Just Launched! — Enhanced Creative Briefs for Marketing Teams

Impactful marketing is more than catchy taglines and splashy designs. Of course, those are important. But marketers know that strategic thinking powers any new program or campaign. This is why a creative brief is so important. It defines the objectives, audience, and customer truths — keeping the team in sync and focused on the most important details.

The new image editor will make your creative briefs in Aha! even more compelling.

A creative brief is a foundational document for marketing teams — but they are used cross-functionally too. These briefs are especially useful if you are working with an external creative agency. You can succinctly capture the essence of your program or campaign to guide the deliverables.

All marketing workspaces in Aha! include a creative brief template, so you can link creative briefs to related marketing activities. You could already add images to creative briefs, but we wanted to improve the experience. This update gives you greater control over how you display images so you can provide better creative guidance.

You can add marketing workspaces for your team to any paid or trial Aha! account at no additional cost. Workspace owners and contributors can then create and share creative briefs. And to make it easy to link creative briefs to specific activities, an Aha! administrator with customization permissions needs to add the creative brief custom field to the activities screen layout.

Here is how to create and share creative briefs in your marketing workspace:

Add your insights The creative brief template in Aha! provides a useful structure for capturing important information about your upcoming program or campaign — such as the objective, launch date, budget, audience, and key messages. Simply click Add creative brief and start entering what makes your program unique.

Add as many creative briefs as you need and filter by time frame to quickly find the one you want.

Add and edit banner images Include a banner image in each creative brief to set the tone for your program. You can zoom, move, and rotate the image using the new image editor — giving the team visual guidance to inspire creativity.

Share with the team Add your creative brief to an Aha! notebook and share it via a secure web page or PDF. For notebooks, choose between live view (a view that you can refresh to show the latest) or a snapshot in time. This is a great way to align everyone — including internal stakeholders and external agencies — on exactly what you want to deliver.

You can publish your creative brief as a secure web page or PDF.

Breakthrough marketing happens when the entire team is centered around a clear creative brief.

So, start planning your marketing programs and campaigns in Aha! today. Define your creative briefs, link to your work, and share with your teams or agencies.

Sign up for a free Aha! trial — be happy Creative briefs are available to all Aha! customers who have set up a marketing workspace. If you are not already a customer, you may want to sign up for a free 30-day trial or join a live demo. See why more than 250,000 users trust Aha! to set brilliant strategy, create visual plans, and launch breakthrough campaigns.