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April 15, 2024

PriceWeber and Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs Receive Prestigious Award From PRWeek

As Sexual Assault Awareness Month is underway, two Kentucky organizations are proud to announce national recognition for their impactful campaign to raise sexual assault awareness statewide. PriceWeber, a Louisville-based marketing and public relations agency, collaborated with the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs (KASAP) in 2023 to produce the hour-long documentary “Believe Me – Help […]

March 21, 2024

PriceWeber Named One of the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” for Fifth Year in a Row

For the fifth year in a row, PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing, public relations and advertising agency in Louisville, Kentucky, has earned a spot on the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” list, recognizing the state’s 100 top employers. PriceWeber is among 43 companies in the small-sized employer category (15-149 employees). With this being the […]

February 1, 2024

Sammy Hagar and Guy Fieri Unveil “A Reputation Earned” – The First Comprehensive Creative Campaign for Santo Spirits Tequila Portfolio – In Partnership With PriceWeber

Santo Spirits is unveiling an all-new look and feel for spirits visionary Sammy Hagar’s and partner Guy Fieri’s popular additive-free tequila brand, in partnership with PriceWeber. Dubbed “A Reputation Earned,” the bold creative, will serve as the foundation across all marketing and advertising efforts beginning this month in the U.S., followed by international markets later […]

January 3, 2024

Projects of 2023 That Live In Our Head Rent-Free

2023 was a year of growth and innovation for PriceWeber. We began 2023 by announcing five new shareholders, were named one of the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” for the fourth consecutive year, expanded our presence with the addition of a Lexington-based office, and became Canopy certified, reaffirming our commitment to making a positive […]

December 8, 2023

Silent Switching – How Can Primary Banks Combat the Threat

What is Silent Switching? Silent switching, also referred to as silent attrition and silent churn, is when customers of a bank fragment their banking activities by using secondary institutions for financial services offered by their primary institution. This growing phenomenon is tough to detect because the customer doesn’t close their account at their main institution, […]

November 21, 2023

The Critical Importance of Brand Authenticity

In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886), the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment applied to corporations, legally establishing what is referred to as corporate personhood. While this decision was based strictly on legal reasons, nowhere does the personhood of a corporation ring truer than in its brand. In previous articles like […]

October 19, 2023

PriceWeber Receives 32 Awards During PRSA Bluegrass Landmarks of Excellence Awards

PriceWeber recently received 32 awards from the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) Bluegrass Chapter during its annual Landmarks of Excellence Awards, which recognizes the very best professional communications across the Greater Louisville area. The event was held on Thursday, Oct. 12, at The Refinery in Jeffersonville, Indiana, bringing together nearly 140 Kentucky and Indiana […]

August 17, 2023

PriceWeber Achieves Canopy Certification

PriceWeber is proud to announce its achievement of Canopy Certification, a designation providing a path for Kentucky businesses to incorporate, measure and grow their good. The certification reaffirms the agency’s commitment to making a positive social and environmental impact in Kentucky through a rigorous assessment of key metrics in leadership, culture, governance, and external impact. […]

July 6, 2023

Why YouTube should consider bringing back the traditional banner ad for Gen Z

YouTube has more than 2.68 billion active users as of 2023. Baby Shark Dance alone has been viewed on YouTube 12.3 billion times. Yet despite having 2022 revenues of $29.24 billion, YouTube’s revenues have dropped for three quarters in a row! So, while they didn’t ask, we’re offering a suggestion that might help – bring […]

June 30, 2023

PriceWeber Expands Footprint Into Lexington With Addition of Second Office

PriceWeber has announced a second office location in Lexington, Kentucky, within the Base 110 co-working space at 110 W. Vine Street in downtown Lexington. PriceWeber has been headquartered in Louisville for 54 years and serves clients statewide and nationwide. Some of its clients include AHF Products, Brown-Forman, Blessings in a Backpack, BrightSpring Health Services, Centra […]

June 13, 2023

Bank Promotional Strategies That Put off Summer Vibes

Ah, summer … the weather is warmer, schools are out, barbecues are firing up, vacations are occurring, and pools and camps are opening. All these good vibrations have a ripple effect, though, as they create behavioral, economic, and psychological shifts in society that financial institutions must be mindful of for a few months on an […]

PriceWeber Announced as Top 10 Winner In “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” Category

For the third year in a row, PriceWeber has been announced as a Top 10 winner in its category during the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” ceremony. This is the fourth year in a row the organization has made this prestigious statewide list.

