Scratch-it tickets are Oregon Lottery’s holiday hit—so we created a product campaign as familiar, exciting, and fun as opening a gift on Christmas morning. We focused on the folks who are a big question mark on your holiday gift list. The answer? Everybody loves a Scratch-it, even your weird neighbor!
Our wordmark needed to give warm and fuzzy feelings, without immediately invoking a specific holiday. So we focused on a joyful font and rich, bright tones that eventually ended up influencing the sets in our commercials.
![Oregon Lottery Holiday Scratch-it Logo animated](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OL_SI_Logo_Animation.gif)
Art Direction
We had a lot of characters to introduce in a short amount of time. Each imagined Scratch-it recipient was paired with a color-coordinated set rich in textures, populated by holiday items specific to their personality. Peep the cat portrait produced by our very own art department.
![Still from Oregon Lottery Holiday Scratch-it Commercial 2](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OL_SI_AD_2.png)
![Still from Oregon Lottery Holiday Scratch-it Commercial 3](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OL_SI_AD_3.png)
![Still from Oregon Lottery Holiday Scratch-it Commercial](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OL_SI_AD_1.png)
![Still from Oregon Lottery Holiday Scratch-it Commercial 4](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OL_SI_AD_4.png)
![Still from Oregon Lottery Holiday Scratch-it Commercial 5](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OL_SI_AD_5.png)
![Oregon Lottery Holiday Scratch-it Landing Page](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OL_SI_Landing_Page-scaled.jpg)
Big holiday spending means a big holiday media campaign. Across a strategic mix of traditional and digital media channels, we served 42+ million impressions and YOY helped increase Scratch-its interest with younger consumers.
![Oregon Lottery Scratch-it Ad Animation](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OR_SE_Media.gif)
The Oregon Lottery has grown to be a significant part of the economy in Oregon, funneling billions of dollars into programs that Oregonians care about. When the gaming brand came to Pollinate, they were ready to tackle a huge job: create order, consistency and accessibility for their online presence, bringing forward a cohesive, mobile-first digital brand.
The result was a true agency-wide collaboration, with our Dev, UX, UI and Creative teams working together towards a common goal: Oregon Lottery’s first mobile app, and a brand new OregonLottery.org.
To help wrangle all the pieces, we created a vast library of flexible, easy-to-manage design elements to help keep the site fresh. Each jackpot game was assigned a flexible pattern assembled from spot illustrations by Drew Bardana, and the content library was further fleshed out with iconography and photography.
![Cartoon hand holding mobile phone app for Oregon Lottery](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Content_Library_Image.png)
![Green checkmark icon for Oregon Lottery](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_Icon1-1.png)
![Purple handshake icon for Oregon Lottery](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_Icon2-1.png)
![Red icon with wifi cloud symbol for Oregon Lottery](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_Icon3-1.png)
![Gold icon with three gears for Oregon Lottery](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_Icon4.png)
![Blue location pin icon for Oregon Lottery](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_Icon5.png)
![Green money icon for Oregon Lottery](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_Icon6.png)
![Purple icon of a barcode for Oregon Lottery](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_Icon7.png)
![Mega Millions graphic](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_BG2.jpg)
![Lucky Lines graphic](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_BG6.jpg)
![Powerball graphic](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_BG5.jpg)
![Keno graphic](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_BG4.jpg)
![Megabuck graphic](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_BG3.jpg)
![Pick4 graphic](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_BG1.jpg)
Inspired by the brightness of lottery games, color was carefully considered, with the goal to have enough contrast to pass AA-level WCAG guidelines.
![Oregon Lottery Color Scheme](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_Colors.png)
Phase one for Oregon Lottery’s mobile first approach was to build an on-the-go scanning app available on both iOS and Android. We delivered, thoughtfully balancing the lightheartedness of gaming with the gravity of Lottery’s significant and tangible impact on their community partners.
In 2020, Pollinate launched the new Oregon Lottery WordPress website. We were challenged to build a secure headless static site that used WordPress as the admin, and Azure as the front-end host. Always up for a challenge, we built — and now manage — this headless website, including a custom plugin for static deployments.
![Oregon Lottery Site Map](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OLWA_Technically_Complex.png)
![Oregon Lottery Website Static](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Lottery-SiteMockup-larger.jpg)
With a small digital marketing team at Lottery, efficiencies and cutting back duplicate content entry was a large goal for their team. We were able to deliver on this request by creating a single admin in WordPress that was used by not just the website, but the mobile app as well. This allowed content to be entered in one place, but shared across both platforms — all controlled by APIs created in-house at Pollinate. We are always up for a challenge, and loved bringing our mobile and web development teams together to solve this one.
