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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Marketing Mix

The combination of product, price, place, and promotion strategies used to market a product.

Marketing Strategy

Basically, your guide/map/roadmap. It’s a business' overall marketing game plan for reaching + retaining customers. Strategies can be innovative, or they can be previously tried + tested. Make sure your strategy covers the ‘w’s’ - who, what, when, where and why.

Marketing Tech Stack

A group of technologies that marketers leverage to optimize marketing activities.

Media Planning

The process of selecting media platforms to reach the target audience effectively.

Meta Description

A brief HTML tag that describes a web page's content, displayed in search engine results.

Narrowcasting

Broadcasting tailored content to a specific segment of the audience.

Network Marketing

A business model where salespeople earn commissions for selling products and recruiting others.

OOH

The acronym for "out-of-home advertising" — refers to any type of advertising that users experience outside of their home. Examples include billboards, signage and public activations.

Omnibuyers

A consumer who shops when they want, how they want and where they want. Today's shoppers value quick and effortless experiences across channels — marketers who are rethinking their strategies to meet the needs of these shoppers are driving big results.

Omnichannel Marketing

A seamless and integrated customer experience across all marketing and sales channels.

Organic Reach

The number of people who see your content naturally without paid promotion.

Organic Search

Traffic that comes to a website from unpaid search engine results.

Organic Social

OG social media. Any "free" content posted on social media to drive brand awareness + engagement with current followers. More time and effort is invested to achieve longer-lasting results.

Owned Media

Marketing channels fully controlled by a business, such as blogs, websites, or social media pages.

PMax

I.e. Performance Max campaigns, PMax is an automated campaign type within Google Ads, that uses AI to drive conversion across channels — including Search, Display, YouTube, Discover, Gmail and Maps.

Packaging Design

The best packaging makes us swoon. The design of the physical container that holds a brand's product and helps enhance the customer experience. Ideally, the product's appearance matches the brand's positioning.

Paid Media

Advertising that businesses pay for to promote their content or products.

Paid Search + Display

Pay to play’ with Google? Kinda. But really, it’s intent-driven digital marketing strategies that allow advertisers to pay to place a targeted ad at the top of a specific search results page.

Paid Social

Show me the money, honey!’ A form of digital advertising that relies on social platforms and advanced targeting to reach custom audiences, expanding the reach of a brand and its core offering.

Pay-per-click (PPC)

A digital advertising model where advertisers pay each time a user clicks on their ad.

Persona

A fictional character that represents the characteristics of your larger target demographic — incredibly helpful in identifying your audience's wants and needs.

Personalization

Personalization, also called retargeting, tracks a user's internet-browsing behavior to deliver customized advertising. Cookies, for example, collect user information on websites which can be used to deliver ads to users after they leave a company's website.

Photography

Smile! Created in-house or retrieved from a stock site, photography is strategically used to curate a specific look and feel that helps ensure branding is defined + distinct.

Podcast Advertising

An audio-first channel that can reach niche audiences and increase brand awareness. As modern "talk radio," podcasts serve content about specific topics + subjects to high-intent listeners.

Brandformance

Merging the words “branding” and “performance”, brandformance is the idea that campaigns can (and should) be designed with the focus of establishing brand identity AND exceeding performance targets — i.e. building campaigns that work smarter across the funnel.

Branding

What makes a business memorable — its DNA. A combination of design, mission + other elements to showcase what a brand does, who it serves and why it exists. Those with unique branding have an edge over their competitors.

Budget

You guessed it: a tool to help us plan spending and investment accordingly to ensure a company is not over-spending and making a profit. If you don’t have one, you need one.

Budget Allocation

The process of distributing hard-earned cash to various projects or activities that will positively impact the business. Effective budget allocation will prioritize certain objectives and ensure that resources are used efficiently.

Budget Variance

Over or under? The difference between the actual amount spent or earned and its budgeted amount for a time period vs. what was planned. Positive variance means that actual revenue or spending is higher than planned, and vice versa.

Budgetary Slack

Intentional cushion for expenses or revenues in a budget. It can help in a pinch with unexpected expenses or help achieve targets more easily — but it can also lead to misallocation.

Buyer Persona

A semi-fictional representation of an ideal customer based on research and data.

CTV Ads

AKA Connected TV ads — video ads that are delivered via a streaming service while users are watching content. What's the big deal? Most ad platforms weren't built to handle the complexity that effective CTV advertising requires — with advertisers needing the capability to incorporate a combination of contextual placement and audience-based targeting.