@girlinbluestudios
Instagram · Split screen
@girlinbluestudios If I were to create a cheese brand, this is how I’d do it! #marketing #branding
@girlinbluestudios
Instagram · Split screen
@girlinbluestudios If I were to create a cheese brand, this is how I’d do it! #marketing #branding
Performance
Video #17175 · Split screen
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The creator presents a hypothetical case study for a new cheese brand called 'Gut Feelings.' She outlines the brand concept, which combines gut-healthy probiotic cheese with jam pairings named after emotional states like 'Soft Launch' and 'Trust Issues.' She then details a 2000s-inspired marketing campaign called 'What's Your Gut Saying?' featuring an animated alter ego, and concludes by asking the audience for their opinion on the concept.
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What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds
Title hook · 45%
If I were to create a cheese brand
Verbal hook · 35%
If I were to create a cheese brand, this is how I'd do it.
Visual hook · 20%
A composite image featuring a split screen with the creator in a small window at the bottom, and a main visual of a woman eating cheese next to an animated cartoon version of herself doing the same.
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The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back
Hook
A direct-to-camera hypothetical premise ('If I were to create a... brand') that frames the video as a creative thought experiment, immediately engaging the viewer's curiosity.
Payoff
A direct question to the audience ('Would you buy this?') that serves as a call to action for engagement, followed by a confident self-endorsement that solidifies the pitch's value.
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The structural pattern this video runs on
Framework
The Hypothetical Brand Pitch
To present a fully-realized but fictional product/brand concept, showcasing creative strategy from ideation to marketing execution, and culminating in a direct appeal for audience validation.
The High-Concept Unveiling
The brand name and core emotional/functional premise are introduced, establishing the unique selling proposition in a single, powerful statement.
The Product Mechanism Breakdown
The specific features and components of the product are explained, grounding the high-concept idea in tangible details (e.g., 'probiotic cheese plus jam pairings').
The 'Anti-Positioning' Statement
The brand's identity is sharpened by explicitly stating what it is NOT (e.g., 'it doesn't feel like wellness'), thereby clarifying its unique market position and target audience.
The Thematic Product Showcase
Concrete product variations are presented with clever, culturally relevant names that reinforce the core brand concept, making the idea feel real and relatable.
The Campaign Concept Introduction
The narrative pivots from product to promotion, introducing the marketing campaign's name and central idea, expanding the brand's world.
The Aesthetic & Tonal Blueprint
A specific, often nostalgic, stylistic reference (e.g., '2000s Lizzie McGuire style') is used to instantly communicate the campaign's visual language and tone.
The Storytelling Engine
The core narrative device of the campaign is explained, detailing how the brand story will be told in a recurring, recognizable format (e.g., 'girl with her animated alter ego').
The Brand Mantra Synthesis
A concise, memorable tagline is delivered that perfectly encapsulates the brand's philosophy, connecting the product's function to the consumer's emotional reality.
If I were to create a cheese brand, this is how I’d do it! #marketing #branding
title · beginning
If I were to create a cheese brand
title · beginning
This is how I'd do it
branding · middle
GUT FEELINGS
contextual · middle
SOFT LAUNCH TRUFFLE CASHEW CHEESE + FIG & ROSE
contextual · middle
TRUST ISSUES AGED GOUDA + APPLE CIDER JELLY
contextual · middle
BARELY HOLDING ON BRIE + LAVENDER BLUEBRRY JELLY
title · middle
WHAT'S YOUR GUT SAYING?
If I were to create a cheese brand, this is how I'd do it. I'd call it Gut Feelings, and make it all about gut healthy cheese that celebrates all kind of emotions. Gut Feelings is a line of probiotic cheese plus jam pairings, each one styled around a specific emotion. Each pairing is built to support your gut health, fermented, cultured, low lactose, or vegan, but none of it feels like wellness. It feels like girl dinner with an identity crisis that's actually delicious and at times cheesy. The flavors would include soft launch, which is a truffle cashew cheese and fig and rose, trust issues, which is an aged good and apple cider jelly, and barely holding on, which is a brie and lavender blueberry. For the launch campaign, I would imagine your gut as your sidekick rank call it what's your gut saying. It would be shot in a two thousands Lizzie McGuire style where your inner gut voice becomes your chaotic sidekick. Each visual pairs a girl with her animated emotional alter ego, commenting on everything from texting her ex to soft launching a situationship while snacking on probiotic cheese and jam. Because your gut always has something to say, and now your cheese makes it even better. Would you buy this? You know I would.