That doesn’t mean qualities out the window. It just means the goalposts have shifted. The brands that are resonating? They’re the ones that have loosened the grip a bit. They’re showing up on social without overthinking it. They’re not obsessing over matching filters or squeezing every caption into a perfect brand tone—they’re just talking to their audience like humans. Now that’s not to say that these posts haven’t gone through an extensive internal vetting process, but they’re doing at pretty good job at looking nonchalant. And the wild part? It works.

Dare I say the era of scheduled-to-death content is kind of… over. Don’t get me wrong, a content plan is still my best friend (we love structure), but the magic usually happens in the moments you didn’t see coming. That last-minute post of your team laughing mid-shoot. The founder hopping on Stories with a hot take. The blurry event recap that somehow gets more saves than your perfectly edited highlight reel. It’s that kind of stuff that makes people feel like they’re part of your world, not just watching from the sidelines.

Even platforms are backing it. TikTok built its empire on authenticity. Instagram’s algorithm is favouring relevance over production value. And LinkedIn—yes, even LinkedIn—is leaning into content that feels personal, not pre-approved. The algorithm is basically saying: “Give us something human or get off the feed.”

So, how do brands show up like people?

You start by loosening the reins a bit. Get comfortable with the idea that not everything has to look like a campaign. Let your team be part of the voice. Let the outtakes see the light of day. Make space for spontaneity. Talk to your audience like they’re already your community, not a focus group. And trust your social media manager, they haven’t gone insane.

At The Faith Agency, we’re constantly helping brands strike that balance. We don’t believe in content that’s just there to tick a box. We believe in content that says something and isn’t content just for contents sake, even if it’s something small. That’s why we work with brands to figure out what makes them feel like them, and then we build a strategy that leaves room for the unexpected.

Whether it’s a reactive TikTok, a trend-jump that just makes sense, or helping founders get more comfy showing up online, we help you find your rhythm and run with it. The goal isn’t to look perfect. The goal is to feel real. And when your audience gets that from you? That’s when the real loyalty kicks in. So if you’ve been wondering why your curated grid isn’t landing the way it used to, give us a whistle. It might be time to lean into the raw side a little more.

Find out more about our social media offering platform or contact us today for a coffee!

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Organic social media is often seen as the slower route to results, but it’s one of the most effective ways to build a brand that feels real. It gives businesses the space to develop a voice, grow a community, and shape a story that connects.

Across platforms, organic content is not just surviving. It’s thriving.

Once you clue in to it, the shift is obvious. TikTok made it loud and clear that people want content that feels like it belongs. Not an ad. Not a polished brand shoot. Just real, interesting, scroll-stopping content that blends into the user experience while still standing out. Instagram and even LinkedIn have followed suit, rewarding relevance and originality overreach paid for in advance.

In this environment, organic social has become the main stage, not the warm-up act.

Brands that are winning right now are the ones treating their organic presence like their first impression, not just a supporting role to paid. They’re building tone of voice. They’re showing up with trends and joining conversations in real time. They’re producing content that doesn’t scream “campaign” but instead asks, “Want to hang out for a minute?”

That’s what today’s algorithms reward. High engagement. Watch time. Shares. Saves. All of which come more naturally when content feels like it belongs in-feed, not like it was forced into view. And the beauty of it is that when something performs well, you now have a bank of high-quality, proven content to support with paid media later on.

Organic social is the long game, but it’s the game that builds loyalty.

It gives your brand space to tell its story across time, to shift and grow with your audience, and to show up regularly without feeling intrusive. In a world where authenticity is currency, organic content is the proof that your brand actually gets it.

When it comes to building your brands social strategy, it isn’t a case of paid vs. social, they serve different purposes.

Paid helps you scale. Organic helps you connect. And in a digital world where attention is currency and trust is hard-earned, that connection is what builds brands that last.

At The Faith Agency, we don’t treat organic content like filler between campaigns. We work with brands to map out smart, creative strategies across key platforms, helping you stay relevant, on-trend, and true to your brand voice.

We deep-dive into your business and your audience so that every post has purpose. Whether it’s short-form video, branded graphics, carousels, or tapping into a trend that’s popped off overnight, our team knows how to create scroll-stopping content that feels native and fresh.

And we don’t just post and ghost.

Our team manages community engagement so you’re not missing those golden opportunities to connect. We monitor reactions, answer questions, and help build the kind of two-way dialogue that turns passive followers into active fans.

