Growth through cultural nuance

We believe growth comes from a commitment to greater cultural understanding

So the more you commit to understanding what you don’t understand, the more you grow.

Our experienced, culturally savvy teams bring inclusive thinking into your marketing from sample to early segmentation through finished campaigns.

We exist to surface those actionable cultural insights that create growth.

Case Studies

challenge

Based on a rigorous self-assessment, the company identified that aspects of its internal processes including sample, research design and analysis did not sufficiently mirror the actual demographic and psychographic composition of North America. In order to provide diverse and inclusive recommendations to its clients, they needed a diverse and inclusive research roadmap across its offer portfolio.

Solution

CVLRY quickly mobilized a core cross-functional team with an aspirational north star vision that quantified the real economic benefits of inclusive marketing on brand and sales growth. At the same time, CVLRY partnered with different teams within the company on a roadmap that identified projects that could quickly drive results. The end result is a path forward to change the organization through an inclusive research point of differentiation.

challenge

As a leading internet and cable provider in urban marketers, the company’s connectivity line of business has a high concentration of Black subscribers. While its ads tested well with the general market, it was not clear how the campaigns were performing within specific racial and ethnic segments.

Solution

CVLRY performed a meta-analysis across the brand’s existing research, creating Inclusive Normative Scores to highlight creative quality and performance across individual segments. This was then used to create more inclusive sampling and research design. Last, CVRLY employed a rapid virtual qualitative study to identify drivers and barriers to get the right messaging to drive new subscriber growth.

challenge

Volume and margin growth has become much more difficult for brands selling into the professional tradespeople market. The CMO and his organization needed a new definition of their market potential that identified distinct ownable areas within “blue collar America” as well as new consumer groups outside of traditional trades.

Solution

CVRLY performed foundational segmentation work that looked at different demographic segments, identified the macro story that united the priority segments and the tools to translate the narrative to connect in subsegments in ways that were authentic and met their needs. Then CVLRY delivered and socialized a detailed plan for execution.

challenge

The medical program leadership team recognized that Black Americans are historically and currently understudied when it comes to clinical trials, depriving them of important health benefits. In order to engage and build trust with potential clinical trial participants, the research team sought to understand which recruiting stimuli would prove most effective for future trials.

Solution

CVLRY designed research and advertising prototypes that analyzed response rates based on multiple variables, including benefits-messaging and co-branding with different trial sponsor organizations. This approach provided physician teams with the optimal recruiting strategy that yielded higher response rates and the best selection of participants; and it advanced the ability to deliver healthcare to marginalize segments.

challenge

While focusing on female consumers had historically driven the company’s growth and success, the leadership team hypothesized that male partners were also a lucrative segment to target. In order to prove this, the entire new member onboarding process -- the first 14 days -- would need to be re-crafted to appeal to female and male consumers.

Solution

Having worked with the company for years, CVLRY was able to launch a research-based “test-and-learn plan” to evaluate the size of the opportunity and which elements of the user experience were most important to modify. CVLRY deployed a questionnaire to segment users based on their responses to different marketing stimuli, which drove messaging that drove higher enrollment rates.

All solutions are built for a specific client and problem but typically include:

Quick balanced assessment of growth goals against all business, marketing and stakeholder needs
Near immediate meta-analysis of existing data/research
A diagnosis and remedy sized to client parameters
(including budget)
Workshops to build consensus, understanding and the will to implement