June 8, 2023

Gen Z and the Case for Out-of-Home Media

When you think of Gen Z (age group 11-26) and media, a litany of words come to mind: social media, influencer, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, video games, Netflix, podcast, livestream, etc. But as far back as early 2017, research by Kantar Millward Brown found that 55% of Generation Z respondents view out-of-home (OOH) positively. This is […]

March 16, 2023

How Banks Can Turn Holidays Into a Pot of Gold

Every bank and credit union communicates with customers/members around holidays, whether it’s because of holiday promotions, bank holiday hours, or just fun social posts tying into the spirit of the season. In this edition of Compound Interest, we will discuss strategies that financial institutions can implement to make the most of these communications. Spring Into […]

March 15, 2023

Louisville Advertising Agency Named One of the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” for Fourth Year in a Row

For the fourth consecutive year, PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing, public relations and advertising agency in Louisville, Kentucky, has earned a spot on the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” list, recognizing the state’s 100 top employers. PriceWeber is among 30 companies in the small-sized employer category (15-149 employees). “We pride ourselves on being a […]

March 9, 2023

Reaching Gen Z: The Case for Paid Media

1.3 seconds – that’s how much time businesses have to capture the attention of potential Gen Z consumers, according to a recent study by OMG, Yahoo, and Amplified Intelligence. As the first true digital natives, Generation Z (born 1997 – 2012) is the first generation that grew up with the internet, where news, information, entertainment, […]

January 18, 2023

PriceWeber Announces Five New Company Shareholders to Kick Off 2023

PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing, advertising and public relations agency, is kicking off the new year by electing five new company shareholders. The agency has added Steve Kozarovich, Mike Nickerson, Donna Lee, Michelle Stevens, and Tamara Davis to its previously existing group of 7 shareholders. “Each of these individuals has proven themselves to be an […]

January 3, 2023

Are You Ready for the 2023 Social Media Trends?

Now that it’s 2023, it’s time to discuss this year’s new social media trends! Social media environments have drastically changed in the last year, focusing on short-form videos, viral video views and the utilization of influencers of all sizes; however, 2023 will continue to shake up social media and how we interact with brands and […]

October 24, 2022

PriceWeber Receives 28 Awards During PRSA Bluegrass Landmarks of Excellence Awards

PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing, public relations and advertising agency headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, recently received 28 awards from the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) Bluegrass Chapter during its annual Landmarks of Excellence Awards, which recognizes the very best professional communications across the Greater Louisville area. The event was held on Thursday, Oct. 13, […]

Three Advertising Scams that May Be Ruining Your Campaign

Brands spend a ton of money getting the word out, driving engagement and generating sales, but fraudulent practices are costing advertisers billions every year. In this edition of Plain Talk, we’ll talk about three shady practices separating you from your hard-earned ad dollars and costing you sales. We’ll discuss: What are click and form fraud, […]

September 29, 2022

Online Reputation Management Tips: 4 Common Questions

Practicing online reputation management and using reputation management software is nothing new. Millions of service-oriented companies like medical and dental offices, law firms, restaurants, retailers, roofers, and more have benefited from improved reviews and ratings by surveying customers and clients after each touchpoint and enabling them to quickly and privately address complaints as well as […]

August 4, 2022

Why You Need to Tame Your Digital Spirit Animal Now

Yes, you have a digital spirit animal. We all do. The question is, how do you know which one you are, and how can you keep it from messing up your digital marketing efforts? In this edition of Plain Talk, we will define the most common digital marketing biases (spirit animals) and give you a […]

