Breef Glossary

Welcome to the Breef Glossary — all the *lingo* you need to plan your roadmap. We know, in the marketing world, it feels like there's a new term being thrown around everyday. We've got you!
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Email Marketing

You probably know what this is — just don’t unsubscribe ;). A permission-based channel that helps provide personalized interactions with high-intent customers. TL;DR: Use this to engage with your customer (almost daily).

Emotional Engagement

Connecting with a user's emotions through brand touchpoints — crucial for building meaningful community, recall and trust.

Engagement

Interactions with content, like clicks, shares, or comments.

Ephemeral Content

Any type of content that is visible for a limited amount of time, i.e. Instagram Stories and Snapchat images. Note: When ephemeral content was introduced on Instagram, it roughly doubled the time users spent on the app. Why? Users didn't want to miss anything!

Evergreen Content

Content that remains relevant and attracts traffic long-term.

Fastvertising

Fastvertising is the rapid creation and distribution of ads that smartly use trending topics in media and pop culture to create a viral moment. Think Aviation Gin’s ad starring the viral Peloton actress — this ad went live 48 hours after Peloton’s ad went viral.

Fixed Costs

Predictable, stable costs which stay the same regardless of production or sales — you can always count on them — and they’re key to keep in mind when building a budget.

Fluid Fans

Step aside ‘superfan,’ fluid fans are a segment marketers should be paying attention to. Fluid fans are people whose interests / fandoms cross between a wide variety of areas. Their engagement is broad, giving brands more touch-points to connect.

Forecast

A financial projection used to assist decision-making which estimates future revenue and expenses based on current trends and assumptions. Essentially, a way to see into the future, if you play your cards right.

Freemium

Free + a premium — a pricing structure where a basic model of a product or service is free of charge, but additional features or quality improvements cost money. Note: E.g. a free photo editing app that charges for additional tools.

GARM

The Global Alliance for Responsible Media, GARM, was launched in 2019 with the purpose of addressing the challenges of harmful digital content and its monetization — in hopes of creating online safety for both consumers and advertisers.

GDPR

DPR, short for General Data Protection Regulation, is a European Union law governing digital data collection, use, and storage. GDPR is intended to protect data privacy and requires companies within the EU to explain how personal data is collected and used.

Genre-bending

Any piece of media or art that exists across genres, or combines elements of multiple genres — defying traditionally established genre distinctions. A popular trend in podcasting right now, the podcasts that are topping the charts tend to naturally genre-bend.

Geofencing

Location-based marketing that triggers actions in defined geographic areas.

Geotargeting

Delivering targeted content to consumers based on their geolocation — critical to ensuring you're reaching your target audience.

Gifting

A popular form of influencer marketing where brands gift free product to influencers, creators or celebrities — with the hope that they will be spotted with the product or share it with their community on social.

Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy

A plan outlining how to deliver a product to customers.

Graphic Design

It’s everywhere: social, billboards, website, decks, signs, you name it. Composing and arranging visual elements of a project by manipulating graphics, media + typography, graphic design uses visual hierarchy to help enhance a message.

Growth Marketing

Data-driven strategies focused on business scaling through experimentation.

Guerrilla Marketing

Creative, low-cost marketing strategies to create buzz.

Hashtag

A keyword preceded by a “#” symbol to categorize and amplify content.

Haute-spitality

The trend of luxury fashion brands making their mark in the food and hospitality spaces through activations, pop-ups and partnerships. The goal? Engaging with younger consumers by creating photo opportunities that will go viral on social platforms.

Heatmapping

The process of gaining insight into how users interact with a webpage via heatmaps — a visual representation of where users click, scroll or dwell on any given webpage.

Hyper-personalization

The method of leveraging data and AI to tailor marketing messaging individually in order to meet a customers wants and needs.

B2C

Marketing or sales directed at individual consumers.

Blanding

The opposite of brand differentiation, blanding is the phenomenon of brands adopting the same minimalist aesthetic across the market. Many feel blanding removes negative associations, attempting neutrality — the downside? It also removes brand personality.

Blockchain

Blockchain is technology that allows for a distributed and continually updated record of transactions. Blockchain has no single point of failure and cannot be controlled by any one entity. Bitcoin, for example, relies on blockchain.

Bounce Rate

The percentage of visitors who leave a website after viewing only one page.

Brand Equity

The value that comes from the perception of a brand name rather than the value of a product or service itself — i.e. the social value of a brand name.

Brand Heat

Akin to buzz or hype, generating brand heat refers to igniting strong interest in a brand — who doesn't want that?

Brand Identity

Any visual or verbal brand element that showcases the brand's desired image while telling a meaningful story. Essentially the tangible brand elements that create a business's identity: logo, brand mark, brand colors, type, etc.

Brand Safety

Brand safety encompasses the strategies and technologies used to make sure ads are placed only in contexts that would not harm the brand. Tools for this are often added to ad exchanges.