Bent News
1/2011
Blanchard Brand Films
Bent Media developed engaging online videos that tell the true stories of real customers who’ve invested with Blanchard.
9/2010
Bent Media hired Scotty Charneco as an Interactive Account Director. She hails from Fishbowl Interactive, where she managed email campaign development and deployment for national foodservice clients.
7/2010
Ponderosa Stomp
With Bent Media as a business collaborator, brand consultant and tactical partner, The Ponderosa Stomp curated a second series of concerts at Lincoln Center in NYC.
6/2010
TABASCO Country Store®
Bent Media designed and developed a social media advertising campaign that drove record TABASCO® Gallon Jugs sales for the TABASCO Country Store®.
6/2010
Oreck.com Site Redesign
Bent Media launched the most recent site redesign for Oreck Corporation, a direct marketing powerhouse and longtime client.
2/2010
EnviroCare Site
Bent Media created a business development platform for EnviroCare – a leading national environmental services company – with a site redesign that demonstrated their extensive knowledge and expertise in disaster response and management.
1/2010
TABASCO® Rich Media Campaign
As part of an integrated media campaign, Bent Media designed a high-impact rich media banner ad campaign featuring a well known sports commentator singing the praises of TABASCO® on pizza.
8/2009
TABASCO® Facebook
Successful Engagement: Bent Media launches the TABASCO® Facebook community.
5/2009
E-commerce Email campaign
Bent Media developed an email campaign that helped a client sell a $900K collectible and a coveted piece of history.
4/2009
Southern Candymakers Site Redesign
This boutique confectionary turned to Bent Media for an e-commerce site redesign and a new brand image befitting of their handcrafted, gourmet products.
10/2008
Gambino’s King Cake Paid Search Campaign
Bent Media helped iconic Gambino’s bakery by growing online sales through paid search and social media campaigns.
6/2008
Audubon Insectarium Kiosk
One of several projects Bent Media has completed for the Audubon Institute, “C.R.I.T.T.E.R.S.” is an interactive touch-screen kiosk at the Audubon Insectarium that brings the Louisiana swamp ecosystem to life for young learners.
4/2008
Beer Nuts Conversion Program
Beer Nuts a beloved iconic food brand, executed a comprehensive strategic plan developed by Bent Media to increase traffic, conversion, and average order values.
11/2007
Smoothie King
Holy Acai! Smoothie King experienced triple digit gains in traffic, SEO, and engagement after Bent Media launched a redesign of the Smoothie King web site.
Imagination Movers Identity Design
Kids’ music band the Imagination Movers turned to Bent Media to design an identity and image to match their musical talent. Now with a Walt Disney Records deal and a T.V. show on the Disney Channel, they continue to use those design elements today.
12/2006
On November 21, 2006, Lands’ End contracts Bent Media to build a “Hi, Santa” holiday microsite from scratch to finish in less than two weeks time. The site had to feature a Santa blog, a Story Workshop, a Coloring Workshop, a Scavenger Hunt and more fun and games for kids. The assignment included setting up and configuring a multiple server load-balanced environment, building out a Movable Type blog engine and creating the site itself. On December 1, 2006, Bent Media successfully delivers http://hisanta.landsend.com (Site no longer live).
6/2006
In short order, Bent Media delivers a fully functional e-commerce site for established cataloguer/retailer Orient Expressed. http://www.orientexpressed.com/
5/2006
Bent Media welcomes Matthew Rentschler as Tabasco Account Director. Hailing from Lands’ End where he managed multiple business-to-business e-commerce web sites for the #1 online apparel retailer, Matthew is highly experienced in account service and integrated marketing.
4/2006
Bent completes a micro site for Oreck that promotes a powerful vacuum and a powerful cause. For every customer that tries their pink Special Edition Oreck XL® Ultra Vac, Oreck will donate $50 to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Customers are encouraged to spread the word by telling a friend at http://www.cleanforthecure.com/.
