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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Videography

At the heart of every social media channel or website is great video. Created in-house or retrieved from a stock site, videography is strategically used to helps ensure a brand or product is defined (and memorable).

Viewability

A metric focused on ads being physically seen by users.

Virtual Events

The new kids on the block. Events held in a virtual environment vs. a physical location. They can be live-streamed or recorded and are a great workaround to physical barriers such as distance, weather + health. 99.9% of the time, they are a lot of fun.

Weather-wise Marketing

The idea that real-time weather data can give marketers a deeper understanding of their audience and support contextual messaging — as weather can impact a person's routine, experiences and even mood.

White Label

A product / service created by a company or producer that is subsequently rebranded to appear as if it is made by another company.

Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Promotion driven by satisfied customers sharing recommendations with others.

X

The new Twitter? Looks like it! Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to “X”, removing the iconic blue bird logo. This news was met with dissatisfaction from many, and confusion from others — we’ll be keeping an eye on how this rebrand affects the platform.

YTD Spend

A measure of how much money you’ve spent this year, from the very first day of your calendar year through today’s date.

eComm

We could argue that the world is a better place because of eComm. The online equivalent of a brick-and-mortar store, eCommerce is the trading of goods + services over the internet.

eCommerce

eCommerce is buying and selling products and services on the internet, with exchange of payment and data to complete the transactions.

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.