The communications landscape is constantly evolving, and GCI Canada needs to evolve along with it. Our creative team was sent on a mission: renewing and rejuvenating the brand. Our senior art director, Christine Cater says, “It’s not often you get to shape the identity of your own company.”
There is a common theme that emerges in research about millennials at work: their desire to feel passion in the work they do. My passions and my job have intersected many times—more often than not in fact—which is probably why, to this day, I love what I do.
As a 30-something single guy I can’t help but see the similarities between building awareness on digital and the dating scene. So let’s explain digital marketing with a simple analogy: how to create meaningful brand love and engagement as explained by the dating game.
I was a big Trekkie growing up (Picard is better than Kirk, any other opinion is preposterous). The Star Trek canon featured a mirror universe, a twisted version of the primary universe where our heroes’ evil twins resided, and evil Spock sported a beard. As a content marketer, I’ve been staring evil me right in his fetching beard these past months–”evil me” being the snake oil merchants of #FakeNews.
GCI Canada is proud to announce the appointment of Kristy Derkson as General Manager. “GCI is entering an exciting new chapter,” said Derkson. “We are going to grow core strengths while delivering a first-choice agency for communications, marketing, research, and engagement.”