The leading strategy and branding firm focused on nutrition and wellness brands is exhibiting at this year’s Natural Products Expo West show in Anaheim, which serves as the impetus for some of the year’s biggest food and beverage launches. Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
“This industry is evolving, and it’s so exciting,” MarketPlace President Tracy Landau said. “Predicting and following these evolutions are a huge part of what MarketPlace does, and embody our commitment to ideating, incubating, and innovating alongside our brand partners.” Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Welcome to our Webinar on emerging pet trends. Have you ever encountered a person who looks like their pet? Some speculate that this curious phenomenon may be due to mere-exposure effect. Put simply, people tend to favor the familiar. And as people become more familiar with functional ingredients, sustainability, the microbiome, and beyond, these familiar… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Here’s something that you don’t need team meetings for: showing empathy to your customers. This is the time to turn off your regularly scheduled posts and to communicate as thoughtfully as possible. To be sure, it’s not insensitive to try to continue business while flattening curves and social distancing, but how can we as marketers… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Food is our primary passion at MarketPlace, of course, but it’s definitely not the start and end of our interests. Take pets, for instance. Whether they’re our own or others’, we love pets. MarketPlace is a second home to Cody Landau (our lovely black lab), and we generally play host to a number of other… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Powerlifting and digital marketing aren’t typically talked about in the same space. As someone with experience in both, I’d like to change that. Though one features squatting, benching, and deadlifting and the other branding, storytelling, and selling, the same fundamentals are required for success in either. 1. Set Realistic Goals When I was approached to… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
The secret to every successful food photo Like any art, mastering food photography requires time and hands-on doing. That hands-on part is multi-layered, skill built upon skill built upon skill. From restaurant dishes to protein ingredients to pet treats to gourmet ice, food styling is a complex art, and the skill underpinning any successful photograph… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
It’s no secret that launching a brand requires significant investment, from product development and manufacturing to brand development and promotion. And while both consumer and B2B brands can benefit from a healthy media mix, digital marketing endures as one of the most cost-efficient ways to reach the audiences who are best served by your product… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Walking the floors of a trade show can be a quick reference for emerging trends, up-and-comers, repositioning of brands in the market, new product launches and innovation, as well as stagnating or declining markets. Trade show participation has long been part of informing our perspective on the industries we serve—food, beverage, pet, and supplement. Our… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Mark Zuckerberg recently announced a Facebook update in which posts from business Pages will no longer appear in users’ primary News Feed. While paid posts will continue to appear in the News Feed, an impending drop in organic engagement with Page posts means brands need to revisit their social media strategies in anticipation of this… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
The FDA recently announced changes to the Nutrition Facts label, with more details about sugar. Starting in 2018 [1], the FDA will require Nutrition Facts labels to distinguish between sugars found naturally in ingredients and sugars added, both in grams and a percentage of daily recommended value. The FDA is recommending no more than ten… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
The Pet Marketing Agency The above list isn’t a sampler of pet industry trends. Rather, it’s a list of realities that we, as a brand growth firm and full-service marketing agency, treat as basic facts informing our pet marketing insight, strategy, and tactics. What really gets us excited are the deep cross-connections among trends and consumer… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
I’m a nerd. I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hands; I’ll stay up until the small hours to catch Vincent Price or Hammer Films horror marathons; and my personal geography is dotted with mountains of unread books—on topics ranging from 17th century Dutch painting to the history of punctuation. I’m especially a… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
As a brand development agency, we handle a lot of visual identity projects for our partners—both consumer-facing and B2B. Those projects are often the first tangible deliverable of a well-rounded branding campaign. As a designer, I love taking on that responsibility, especially the work that goes into crafting a logo—that small graphic mark that our… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
During the power outage that halted Super Bowl XLVII, one tweet made a bright impression, becoming one of the most retweeted messages of all time. The tweet itself: “Power out? No problem.” It was accompanied by an image of a dimly lit Oreo and the caption “You can still dunk in the dark.” In addition… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>