customers at the heart of your marketing decisions.

CONTACT

Get in touch

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VARNER trusts Nepa to uncover its potential

VARNER logo superimposed over many models of jeans from different denim, texture, color hang on hangers

The story

Norwegian company VARNER is one of the largest retailers in Scandinavia, consisting of retail chains Cubus, Dressmann, Dressmann XL, Bik Bok, Carlings, Volt, Junkyard, and Levi’s store. The company has nearly 8,500 employees, 1,200 stores, and 6 eCommerce websites in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark.

How did VARNER go from one store in Oslo back in 1962, to this Nordic clothing empire? By uncovering the brand’s potential.

A long-term partnership with brand tracking agency Nepa has enabled VARNER to increase their understanding of their brands, their markets, and their potential areas for growth.

“Your insights meetings are always so useful. Outputs are clear, you create a lot of engagement, and there are always interesting discussions.”

— Knut Vidar Nilsen, Chief Marketing Officer

Dressmann Group Shot

The plan

VARNER wished to increase their understanding of how each of their brands performed in their main markets, and to uncover where the areas for growth lay. Working together, a continuous brand tracker was identified as the best option, as it would offer VARNER an uninterrupted holistic view of their brands, their markets, and their opportunities.

Actionable outcomes were an essential part of the project for VARNER. Quarterly reports and insights meetings were set up between the two teams in order to dig down into current hot business topics and areas of potential. In order for VARNER to make the most of their data available outside of these times, a dashboard was set up for immediately accessible business insights.

The result

VARNER not only now have insights on how their individual brands are performing via Nepa’s brand tracking dashboard, but regular consultation meetings with Nepa have highlighted key areas to strengthen and grow. Nepa has a long history with VARNER, thoroughly understands their business, their ways of working, and competitive landscape. This means that in these meetings Nepa can use their industry knowledge to open up discussions on potential areas for action, and adjustments in business strategies and tactics can be based on hard facts.

The brand tracking service provided by Nepa has enabled us to monitor brand performance on a chain and group level. This enables us to identify growth potential for individual chains and for the group, as well as learning more about how individual brand concepts are performing and how they potentially could be strengthened.

The brand tracking is one of several important insight elements we use to develop our brands, and in combination it becomes very important.” said Knut Vidar Nilsen, Chief Marketing Officer.

The result

6

brands tracked

3

markets

Our Approach

We convert data into
opportunities for growth

Marketing is an investment

Many brands are seeing budget cuts. But focusing only on short-term goals means you can miss the contribution of long-term brand building to growth. To demonstrate the ROI of your marketing you need a team that is experienced in linking your brand KPIs to your company’s financial performance, over time. We help you make those connections, which are essential for making marketing decisions that drive growth.

Ensure brand relevance

As technologies, trends, and industries shift, so do your customers. You need to keep on the pulse of people’s perceptions and behaviours by understanding how your brand is used, its personality, and how your communications are working in order to make adjustments over time.

Select the right channels

Assessing the strength of each individual media channel helps you to focus on the right investments. But most media measurement does not integrate and evaluate all the different channels now available. Our Media Mix Modelling assesses the ROI of all media investments including social, allowing brands to make decisions around budgets for every media, execution, campaign duration, and creative.

Increase market share

There are several ways to increase market share. Sell more to existing customers. Expand your customer base. Sell through new channels. However, in order to choose the right option, you need to understand your potential customer base.

 

Our Market Segmentation gives you clear, useful information on both current and potential customers. It splits people into different groups based on needs and values, offering insights on how to grow your brand in these different markets.

Improve campaign performance

As media changes, so do people and their behaviour. To improve performance, you need to evaluate and evolve your campaigns constantly, so that you can make and measure adjustments over time. We help you find the right mix of channels, messaging, creative, and format to increase your impact and ROI.

OUR WIDER OFFER

Adapt to win

Our 360-degree, continuous approach shows how consumers think, helps realise growth potential, and demonstrates return on investment.

Marketing Mix Modelling

Adjust activity in near real-time with models that are continuously learning from your media activity, sales performance, and brand health.

Campaign Evaluation

Running campaigns is all about constant evaluation and evolution. Find the right mix of channels, messaging, creative, and format to get the most out of your communications.

