Email marketing perspective

During our years of designing and building emails for clients there has often been a healthy tussle between creative, technology, client and marketing. Clients and creative understandably want to be as impactful as possible. Marketing and Technology meanwhile point out that there’s nothing less impactful than the email never arriving at the inbox.
My experience definitely …

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Mystery Client

We have a really great client that we’re not allowed to talk about. Rules is rules and we abide by them but it does mean that we don’t get to shout about some really nifty projects we’ve worked on over the past couple of years …
Like the letter that flew across some pretty prime, targeted …

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Bent / Straight

Often great advertising and the simplest ideas apply a winner recipe which can work either way: bent image / straight copy – or straight image / bent copy.
For a great example of the former, think:

For a great example of the latter, think:

Going back to the old argument of, “Can a poster ever be a banner?” …

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Dispensable sensor dispenser

Has anybody seen a campaign running on TV and online this month for a sensor-activated hand wash? I’m going to have to be quite opinionated and question whether this is the most pointless invention in modern times …

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Overlays can get users’ attention more subtly than intrusive pop-ups

Watching Channel 4 on-demand recently, I was forced to watch ads I’d already seen. I like ads, but there are some I only need to see once …

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Can a poster ever be a banner?

A couple of projects this month have reminded me that a decade ago clients were being led to believe time and again that you couldn’t translate an existing “other media” campaign into a digital one …

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Spicerack came up with some fantastic creative solutions for the Hearst Digital/ National Magazines online portfolio. Work is both creative and innovative and usually exceeds all expectations.
Michelle Gilmore: (Formerly) Project Director, Hearst Digital