June 18, 2020
Monetizing Recipe Content: How Food Commodity Boards Can Capitalize as Online Grocery Surges
If there’s anything food marketers have learned over the past couple of months, it is how important an e-commerce channel strategy is. With consumers urged to stay home, online grocery shopping has grown exponentially. Home delivery has become an essential service for those who are elderly or immunocompromised, and it has…
May 31, 2020
8 Media Questions You Should Be Asking When Recalibrating Your Food Media Plan During COVID-19
As the COVID-19 crisis seemingly begins to wane, the havoc that remains in its wake is still very much present. While many personal and business enterprises begin reassessing, at EvansHardy+Young (EHY) we are continuing to carefully recalibrate our clients' advertising media strategies. Like them, you're likely facing some of the same challenges…
May 26, 2020
How Influencers Help Cultivate Food Trends
Anyone who has worked in social media marketing has been asked the million-dollar question: “How can we make our content go viral?” But this is a loaded question. The answer depends on so many stars aligning. While "going viral" isn't a good social strategy, we have developed a formula that…
April 15, 2020
The Food Industry is Pushing Innovation to New Heights
There’s a lot we can learn from the leaders who decided to be proactive rather than reactive, who quickly identified the potential benefits of technical innovation and created advantages during a time when few seemed to exist. They’ve offered us a glimpse of how the food industry is capable taking…
February 13, 2020
Agency Jargon. Useless Soft Metrics. It’s Time for Food Agency BS Bingo!
We’ve all heard the saying, “If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS.” If you ever feel like your agency is leaning a little too heavily on the “baffle” side of this equation, then it's time for you to deploy the Food Agency BS Bingo Card. It’s…
June 25, 2019
Demystifying Twitter for Food Brands to Drive Results
With its abundance of appetite appeal, glamour shots and videos of delicious foods, Instagram seems like the most natural fit for food marketers. Functioning in a similar way as traditional advertising, a powerful image on this platform is worth a thousand words. Twitter, on the other hand, is the antithesis…
June 18, 2019
Food Marketing in the Attention Economy
When it comes down to it, food marketers are dealing with the issue of consumer’s lack of time and attention. As more marketing spend shifts to digital, it’s important we learn to navigate today’s attention economy. Our digital platforms, perhaps most importantly our social networks, are built using a business…
February 7, 2019
Food Content Marketers: Time to Put on Your Publishing Hat
You’ve definitely heard the old adage, content is king. But how exactly, can your food brand rule the content kingdom? In the year ahead, content marketing integration and adopting a publishing model might just be the most effective and efficient way possible. Perhaps you made a business goal for 2019…
