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Restaurants / seasonal storytelling / 2023DEEPER STUDY · 6 MIN READ

My Parent Is a TikToker

Five Star Chicken

An unexpected family voice appears within a familiar creator format, connecting social entertainment with a voluntary shared-meal invitation.

Connect Five Star Chicken with a Songkran family-meal occasion. A creator collaboration works best when the creator understands how their audience recognises the format and when it feels authentic. Give participating relatives meaningful choices about what they say and how they appear. Avoid humour that depends on portraying older people as technologically incapable. Let the contrast arise from the unexpected role rather than humiliation. Discuss editing and publication before filming. In a new project, participants should know the commercial purpose and be able to decline without disappointing a loved one or losing access to a benefit. The relationship matters more than the surprise reveal.

Evidence note
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Read study, data & creative direction →Intergenerational storytelling
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Biscuits / local cultural marketing / 2025DEEPER STUDY · 6 MIN READ

A Bite of TN

Britannia Milk Bikis

A familiar biscuit interaction becomes a visual language for local icons, with place-specific media adding practical relevance.

Celebrate Tamil Nadu through a recognisable product ritual and local references. Observe what people do with the product beyond its official instructions. A familiar edge, opening gesture or arrangement can provide a distinctive starting point. Validate the behaviour with a range of users rather than assuming the creative team’s memory is representative. Choose a ritual that keeps the brand recognisable and does not encourage waste or unsafe consumption. The visual idea should still work for someone who does not perform the ritual personally. Ask whether the execution makes the product more meaningful or merely uses it as an arbitrary craft material that could be replaced by anything.

Evidence note
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Read study, data & creative direction →Product ritual
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Consumer electronics / brand launch / 2023DEEPER STUDY · 6 MIN READ

As Close as You Can Get

PRISM+

Impossible physical closeness dramatises audiovisual immersion, while factual product evaluation remains a separate purchase step.

Introduce an entertainment benefit for PRISM+ television and sound products. Terms such as immersive can become empty when every competitor uses them. Ask what a customer actually wants to feel or do, then find a concrete image that expresses that experience. A metaphor should be easy to explain in one sentence and flexible enough to support more than one execution. Test whether people understand the intended benefit without being told the strategy. If they remember only an odd scene, strengthen the connection. The creative should make the proposition easier to grasp rather than use technical language as permission for unrelated spectacle.

Evidence note
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Read study, data & creative direction →Benefit metaphor
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Oral care / participatory identity / Date not verifiedDEEPER STUDY · 6 MIN READ

A Million Logos

Colgate

Personal variations of a brand’s smile asset make inclusion visible, provided participation and image use remain genuinely optional.

Challenge appearance-based smile judgement through a participatory brand identity. Identify which part of an identity carries the relevant meaning and what can vary without losing recognition. The change should visibly enact the message rather than require a long explanation of brand guidelines. Test whether viewers understand both the personal contribution and the brand connection. A flexible asset can become a platform, but it should not turn every participant into an unpaid endorsement. Explain where a submitted design may appear and let people keep their version private. Participation is more credible when the organisation gives up some control without quietly expanding its rights over contributors.

Evidence note
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Read study, data & creative direction →Inclusion
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Museum / public engagement / Date not verifiedDEEPER STUDY · 6 MIN READ

Reimagining Singapore with AI

National Museum of Singapore

Clearly bounded historical speculation gives audiences a question to explore, with curatorial evidence kept separate from generated fiction.

Encourage fresh interest in museum history and social discussion. Start with a short record of what is known, what is uncertain and what the creative exercise deliberately invents. Ask a subject specialist to review that boundary. A what-if scenario should identify the changed assumption so audiences can follow the reasoning. Avoid presenting an imagined protagonist’s experience as recovered testimony. Keep a source trail for factual elements and explain where interpretation begins. The goal is not to make speculation less engaging, but to give people the tools to enjoy it without confusing a vivid possibility with a documented event or an authentic historical image.

Evidence note
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Read study, data & creative direction →Historical literacy
906
Enterprise technology / 2018DEEPER STUDY · 5 MIN READ

Command Line Heroes: Make the Audience’s Work the Story

Red Hat

A specialist brand can earn attention by documenting the people and decisions behind its audience’s profession.