Custom Modules

Use additional modules to manage pricing, brand personality, brand assets and category drivers and place customers at the heart of your marketing decisions.

CONTACT

Get in touch

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Kellogg’s trusts Nepa to help it remain relevant

Mississauga, On, Canada - October 24, 2020: A close up Kellogg's

The story

The Kellogg’s company is a multi-national food manufacturing business producing leading cereal and snack foods such as Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Pringles, and Cheez-It. Headquartered in America, these products are manufactured and marketed in over 180 countries across the globe.

With so many categories in so many markets, how does Kellogg’s ensure that their products remain relevant? By understanding the needs of their consumer and the buying habits of their shopper through the many paths to purchase.

A category, brand, and shopper behaviour study by marketing intelligence experts Nepa helped Kellogg’s to uncover their connected shopper journeys, how these differed by market and, most importantly, how they can be interrupted to drive conversions both online and offline.

“I would 100% recommend the capability and people of Nepa.”

— Brittney Williams, Portfolio Director of Portable Wholesome Snacks

Close-up of a Pringles logo on a stand with chips in a store. Pr

The plan

Kellogg’s wanted to re-launch their Pringles brand with new creative, new flavours, and a new focus. They also wanted to increase market penetration by expanding the brand for consideration across different eating occasions and demand moments.

Selecting one of Nepa’s dynamic marketing intelligence tools, an omni-channel paths to purchase analysis was established that spanned 10 global markets including India, UK, Korea, France, and Brazil. It covered all major market channels such as eCommerce, hypermarket, supermarket, discounter, bodega, club and convenience.

It was key that this research offered Kellogg’s the insights they needed to deliver effective propositions and communications for their Salty snacks category.

The result

The work has been instrumental in Kellogg’s development of channel and shopper strategies, and has been the basis of all core brand building initiatives. Nepa’s learnings were shared with Kellogg’s creative agency so that they could develop a new shopper toolkit for every market. The output is now the global Kellogg’s standard.

Whilst Nepa’s marketing intelligence capabilities were a fundamental part of the project’s success, the consultative approach between the two companies was the real game changer. The research needed to be useful for global, regional, and market specific teams in Kellogg’s, so everyone needed to align with one methodology and set of research KPIs. Nepa became a true extension of Kellogg’s insight and marketing departments.

The result

10

global market surveyed

Our Approach

We convert data into
opportunities for growth

Marketing is an investment

Many brands are seeing budget cuts. But focusing only on short-term goals means you can miss the contribution of long-term brand building to growth. To demonstrate the ROI of your marketing you need a team that is experienced in linking your brand KPIs to your company’s financial performance, over time. We help you make those connections, which are essential for making marketing decisions that drive growth.

Ensure brand relevance

As technologies, trends, and industries shift, so do your customers. You need to keep on the pulse of people’s perceptions and behaviours by understanding how your brand is used, its personality, and how your communications are working in order to make adjustments over time.

Select the right channels

Assessing the strength of each individual media channel helps you to focus on the right investments. But most media measurement does not integrate and evaluate all the different channels now available. Our Media Mix Modelling assesses the ROI of all media investments including social, allowing brands to make decisions around budgets for every media, execution, campaign duration, and creative.

Increase market share

There are several ways to increase market share. Sell more to existing customers. Expand your customer base. Sell through new channels. However, in order to choose the right option, you need to understand your potential customer base.

Our Market Segmentation gives you clear, useful information on both current and potential customers. It splits people into different groups based on needs and values, offering insights on how to grow your brand in these different markets.

Measure your performance

As media changes, so do people and their behaviour. To improve performance, you need to evaluate and evolve your campaigns constantly, so that you can make and measure adjustments over time. We help you find the right mix of channels, messaging, creative, and format to increase your impact and ROI.

OUR WIDER OFFER

Adapt to win

Our 360-degree, continuous approach shows how consumers think, helps realise growth potential, and demonstrates return on investment.

Marketing Mix Modelling

Adjust activity in near real-time with models that are continuously learning from your media activity, sales performance, and brand health.

Campaign Evaluation

Running campaigns is all about constant evaluation and evolution. Find the right mix of channels, messaging, creative, and format to get the most out of your communications.

Custom Modules

Use additional modules to manage pricing, brand personality, brand assets and category drivers and place customers at the heart of your marketing decisions.

CONTACT

Get in touch