Posts under ‘Marketing + Advertising’

How to Make Headlines

Breaking News! According to Global BC’s Sunday newscast:
The City of Trail is getting buzz, not because it’s home to the largest zinc smelter in the world and prices are up, but because of a new ski movie that’s going viral.
JP Auclair’s urban skiing segment was posted 2 weeks ago on several ski mag forums, and [...]

Snapshots from Whistler Blackcomb Embedded: The People’s Choice

It’s the time of year everyone starts churning out “best of” lists. So we’re getting into the spirit. We asked folks in our facebook and twitter communities to tell us their favourite moment from Embedded, the opening campaign for Whistler Blackcomb this winter.
Here’s a gallery featuring some of the top hits, including the weather shock [...]

HEAD Skiers United: Hit or Miss?

Looking forward to seeing The Greatest Hits version of Didier Cuche and Jon Olsson schooling each other on the intricacies of jib and race culture. So, Didier can throw a 360 out of the pipe, Jon can flip his ski like a World Cup champ… what’s next?
What a fresh way to use their bench [...]

Would David Lynch saber champagne?

We’re immersed in the Whistler Sabbatical Project for Tourism Whistler, exploring Whistler’s outsized passion to show why it’s such a perfect place to come to unplug and reconnect with the things that revitalise you.

One of those recharging experiences comes at the hands of restaurateur and sommelier Andre St Jacques, the ringmaster at the Bearfoot Bistro, [...]

Case study: Awesome Marketing – Araxi’s 30th anniversary fall feature

While the media marketing industry is busy congratulating itself for its big ideas and big budget executions following Friday’s Media Innovation Awards, we’re drawn to commend a much more modest campaign closer to home.
Araxi restaurant’s 30th anniversary special.

No major ad buys. No full page takeovers. No billboards. No banners. No microsite. No app.
Just a modest [...]

How to Train an Intern, with Tom Sachs

If we were to draft our own script for an intern training video, it would contain these bullets:
1. Do not EVER make the coffee. You will make it too watery, too weak, or too washed out to properly fuel production here. Leave that to one of the 3 designated team members who have been pre-qualified [...]

I’m going up the mountain, and all I need is this sleeping bag, this camera and this mega-big torch…

Janalee Budge caught up with Mike Douglas as he packed his gear in preparation of being embedded on the mountain. He was most stoked about his giant torch… although we’re not sure if it made the final packing cut, or not…
Here’s episode two! (PS Happy birthday, Mike!)

EMBEDDED Day 2 of 6 – Control from Whistler [...]

Embedded is live. And winter is here!

*Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while climbing it* – Andy Rooney.

The social-sphere is abuzz today with the launch of #WBEmbedded, a campaign we developed for Whistler Blackcomb to douse winter stoke with jet fuel and light things up! Creative savant Mike Douglas (always willing [...]

Q: Do you have a love/hate relationship with deadlines?

A: Just the unrealistically tight ones. Here’s why.