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Spread the Lovie!
We’re up for Best Digital Campaign in Advertising, but we need a little bit of your love if we’re going to take home that lovely Lovie award.
Transforming your customers into champions
Setting up and running customer advocacy programmes isn’t a walk in the park. distillery hosted its first Customer Reference Masterclass in APAC with three industry experts to talk about why it’s business critical to localise content and to explore innovative ways to harness the power of customers as champions.
When a brand has purpose, magic happens: From Nike to Red Bull, these stories will inspire you
For brands that find common ground between their values and those of their audience, there’s plenty to gain. Our fandom workshop helps you find that sweet spot and turn your audience into fans.
How 2020 trends came through in this year’s Super Bowl ads
Simon, our Group Account Director in Singapore, has his say on the 2021 Super Bowl ads. After a unique 12 months, how did brands position themselves, frame their messages and what were the dominant themes? Find out now.
Lessons from 2020: Reimagining your sense of purpose
At distillery, we believe that 2021 is going to be a year that many businesses will use to reconnect with their sense of purpose, and maybe even reimagine it. We spoke to marketing specialists Rebecca Hirst and Stephen Mangham from our board of advisors to get their thoughts.
Delighting 1.5 million nature lovers with a social campaign that brings biodiversity to life
We’re big nature lovers here at distillery. So, the opportunity to work with The Royal Parks, which manages eight royal parks and several other areas of parkland in London, was one that we simply could not pass up.
distillery roundup 2020: Our biggest wins, lessons, insights, and plans for the new year
We’ve had an eventful year, from keeping our team happy and motivated from home to winning new clients, producing video content in a Covid world, and more. Here’s our 2020 roundup.
Christmas is changing: How social purpose is redefining brand conversations in 2020 and beyond
The festive spirit needs rekindling this year. Brands have come out in force to shine a light on family and kindness. Here are the holiday ads going beyond platitudes to deliver on social purpose.
It’s that time of the year again – but this one’s different.
Happy Holidays! This year, we’re celebrating differently: instead of sending gifts to clients, we’ll be donating money to charity – and you get to decide which one.
Rise and Shine with Lil-Lets: Empowering young girls with freedom during their period
Lil-Lets wanted to encourage young girls to use its non-applicator tampons, so we put together a campaign to bust any misconceptions they might have as potential first-time users.
Beyond views, clicks, and signups: 3 ways to measure brand fandom
No matter the algorithm at play, your fans will always come looking for you online. So where are they? Here’s how we measure and improve brand fandom for our clients.
Want to make more diverse creative work? Start by listening.
More and more brands are creating diverse marketing campaigns - the latest success being #whatsyourname from Starbucks. We speak to Eli Vasiliou at Iris Worldwide about the powerful strategy at the heart of this campaign: listening.
Is your content working hard enough for you? Here’s how to sweat your assets
Work hard, make your assets work harder. Our production team shares some of our tried and tested strategies on how we can sweat your assets.
Every busy parent’s little helper: Our campaign for Gifflar cinnamon buns
Parents are always looking for new snacks for their kids. We got them to consider a Swedish snack they might not have heard of before. See how we achieved this through a carefully crafted social strategy.
COVID-safe shoots call for a new level of planning. Here’s what we’ve learned.
Our Executive Producer shares her experience working on a recent shoot and upholding COVID-19 social distancing and workplace safety guidelines every step of the way.
Our real-life guide to COVID-safe video production
We’re filming again, and our first COVID-safe experience for Gifflar cinnamon buns was a success. Read how we brought this video campaign to life, safely.
Let’s roll with Gifflar - a new video campaign brought to life by distillery’s production team
Armed with industry best practices for COVID-safe production, we’re out filming again. Our latest work? A video campaign for Gifflar, the tasty cinnamon snack from Sweden!
Formats, focus, real-time content, and partnerships: The new (influencer marketing) normal
As consumers turn to social media for content to help them navigate COVID-19, learn how “influencers” and partnerships are being reimagined across the board.
We’re remote workers at heart. Here’s how we do it.
Here’s what we’re doing to stay agile, connected, and creative as a digital-first content studio while keeping our team safe at home during COVID-19.
A letter from our intern: “I’m distillery’s biggest fan!”
A glimpse of what an internship experience at distillery looks like and the lessons learned along the way, by the first alumnus of our intern programme, Shwetha!
Made by distillery
The weird, the wonderful, the self-initiated.
Projects and experiments from the distillers.
distillery sessions
#distillerysessions is the podcast series from distillery, where we explore the latest trends and upcoming marketing tools bouncing around in the industry. From personalised videos, to creating brand fandoms and the impact you can have on your audience.
We invite you to listen in, take part and learn with our discussions. Send your thoughts and ideas to us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.