Are you creator ready?

Everybody’s talking about the creator economy, but few are doing it right to deliver on its full potential.

That’s where we come in…

Who we are.

We are an innovative consultancy that jumpstarts and accelerates creator marketing for brands, agencies and creators.

We promise to make it easy so you can enjoy the full benefits of working with creators.

What we do.

We help brands bridge the gap between the PROMISE and the PRACTICE of the creator economy.

Think Like a Creator

Our job is to help your team “think like creators”, to evolve your marketing, and spark creativity that contributes to your success.

Brand & Creator Expertise

We deliver scaled creator marketing excellence through a powerful combination; first-hand C-Suite experience merged with hands-on creator marketing expertise.

Neutral Guidance

We don’t have an agenda other than unbiased guidance that ensures your brand and marketing organization are creator-ready.

Our Services

  • Activating creators consistently and impactfully across any marketing organization is a challenge. We accelerate your organization’s creator expertise through hands-on training with creators and industry experts to inspire new thinking, ways of working and unexpected opportunities.

    Whether your team is well-versed in creators and you’re seeking to outpace your competitors, or if you are looking to integrate creators into your marketing for the first time, we make sure our approach fits your objectives.

    Deliverables include:

    • Customized Creator Playbook: Empowering your team with an operational strategy and insights for consistent creative excellence.

    • Collaborative Process: We enable effective collaboration with external agencies and creators by establishing best practices across campaign development and execution

    • Made-for-the-Medium Content Creation: Hands on guidance to craft content optimized for generating community involvement across all social platforms

    • We don’t just bring creators into the marketing equation, we make them participants in the room and process to ensure creator-centric expertise.

  • Many marketers face challenges understanding the impact of creator marketing on their media investments.

    By planning with creators from the early stages of campaign development, brands can harness their insights, creativity and understanding to craft compelling content.

    This approach improves the performance of all media investments, while reinforcing brand messaging, ultimately making the campaign memorable and impactful for the audience. Our approach outlines:

    • How to establish benchmarks for measurement from awareness to conversion.

    • Determining the impact of organic vs paid investments and building a cohesive strategy.

    • Evaluating individual creator performance on awareness and conversion.

    • Procurement tool kits to help evaluate year-over-year performance and efficiencies

  • What is the best-in-class, scaled process for developing and activating your organizations successful creator programs?

    How can your marketing team support the seamless integration of strategies, from content creation to media investment to win? We develop a comprehensive playbook that covers:

    • Creator Briefing & negotiation

    • Talent vetting & Brand Suitability

    • Community management

    • Social platform best practices

    • Organic vs Paid media; managing the right balance and cadence

  • Impact & Measurement

    We believe that creators are media and must be part of the overall planning process and measured in the same way as other media investments.

    By planning around creators from the early stages of campaign development, brands can harness their unique insights, creativity, and audience understanding to craft more compelling content and deliver consistent messaging across all media channels. This approach improves the performance of all media investments, while reinforcing brand identity and messaging, ultimately making the campaign more memorable and impactful for the audience Our approach outlines

    • How to establish proprietary benchmarks and best practices for measurement across all stages from awareness to conversion

    • Maximizing the impact of organic vs paid investments and building a cohesive strategy

    • Evaluating individual creator performance on awareness and conversation

  • Selecting the right technology solutions and AI tools is pivotal for successfully managing creator marketing. These tools streamline workflow, enhance targeting precision and optimize talent selection and content creation.

    • Talent selection & metrics

    • Creative approvals and measurement

    • Paid media results

  • We know the best creator and talent partners and will work with the right team for your organization’s needs.

    • Agency and partner search management

    • Manage creative reviews and benchmarking

    • Objective resource to navigate new capabilities

  • Should your employees become public facing advocates?

    Employee programs give a voice to your front-line associates. Where appropriate, this can humanize your brand, while offering customers authentic content that they want to see and engage with. For organizations that want to empower their internal teams, we can offer:

    • Custom Playbooks with clear rules of engagement and best practices

    • Training and guidance

    • Templates and approved graphic packages

How can we help you?

Brands & Marketers

  • Organizational design & strategy

    Governance, briefing, budgeting, measurement.

  • Identifying the right partners

    Agency search, vetting and RFP management.

  • Know the experts

    Individuals with specialized industry knowledge and experience.

Agencies & Experts

  • Increased brand partnerships

    Through targeted business development.

  • B2B Marketing

    Go-to-market positioning, public relations, proprietary research, sales materials and industry event strategies.

  • Talent recruitment

    Identifying and evaluating the best talent in the industry.

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About Jamie

Jamie Gutfreund is a globally recognized leader and marketing pro with a 20+ year track record. Throughout her career, she has helped brands anticipate cultural and technological shifts and act on them; not just talk about them.

As the creator economy has become a business imperative, Jamie has been at the forefront leading initiatives at both Hasbro and MGA Entertainment. As Chief Growth Officer, she played a vital role in establishing Whalar as a globally respected creator economy agency working with clients including Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Zappos, the NFL, and Amazon.

Under her leadership, Whalar became AdWeek's Creator Agency of the Year, AdAge's A-List, and one of Fast Company Most Innovative Companies. Jamie launched the first Creator Academy with Logitech, established the inaugural Creator Council for the AdCouncil, and hosted the "Everything is Better with Creators" podcast.

Jamie thrives in new spaces, exemplified by creating one of the first branded ROBLOX games. She spearheaded the restructuring of marketplace & DTC e-commerce efforts for Hasbro and MGA, netting a six-fold increase in conversion rates. And she invented a virtual influencer for TikTok.

Jamie began her career with Microsoft, where she produced original content and secured revenue from brands venturing into digital advertising for the first time. At Creative Artists Agency, she built a consulting practice with a focus on millennial and Gen Z consumers.

As a dynamic public speaker, Jamie participates in events such as Cannes Lions, The Future of Storytelling, Google's Think Retail conference, CES, the Milken Conference, and Dreamforce (Salesforce). Her thought leadership includes publications like Advertising Age, Adweek, Fast Company, The New York Times, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal. Jamie was named one of Forbes “50 Most Entreprenurial CMOs” and as one of Campaign Magazine’s 40 over 40.

Jamie is passionate about turning data-driven marketing into inspiring insights that unlock the potential of consumer engagement within the Creator Economy. A must-have for today’s most innovative brands and marketers.

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