![desktop computer and mobile app both showing screens from Lottery website and mobile properties](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/SingleSource_OL_Image-01-1.png)
Launched but Always Optimizing
With a content and player approach first, the website and mobile app have never been “set-it-and-forget-it” tools for Lottery. Pollinate schedules quarterly analytics reviews of both tools, where we do a deep dive into all analytics data available from GA GTM, media campaigns, Microsoft, app stores and in-house Lottery data. This helps us steer larger conversations around optimizations, and helps us determine future road maps. These deep dives have allowed us to continue to launch new features such as single login across platforms and the Second Chance program — and helped Lottery determine more successful marketing and content driven campaigns. That’s a win for everyone!
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Ever wonder about your dog’s specific personality quirks? For example…why is my labrador retriever terrified of getting in the water? Great question. Wisdom Panel exists to answer these kinds of quandaries, with at-home DNA kits that reveal your dog’s genetic makeup, and help you better understand your dog. We were approached to raise awareness about the benefits of Dog DNA testing, along with push conversion with a fresh digital and social campaign that celebrates Wisdom Panel’s updated branding and messaging.
First priorities were a fresh brand awareness spot, and an engaging how-to. Taking note of their logo styling, we knew we had to make this tactile. So we partnered with David Emmitt to transform these spots into paper-folding stop motion animations.
![Oragami dogs in different folded stages to show how the stop motion was done for the Wisdom Panel Soul Mutt campaign](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WP_Concept.png)
The best way to capture the authentic connection was with User generated Content. Pollinate worked with Wisdom Panel to email their CRM database, asking for users to submit photos on Instagram with the hashtag #MySoulMutt. The result? An asset library grounded in authenticity.
![User generated photos of Wisdom Panel customers and their dogs](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WP_UGC.png)
![Wisdom Panel banner ads for the Soul Mutt campaign with images of humans and their dogs](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WP_Banners.png)
Hidden deep within the hills above Lynchburg, Tennessee, was a story waiting to be told — and a whiskey to be discovered.
When Uncle Nearest premium whiskey approached Pollinate, asking if we could deliver a launch campaign defining its unique position in the land of distinctive high-end whiskeys … well, there was no way we could say no. The story was and is riveting, and with one taste, you knew: the whiskey had legs. Award-winning legs.
In a category where drinkers value authenticity, we launched this ultra-premium brand in a way that was true to the man, his incredible story — and his legendary whiskey-making skills.
After more than 150 years, it came to light that a formerly enslaved man named Nathan “Nearest” Green was the first master distiller for a certain local whiskey salesman whose name we can’t use. (Hint: It rhymes with Zack Janiel’s.) Uncle Nearest, as he was known, is believed to have perfected the charcoal-filtering process and many of the techniques still followed today.
![Uncle Nearest holding up test bottle](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/uncle-nearest-thumbnail.jpg)
![Uncle Nearest Launch Book – Closed - it is a dark brown leather book with gold embossing that reads](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Book_Closed.jpg)
![Uncle Nearest Launch Book – Open - which depicts a painting of Nathan Nearest Green from behind as he examines the color of the whiskey while standing in front of a copper whiskey distiller](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Book_Open.jpg)
![Uncle Nearest Launch Book – Open with Bottle showing, - the seonc page of the book is open and shows that is a full sized whiskey bottle cut out and fitted inside the book. There is a red ribbon tucked behind the whiksey bottle neck to pull the bottle out of the book. On the opposite page is reads](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Book_Bottle.jpg)
One for the books
Step one: a launch strategy. And that was simple: With an irreplaceable spot in history, Uncle Nearest’s story needed to be told. So, we wrote a limited-edition book, which then became the thread tying all of the deliverables together, with the first edition ending up where it belongs: in the Smithsonian.