Serve a specialist audience with an engaging story beyond product information. Ask which turning points, difficult decisions or misunderstood practices the audience would discuss with one another. Select a narrow story that can be supported by reliable records and knowledgeable contributors. Write the audience question before deciding where the sponsor belongs. If the story only works when it ends with a product recommendation, consider whether a straightforward demonstration would be more honest and useful than a documentary format.

Evidence note
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Read study, data & creative direction →Professional identity
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Ecommerce software / 2010DEEPER STUDY · 5 MIN READ

Build a Business: Turn a Platform Trial into a Bounded Challenge

Shopify

A challenge can prompt real product use, but its reward rules must not be confused with typical entrepreneurial outcomes.

Encourage prospective store owners to move from interest to practical platform use. Explain fees, required purchases, eligibility, timing and how a winner is selected before someone invests substantial time. Distinguish the headline prize from the likelihood of receiving it. Give entrants access to the complete terms and a practical way to ask questions. A platform trial and a business commitment are different decisions. Participants should understand which costs continue after the promotional period and what happens if they choose not to continue.

Evidence note
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Read study, data & creative direction →Bounded activation
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Marketing software / professional education / 2007DEEPER STUDY · 5 MIN READ

Whiteboard Friday: Give a Recurring Explanation a Recognisable Shape

Moz

A repeatable teaching format can reduce production friction while making the next useful explanation easier to recognise.

Make recurring professional explanations understandable and sustainable to produce. Choose one question and identify the minimum relationships a viewer needs to understand. Prepare the diagram as a sequence of ideas rather than a wall of keywords. Test it at the size people will actually watch, including a small screen. Use captions and an accessible written explanation. The presenter should guide attention through the structure, while the visual supports the reasoning instead of merely proving that a whiteboard was used.

Evidence note
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Read study, data & creative direction →Recognisable format
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Developer platform / 2020DEEPER STUDY · 5 MIN READ

The ReadME Project: Put the Contributors Behind the Product in View

GitHub

An editorial platform can make a community’s otherwise invisible work easier to understand without turning every contributor into a testimonial.

Help audiences understand the people and work behind open-source projects. Show what the person actually does, why it matters and which collaborators share the work. Avoid making a complex project seem like the achievement of a lone hero. A clear account of documentation, review, coordination or maintenance can expand the audience’s understanding of valuable contribution. Check technical details with the participant and other appropriate records, while keeping personal experience clearly attributed rather than presenting it as a universal community condition.

Evidence note
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Read study, data & creative direction →Invisible labour
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Collaboration software / 2016DEEPER STUDY · 5 MIN READ

Team Playbook: Make a Brand Promise Usable in a Meeting

Atlassian

A practical resource can demonstrate a company’s point of view by helping people act on a problem before buying software.

Help teams move from general collaboration problems to a practical discussion. Identify a recurring moment when the audience feels the problem and define what a useful session should produce. An agreed decision, clarified responsibility or small trial is more concrete than a general promise of better teamwork. Explain preparation, participants, timing and output in plain language. Test whether a first-time facilitator can run the activity without insider knowledge, and remove steps that add ceremony without helping the group reach the intended result.

Evidence note
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Read study, data & creative direction →Useful brand promise
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Cultural discovery platform / 2017DEEPER STUDY · 5 MIN READ

Art Selfie: Give a Large Collection a Personal Starting Point

Google Arts & Culture

A playful personal connection can invite exploration, provided the result leads beyond novelty and respects the person’s data.

Give people an approachable starting point within a large cultural collection. Decide what a participant should be able to discover after receiving the playful result. Provide an accessible explanation, accurate attribution and a visible route to the original object or collection. Do not make sharing the only prominent action. Test whether people can explain something about the artwork rather than only their reaction to the comparison. The novelty should open a useful path, not consume the entire experience and leave the collection as decorative background.

Evidence note
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Read study, data & creative direction →Approachable discovery
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Professional networking / services / 2018DEEPER STUDY · 5 MIN READ

In It Together

LinkedIn

Invite people to define success in their own terms, then show the practical relationships that help them pursue it.

A professional network wanted to communicate relevance beyond a narrow image of career advancement and corporate status. Use an invitation that people can answer without accepting your organisation’s hierarchy of success. Test it with participants at different stages and in different types of work. If every answer is edited toward the same inspirational conclusion, the apparent openness becomes cosmetic. Preserve meaningful differences, including goals centred on stability, craft, flexibility or contributing to a team rather than individual status.

Evidence note
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Read study, data & creative direction →Professional belonging
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