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What we have to sayHere’s the content that we made for you! Since we’re a Hudson Valley strategic and creative marketing company, we tend to choose topics where our unique perspective can shine through. We love using data and research to challenge old narratives and create fresh new ideas. And since we rely on social distribution, everything we make has to preview really well in the news feed.
The Catskills’ Lost Future: Water, Power, and the Fight for Local Control
As a local marketing agency that celebrates the potential of the Hudson Valley and Catskills community, we present this historical, philosophical and political look into…
New York’s 18 Most-Instagrammed Cities of All Time (Per Capita)
Since launching in 2010, Instagram has carved out a strong place in the American mind; the average person spends around 30 minutes a day on…
How New York’s 5,400 Gas Stations Keep Our State Running (According to Google Maps)
Outside of the Big Apple, New York is a car state. Our average household has 1.7 cars, which New Yorkers use to get to work,…
The 21 Most-Reviewed Kingston, NY Restaurants (According to Google)
As a Kingston, NY-based digital marketing agency, we’re always keeping our finger on the pulse of where local marketing is going. Many things are changing…
How Google Searches Track the New York Spread of Gyspy Moth
In the Hudson Valley this year, it’s felt like it’s impossible to get away from gypsy moths (also known as spongy moths). Seemingly overnight, they’ve…
16 Iconic Hudson Valley Website Designs from the Wayback Machine
As a company that has been designing and building websites in the Hudson Valley for a long time, we’ve seen design trends that have come…
Web Design and Search Engine Tips to Create Your Own Hudson Valley Job during COVID-19
COVID-19 is changing how people in the Hudson Valley live and engage with the world around them. And one of the biggest ways is how…
Visiting Rhinebeck’s 18 Most Instagrammed Places
As part of our series on the most-Instagrammed Places in the Hudson Valley, we present Rhinebeck: known as “a town in Dutchess County.” It’s been home…
Visiting the Town of Esopus NY’s 10 Most Instagrammed Places
When we think about the Town of Esopus, NY 5 Hs come to mind: Hikes, History, the Hudson, and Headless Horseman. We pulled down a…
The 11 Hudson Valley Hikes That Get Googled The Most
Some people have mythical, trusted sherpas who can relay all of the details of different Hudson Valley hikes to them. For everyone else, there’s Google,…
The New York Capital Region’s 66 Most-Instagrammed Places and Influencers
Kingston will always be the first capital of New York, but we decided to turn our gaze to the north and see what’s going on…
We Visited Beacon’s 16 Most-Instagrammed Places
This is our tenth entry in a series of articles about the Most-Instagrammed Places in the Hudson Valley and Catskills. We do these articles because…
New York’s Top 37 Breweries and Beer Influencers on Instagram
There’s no end in sight for the popularity of craft brewing. Two thirds of Americans have an average of four alcoholic drinks a week. Instead…
The Top 10 Music Artists Who Recorded on Facebook Live
Facebook rolled out Live Video starting in August of 2015, and it’s been quick to grow beyond a tech gimmick into an enabler for must-see…
The 67 Most-Instagrammed Locations in the Catskills
In today’s world, the act of pulling out your phone, taking a picture someplace, and posting it for your friends on Instagram is a significant…
The Ultimate Guide to Cider Marketing
So, you’ve started your own cider company. You picked the perfect time to do so. Cider popularity is growing enormously, with dollar sales up 39…
Visit New York’s 12 Most-Instagrammed Cideries
Cider is an exploding industry in New York State; according to Governor Andrew Cuomo, the number of cideries tripled between 2014 and 2016. We counted…
How Much Medical Crowdfunding is There in the Hudson Valley?
Our country is freaking out about health care right now. Lots of people are hurting: there are those who are worried about their health insurance…
The ultimate guide to turning your art into a product
Far too often, I’ll see this on social media: “Hey guys, I have an idea for a pin but I have no idea where to start…
Where to Observe Taco Tuesday in Kingston, NY
RESTAURANTS Diego’s Taqueria 38 John St(845) 338-2816Diego’s is the King Kong of the Kingston taco scene. They always have interesting specials and the owner is…
19 Insights on NY-19 Voters (According to Facebook)
We may call our home the Hudson Valley, the Catskills, or upstate, but for the next 15 months, our region will be known to many…
Wappingers Falls’ 13 Most-Instagrammed Places
There’s a lot to discover in Dutchess County, even packed in with the strip malls of Route 9. One example is Wappingers Falls, which is…
Visiting Great Barrington’s 13 Most-Instagrammed Places
We admit: as a creative agency, we live in a Hudson Valley marketing bubble. But 80 miles away, there’s another region that ALSO has farm-to-table…
2016’s Hudson Valley Breakout Brands (According to Google)
Say the word “brand,” and the huge ones, like Nike, Apple, or Coca-Cola come to mind right away. However, branding is just as important for…
Saugerties’ 12 Most-Instagrammed Places
Jimmy Fallon. Now that we got that out of the way, there are lots of other things to talk about in Saugerties. After crunching a…
Hudson Valley Influencers: 12 People Making an Impact With Social Media Content
Social media influencers are everywhere, both in the Hudson Valley and in your news feed. We interviewed 12 local ones, and learned how they’re using…
Woodstock’s Most-Instagrammed Places
“A decade later, the mystique lingers; the name still draws. Even now, superannuated hippies and flower children, Rolfers, rockers and runaways, bikers, down‐and‐out “skidders,” artists,…
The 51 Most Instagrammed Places in the Hudson Valley
As a creative marketing agency, we use huge amounts of social media and search data every day to do the best possible branding, marketing and website…
INFOGRAPHIC: Kingston, NY Pokémon GO Map
Pokemon Go came out on July 6, and everyone in North America lost their minds a little (us included). It’s the perfect mix of childhood…
Poughkeepsie’s 15 Most Instagrammed Places
Millennials mean business: they’re the largest generation, have the fastest-rising spending power, and have no problem recommending things to their friends. One of their favorite methods…
Ten Midtown Kingston Foods That Are Fueling Our Economy
Although many people are discovering it for the first time, Midtown Kingston wasn’t born yesterday. While Uptown and Downtown Kingston serve as photogenic gateways into our…
Artists are coming together to draw in Midtown Kingston on Monday nights. Here’s what we’re doing.
Creativity. Commerce. Community. We started Kingston Creative last year with a mission of supporting all three at once. While that often means making websites, shareable…
Hygge Hudson Valley: The Danish Secret to Surviving Upstate Winters
Winters in the Hudson Valley can be brutal, but we’re going to show you ten ways to cope. The days are short, and the nights…
Kingstagram: The 14 Most Instagrammed Locations in Kingston, NY
As a Hudson Valley digital marketing company, we create a lot of shareable social media content for our clients. Many people in the business community view…
