INSIGHTS
Read below to find fresh perspectives from the C Studios team on place marketing across investment promotion, trade promotion and talent attraction.
When place marketing metrics work against you, not for you
Context is everything in measurement. We share recommendations for keeping your place marketing campaign on the right path.
Location marketing strategy simplified in 6 steps
Planning for place marketing frequently presents challenges, often accompanied by a multitude of uncertainties. We delve into the essential components and how to tackle each step by step
How to Translate Your FDI Website for International Markets
We explore three ways to translate your FDI website for global markets. Explore our insights on balancing quality, cost, and cultural nuance.
5 LinkedIn Insights to Drive Better Performance
LinkedIn continues to evolve and push the needle to help marketers more effectively reach their targets. We highlight 5 insights to maximize the channel for investment promotion.
Optimising your location marketing website in a mobile-first world
Google’s mobile-first indexing process is now complete. Learn what that means and how to optimise your investment promotion website.
Constructing a winning economic development case study
Success stories capitalize on a fundamental source of credibility – social proof. Here’s how to build them correctly.
Is lead capture really working for inward investment?
Leads are the primary metric that investment promotion agencies are using to justify marketing spend. So does lead capture work?
Will AI kill the place marketing star?
Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly one of the most promising technologies of our era with its capacity to enhance automation and streamline processes across various sectors. But just how good is it? Here’s our view.
5 insights for IPAs early in their talent attraction journey
Are you early in your talent attraction journey? Here are 5 insights to set your investment promotion agency on the right path.
Earning location credibility in a crowded marketplace
How can cities and countries gain credibility among executives and talents with their messaging? Here’s a framework to start.
Navigating the era of zero-click content: 3 considerations for place brands
Platforms are prioritizing content that keeps users from clicking out, which can hurt your website metrics. Here’s what zero-click is and how to work with it.
Reaching companies in Benelux, Europe’s unexpected powerhouse
The Benelux region forms the 3rd largest source market for FDI projects in Europe, but often sits much further down on the priority order for EDOs. Here’s why you should think differently about the region.
How Strong Is Your Digital Reputation?
When is the last time you evaluated your IPA's digital reputation? The strength of a city or country’s online reputation can make or break its success in place marketing. Here’s how to start.
SEO for Investment Promotion Agencies: 5 Common Issues
Our team has reviewed hundreds of websites for economic development agencies. Here are the common SEO issues impacting how executives and talents are finding your location.
5 Ways Marketing & Business Development Can Work Together for Investment Promotion
Alignment between sales and marketing is lacking in the investment promotion industry. Here’s how to fix that.
Winning Strategies in Investment Promotion Marketing
Winning Strategies in Investment Promotion Marketing provides insights from nearly 250 European-based executives involved in making location decisions.
Our Site Selection Journey: Making the Final Decision
The last of our four-part series on insights from our own site selection process focuses on selecting our future location.
OCO and DCI launch C Studios
OCO Global, a technology enabled advisory firm focused on trade, investment and economic development, and DCI, marketing specialists in economic development, talent attraction and tourism, bring together more than 80 years of combined agency history and 250 experts from around the world. Based in the Netherlands, C Studios is led by DCI veteran Steve Duncan as managing director and offers the full spectrum of digital marketing strategy and demand generation services.
Our Site Selection Journey: Website Information, But Not Always Substance
This is the third of a four-part series on insights from our own site selection process for C Studios, where finding information we needed became a challenge.
Our Site Selection Journey: Where, Oh Where, Are the IPAs?
This is the second of a four-part series on insights from our own site selection process for C Studios, which shows IPAs have a lot of work ahead to be “discovered.”

