Your brand,desired abroad.

Not Creative is a marketing house for premium consumer brands. Campaigns and identities that make wine, fashion, food and hospitality wanted, at home and in the markets you choose next. We hold our own work to numbers.

Markets, opening.

Every brand we work with is going somewhere. This board is how we think: a route, a brand, and the number that says it landed.

DEPARTURESMARKETS OPENING · LIVE
ROUTEBRANDSTATUS
LIS→BERQUINTA CENTENARIA38 DOORS
LIS→CPHCOMPORTA RESORTSOLD OUT
OPO→NYCATELIER DE CALCADO+212% VELOCITY
MAD→MIABODEGA HEREDADAENTRY OPEN

Desire, measured in foreign currency.

Showreel
A glass of red wine on a stone ledge above vineyard rows at dusk
00:00:00:00 · CONCEPT SPOTS · NOT CREATIVE
Work · Market Thesis 01

Every beautiful thing we make has a back side.

The front is what the market sees. The back is what the board sees. We are responsible for both.

HOVER ⟲TAP ⟲
Market Thesis · Douro → Berlin

A Douro estate arrives in Berlin

How a centenary Portuguese wine house earns a place on the lists of Kreuzberg's twelve most-watched restaurants.

The Ledger · DE Entry Model
Target marketGermany, on-trade first
Price ladderEUR 24–38 retail
Doors, month 638 of 50 target
Velocity vs. category+212%
Payback horizon19 months
Three doors in
01 · FLAGSHIP

Entrada

The full market-entry programme. Positioning, cultural translation, launch campaign, first-quarter numbers. Twelve weeks from thesis to shelves.

02 · RETAINER

Market Management

Once you've landed, we run the market. In-market media, content, retail relationships and CRM, reported monthly against plan.

03 · STUDIO

Brand & Campaigns

Identity and campaigns, at home too. Many clients start here, long before they think about leaving.

The Craft

Everything an agency makes. Built to travel.

Strategy, identity, campaigns, film, social, media and CRM. The difference is where we point it: everything we make is designed to survive translation, so it wins at home and keeps winning across a border. Plenty of our work never leaves Portugal. All of it could.

STRATEGY & POSITIONING BRAND IDENTITY CAMPAIGNS FILM & CONTENT SOCIAL PERFORMANCE MEDIA CRM & LIFECYCLE RETAIL & EXPERIENCE
Swimmer in sunglasses against a sun-baked yellow wall, summer campaign frame Campaigns · OOH · Lisboa

O verão é nosso.

VINHO VERDE COLLECTIVE × NOT CREATIVE
Film · Spot 01 · Loop
Vineyard at dusk, opening frame of concept spot
Social · Carousel
Prova.
Origem.
Mesa.
Identity · Label system DOURO · D.O.C.

QUINTA
CENTENÁRIA

COLHEITA 2023 · Nº 0417
Performance · Media
DE · SEARCHROAS 6.2
DK · SOCIALROAS 4.1
US · RETAIL MEDIAROAS 3.4
CRM · Lifecycle
Your table in Berlin is ready
OPEN 61% · CLICK 18%
The 2023 colheita, three weeks early
OPEN 74% · CLICK 26%
Journal

Field notes from the export trade.

Funding

ICEX will pay for your US launch. Almost nobody applies properly.

A field guide to the tenders, deadlines and KPI reporting the Spanish export agency actually expects.

Premiumization

Portuguese wine sells for €2.90 a liter. Here is the maths of charging more.

ViniPortugal wants a higher average price. A pricing-ladder playbook for estates that agree.

Places

Comporta is a brand. Most hotels there haven't noticed.

On-the-ground notes on the most quietly powerful place-name in Iberian hospitality.

Where next?

Tell us your brand and the market you want. The Desirability Report maps how wanted you already are there, what the entry costs, and where the white space is. It arrives as a document you will want to show your board.

YOUTHERE
Boarding · The Desirability Report
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