01AUDIENCE & BRAND INTELLIGENCE
Read the audience before you write to them. Know what they already believe about you, and what it will take to move it.

Creative distinctiveness
Distinctiveness by audience, out of 10
Why it’s distinctive · 8.8It looks like no other grocery ad: crude consumer sketches replace the usual glossy pour shots, and the doodles take over the real labels on shelf.
Read the audience before you write to them. Know what they already believe about you, and what it will take to move it.
Score every message territory against the audiences you need to reach, and find the one that holds across all of them.
Test headlines, CTAs and body copy line by line. Know which one converts and which one costs credibility, before it runs.
Score every execution on the numbers, then hear why in the audience's own words, before the work is locked.
Find the backlash risk before the market does, and know how to sequence the push around it.
Campaign type
Objective
Creative assets
Channel & placement
Format
Mechanism
Theme
Talent & cue
Flight & markets
Recognition
Category context