Author: David Wilson

Innovations Breathe New Life Into Direct Mail

Innovations Breathe New Life Into Direct Mail

Mintel highlighted recent innovations in direct mail, including QR codes, scratch-and-sniff elements and more. Here, our team takes a look at how these fresh approaches can be applied to financial services.

COVID-19 Drives Subtle Changes to 2021 Medicare AEP Direct Mail Marketing

COVID-19 Drives Subtle Changes to 2021 Medicare AEP Direct Mail Marketing

To say 2020 has been a tumultuous year is probably the understatement of the year. The COVID-19 health crisis has dramatically changed how we live, shop and even receive healthcare. And it's has impacted this year's Medicare AEP direct mail campaigns as well. Here's a look at a few "mini-trends" we're starting to see emerge early on in 2021 Medicare AEP direct mail marketing.

Cash Rewards Card Marketing Shifts to Address New Financial Priorities

Cash Rewards Card Marketing Shifts to Address New Financial Priorities

Take a look at how issuers of cash rewards credit cards have quickly adapted to unexpected challenges in the financial landscape, aligning their products with current consumer spending patterns and positioning them as valuable financial tools with useful, practical benefits. These efforts may help to increase loyalty and encourage top-of-wallet behavior.

How Capital One and Walmart Encourage New Card Migration and Usage

How Capital One and Walmart Encourage New Card Migration and Usage

When Walmart and Capital One partnered to create the new Capital One Walmart Rewards Credit Card, they did a great job of keeping the marketing simple. We were pretty impressed with the clean and clear materials designed to help with migration, acquisition and EMOB communications.

Building a Credit Card Program for Millennials

Building a Credit Card Program for Millennials

Media Logic's financial services marketing experts dig into a new white paper with statistics and insights that can help banks and credit unions grow their credit card portfolios with Millennial consumers.

Discover Targets High School Grads. Here’s What One Teen Thinks.

Discover Targets High School Grads. Here’s What One Teen Thinks.

With graduation and college being the sole focus of her life in the past several months, she had never given credit cards any thought at all, much less developed pre-conceived notions that were going to be challenged by this particular DM piece. The real estate could have been used for a more relevant message for a first-time applicant.

U.S. Bank’s New Mobile App Redefines the Digital Banking Experience

U.S. Bank’s New Mobile App Redefines the Digital Banking Experience

Instead of just converting traditional bank services to the digital environment, U.S. Bank let customer input and technology inform a new paradigm of services. The result is the new U.S. Bank Mobile App, designed to re-imagine the customer experience and offer something that customers can’t get anywhere else.

What’s in an OE? Capital One Looks to Find Out

What’s in an OE? Capital One Looks to Find Out

Is beauty only skin deep? That seems to be the question Capital One is asking with different versions of its current direct mail acquisition packages. Media Logic’s financial services marketing experts take a look at what the brand may be testing… and why.