Topic: Social Media


  • True connection, as we humans know it, is actual dialogue. It’s shared experience. It’s real time. At the end of the day, if this quarantine has taught us anything, it’s that engagement isn’t an outcome or a metric, it’s a human drive.

  • If you’re like the rest of us, Zoom and Google Hangouts have become a fixture in your daily lives. And if you’re relatively new to video conferencing, you’ve seen that it’s fairly easy to get up and running. But how do you make the most of it? CTP’s Director of Creative Content Will Claflin offers…

  • Many years ago, songwriter Steve Goodman wrote a letter to singer David Allen Coe, boasting that he’d written the “perfect country and western song.” A mixture of words and themes and just the right name drops for any country fan. Coe, in turn, disagreed, protesting that it was missing the essential elements. Mama. Trains. Trucks.…

  • Instagram evolved?

    When a big brand changes its visual identity it draws a lot of opinion, especially when it is a popular photo application. So when Instagram announced its logo change we asked some of our visual branding experts at CTP what they thought. The company says its community has evolved but…

  • There's more to snapchat than disappearing pictures

    Pop culture is crawling all over Snapchat. It’s in the news. Your kids use it. Maybe even you use it (but probably not). Everyone (particularly parents and marketers, but for very different reasons) wants to know: Why is Snapchat making waves, especially amongst the teen community? Teens are a part…

  • As rock legends Spinal Tap pointed out, there is a fine line between clever and stupid. Gillette finds itself standing on that line with a Twitter campaign that mocks rivals Dollar Shave Club (DSC) and Harry’s and seems to be provoking more ill-will than good for the legacy brand.

  • Shaving the truth in Twitter battle?

    Disruptor brands by their very nature unsettle the status quo. Gillette, the global marketing behemoth, has proven it knows how to promote and sell product. But are the shaving disruptors and the changing world of social media exposing cracks in Gillette’s marketing armor? As rock legends Spinal Tap pointed out,…

  • The French Laundry

    “In the end, a great meal is not about the food and the wine. A great meal is about an emotional experience.” Most agree chef-owner Thomas Keller hit that mark with The French Laundry. One of only a handful of restaurants in the U.S. to earn three Michelin stars, it’s…

  • I have to admit, I’m not great with names. Unless I really concentrate during that first handshake, I’m more likely to remember your high school’s mascot, how you take your coffee and whether you’re a cat person or a dog person. Lucky for me, I’m not in charge of CBS…

  • Marc Jacobs

    During the opening weekend of New York Fashion Week, Marc Jacobs launched a Daisy Pop-Up Tweet Shop in SoHo and built an entire PR campaign around the ways consumers interact, share and exchange information on social channels. The pop-up store only accepted “social currency.” Customers could purchase products in exchange…