The Children’s Media Conference

Event Branding

The CMC is the premier event in the UK for professionals involved in developing, producing and distributing content to kids – on all platforms.

Background

The Children’s Media Conference’s activities culminate in the annual event of the same name. It attracts delegates from across the industry, across the world – from film, TV and radio, to interactive media, games and licensing – to meet buyers, potential business partners or clients and share insights through networking opportunities and information exchanges.

Our creative approach 

Successful event branding has to tread a fine line between re-engaging existing audiences already familiar with who you are, what you do and how you do it – with the need to reach newcomers who perhaps might be unaware of your influence or significance within the industry.

TruthStudio have branded the CMC event every year, for the past 14-years. It is the largest, most important International live event for anyone involved in content for kids. In early 2023 CMC announced their conference theme: ‘Power Up!’

We proposed the ‘colour splash’ to express the power, energy and impact of the return of the 2023 Conference as a fully ‘live’ event – following the preceding 2-years of restrictions to public gatherings, due to the covid pandemic.

Results 

The 20th conference in 2023 attracted over 1,000 delegates from across the children’s industries – and from a range of countries worldwide – the largest attendance post-covid. The Conference App had the most downloads of any previous year. The vibrant and consistent branding we created across all areas of the event was crucial in raising CMC’s international profile and contributed to its offer of great content, great networking opportunities to meet buyers, potential business partners or clients.

From the very beginning of our company, we have always wanted to make sure that everything we did was different, ahead of its field, with bags of originality and creativity. It is vital that our brand communicates these values emphatically. From the outset, TruthStudio have striven to explore who we are, what we do, who we work with and where we want to go. They have continued each year to create and develop our offer with visually exciting and dynamic solutions – highly creative, but considered – without the dead hand of ‘corporateness’. Our collaboration with them has successfully moved us from a world of purely print deliverables, to today’s mix of website and social media design assets, with no doubt more ingenuity and inventiveness to follow in the future.

Jacqui Wells, Deputy Director

Project Scope

  • Visual identity creation
  • Brand strategy
  • Sub-brand development
  • Positioning
  • Annual event branding
  • Content creation
  • Social media assets
  • Mobile app design
  • Print and digital collateral

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