MARKET PLAN
A launch blueprint: priority markets, audience needs, category context, local buying occasions, and the message to test first.
MIDWEST CREATOR NETWORK
POWERED BY THAT GENZ AGENCY
LET’S PUT IT TO WORK.
Your brand can cross a border before its story connects with the people buying it. MCN helps consumer brands entering the U.S. understand Midwest audiences, find credible local creators, and build a reason to try the product.
Built and operated by That GenZ Agency, MCN connects regional consumer intelligence with creator relationships and campaign delivery. Whether you’re based in Europe, Canada, Africa, Asia, or elsewhere, we plan around where your product is available and who needs to discover it. The Midwest is our regional advantage. TGA’s remit reaches beyond it.
Scale is the starting point. Your opportunity depends on the category, retail footprint, audience, and market—not the region’s total population.
A home-market following doesn’t automatically travel with your brand. We start with the U.S. customer and where you can sell, then build a Midwest launch around local insight, relevant creators, and a clear route to buy. Already selling here? We can focus the same approach on your next regional rollout.
PLAN A MIDWEST ACTIVATION ↗For brands: hello@thatgenz.agency
Creator compensation, media, and production are scoped separately from TGA’s campaign work.We read your retail footprint, audience, category, and local conversation to decide where the campaign has a real job.
We bring a market-specific creator shortlist and a clear plan for talent, content, rights, and any paid distribution.
We run briefs, contracts, production, approvals, and publishing. Strong creative can be licensed for brand and paid channels when scoped.
We look at local discovery, traffic, store-locator or retailer activity, codes, and tracked purchases where your data allows. Then decide what to expand.
A beverage launching in regional retail. A beauty brand opening U.S. ecommerce. A wellness product finding its first American customers. Each needs more than a translated campaign. We research the category, buying habits, competition, and local occasions, then build creator stories around the reasons people would choose you.
Start where you can serve the customer. We align the first markets with your retail doors or delivery area, test the message and creative, and use the response to guide the next phase. A Midwest launch is a focused route into U.S. demand, not a requirement to launch in all 12 states.
You bring the product and expansion goal. TGA connects the research, strategy, creators, content, and distribution, so your U.S. team has one campaign plan and a named agency lead.
A launch blueprint: priority markets, audience needs, category context, local buying occasions, and the message to test first.
A brief-specific creator recommendation. We review audience location and fit, negotiate terms, and manage schedules, approvals, and delivery.
Product stories built with local voices, plus an asset and rights schedule showing what your team can publish, where, and for how long.
Organic publishing and paid distribution where scoped, linked to your store locator, retailer, or product page. Reporting separates content response, traffic, and purchases your data can track.
Our campaign collaborators and creator connections span distinct audiences and formats. We match the voice to the brief, protect what makes their work theirs, and build the right path for a brand to use it.
For Wolfe Mountain, regional family and adventure creators showed what a day at the park actually felt like. Their stories gave audiences different reasons to visit. For The Knock Box Co, creator content put the product into an everyday routine. Different briefs. Real voices. Managed by TGA.
SEE THE CAMPAIGN WORK ↗Local discovery, family travel, comedy, adventure, and product voices across our home markets.
Watch a local discovery reel turn a St. Louis outing into a plan families can actually make.
Giveaway collaborator bringing parks and family outings into the regional conversation.01 / 10A family lens made a Snowflex day feel personal and easy to picture.
Repeat Wolfe Mountain collaborator.02 / 10Regional travel guides turn a destination into a stop families can plan into a trip.
Wolfe Mountain campaign collaborator.03 / 10Outdoor family adventures give parents ideas they can actually put on the calendar.
Outdoor family storytelling for Wolfe Mountain.04 / 10A group challenge brought Wolfe Mountain into the creators’ own high-energy format.
Downstate Illinois creators; Wolfe Mountain activation.05 / 10Missouri humor gave the experience a cultural hook beyond a standard attraction ad.
Repeat collaborator; a character by Lil String.06 / 10Family travel storytelling can show the day as it happens, from first reaction to the ride home.
Family travel storytelling that puts regional experiences on the itinerary.07 / 10A personal family perspective helped translate the experience into content for her audience.
Completed Wolfe Mountain creator collaboration.08 / 10Product-focused short-form creative that can give brands more than one angle to test.
09 / 10Personality-led entertainment that gives a brand a distinct way into the conversation.
10 / 10Tell us the audience and market. We’ll bring the right creator relationships to the table.