July 28, 2022

Invited Personalization and the Invisible Battle for Your Attention

There’s an invisible battle being waged for your attention in the background of the internet. Brand websites, social media apps, and search engines are all vying for your attention by applying algorithms that facilitate showing you content based on the probability that you’ll want to see it. In today’s edition of Plain Talk, we’ll walk […]

June 30, 2022

5 Ways To Keep Mortgage Marketing Hot While the Market Cools

Inflation is everywhere. Mortgage rates have increased by more than 2.5 percentage points this year. There’s a shortage of housing inventory. The housing market is cooling off quickly. We’ve all seen the headlines, and it does paint quite a picture, but it isn’t time to liquidate your mortgage marketing and lead-gen strategies just yet. It […]

June 23, 2022

Targeting Gone Wild: 3 Targeted Marketing Mistakes Hurting Your Media Campaigns

In media, understanding a consumer target can ultimately mean the difference between success and failure. Understanding who your ideal consumer is, how they use media, how they spend their time, what their interests are, how they behave, and what they believe all help build a picture of who is most likely to use your product […]

June 13, 2022

Advertising to the Real Self vs. Ideal Self – When Do We Become Friends?

In 1990, the Canon EOS Rebel camera ad featuring tennis star Andre Agassi boldly told us, “Image is Everything!” Back then, it certainly was something, but was image more important than it is today? You needn’t look any further than your friend’s and family’s social media pages to realize that the “ideal self” is still […]

June 2, 2022

ESG Branding: 11 Ideas for Leveraging Your ESG Practices

It seems like we are always being introduced to important new business acronyms. We’ve got Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Then there’s Return on Ad Spend (ROAS), CMOs are now CROs, and the alphabet soup goes on with CRM, CX, UX, CTR, CPC, SEM, SEO, and so on. However, one […]

May 17, 2022

B2B Digital Marketing Today – 3 Critical Things You Need to Know

During the two years that were the pandemic, we were forced to stay home and not travel. Business was anything but “business as usual.” The B2B world overnight had to grow new synapses to remotely reach, educate, and sell to new and existing clients. While the phone and Zoom calls picked up much of the […]

April 14, 2022

Law Firm Community Engagement – Growing the Firm Through Corporate Citizenship

Community is a multifaceted word. There are hundreds of touchpoints where your firm can connect with and do good for your local communities. Every day the phone rings or something arrives in the mail with a new suggestion on how your firm can help and give back to your community. In today’s Plain Talk article, […]

April 7, 2022

Six Steps to Business Growth Through Better CX

The chatter about Customer Experience (aka CX) has been growing for the past few years. Initially, this was an offshoot of user experience (UX) for e-commerce companies but quickly grew to be the catchphrase that seeks to map the activities in each consumer funnel, quantify their quality and measure their impact. This has been critical […]

March 31, 2022

Your Brand is Naked

Protecting Your Brand in an Age of Increased Exposure Your brand is the aggregate of what you say it is and what regular people on the street, or probably more correctly, the internet, say it is. In fact, there has never been a time when consumers had more power over what a brand “means” than […]

March 23, 2022

Banking in the Metaverse: Finding Practical Opportunity Within Virtual Complexity

Over the past year, the hype around the metaverse has accelerated at a dizzying pace. With all the talk, it was natural that speculation would run wild with what this means for various industries. In this article, we will look at what it means for the financial services industry. In today’s edition of Compound Interest, […]

March 7, 2022

Customer Loyalty Now and the Future of Customer Retention

It’s a question that we as consumers get asked several times a day – “Would you like to sign up for our rewards program?” In fact, it’s become a key part of the customer checkout experience. Rewards and loyalty programs have long been a way for companies to connect with their customers in a unique […]

