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super-bowl-commercials-2020

2020 Super Bowl LIV Commercials Compared to What the Target Consumer Really Wants

We’ve been talking a lot recently about ads vs. reviews. One is big budget, the other is high trust. There’s no more famously big budget ad than a Super Bowl ad. Here are three Super Bowl commercials from 2020, a synopsis of their storylines, and then the storylines consumers really care about, as revealed in …

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Custom Orthotics in Running Shoes

Runner-to-Runner: Shoes Must Work With Custom Orthotics

This blog is part of a new Channel Signal series, Runner-to-Runner, where we examine topics and trends within the peer-to-peer conversation about running footwear. The full report can be downloaded below. Channel Signal recently measured the market conversation in the running footwear industry. Tracking five leading brands over 12 months, we collected, cleaned and analyzed …

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Dr. Bronner's Outstanding Revenue Growth

Dr. Bronner’s Grew Revenue 2963% in 20 Years With No Advertising

Dr. Bronner’s Loyalty Through the Ages A camping trip without a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s is like forgetting your sleeping bag. Peppermint. Sudsy. Easy on the environment. Around the campfire, the peppermint continues to remind you of how clean you are. My employees tell me they love it for everyday cleansing. So, yep…Channel Signal is …

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Post-It-Extreme-Notes

What the New Post-It Extreme Notes can Teach Brands About Audience Expansion

The original Post-It notes from 3M are a wonderful invention that solve real problems for home and office users. With the slogan “Make it Stick with Post-Its”, 3M plays on the idea of helping people accomplish and remember things by writing them down. Different sizes and colors play even further into our memory and associations. …

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Stanley PMI

Featured Client: Stanley

Revolutionizing the Way People Enjoy Food & Beverage Stanley, a brand of Pacific Market International, is constantly working toward its vision of revolutionizing the way people enjoy food & beverage everywhere. The Product Team uses advanced technologies, materials and research to extend their brands into the future while remaining rooted to the past. Channel Signal …

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Ford

Calculated Product Innovation vs. Visionary Ideas: The Dove Experiment

Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, but do customers wish to be reminded of their differences? Dove’s limited edition collection of body wash bottles in the shape of different body types has come under fire from customers (“women don’t need to be categorized all the time”). Innovative? Sure. Wanted by the customer base? Apparently …

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Owlet Case Study

Owlet Case Study: How Do You Know If Your Marketing Message Is Working?

Your company has spent thousands if not millions trying to develop an image of your product, but is it working? “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, the trouble is I don’t know which half.” This well known quote from John Wanamaker is commonly used to describe the inability of companies to know which marketing …

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