College, Creosote Affects share awards that recognize branding efforts

Marietta, Ohio (04/25/2018) — Marietta College's Office of Communication & Brand Management and Creosote Affects, who teamed up to create a video and publications, have received a few awards for their combined efforts.

They received a gold award in the Special Video category for their work on the Bring Forth a Pioneer Introduction Video from the Education Digital Marketing Awards.

More recently, both parties shared two awards from the Educational Advertising Awards - a silver award for the introduction video and a merit award for the print viewbook.

"Our partnership with Creosote Affects has been rewarding and impactful on improving the College's overall brand position, as well as on the recruitment of future students," said Tom Perry, Executive Director of Communication & Brand Management. "We recently partnered with them again to produce additional videos that we plan to use starting in the fall, and we will continue to look for other projects that make sense for the College to utilize the expertise of Creosote Affects down the road."

Creosote Affects is a national, full-service branding, marketing, research, consulting and creative services firm specializing in education. Creosote Affects is headquartered at the crossroads of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, near the Catoctin Mountains in the college town of Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Located in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, Marietta College is a four-year liberal arts college. Tracing its roots to the Muskingum Academy back in 1797, the College was officially chartered in 1835. Today Marietta College serves a body of 1,200 full-time students. The College offers 45 majors and is consistently ranked as one of the top regional comprehensive colleges by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review, as well as one of the nation's best by Forbes.com. Marietta was selected seventh in the nation according to the Brookings Institution's rankings of colleges by their highest value added, regardless of major.

###

Media Attachments