February 28, 2022

Storytelling in B2B Marketing: Why It Matters

Few marketing tropes have been thrown around over the past several years quite as much as “storytelling.” Many a book, webinar or convention speech has talked about the nature and importance of storytelling, but more often than not, that content has focused on storytelling for consumer brands. Clearly, storytelling is important. We learn about our […]

February 1, 2022

Consumer Engagement in 2022 – A Revolution of Necessity

When COVID first hit in 2020 it brought a lot of uncertainty and along with it a lot of changes to the way people, brands and companies were engaging with each other. As the world collectively began to come to terms with the pandemic, we started to see a lot of brands and companies making […]

January 27, 2022

The Metaverse and Your Brand

Recently, a 13-year-old in your world may have asked for and received a popular virtual reality (VR) headset. You’ve seen them game in it. Maybe you’ve even ventured into their game world out of curiosity. Then, at the end of 2021, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a rebranding of Facebook into “Meta,” its new parent company focused […]

January 11, 2022

Drive Depositor Growth Through Digital Targeting

Discussions around digital marketing have left financial services marketers with a lot to keep up with as of late. While the robust landscape of tools that digital marketers have at their disposal is at an all-time high, the restrictions and policies affecting third-party data around online privacy have been evolving at an equally rapid rate. […]

January 4, 2022

New Year, New Social Media Trends

What to Expect in 2022 As we head into 2022, it’s time to refresh your social media strategy and make sure you are up to date on the latest social media development and management trends. In this edition of Plain Talk, we’re diving into five popular and influential trends to consider including in your New […]

October 22, 2021

PriceWeber Receives 34 Awards During PRSA Bluegrass Landmarks of Excellence Awards

PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing, public relations, and advertising agency headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, recently received 34 awards from the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) Bluegrass Chapter during its annual Landmarks of Excellence Awards, which recognizes the very best professional communications across the Greater Louisville area. The event was held on Thursday, Oct. 14 […]

September 8, 2021

Performance Marketing vs. Brand Marketing: Weighing Your Priorities

In 2015, super brand Adidas realized they had a problem—they were optimizing their marketing efforts against the wrong metrics. Yikes. They discovered they were overinvesting in performance-based digital marketing and underinvesting in brand building. They prioritized efficiency and real-time attribution of digital media and ignored brand impact and brand desire. Since then, Adidas has been […]

August 26, 2021

Social Media Trends – Fishing for Success in Crowded Waters

Comparing TikTok and Instagram Reels The average adult begins to lose concentration after just eight seconds, according to a 2020 study performed by Microsoft. In other words, we have a shorter attention span than a goldfish. When considering social media for customer engagement, our short attention span is further complicated by the glut of channel […]

August 16, 2021

Beyond Job Boards – Is Your Recruitment Marketing Missing Something?

Recruiting applicants should be an easy process…you post a job listing, you send it out on all the major job platforms, maybe have your employees share it on social media, and you’re done. Right? Well, not exactly. As many business owners have experienced in 2021, hiring quality applicants is getting harder and harder. In this […]

July 15, 2021

Today’s Biggest Threat to Business Recovery

The pandemic is slithering slowly away and economic factors seem favorable in the U.S., so it looks like we’re going to be OK. So, what could go wrong? If you are like many companies, a return to normal means staffing up to pre-pandemic levels as we bounce back; however, in many business verticals, something’s different. […]

July 1, 2021

Voice Search, is it Time to Panic (Again)?

In a September 2014 interview with Fast Company, Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist at Baidu went on the record to state that in five years he anticipated 50% of searches on Chinese search engine, Baidu, would be image or voice searches. This prediction was concentrated into an article, which implied that “in five years, at least […]

June 28, 2021

Louisville Advertising Agency Named to “Best Places to Work in Greater Louisville” List for Second Time

For the second time in three years, PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing and advertising agency in Louisville, Kentucky, has earned a spot on the “Best Places to Work in Greater Louisville” list from Louisville Business First, which recognizes companies whose operations are changing the business landscape for the better.

