NextStep cooks up a TikTok-driven branding campaign

NextStep HELOC AdSmall brands can now take advantage of their smallness and run circles, creatively, around their plodding competitors. While large brands fret and fear “crazy media” like TikTok, NextStep Federal Credit Union, with the counsel of POSTMKTG, has jumped right in with a branding and promotions campaign that not only leads with TikTok as its primary media, but is creatively inspired by TikTok.

CBA finds serious success

CBA Fall Open House StillThe students at CBA are just like students at every other private or public middle school or high school … except when they aren’t. Like when its time to put on the uniform and get serious about the day’s studies. Or time to march in formation at a Veterans Day parade. Or when the National Anthem is played before a game.

Since partnering with POSTMKTG, CBA has seen a 42% increase in enrollment , raised $10 million across two successful capital campaigns, introduced a new annual giving day which raised an astounding $604,000 in 16 hours in 2023, redesigned its bi-annual magazine, revised and relaunched its website (twice!), added several scholarship programs and reengaged its alumni and supporter network.

History in the making

AHN History MuralThe history of women in education since the mid-nineteenth century has been lovingly preserved in a temperature-controlled archive at Academy of the Holy Names in Albany, New York. But folders, photos, racks of uniforms and shelves of yearbooks don’t, by themselves, tell a story.

For the story, AHN turned to POSTMKTG.

Helping New Yorkers raise their voices and say, “food is a basic human right!”

Hunger Relief Video StillThough the pandemic is waning, with inflation up, too many New Yorkers are still struggling to feed their families. This video, part of an ongoing print, PR and social media campaign, was produced on behalf of Feeding New York State to boost community awareness and engagement, and encourage viewers to sign a petition asking government officials to support continued full funding of hunger relief programs.

CBA 2022 Spring Open House

Creative production has become less like car assembly and more like painting as tools and resources have become increasingly democratized. Add to that a relationship of trust between client and agency, built project by project over 7 amazing years, and campaigns like CBA’s 2022 Spring Open House are a regular result.  

The College Experience – an experience for parents too

The College Experience is an experience not just for its students, who get to live the college life, begin careers and gain the skills necessary to live independently, but also, and maybe more so, for the parents of students. In a series of unscripted testimonials, POSTMKTG helped TCE parents tell their stories. Stories of pride. Stories of surprise. Stories of wonder at the independent people their previously very dependent children have become.