![Uncle Nearest whiskey bottle and the hand tag around the neck of the bottle that depicts the story of Nathan Nearest Green](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Bottle_Hangtag.png)
![Uncle Nearest Print Ad that shows an antique book opened to a page that has a painting of Nathan Nearest Green from behind as he examine the color of the whiskey in a glass as he stand in front of a copper whiskey still. The other page of the book reads](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UN_PRINT_AD-1.png)
![Uncle Nearest Invites to launch parties, one side is black with gold foil that reads](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UN_Invites.png)
![Uncle Nearest Coasters from the launch campaign, one side have the Uncle Nearest logo, the other side is a recipe for the Uncle Nearest Tennessee Gold cocktail. The ingredients 2 oz. of Uncle Nearest, 3/4th oz fresh lemon juice, 3/4 oz honey syrup. Put all ingredients in a shaker tin with ice and shake well for ten seconds. Stir into a rocks glass over ice](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UN_Coasters.png)
![An Uncle Nearest Whiskey billboard, the text reads, The Best Whiskey Maker the World Never Knew along with the two whiskey bottles and cocktails. It also depicts a painting of Nearest Green looking at a glass of whiskey near a copper whiskey still](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UN_OOH.png)
![Uncle Nearest Website image of the two original bottles Uncle Nearest launched with - Tennessee aged whiskey and silver whiskey. There is an award for a Gold model showing, along with a screen grab from their first video commercial](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UN_Homepage_1.png)
![Uncle Nearest Whiskey Process which shows a charcoal drawing of a whiskey barrel with the three Tennessee stars. Around the barrel the process is written out in depth with Superior Ingredients, Fermentation, Double Distillation, Charcoal Mellowing, Barrel Aging, Final Filtration and to the Bottle being the full list of the Uncle Nearest Whiskey process](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UN_Homepage_3.png)
![An image from the Uncle Nearest website that includes and antique book open up to a page that reads](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UN_Homepage_2.png)
![Uncle Nearest Portland Monthly Website Take Over that shows an old book with text that reads](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UN-PortlandMonthly-Takeover.png)
![Uncle Nearest mobile add that has the two bottles of whiskey along with the line](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UN_CANVAS1@2X.png)
![Uncle Nearest ad that shows a painting of the back of Nearest Green holding up a whiskey glass to examine the color of the whiskey. Can also see an old copper whiskey still in in the background](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UN_CANVAS2@2X.png)
![Uncle Nearest mobile ad of the Brick and Mortar cocktail, along with the Uncle Nearest whiskey logo](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UN_CANVAS4@2X.png)
For our media approach, we focused on raising awareness in key markets (Louisville, Chattanooga, Memphis, Knoxville, Portland, and Nashville) to drive product demand with our core audience and spur sales at liquor stores, bars, and restaurants.
![Uncle Nearest mobile banner ads that say](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UN_Media_Ads.png)
38.4m
impressions
177.5k
site visitors across all markets
34%
increase in site visitors
We get why student loans aren’t fun to think about—the phrase ‘repayment’ sends a shiver down the spine of anyone who has them. So it makes sense that most people don’t want to think about refinancing those loans, even if it’ll save them money in the long run. When First Tech Federal Credit Union tasked Pollinate with creating an engaging campaign for their student loan refinancing, we met the challenge by focusing on the expert help and repayment flexibility First Tech offers and, with our in-house production team, created two highly memorable (and humorous) spots.
Trust the experts.
Refinancing is a major decision that benefits greatly from professional advice. For this year’s campaign, we drew memorable comparisons to other decisions that are best left to the experts.
Some things are better left in the past.
All borrowers can relate with outgrowing who they were in college–cringing at what we wore, the music we liked, and the hairstyles we had. For this year’s concept, we highlighted another thing to cringe at: the rates you were given then, versus the rates you could have now.
What do you do when you’re in the seventh year of being the agency of record for the country’s biggest foodie event? You bring in a fresh viewpoint — especially since this was the festival’s largest and most ambitious to date. Feast’s popularity and differentiation was grounded in its iconic locale – incredibly fresh and innovative fine dining paired with Portland’s vibrant eccentricity.
With “Feast your Face,” Pollinate brought in a warm color palette and understated typography juxtaposed with layered food illustration and quirky collage elements. This became a creative toolkit that drove visual identity across placements.
With social activation at top of mind, we developed a system of vibrant, playful illustrations and collage elements that serve as the visual anchor of this year’s look and feel across all touchpoints, but most notably: Giphy stickers for Instagram stories (search feast2019 under stickers to use them yourself).