June 15, 2021

C-Stores In An Omnichannel World

According to the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), 21% of c-store operators have recently shifted to curbside pickup, while 14% are focused on drive-thrus. These growing numbers are due to COVID-19 consumer trends and falling fuel sales. This results in what NACS describes as “pushing the industry further into the omnichannel universe.” Over the […]

June 3, 2021

Can You Bank On Your Brand?

Balancing Innovation and Branding for Long-Term Growth For traditional banks and credit unions that enjoy strong name recognition, the value of their name carries equity. For many years, this has been a fixed dynamic that isn’t lost upon anyone in the industry. Over the last few years, traditional institutions have been finding themselves having to […]

May 18, 2021

Will Trade Shows Still Be Your Super Bowl?

According to the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, there were roughly 9,400 business-to-business trade shows in the U.S. in 2019. These trade shows by some estimates represented a $15 billion industry that was forecast to exceed $17 billion in 2021. More importantly, these shows routinely represent critical sales opportunities for businesses of all sizes. Then […]

April 22, 2021

Customer Journeys and Lessons From the Links

When I was a kid, my near-scratch golfer dad spent a lot of time trying to teach me his passion. There were many steps on how to approach the ball. And there were corrective instructions for most practice swings, but when it came to the actual swing, there were only two things I was told […]

April 8, 2021

Sticky Post-Pandemic Behaviors

First a Story The first restaurant I remember going to was the Howard Johnson’s on Route 9 in Framingham, Massachusetts. They had great fried clams and terrific ice cream, and I remember when I was five years old going for the first time with my grandmother. She was a very stern and prim Irish Catholic […]

March 30, 2021

A Fresh Look at Digital for Healthcare

The healthcare industry has been slower to accept and embrace digital in the past, and it’s not completely their fault – there are federal privacy regulations, and other challenges have made traditional advertising more appealing. In addition to traditional marketing, healthcare providers also made good use of in-office marketing tactics. But with COVID-19 and the […]

March 18, 2021

Endless End-To-End Digital Engagement?

When it comes to overused phrases, “the possibilities are endless” ranks pretty high. However, for anyone talking about digital engagement for a financial institution, the phrase isn’t hyperbole. If you’re aiming to deliver an end-to-end digital experience for your customers, then you know that it means not only thinking of everything, but also continuously analyzing […]

March 16, 2021

Is Artificial Intelligence Just for Big Business?

Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the past decade or two, you have probably heard about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). It has invaded our lives, taken residence in our homes and garages, and – thanks to the advent of the smartphone, become a welcome guest to nearly every moment […]

March 4, 2021

Louisville Advertising Agency Named to “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” List for Second Year in a Row

For the second consecutive year, PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing and advertising agency in Louisville, Kentucky, has earned a spot on the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” list, which recognizes the state’s 100 top employers. PriceWeber was included among 40 companies in the small-sized employer category (15-149 employees).

February 2, 2021

Is Your Website Personable? Delivering a Caring Customer Experience Online

In 2021, it’s safe to say that a big chunk of our days are spent online, whether thumbing through social media, shopping, researching a project or big purchase, or gathering information about current events. Of those daily website visits, how many of them stand out to you as being really great, personal experiences? In this […]

January 28, 2021

The New ABCs of ABM

If you are working at home with your children or your dog right now, you don’t need me to remind you that COVID-19 has changed the way we live and work. In the B2B industries, the changes have been tougher than just working from home. We’ve seen critical tradeshows, events and travel mostly cancelled. Reductions […]

January 25, 2021

A Future Without Cookies

For years, we’ve used digital advertising as an efficient and effective means of reaching exactly who we want to reach, with the right message, at the right time. Ad tech and publishers have been competing to offer better targeting, more capabilities and better tracking, and each ad tech call offers something new – some new […]

January 12, 2021

Winning SERP Means Optimizing These Three Areas

It’s certainly easy to get into the habit of developing creative resources or websites in a vacuum, believing that these strategically sound, well-designed and expertly curated assets will be the doors through which your customers and prospective customers will first experience your brand. In reality, several gatekeepers can stand between your brand and your customer. […]