Learn more about our social media management services or contact us today for a coffee and a chat!

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The longer-term outlook for Australia is still arguably positive.  Increasing population, pent up and unsatisfied demand together with solid employment numbers suggest we can weather the storm.  The wild card is government failure to understand the market mechanism and the importance of policies that assist business, particularly with energy costs as well as a reduction in bureaucracy and fair and reasonable industrial relation policies.

How much should I spend?

In this uncertain environment clients are reviewing how advertising can effectively play a role in boosting sales.  Generally small to medium-sized retailers typically invest 7-10% of their gross revenue in marketing and advertising.  Globally as a percentage of sales retail participants tend to have higher marketing budgets compared to other sectors.  Digital advertising now accounts for over 70% of global retail advertising.

Paid search continues to play a major role, together with digital display and social media.  Traffic can be measured as part of the eco-system through a variety of techniques, including a return on advertising spend.

It is also important that key sale events and sales are called out using main media including television, catch up tv, streaming, radio and outdoor.  Their creates awareness of the sales event in a fast and efficient way providing the oxygen for a lot of other digital levers to perform to their optimum level.

Path to Purchase

Agencies and retailers are now able to overlay their traffic patterns through the stores. This allows analysis of advertising and online visitation to deliver a more complete picture of the ‘path to purchase’.  Whilst it’s an ever changing ecosystem it’s important that retailers continue to build awareness for their brand.  They need to highlight their ‘truth’ and what differentiates them from their competitors.

At Faith we have been assisting our clients navigate the difficult economic environment with innovative creative and media opportunities.   One of the clear strategies evolving is a need to showcase what brands are famous for with their advertising spend.  Offers are geared to providing real value to customers.  Whilst it is easy to put a case to cut advertising spend, maintaining the revenue line is an imperative, both in the short and long term.

Importantly boosting cashflow can be achieved by strategic sale activity that is designed to bring inventory levels into balance.  Quitting seasonal and slow moving lines is a tried and true strategy; This cashflow can then be utilised to grow the business as the economy improves.

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With a focus on innovation, CAT had invested heavily in new trucking models, enhanced aerodynamics, new fuel-efficient technologies, environmental management, driver comfort and ergonomics. These model and product initiatives needed to be communicated to a wide and varied audience, from government officials though to transport industry executives, truck drivers and owner operators.

Digital display advertising, engaging video content, eDM’s and social media across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube, were key platforms to target these audiences.

The launch campaign involved an extensive three day shoot that Faith planned, directed and managed. The primary objective of the shoot was to demonstrate the versatility, durability and comfort of the new model, which saw the new truck filmed across a variety of undulating landscapes from Adelaide to Central Australia. The Faith team utilised a range of action orientated camera techniques and equipment to ensure production values were delivered on screen.

Once footage was captured, all post production including the musical score development was done in-house at Faith to create a truly impressive launch video.

To support the launch, key vehicle benefits and developments were presented via “walk through” videos using a qualified presenter who took the viewer on a focused and informative tour of the new model. The Faith team once again, planned, directed and managed through to final edited outcomes.

Once the videos had been completed and disseminated through digital and social media platforms, the engagement metrics were outstanding with industry benchmarks consistently beaten.

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Of course, where it all starts is with a strategy. It’s no good just running off and finding the most popular social media influencers out there if they don’t align with your brand or product. What are you trying to accomplish with these partnerships, and what do you want to get out of them? For The Faith Agency, some of our FMCG advertising clients typically have looked for influencers to produce reels highlighting their quality products but also produce recipes and written content to help bolster these brands’ websites. Others, say, in the retail advertising space, have needed straight product reviews in the form of longer reels that offer unfiltered reviews. The point is that if you don’t know what you need, these social media influencers won’t know where to start.

At this point, it’s also good to understand what your budget is. If you only have $30,000 over 12 months, you’ll end up with a very different mix of influencers as opposed to having a budget of $300,000. The reality is that no two influencers are the same, and the same is true for their rates. Having a social media marketing agency that knows how to negotiate with influencers and their management is crucial to ensuring that you get the right social media influencers aligned with your business.

With that budget set, identifying influencers is the next key outcome. Good old fashion research paired strategic partnerships with key management groups can ensure you get a solid mix of micro-influencers and larger profiled personalities to help build a cohesive mix of talent. Being able to brief each of them cleanly and clearly aligned with your previously outlined goals is crucial, as is your ability to communicate budgets and expectations. Contract management is often (though not always) an important factor as well, so have your big boy pants ready!