3/2006
Bent has developed three Apple iPod applications for consumer packaged goods manufacturers that allow consumers to download recipes to their iPods. This month, Bent completes an iPod App for TABASCO® that promotes “favorite guy food recipes featuring super hot habanero sauce”.
12/2005
Bent Media is thriving, despite the effects of Hurricane Katrina. We are committed to rebuilding New Orleans and renewing our business presence there. It is the city that has inspired our imaginations and nourished our creativity – and it is home. We hope to help it come alive once again.
9/2005
Due to Hurricane Katrina, our employees are now telecommuting from points all around the country. Bent Media has become a fully functional virtual organization practically overnight, meeting the day-to-day challenges of the interactive agency business. Read full press release
8/2005
Bent Media completes an interactive kiosk for the Audubon Institute’s Insectarium in New Orleans, LA.
Bent Media created an online game for the Louisiana Department of Education that teaches children about exercise and nutrition.
7/2005
Bent Media concepted, pitched and developed an Apple iPod application for Kraft Foods that allows consumers to download recipes to their iPods. Pushing recipes and content to iPods allows CPG companies like Kraft to reach busy consumers while they’re shopping, helping them with menu planning on-the-go, mobile shopping lists and keeping a collection of recipes at their fingertips.
KraftFoods.com
Sings Duet with iPod
Meals – and
Purchases – On the Go
Kraft
Offers Recipe Downloads for iPods
A joint partnership of organizations, including McCormick, Old Bay, Zatarain’s, and the National Aquarium in Baltimore, contracts Bent Media to create a public awareness campaign to educate consumers about smart seafood choices and preserving our ocean’s resources. The result is BeOceanwise.com.
6/2005
Bent Media completed a re-branding and redesign of the Old Bay web site.
5/2005
Bent Media creates a branded game for TABASCO® that allows site visitors to build their own custom motorcycles, better known as “TABASCO® Hot Choppers”.
1/2005
Bent Media launches the Avery Island Screensaver – the latest of five tremendously successful TABASCO® screen savers. This one features beautiful photographs of Avery Island, LA, the home of TABASCO® brand Pepper Sauce.
9/2004
The new Turner South web site goes live.
4/2004
Bent Media gained Turner South as a new client for a total redesign of its web site. Turner South is the cable network that’s dedicated exclusively to television, Southern style.
2/2004
Bent Media launched the first online sampling program for Luzianne Tea, Reily Foods’ flagship product.
1/2004
Since Bent Media’s launch of the new Zatarain.com in June 2003, traffic numbers have increased ten-fold.
10/2003
Bent Media created and executed the first online sampling program for McIlhenny Company’s newest flavor, TABASCO® brand Chipotle Pepper Sauce.
June 2003
Bent Media was praised in a syndicated Business Journal for its screensaver expertise in an article entitled “Screensavers dazzle with spicy spells of marketing magic”. Bent Media’s ability to brand the desktop with entertaining screensavers has resulted in over half a million downloads of the TABASCO® screensavers.
6/2003
Bent Media launched an all-new web presence for Zatarain.com, makers of New Orleans-Style Foods since 1889.
11/2002
Bent Media launches total restructure and redesign of existing client's e-commerce driven site, Oreck.com.
5/2002
Bent Media launches LuzianneSmoothies.com, a micro-site to introduce a new product called Luzianne Smoothies. It is the second web site Bent has completed for Reily Foods, makers of Luzianne Tea.
3/2002
Bent Media contracted by Zatarain's to design and develop a new corporate web site.
1/2002
Bent Media contracted by Lagasse Inc. to design and develop a new corporate web site.
11/2001
Gambit Magazine, Bent Media founder Brad Brewster named one of the “40 under 40”.
Bent Media launches EarthsaversOnline.com, and helps Bath & Beauty Company sell its private label signature products along with other top brand names.
10/2001
Bent Media launches exclusive online introduction of New TABASCO® brand Chipotle Pepper Sauce. Campaign is wildly successful; 10,000 bottles are sold in less than 3 months.
