MarketCasta case study
Case study · design strategy

MarketCast

Design strategy for a firm whose product is clarity.

A senior design seat, on a short clock: setting the creative direction for marketing and research campaigns alongside cross-functional teams — deciding how dense findings became campaign creative, and holding every call inside an established brand system.

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Client

MarketCast — insights & audience measurement

Sectors

Media · entertainment · sports

Focus

Marketing & research campaigns, in-brand

Senior UX DesignerCreative directionCampaign & research strategyBrand-system disciplineCross-functional facilitationMarketCast · audience measurement
01The client

A company that sells clarity.

MarketCast turns consumer behavior and media-consumption data into decisions its media, entertainment, and sports clients can act on — which content to greenlight, how to position a brand, which audiences to chase.

Insight no one understands isn’t insight. It’s a spreadsheet.

Product

Consumer insights & audience measurement.

Method

Data science & market research.

Clients

Media, entertainment & sports.

The stakes

Findings clients bet real money on.

02The engagement

A senior design seat, on a short clock.

Setting the creative direction for marketing and research campaigns alongside cross-functional teams — deciding how dense findings became campaign creative, and holding every call inside an established brand system.

Who I worked with

Cross-functional teams

Campaigns, research output, and brand — in the room, not at a service desk.

What I shaped

Concept & direction

The creative direction for campaigns in flight — the decisions every asset executed.

Where it lived

Inside the brand

An existing brand system to honor — not a blank canvas to reinvent.

03The problem

Three constraints that pull apart.

A firm whose product is research lives or dies by how legibly it presents that research. Any two of these are manageable. All three at once is the assignment.

01

Dense material

Technical research findings that have to read as clear and credible, not intimidating.

02

Brand discipline

Guidelines that keep every piece consistent — so the company reads as one voice.

03

Real deadlines

Campaigns ship on calendars — not whenever the design feels finished.

04My role

Hold all three at once.

Creative

A senior eye

Direction that made dense research land — strong, not decorative.

Consistency

One coherent voice

Every asset inside brand guidelines — the reader never has to wonder why two pieces match.

Pace

Never the bottleneck

Fast enough that design kept up with the campaign calendar, not the other way round.

Creative input where it helped, brand discipline where it mattered, delivery teams could plan around.

05The approach

A repeatable way to make research land.

The value wasn’t a stack of one-off files — it was a method. The same four moves turned dense findings into on-brand campaign creative, whether the output was a marketing push or a research readout.

Read the finding
start from the insight
Frame the story
one takeaway, then hierarchy
Dress it in brand
one voice, every piece
Ship on the calendar
reviewed, ready to run

Insight first, brand always, delivered on time.

06A designer in the room

I also fixed how the work got made.

Not just producing assets — improving the design workflows so the team turned concepts into finished work more smoothly, and bringing creative input into the process rather than receiving specs and returning files.

Takes orders

Receives a spec. Returns a file. The creative arrives exactly as briefed.

In the room

Improves the creative as it moves through the pipeline. The output gets better on the way.

In a fast campaign environment, that difference is the value.

07Working at speed

A short clock rewards adaptability.

No time for a slow ramp-up. The engagement rewarded reading fast, anticipating well, and staying reliable across several projects at once.

Read the brand

Absorb an existing system quickly and work inside it from day one.

Anticipate needs

Understand what each team needs before they fully spell it out.

Communicate

Stay aligned with cross-functional partners across shifting demands.

Tool fluency

Move concepts to finished, on-deadline assets without friction.

Impact

What the engagement delivered.

Direction

Creative direction set across multiple campaigns.

Workflow

Design workflows optimized for team efficiency.

100%

Adherence to brand guidelines across every digital asset.

The through-line was reliability under a brand constraint — delivery the campaign teams could plan around.
Where it landed

Senior design value shows up fastest not in the pixels — but in the system around them.

How quickly you absorb a brand, how well you read a cross-functional team, and how much you improve the path work travels from concept to shipped asset. Good creative on deadline is table stakes — leaving the workflow better than you found it is what makes an engagement count.