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A key task in running any display or video or outbound channel is the creative strategy. With this in mind, we need to do what's called creative briefing. It's an important task and component of any display or video campaign. The creative brief is a document that outlines your campaign theme, the audience you're going to target, the channels that will be used, the sizes of the things you want to create, the assets, the pixel dimensions, and other specifications related to the creative formats required for that campaign.
When we do all our research and we decide on our campaign idea, we can then go ahead and write a brief to give to our designers, to our creative team, or to our agency partners to produce the ads based on our requirements. We've written it down and then they have to go ahead and deliver.
An important thing to outline is why you would actually spend time writing a brief.
These are the main benefits of a brief:
- It allows for idea generation by the creatives and the designers.
- It also defines the messaging and it gives a list of formats that the people actually have to go ahead and make.
- It challenges you to define what it is you actually want to achieve or communicate.
- It allows us to help align the creative production with the audience persona preferences, and all of those different factors to focus us in on our objective.
A typical creative brief includes the following:
- Brand guidelines: What exactly are our colors and what are our brand guidelines?
- Campaign idea: What is the main theme of the campaign? What are we trying to do?
- Business goals: What are we trying to achieve?
- Audience insights: What have we unearthed from our research that can help the creative develop those ideas?
- Format: The format, sizes, dimensions, and channels that'll be used are all key considerations of any creative brief.
- Mandatories: And don't forget any other mandatories like your logo or your tagline or something like that that must be included in your brief for your campaign to get past key stakeholders in your organization.
Digital Marketing Resources:
Cathal Melinn
Cathal Melinn is a well-known digital marketing director, commercial analyst, and ecommerce specialist with over 15 years’ experience.
Cathal is a respected international conference speaker, course lecturer, and digital trainer. He specialises in driving complete understanding from students across a number of digital marketing disciplines including: paid and organic search (PPC and SEO), analytics, strategy and planning, social media, reporting, and optimisition. Cathal works with digital professionals in over 80 countries and teaches at all levels of experience from beginner to advanced.
Alongside his training and course work, Cathal runs his own digital marketing agency and is considered an analytics and revenue generating guru - at enterprise level. He has extensive local and international experience working with top B2B and B2C brands across multiple industries.
Over his career, Cathal has worked client-Side, in digital marketing agencies and media owners with brands including HSBC, Amazon, Apple, Red Bull, Dell, Vodafone, Compare the Market, Aer Lingus, and Expedia.
He can be reached on LinkedIn here.
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