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Brand Content Playbook: Origin Story & Episodic Formats
Two organic video frameworks for consumer brands to build audience engagement.
A content strategy guide outlining two organic video formats: origin story series and recurring episodic shows. It focuses on using personal narrative against industry incumbents and smartphone-native episodic programming to build loyal brand followings without high production costs.
How it works
- Founding Story Video/Series: Share the 'why' behind the business and position your brand against industry incumbents or the status quo (e.g., Mid-Day Squares framing their journey against legacy chocolate giants like Hershey's and Mondelēz). People connect with the product ('what') once they know the purpose ('why').
- Episodic TV-Style Series: Create a recurring episodic show shot natively on a smartphone featuring a relatable host (e.g., On Running sending creator Lydia around the world to run and interview local creators, which drove 13M views and 50k followers).
What it's for
- Structure an ongoing founding story series highlighting brand purpose
- Develop a recurring, smartphone-shot episodic video series for social media
- Apply storytelling hooks like 'Pope in the Pool' to make brand exposition engaging
- Position a challenger brand directly against legacy industry incumbents
Key points
- Origin story framework positioning the brand against legacy competitors
- Episodic show structure centered around a recurring, relatable host
- Low-cost, smartphone-first mobile video production approach
- Storytelling hooks designed to maintain audience retention during exposition
Pricing
Free
Details
- Type
- Tip
- Category
- Marketing & Sales
- Topic
- Content Marketing
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- other
- For
- Brand marketers, social media creators, and DTC founders
- Tags
- content strategy, storytelling, brand marketing, video content, organic social
Why it was saved
- @house.of.ag: Builds brand loyalty and generates millions of views natively on smartphones at a fraction of the cost of traditional ad campaigns.
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