![All of the gifts for the Feast your Face campaign - which shows illustrations of an ice cream cone, blue heart pulsing, the test yes yes yes yes animating, lips drinking from a cartoon wineglass, lips eating a cartoon tapas, a spinning donut and more](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/feast_gifs.gif)
![Behind the scenes footage of filming the live action images of lips to be used in the Feast Your Face campaign. Shows a close up of a woman eating a cookie along with an image of two people standing behind a camera as she eats the cookie and the final product which is a gif of her lips eating a cartoon donut](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Meg-Doughnut-Collage.gif)
![Feast Your Face national print ad in Bon Appetite managzie, ad is light pink with lips eating cartoon food including a taco, donut, wine glass, shrimp toast and the text](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FEAST_MAGAZINE-1.jpg)
![thin social banner of Feast your Face camapign. it is light pink with an image of lips drinking a cartoon wine, an illustration of shrimp on toast and an apple](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FEA-Giphy-1040x160-1.jpg)
![Feast your Face campaign asset that is light pink with an image of lips drinking from a cartoon wine glass, ice cream cone, shrimp toast and apple illustrations. It reads](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Email-Gif.gif)
![Feast Your Face phone mockup of social placement](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Carousel-Mockup.jpg)
![A man and woman sitting at a table biting into corn on the cob with a gif of a blue heart pulsing over the woman's head](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Feast-Carousel-Events-4_AdobeExpress.gif)
![Rooftop photo of the the Feast Night Market event at night with tents lit up and a view of the Tillicum bridge and the Willamette River. A cartoon image of a flying shrimp rolls through the sky](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Feast-Carousel-Events-3_AdobeExpress.gif)
![Gregory Gourdet in a denim vest, gold chains and I heart NY teeshirt pulling pastries out of an oven at the East Coast vs West Coast Feast event. A cartoon heart pulses from his heart on his t-shirt](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Feast-Carousel-Events-2_AdobeExpress.gif)
![Thin crackers overs in a delicious looking white spread and purple flowers with a hand grabbing at the food to taste](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Feast-Carousel-Events-1_AdobeExpress.gif)
Unique to the Feast brand identity is a series of events that are rebranded and updated yearly. Pollinate has always been at the center of creating these identities — applying color treatments, font selections and a set of original icons for each event, along with a brand guide for each event.
![the big feast](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/feast-assets-eventbranding.jpg)
![Feast Brunch Village event ID in front of an image of a breakfast pastry](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/composed-brunchvillage.png)
![Feast Drink Tank Event ID written out with presented by Imbibe tag. Illustration is in front of an image of colorful cocktails on a table](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/composed-drinktank.png)
![Feast East Coast vs West Coast Event ID written out with arrows. Includes illustrations people three people dancing](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/composed-ecvwc.png)
![Feast Fun Size Events ID written out in blue and pink in front of an image of an outdoor event](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/composed-funsize.png)
![Feast Night Market eventID with illustrated depiction of neon sign saying Night market in front of an image of noodles](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/composed-nightmarket.png)
![Feast even ID for Smoked 2019, with colorful red depiction of steak in front of mount hood](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/composed-smoked.png)
“If your site goes down on ticket launch day, you can punch me in the face.”
Ben Waldron
Our dev team created a proprietary plug-in that decoupled the front-end from WordPress, so that the site could be hosted in the cloud to handle large amounts of traffic – like the kind that happens when tickets go on sale for an internationally beloved food event. The site experienced its highest volume of visitors in the first 5 minutes, and sold out in a record 1.5 hours. The site did not go down. And Ben’s face remains as beautiful as ever.
Paid media placements contributed to a +424% campaign ROI. During the campaign flight, on-site metrics increased YOY, including an increase in users, time on site and pages per session. 1.52% overall campaign CTR 9-3x above the industry benchmark).
![feast media placements graph](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/feast-assets-graph.jpg)
+424%
campaign ROI
1.52%
overall campaign CTR
3x
above industry standard
Portland’s cult-favorite grocery store, New Seasons Market, asked us to tackle their summer campaign, welcoming back the colorful bounty of deliciousness arriving alongside the warmer months. We developed a bright, attention-grabbing campaign across a host of print and digital media, highlighting the sheer joy of summer food.
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you know: when the summer sun comes back, it feels like being reunited with a long lost friend. The central idea for this concept leaned into that welcoming feel with a warm, cheeky greeting set in a soft, sunshiney wordmark.
![New Seasons logo animated gif that says](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NS_logo_animation.gif)
A moveable feast
Come late May, the Pacific Northwest is heavy with anticipation for the bright, distinctive flavor of summer cuisine. To capture the imagination, our creative let the food shine, using a library of high quality photography paired with vibrant colors and textures.
![Spread of assorted foods for the New Seasons Hello, Sunshine Campaign](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NS_Concept.png)
We focused our efforts on a cost-effective solution that effectively engaged targets, with ongoing optimization throughout the flight. The bright, attention-grabbing creative paired with out-of-home locations within spitting distance of a store made for a significant increase in foot traffic and sales.
![Woman in shopping cart full of produce](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NS_Fruit_Fanatic.png)
![New Seasons wall ads with watermelon and grilling food off of Division street for the](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NS_Wallscape.jpg)
![New Seasons paper shopping bag with strawberry and sunbursts for the](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NS_Bag_Mockup.png)
![New Seasons Bus Wrap with strawberry and sun bursts](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NS-Bus-Wrap.png)
![New Seasons Magazine Ad with the text Hello, Sunshine and a bunch of colorful food off the grill](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NS_Magazine_Ad.png)
![New Seasons Bus Shelter with images of food for Hello, Sunshine campaign](https://pollinate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NS_Bus_Shelter.jpg)