Award season is in full swing—and Stream Companies has brought home an impressive 8 AVA Awards for 2011!

The AVA Awards is a global competition that recognizes outstanding achievements by creative professionals involved in the concept, direction, design, and production of media.

Interestingly enough, if you turn the number 8 on its side, it becomes the symbol for infinite.

And infinite is Stream’s appreciation for our creative team’s amazing, award-winning work seen below:

Platinum Award Winners:

“Jack Williams 82nd Anniversary Sale” – Jack Williams Tire and Auto Service Centers

Jack Williams Tire & Auto Center – … Continue Reading

The advent of social media as a way-of-life has created a new reality in marketing: word-of-mouth, peer based reviews, testimonials, and complaints now carry an unprecedented amount of weight.

All it takes is a quick stroll through Facebook, twitter, Google, Yelp, and countless other sites to see the staggering amount of content & conversation dedicated to brands.

In fact:

• 92% of buyers have more confidence in info found online than they do in anything from a salesclerk or other source
• 90% of online consumers trust recommendations from people they know; 70% trust … Continue Reading
  
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Stream Companies is proud to announce that we’ve won 2 Silver awards in the 2011 W3 Awards!

The W3 Awards recognizes creative excellence on the web and the creative and marketing geniuses that made it all happen. Stream Companies is proud to be a part of a group of such outstanding winners. We’re a modest team and don’t like to toot our own horns, but we are very happy to say congratulations to the creative and production teams!!

…Now where are we going to put … Continue Reading

Front and Back of 2nd Direct Mail Piece and E-mail

As an approved vendor for Motorola co-op advertising, Stream Companies works with radio dealers nationwide. Commenco Inc., an elite authorized Motorola service facility in the Kansas City metropolitan area, needed to promote its upcoming expo in a fresh and exciting way. Having worked with Stream Companies many times before, Commenco knew that Stream could jazz things up like no other advertising agency around. Stream used direct mail, print, an online landing page, e-mail and online video to … Continue Reading

Digital video advertising is grabbing an increasingly larger share of the online market. Recent studies estimate that online video advertising will increase by 38.6% in 2011. Although one study estimates that most advertisers will spend less that one-quarter of their online display budget on digital video advertising this year, most will be increasing their digital video ad spend in the next twelve months. 

The impetus for this growth seems to be a desire to advantage of online video advertising for its audience targeting capabilities and higher return on investment (ROI).

When choosing … Continue Reading