Media Planning: Changing Seasons and Shifting Creatives

As students head back to school, so many marketers are heading back to the drawing board to refresh their ad creatives for the fall & holiday shopping season. Indeed, while some marketers are still finalizing their Labor Day sales, others are already looking ahead to holiday media planning strategies, and for good reason. Last year, the majority of holiday shopping occurred on …

Thriving, Expanding, and Breaking Records

A great success story to share for a client that we’ve been media buying for this year! What a great article sharing the wonderful growth and expansion Seabrook has had in 2017. Washington’s beach town enjoyed record-breaking home sales and vacation rental rates this summer. If you’ve never had an opportunity to visit Seabrook, it’s worth checking out. Congratulations to …

Seattle Advertising Agency

Not everyone can afford a big ad agency. “Big” often means matching big fees and retainers for services and more often than not, if you’re a small to medium size advertiser, you’ll be passed down to junior executives cutting their teeth with your brand and your media dollars!  Thrive believes that the all advertisers deserve big attention from a professional …

Mandarin Seattle Magazine – Advertising to Chinese Investors

According to Tiger Oak Media, “As Seattle continues to top best-of lists and garner international attention, the area has become a smart and logical choice for Chinese investors, immigrants and visitors. The National Association of Realtors reports that China has more than 2 million millionaires, 47 percent of whom plan to move out of the country in the next five …

Cable Television Advertising

Over the past couple weeks you’ve likely seen ( if you are between the ages of 18-25) our client’s television ads on cable television. We bought the entire DMA from Comcast Cable TV Advertising as opposed to buying zoned cable areas because for this particular client the entire market is within their target marketing area. This television ad is coupled with an ad buy …

Portland Print Advertising: Resort at the Mountain

Doesn’t this ad make you want to drive straight to Resort at the Mountain and get cozy after a day of skiing?! Petra Sokolova from No Status Quo Creative designed this print ad for our client and we love it. The ad ran in Seattle Met Magazine next to a “Portland for Seattleites” feature as well as in 1859 Magazine …

Seattle Bus Advertising

It really never gets old watching a media plan come to life. Here is a shot of one of the buses we bought for Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union. I still remember the first TV spot I caught on television that I was responsible for placing. That same giddiness gets me at times when I see our clients’ ads while I’m …