• Amsterdam
  • 1400+
  • 51-200
  • Management Consulting

We help brands drive internal capability, operational and executional improvements to achieve excellence in brand, creative and e-commerce strategy execution. Providing services and solutions across strategy management, internal enablement, capability building and executional support provision.

Flagship clients

brand digital wholesale. com team / brand creative team / digital supply chain team

in-house marketing / creative agency

in-house creative agency / HBO Max EMEA CS / marketing department teams (11 teams) / WarnerBros IT team

CRM / Internal Comms team

media / integrated marketing / UGC / creative / local marketing team

European D2C eCommerce Team

Setting Up and Operating an Internal Remote (Lower Cost Country) Brand Creative Content Factory Team & Digital Production Hub

25.05.2021

Industry reports on state of in-house creative teams and in-house agencies highlight problems of increasing work demand, challenges of creative resourcing, limitations to growth in terms of FTE hiring but also inability of creatives to devote themselves to actual creative work.

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Geographical Cost Optimisation of In-house Digital Brand Content Production

19.07.2021

External incubation of a future in-house digital brand content production factory team located at lower cost country would leverage best elements of all operating models in the marketing production ecosystem.

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In-house Agencies Using (Permanent) Freelancers for Creative & Marketing Resourcing Face A Looming Tax & Legal Nightmare

18.06.2021

Tax authorities have announced stricter supervision of 'disguised self-employment' with criteria that may put many of freelancers currently used by in-house agencies into employee status, triggering a looming threat of legal and tax burden in back payments and back-taxes.

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Country Brand Content Request Streams : Gasping for Air

07.08.2019

Long waiting times to central headquarter brand team's fulfilment of country brand content request also means team frustration, competitive infighting between headquarters and countries

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Global Brand Go-To-Market Operations and The Pandemic "Big Bang"​ of Digital Enabled Rationalisation

26.04.2021

Rationalising global brand go-to-market operations through tailored digital technology solutions & remote (lower cost country) talent & resource hub formation, change acceptance facilitation through digital adoption programs is a post-pandemic way forward

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Outnumbered : In-House Brand Creative Capacity vs. Demand Gap

07.08.2019

Growing content needs meant growing in-house creative teams. But, growing teams, means growing pains.

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Disconnected : Local Implementation of Global Brand Creative

07.08.2019

The "Spray and Pray" approach - traditional way of emailing PDF versions of global brand creative direction sets the stage for everything that might happen afterwards.

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Global Brand Guardians'​ Nightmare : Country Level Implementation

07.08.2019

With incomplete, late or non-exhaustive brand creative directives, faced with a tight window of market opportunities and steep performance expectations, country level marketeers will often act on their own, risking the global brand equity.

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In-housed Brand Creative : Scalability Challenge of Global Operations

07.08.2019

Process driven digital enablement of branding and global creative operations seems to have bypassed even biggest and very brand driven organisations

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Testimonials

"With the AS Monaco brand being exposed to numerous audiences across its versatile digital properties, we identified the need to create a dedicated landing page for a specific match to ensure engagement & conversion of a specific targeted audience. Not only did the SO DIGITAL team help us develop a unique and engaging content destination, it provided powerful insights into our fans and their optimal conversion path."

Bruno Scropeta

Marketing and Communication Director at AS Monaco FC

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