Having identified what your goals are, how much money you have and who you’re going to work with, influencer marketing agencies really get to work. Coordinating delivery of products, reviewing content proposals and ultimately critiquing creative deliverables are all critical functions of social media influencer management. Remember, the agency must always act as the intermediary between the creator and the brand, so translation is critical (a skill not everyone has).

But once you have creative approved, it’ll go live and everyone will be happy, then you need to conduct post-campaign analysis, both month to month but also across a larger timespan to ensure that your strategy is actually working. Feedback from the client at this point (not just quantitatively but also from an overall quality perspective) is really important. It’s amazing what time and distance from the post does to their perception of the content, so it’s important to take the time to identify what went well and what didn’t.

As a leading influencer marketing agency in Melbourne, The Faith Agency are well-poised to help businesses from all industries (not just retail and FMCG, but also B2B, healthcare and professional services) coordinate their social media influencer strategy. Contact us today and let’s see how we can work together.

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Working with Britex on their recent forays into influencer marketing, we first started with talent identification. While everyone wants to work with huge influencers with many millions of followers, the reality is that budgets can only take us so far. The challenge then is to prioritise parties that would maximise “bang-for-buck”. The realm of micro influencers, or those with less than 100,000 followers, is rich with supremely talented creators that have identified a key niche that works extremely well for them. With Britex, we chose to work with one large influencer (Chantel Mila), several medium sized influencers and a rotating group of micro influencers.

The next step, having selected the influencers, is to brief them accordingly. A client like Britex has multiple products to promote across different audiences, and working within a six-month calendar, we were able to map out these priorities across time to ensure a good balance of coverage and reasonable spacing between posting (remember, we don’t want to inundate the influencers’ audiences with our content). Once this has been outlined, we communicate with the content creators accordingly. Some may have talent management, others may work without; however, the process remains the same. Communicating key selling points of the products to be worked with, along with critical information such as pages to tag, creative elements to avoid and timeframes help to clear up any confusion from the creators.

Having set this all out for the influencers, we give them a fairly open brief to produce the content that would work best for their page. While some brands do prefer a firmer grip on the outcomes, the reality is that we want the content to feel appropriate for what the creator is doing (you can always tell when they are forced to say something). The influencers outline their timeframes and then we simply wait. Getting the finished product back is always exciting, and very rarely will our clients ever have any issues (certainly not Britex). Once this is done, we finalise post copy with the influencer, set up post time and let it go out into the world.

After a week, we typically revert back to identify the performance of the individual post, looking at key metrics such as reach and engagement, but also work closely with Britex to understand if there has been any identifiable movement in terms of sales of the products being featured. Across the campaign of working with influencers up to this point (almost 9 months for Britex), we’ve seen significant improvements in key sales metrics and website visits, suggesting that the approach is working.

If you’re interested in learning more about how we approach social media management or paid social media marketing, reach out to us today to organise a chat!

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The initial brief from Exquisine was to help kickstart their content marketing strategy. While the brand doesn’t maintain an Instagram or Facebook profile, they aim to be quite active across LinkedIn (logical for a B2B business with such a narrow appeal).  Previously, they had worked with other agencies to help develop this content. However, the outputs were sporadic at best, and Exquisine felt that it could be done better, with greater consistency and measurement.

The Faith Agency immediately set out to implement a plan of attack wherein we would propose 6-months’ worth of content in one go (basically, 12 ideas for articles), get approval for that, and then develop all 12 articles over the course of a month, before sending them all through for final review and approval, alongside LinkedIn post copy and imagery to be used. Once approved, we would then work through scheduling the articles and posts across Exquisine’s website and LinkedIn platform, while also keeping a close eye on any incoming communications from interested parties that could be forwarded onto the client for further investigation.

The content is developed using a combined approach of copywriting nous and AI-generated ideation that helps to flesh out concepts and give our team greater efficiencies in developing this much content in such a short time. At around 500 words a pop by 12 articles in the span of 1 month, you can understand the need for such efficiencies!

This process has proven to be quite effective, minimising the amount of time that the client needs to spend reviewing work while still allowing us to meet the content requirements that they have set. There is still an opportunity for us to communicate on a regular basis as well, with monthly eDMs being developed in-house by our team of designers aimed at communicating with their database about the latest news and updates from Exquisine.

