Transcreation in Marketing

In today’s global marketplace, accurate and effective translation is a critical component of effective advertising campaigns. In many situations more is required than translation alone for best results. Transcreation can lead to highly impactful and appealing marketing initiatives that transcend linguistic and cultural barriers.

Transcreation in the marketing world can be defined as the adaptation of advertising copy to align with the target audience of another language, nationality, or culture. The term itself is a combination of “translation” and “re-creation.” Whereas the translation process is focused on accurately conveying the same thoughts from the source material into the target language, transcreation allows for a higher degree of creative latitude on the part of the translator. This is often necessary in order for copy to truly resonate with consumers of a different dialect or background.

Transcreation offers a number of key advantages over strict translation, such as: The freedom to adapt concepts to specific languages and cultures. The latitude to adjust not only marketing copy, but also adjacent branding (e.g., color schemes, logo designs, and other visual elements). Maximum impact on the target consumer’s mind and heart. Since a core message that takes a person’s background into account will resonate with him more deeply than an advertisement expressed in “foreign” terms. Of course, transcreation requires a deep knowledge of the target audience, strict attention to detail, and a high level of creativity.

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Each project is measured and developed with the same standard process, delivering a consistent product each time while always keeping the viewer’s experience at the top of our minds. Our reality-tested quality is the reason why BKS has maintained customer loyalty for over 62 years.For the visually impaired, it is difficult to follow the action on the screen when there is little dialogue. Audio description provides narration describing the action taking place on-screen to help viewers with visual impairments to follow the plot. This audio description is recorded and made available as a separate audio track that can be selected by the viewer.