Marketing transformation agency Razorfish has launched the Razorfish Creator Colab, a select team of in-house social strategists developing made-for-platform content. These creators specialize in identifying cultural moments and tapping into them to create experiences that consumers care about.
“This is more than just a creator offering–it’s a cultural-relevancy offering,” said Cristina Lawrence, EVP of consumer and content experience at Razorfish. “To stand out, brands must engage their consumers through experiences that are both meaningful and authentic. The Razorfish Creator Colab seizes the opportunity to build those consumer connections that today’s brands need in order to exist tomorrow.”
The offering has five essential elements:
- Tapping into trends: Razorfish’s in-house creators are social trendspotters that turn brands into trendsetters. With a pulse on emerging moments (even before they go mainstream), they leverage insights to create content people care about in real time.
- Honing authentic brand voices: The offering brings a brand’s social persona to life, with a playbook for engaging new audiences.
- Made-for-platform experiences: Because not all social media platforms are the same, the Razorfish Creator Colab uses a broad range of in-house talent and partners to match the right brands with the right creators on the right platforms with the right content. Inserting brands into cultural conversations generates buzz so they can shape the culture they’re a part of while building communities.
- Optimizing for success: The creators optimize for success against business objectives, from engagement and brand lift to earned reach and relevance. Analyzing engagement data and performance metrics allows them to continually optimize content and give communities more of what they want, with the agility to adjust quickly.
- Driving efficiency: The cross-disciplinary specialists comprise a lean, one-stop shop for social strategy and creative. Their expertise helps create effective content at scale without sacrificing quality or results, transforming feeds with standout experiences.
“Our creators understand the value of an end-to-end social experience, where we not only identify trends in real time, but can immediately capitalize on them,” said Arielle Carter, GVP of consumer and content experience at Razorfish. “The Razorfish Creator Colab can execute at the speed of culture, giving brands a voice that connects them with new consumer audiences.”
The Razorfish Creator Colab is part of Razorfish’s consumer and content experience practice, which in 2023 achieved the following for its client brands:
- More than one billion content views.
- Nearly 150 million engagements.
- More than 330 million followers.
- Nearly 400,000 content assets.
SMPTE elects board officers, regional governors
SMPTE®,the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, has revealed the board officers and regional governors who will serve terms beginning in January 2025.
Three new officers--Richard Welsh as SMPTE president, Eric Gsell as SMPTE executive VP, and Polly Hickling as SMPTE Education VP--have been elected for a two-year term from Jan. 1, 2025, to Dec. 31, 2026. One SMPTE officer, Lisa Hobbs, will be continuing her service as SMPTE secretary and treasurer for another two-year term. Additionally, Raymond Yeung will be stepping into the role of standards VP on Jan. 1, 2025.
“SMPTE’s membership has spoken,” said SMPTE interim executive director Sally-Ann D’Amato. “These officers have been tasked with an important responsibility, one each of them is prepared to tackle head-on. These next two years are looking bright for SMPTE!”
In addition to the officers, 10 regional governors were elected by the Society to serve two-year 2025-2026 terms.
These include the following regional governors, re-elected to continue their service:
Asia-Pacific Region Governor
Tony Ngai, Society of Motion Imaging Ltd.
EMEA - Central & South America Region Governor
Fernando Bittencourt, FB Consultant
United Kingdom Region Governor
Chris Johns, Sky UK.
USA - Central Region Governor
William T. Hayes, Consultant
USA - Eastern Region Governor
Dover Jeanne Mundt, Riedel Communications
USA - Western Region Governor
Jeffrey F. Way, Open Drives
Also elected were four newcomers to the SMPTE Board:
Canada Region Governor
Jonathan Jobin, Grass Valley
USA - Hollywood Region Governor
Allan Schollnick, Voxx... Read More