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Message First in Practice: Surreal

Surreal is a fast growing food brand that makes fun and delicious cereal inspired by the flavours children love - except it’s healthy, high in protein, and aimed at adults. Here's how they put their message first.

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Partnering with a freelancer, a consultant or HNW?

When you’re looking to expand your business, extend your products and services and deliver more value to your clients, who does your agency turn to?

Message First in Practice: Volvo

Ask anyone to name a car brand associated with safety, and they’ll give the same answer every time. Volvo. Pick any Volvo ad from the last sixty years, and you’ll see the power of message first in practice.

Message First Is Perfect For Designers

There’s a reason why we don’t sell design services ourselves. It’s because our message first approach doesn’t compete with designers or design agencies. It complements them. And it delivers many benefits for them.

Message First is Perfect for Agencies

Why would an expert copywriting team choose to partner with agencies instead of going direct to clients? Simple. Because message first is perfect for agencies.

Biden, The Democrats and Message First

If Joe Biden wants to put his country first, he has to put the right message first. Like many businesses, the Democrats has are stuck with promoting the wrong message. How do they change it?

Football Comes Home – The Ghost of a Message

Can three little words, written by an ad agency and tweaked by a pair of 90s comedians really sum up a nation? Can a message really be that powerful?

Making a Message: Cogent Hire

Cogent Hire does credit hire the right way. And that means starting with a strong, memorable message to underpin their whole brand. That’s why they turned to HNW.

Message First in Practice: Victoria Bitter

Victoria Bitter – or VB – is Australia’s first and only billion dollar beer brand. What makes them so recognisable? Easy. A strong message.

The Foundations of Message First Marketing

Finding your key message? Putting it first?
That’s easy to do, when you put all the foundations in place with our three-step message first methodology.

The Unbeatable Benefits of Message First

Clear, focused brand messaging makes a huge difference. It drives results. And when you put message first, the benefits are even clearer….as you’ll see.

Message First in Practice: IBM

For over a century, IBM has led the way in computing technology, becoming one of the world’s most widely known brands. It’s all down to putting message first.

Message First in Practice: Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer (M&S) needs no introduction if you’ve spent any time in the UK. It’s one the country’s oldest retailers, renowned for its quality food, clothing and homeware. Here’s how the UK’s most trusted brand puts message first.

Message First in Practice: Surreal

Surreal is a fast growing food brand that makes fun and delicious cereal inspired by the flavours children love – except it’s healthy, high in protein, and aimed at adults. Here’s how they put their message first.

Which comes first? Content or design?

It’s the age old debate. Copy or design? Design or copy? Then along comes message first to ask – why not both?