GENUINE wants to cast YOU in a commercial. We are always looking for people to share their stories and appear in paid advertising campaigns for major brands including American Express, Chipotle, and Walmart, to mention a few. If you would like to hear about our latest casting opportunities, join GENUINE's mailing list. You only need to [...]
Article originally featured on Forbes.com https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesnycouncil/2019/04/30/how-brands-earn-trust-in-the-age-of-fake-news/#7c29750f1922 Jill Strickman Forbes Councils Forbes New York Business Council CommunityVoice Regardless of which side of the political aisle you sit on, most agree that our society now endures unprecedented levels of misinformation, manipulation and resulting division. Unsure whom or what to believe, we dismiss it all as untrustworthy. [...]
In our immediate, on-demand, and personalized digital age, people are incessantly bombarded by ads coming from every direction. The good news is that cutting-edge technologies such as Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR and AR) and even 360° immersive video have helped transform advertising and journalism. Together they help brands cut through the background noise, and [...]
Real people bring undeniable authenticity to advertising campaigns. Brands are able to connect to their audiences with inspiring and relatable stories and content. It’s no wonder that the trend has continually grown in advertising, to the point consumers have turned into your best marketers! Knowing how to approach the process with your professional real people [...]
The good news is consumers have become your brand’s best marketers, making real people more influential for your campaigns than ever before. The bad news is today’s multichannel world is increasingly competitive, complex, and confusing. Finding and vetting the best real people is getting tougher—and managing them is even more difficult. Here at GENUINE we’ve [...]
By: Jill Strickman - Founder Brands and their agencies struggle to create high quality content that reflects a brand’s values and emotionally resonates with audiences. Using real people has proven to be one of the best ways to do that, and is now more powerful than ever thanks to the astonishing reach of social media. But [...]
Michael Spitz, from Klick Health writes: "...discovering the real patient experience goes beyond traditional market research, and the patient-centric healthcare revolution transcends mere technology. Behind the data and the gadgetry are flesh and blood people we know and love, in need of support not just “solutions,” genuine empathy more than detached “engagement." Click here to view the complete article: Klick [...]
At GENUINE, we are proud to have found the girls featured in this poignant, unapologetic celebration of STEM women by Microsoft and director Nanette Burstein at Hungryman: Click on the image to watch the video Young women growing up today are often unaware of the extraordinary female inventors and scientists who came before them and [...]
By: Jill Strickman - Founder Discovering the right real people for your brand is surprisingly like online dating. When clients come to GENUINE, they’re like romantic hopefuls who dream of finding “the one”. Optimistic, they tell us about all the consumer data they have that will help us facilitate the search. In an ideal world, this [...]
By: Jill Strickman (Founder) & Gina Boyer (Casting Director) A recent article in the New York Times Modern Love section, “The End of Small Talk” recently made the rounds in our office and it struck a chord. In the article, writer Tim Boomer asks, “Why can’t we replace small talk with big talk and ask [...]
by Jill Strickman - Founder From Phone Books to Facebook When I started my own real people casting and research company more than twenty years ago, my office was stacked to the ceiling with those big heavy Yellow Pages phone books, one for every city in the country. To find the right real people for [...]