Our engagement with Exquisine has since expanded to cover more content and more social media posting, as well as increasing maintenance projects on their website, including updating sign up forms and smaller website design adjustments. We’re pleased to see that our work is having a positive impact on the number of leads they are receiving and are interested to see where things go from here! Contact us today to learn about how we can help implement a content marketing strategy for your business!

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The first step in rolling out any campaign is the development of a promotion lock-up: something that is identifiable as Adriatic, but distinct enough to stand on its own. When you run multiple promotions over a period, there is always a concern that consumers may start to tune out the creative.  We work diligently to keep on file previous executions to avoid too similar an execution and often plan out months in advance to ensure there are no stark variations between promotions.

Next, the roll out of assets requires the identification of key products to be promoted. We typically work with the brand to identify products that would appeal to our target audience while also being mindful of stock levels and pricing. These products are then mapped out across the assets that are developed, with each placement having different specifications and requirements. From simple executions like billboards (which are heavily reliant on the lock-up) to more complex options (such as social media reels or BVOD TVCs), we are constantly monitoring what works and what could be improved to ensure maximum impact within our campaign.

For these campaigns, we use an integrated approach to reach consumers at all touchpoints of their journey. For example, our eDM strategy has evolved greatly over the 12 months of working with the client, constantly refining our creative and scheduling based on performance to identify an approach that makes the most sense. A challenge of any retailer in 2024 is the balance between eCommerce and instore sales. Email marketing can drive eCommerce sales dramatically but also encourages instore activity. As a result, we’ve trialled referral codes and other sales activations that allow us to better track performance from this channel.

And of course, the post-campaign reporting is so vital. Maintaining a contextual awareness around why a promotion worked (or didn’t work, as the case maybe) is critical, but also just pulling apart the raw figures and identifying opportunities for future improvement is so vital. We’re proud of the results we’ve achieved for the brand thus far and are keen to see how things will continue to improve into the future, particularly with EOFY, Black Friday and Boxing Day promotions coming up in the second half of the year.

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Think TV, the commercial TV sector’s marketing body, believe the market fell 10.4% to $3.39 billion in the 2023.  Many media analysts point to the rebound after the global financial crisis where TV expenditure fell 8% in 2009 but rebounded by 16% the year after.  Perhaps the key difference is the competitive nature of the market with Meta’s Facebook and Instagram reporting record revenue in the last quarter of 2023.

The overall advertising market, according to Guideline SMI fell 2.7% in 2023.

More Australians are using Meta’s family of apps-Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger than ever before.   Meta, MD Will Easton recently stated that its video products were booming despite the threat from fast-growing competitor TikTok.  Short-term content is growing quickly across both Instagram and Facebook.  Meta is also planning to capitalise on the rapidly growing influencer economy with the rolling out of the ‘Creator Marketplace’ to Instagram in Australia.  This will allow anyone to contact and hire influencers for advertising.  Meta’s artificial intelligence platform, meta-AI, will also arrive locally this year.

Global sales for the last quarter for Meta were $US40.1 billion with a profit of $US14 billion.  Based on one estimate from the ACCC, Meta raises $5 billion from local businesses every year.  It reported $US36.2 billion in revenue in 2023 from customers in the Asia-Pacific region with $26.5 billion being generated from Ad revenue.

Will Easton has publicly stated that brands spend too much on TV advertising and Google Search.  Global firm Analytic Partners is yet to release research which is believed to show that social media is perhaps 30% underrepresented in most advertising plans.

The competitive dynamic has never been more intense, and it seems the market conditions are very different to the last time we saw a big dip in TV revenues with Meta now really flexing its muscles.  2024 will be a watershed year to see whether TV can respond to the changing market and hold its share of client advertising budgets.

For agencies and clients one thing is certain, the ability to buy well and take advantage of the competitive marketplace has never been more important.

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With our years of experience across a range of different real estate clients, MK Building Group appointed Faith to develop a highly targeted digital campaign across digital display and social media to drive leads.

We’ve also been supported on the ground by leading real estate agents, Woodards. We additionally developed a full sales brochure printed and distributed across targeted suburbs in inner-Melbourne, all aimed at encouraging enquiry. We saw good engagement with this activity and are looking to continue with this strategy moving forward.

We look forward to continuing our collaboration with MK Building Group as the year progresses, particularly as we start to drive conversion and see these amazing properties come to life!

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