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The Death of Desktop
It may be too soon to declare the desktop dead, but for marketers it may as well be. If you are still building digital marketing creative primarily for desktop, you’re likely either irritating your customers or failing to reach them entirely. There is one caveat: if you are a B2B company and you are primarily selling…
Advertainment: How Brands are Using Stories to Engage Audiences
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a fun and memorable Christmas song. But, it’s easy to forget that the story was created by Montgomery Ward department stores. The idea of using stories to draw customers is not new. Stories have a way of engendering affection, and affection is a coveted asset. But if you’ve paid attention…
Video Trends for 2018
There was a time not so long ago that quality video production was only for the major players in entertainment and advertising. Like so many other industries, technology has dramatically shrunk filmmaking costs across the board. Simultaneously, increases in data processing allow us to engage with motion-based graphics in a way that simply wasn’t possible…
Instagram: Launching a New Platform in a Noisy World
Meet your audience where they are… It’s a cardinal rule of marketing. Yet, we hadn’t been following it very well ourselves. The communications work we do for clients has spanned nearly every social media platform, but our own Polymath social presence, until recently, has had a glaring hole: not a single post on Instagram, the…
More Video, Same Budget
Online video content has exploded in recent years, with more platforms than ever offering new ways for users to share and enjoy video. Recent statistics from Nielsen show that the highly coveted 18- to 34-year-old market spends more time watching YouTube videos than they do watching cable television. By itself, YouTube reaches more 18-49 year…
Polymath: What’s in a name?
Tim Dalrymple was ready to cut his first invoice. He had just one problem: our company didn’t have a name. The burgeoning agency that would later become “Polymath Innovations” had just wrapped its first official project but hadn’t yet settled on an identity. Our founder, Tim, knew we needed a name that captured elements of curiosity,…