1Tell us a bit about your business and what you do.
Our team—small, passionate, mighty talented—partners with each client on a personal level, brainstorming around a table or getting our hands dirty in the places where your brand lives and breathes. (A day that finds us deep in a cornfield is a good day.)
We tailor our services to your needs, strategizing and conceptualizing from scratch or plugging into existing marketing teams, but always with one goal: to deliver a customer relationship that lasts.
2Can you explain a bit about the winning work you entered into the 2019 Muse Awards, and why you chose to enter this project?
In 2018, Viscul created a series of videos highlighting three local growers who produce ingredients sold in Giant/Martin’s Food Stores. The goal was to illustrate how Giant/Martin’s supports local farms, their communities, and local economies, and to show consumers how quick delivery from farm to store to table enhances the quality of the products they buy.
It’s clear that our efforts motivated customers to shop and to purchase additional items. Seventy-four percent of customers found the local campaign to be extremely/very appealing, and 77% recalled the promotion without visual aid—the highest unaided campaign awareness ever achieved for our client. The peach, sweet corn, and apple content were top-performing social content in P7, P8, and P10, driving a lower-than-benchmark cost per click and averaging view times of up to 30 seconds. Overall, our content improved customer perception of the quality of local produce and of the quality, variety, and service provided by Giant/Martin stores.
We decided to enter this project as well as Lancaster Water Group’s brand identity into Muse because campaigns – whether branding or marketing – is where our team is able to be 100% collaborative with one another, making it not just an individual job, but rather a team effort.
3What was the biggest challenge with this project?
The biggest challenge with these projects is actually what makes them shine – the storytelling. Every image, word and video communicates that salt-of-the-earth love of farming that each of the featured farms exude.
They genuinely care about what they are growing and how it is impacting their community. It is up to us to condense that passion into a bite-sized pieces of content that resonate with the consumer.
4What are your top three (3) favorite things about our industry?
Collaboration, imagination, and the constant push to be better.
5What resources would you recommend to someone who wants to improve their skills in the creative industry?
Read, watch and review industry trends and highlights, but then put that away and use your most important tool – your imagination. I am constantly inspired by our team on Monday mornings when they talk about what they did on the weekend and how it makes them want to do something creative around that experience.
6What is your key to success? Any parting words of wisdom?
It is a team effort. Your team isn’t built upon one person, but rather the strength of team as a whole.