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Category Archives: Creative Services
Film Look at a Video Price Tag
How do you get the look and feel of cinematic film at a lower video price tag? Now that local TV stations are broadcasting local commercial breaks in HD, it’s time to take the visuals of your products or services … Continue reading
Project Highlight: Ent Federal Credit Union
This winter, Metro Studios was given a challenging assignment from Mills Marketing – a financial marketing agency in Storm Lake, Iowa. Their client, Ent Federal Credit Union in Colorado, wanted to produce a complete market acquisition campaign to effectively break … Continue reading
Learn to play hockey the Metro Studios way.
This summer, Metro Studios was contracted by the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders, a USHL hockey team, to meet a wide variety of marketing and production needs for their 2009-2010 season. We’re thrilled that Metro Studios can be ONE place – so … Continue reading
Zimmerman Ford: From whiteboard to widescreen
If you walk into a conference room at Metro Studios, you’re bound to find a whiteboard filled to the brim with words, ideas, and images. After all, they say creative minds are rarely tidy. This spring, our creativity and our … Continue reading
An insider’s guide to media buying
Interested in advertising on TV, but have no idea where to start? Here’s a quick guide to the art of “media buying” - purchasing ad space on specific stations during a specific time period. Determine your target demographic. The first … Continue reading
Photo Journal: On the road with Metro Studios
It’s been a busy, exciting few months at Metro Studios! Here’s a quick look at some projects we’ve recently been working on. ACE Awards Live Webcast We had a great time producing the ACE Awards Live Webcast for hundreds of … Continue reading
9 Easy Ways to Write an Outstanding Blog Post
Do you hate writing blog entries? Is it a challenge to come up with new topics? Are you admittedly baffled by blogging? Blogging can be easy, enjoyable, AND increase your business – if you do it the right way. Here … Continue reading
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We’d like to thank the Academy…
Metro Studios was recently honored with four awards (otherwise known as ADDYs) from the American Advertising Federation of Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. We had a great time working on these projects and are extremely pleased with the results they’ve … Continue reading
Green Graphic Design: It’s Not Easy Being Green
What does it mean to practice green graphic design? The phrase “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” does convey an important message, but just skims the surface of the effective ways you can practice sustainable design. There are three questions we should ask … Continue reading