Think Locally to Win Globally
Why global campaigns fall flat or cause offence abroad, and how early cultural insight protects creative impact across markets. By Ciara Nugent.
Practical thinking for the people behind global content, exploring the challenges of creating, adapting and scaling work that performs in every market and language it reaches.
Why global campaigns fall flat or cause offence abroad, and how early cultural insight protects creative impact across markets. By Ciara Nugent.
Why fragmented, market-by-market adaptation is no longer sustainable, and what a centralised creative adaptation system does differently. By Simon Ambrose and Jimena Ortega.
How generative voice technology is reshaping global advertising, where it beats studio recording, and where it still falls short. By Simon Ambrose.
Why multilingual content is far more than translation, and why AI strengthens the case for skilled language specialists. An essay by Locaria founder Hannes Ben.
How multilingual competence is acquired, assessed and applied, and why native-speaker status alone doesn’t guarantee excellent language production. By Hannes Ben.
Why translated ads underperform, and how trained linguists and continuous testing lift click-through, conversion and revenue in international paid search.
How natural language processing, sentiment analysis and incrementality testing make multilingual content more effective, and why human linguists remain essential.
How to scale multilingual content across markets and channels without losing quality or control: four learnings from performance marketing. By Lindsay Hong.
How global brands can adapt multilingual paid media, search, websites and communications when markets are disrupted, written in April 2020.
How brands adapt different types of web content to drive local e-commerce growth, with examples from De Beers, adidas, HotelsCombined and Printemps.
What drives the cost of multilingual content, how to judge its quality, and which pricing models reward performance rather than volume. By Lindsay Hong.
How combining linguistic and SEO expertise across website localisation, search and Amazon listings grows organic traffic, rankings and sales.
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