December 16, 2020

Marketing Financial Services to Gen Z

Effectively targeting and attracting Generation Z depositors must be a key component of bank marketing plans in the mid- and long-term in order to replace the current boomer customer base as these consumers transition to drawing down assets in retirement. In this edition of our Compound Interest series, we’ll help break down critical experiences, characteristics […]

October 29, 2020

Six Tips to Maximize Sales Leads With Paid Search

Whether your focus is on B2B marketing or B2C, there are few topics more relevant today than generating qualified leads to move your sales forward. There are a great number of ways to do this (in combination for best results), but in today’s edition of Plain Talk, we’ll be discussing the anchor tactic for “pay-per-click” […]

October 20, 2020

5 Reasons Financial Institutions Must Curate Deeper Customer Relationships

1. Building Trust Is Essential for Growth and Retention Financial institutions of all types understand the importance of trust. Without it, you won’t be successful in retaining existing customers, and it will be difficult to lure in new money without a trustworthy reputation. But the mindset that you will build trust by simply doing what […]

September 23, 2020

Have Bank Customer Expectations Been Changed Forever?

There’s no denying that customer experience (CX) has looked very different in 2020. However, there’s still a question of how this strange year might affect expectations for CX moving forward.

September 16, 2020

Open Banking in the US – The Drivers and Barriers That Financial Institutions Are Watching

Open banking is oftentimes perceived as a trend taking place in Europe but that is lacking adoption in the United States. The reality is that it is very much a part of the financial services landscape in the U.S., but its proliferation is driven by a different source than in Europe. Due to European regulators predicting a boom in open banking, the EU drafted PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2) while the U.K. released their version known as OBI (Open Banking Implementation) in order to get in front of the phenomenon with regulations and guidelines. In the United States, the Treasury has agreed to draft guidelines and recommendations, but there is no law or regulation in America that drives open banking forward. However, one doesn’t have to look further than the number of Third-Party Providers (TPPs) affecting consumer and business banking in the U.S. to realize that the trend has taken hold in the states as well.

September 9, 2020

Surviving the On-Premise Apocalypse – 4 Strategies for a Healthy Spirits Brand Today and Tomorrow

A casual reader looking at spirit sales numbers for 2020 might think it’s a pretty good year. After all, in July Nielsen indicated a 52-week rolling sales increase of 5.1%. But those numbers do not tell the whole story. Overrepresentation in sales increases by the larger, high awareness brands and well known value brands, and […]

January 24, 2020

Follow the money in the financial services ad space

Ad dollars are on the move in the financial space – increasingly shifting from traditional to digital, and specifically to mobile. While financial services have historically relied on more traditional vehicles, times are indeed changing. In this edition of the Compound Interest series, we’ll talk about why it is time to up your digital game and how to do it.

November 12, 2019

Your website definitely needs to be ADA accessible

In our Plain Talk article earlier this year, Can your website land you in court? Making your website ADA accessible, we discussed a few reasons why businesses should consider upgrading their website accessibility for people with disabilities. At that time, a flood of discrimination lawsuits were hitting the courts that related to Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and we recommended that if your business had a physical location and a website, you should “probably” make it WCAG 2.1 compliant to meet contemporary recommended standards for accessibility. In this edition of our Plain Talk series, we’ll be upgrading that “probably” to a “definitely” and explaining what’s changed and how it may impact you and your business.

July 30, 2018

Recognizing and Reconciling Bias in Strategic Planning

Lately, our society has engaged in much more discussion about the need to recognize bias in ourselves and our culture, in how we interact with and represent others. As a primary means of mass communication, advertising has a special role to play in this concern.

June 26, 2017

“I will not abandon my new site in the cold darkness.”

In 2016, PriceWeber began a relationship with an economic development association, where our specific charge was to upgrade their web presence after several years of neglect.

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