BUILD THE CREATOR BRIEF ↗We match briefs to your audience, work, and regional connection. You review the brand, deliverables, and compensation before accepting. Being in the network doesn’t mean you owe a brand your voice.
Payment responsibility and dates, review rounds, deadlines, usage, and any exclusivity belong in the agreement. Ads, raw footage, extra edits, and extended licensing are discussed before they become extra work.
TGA coordinates the brief, brand feedback, and delivery so you have a clear contact. Our creator-management fee is scoped with the brand; it isn’t automatically deducted from your agreed pay. Rights follow the agreement, not an assumption that joining gives us ownership of your content.
The Midwest is a network of distinct communities. Explore where your next campaign could belong—from major metros to the places national briefs tend to miss.
Pick a state. Find the cities that deserve a closer look.
Two major metros and travel-driven regional markets.
MCN gives our clients regional depth. TGA’s broader agency work can connect that local advantage to campaigns beyond the Midwest, with talent, distribution, and delivery scoped for each market.
We plan each activation around the markets, audience, creator mix, content rights, and distribution the brief calls for. Your proposal shows TGA’s work alongside creator compensation, media, licensing, travel, and production so your team can see what each part covers.
PLAN A CAMPAIGN ↗Markets and launch phases
Creator mix and deliverables
Posting, licensing, and paid usage
Media, travel, production, and reporting
The Midwest shouldn’t have to outsource its influence. MCN gives regional creators a place to connect, share knowledge, and be considered for brand work as more companies invest here. Join the Discord for opportunities, partnership calls, community updates, and event news. Apply so we can understand your work and match you to relevant briefs.
Community access does not guarantee a paid campaign. Apply to be considered for opportunities.Retail openings and a big regional population are starting points. Our Midwest Growth Report connects public market signals with the questions a brand should ask before investing in creators and distribution.
READ THE MIDWEST GROWTH REPORT ↗Regional product and retail launches, market-specific creator campaigns, destination work, content production, and multi-city activations. TGA defines the audience, creator work, distribution, rights, and measurement in the scope.
Yes. When the product and retailer footprint are confirmed, we can brief creators around availability, local occasions, and a clear store-locator or retailer path. We plan the media and measurement around the markets in scope; retailer sales attribution requires access to the right data.
No. A focused test in one or several markets can be more useful than spreading the budget thin. We prioritize cities and communities using your distribution, customer, category, and campaign goal, then decide where to expand.
Yes. We work with consumer brands planning U.S. growth, including brands based in Europe, Canada, Africa, and Asia. We start with your product, U.S. availability, customer, and launch readiness, then scope Midwest research and activation. We don’t assume the same creative or buying habits travel unchanged from your home market.
EXPLORE U.S. MARKET ENTRY ↗A clear product offer, a way for U.S. customers to buy, launch timing, and an agreed budget. We also need product claims and brand guidance your team has approved. Import, product compliance, legal, tax, and fulfillment requirements stay with your team and qualified advisers; TGA’s role is the agreed marketing and activation work.
Your scope sets out the research and market recommendation, campaign strategy, creator selection and management, asset deliverables, usage permissions, distribution responsibilities, timeline, and reporting. You can commission a focused project or connect the work through a quarterly TGA partnership. Creator pay, media, licensing, travel, and production are identified in the proposal.
No automatic exclusivity or content transfer comes with joining. Any campaign-specific exclusivity, content ownership, or license must be agreed separately. You can review the brief and terms before deciding whether to take the work.
No. The network is for brands entering or growing in Midwest markets, wherever they are headquartered.
Yes. MCN is a regional advantage within TGA, not a limit on the agency. Wider campaigns are scoped with the talent, rights, logistics, and distribution each market requires.
We review audience geography, community relevance, content quality, engagement, and delivery reliability. A brand sees a brief-specific recommendation with deliverables and rates, rather than a fixed roster presented as the answer to every campaign.
It depends on the markets, audience, creator mix, content, rights, production, and distribution the campaign needs. We set out TGA’s responsibilities and outside costs in the proposal before work starts, so your team can see what each part covers.
PLAN A CAMPAIGN ↗Yes. Local relevance, creative quality, and audience fit can matter more than scale. Content-only work and audience-distribution briefs have different requirements, and a network introduction does not guarantee paid assignments.
Each engagement sets compensation, the paying party, payment schedule, deliverables, revisions, usage, and any exclusivity before production. Creators retain the right to review the brief and agreed terms before accepting.
No. Discord is the creator community for announcements, events, connections, and relevant opportunities. For campaign casting, complete the creator application.
JOIN THE DISCORD ↗Send your city, channels, work samples, content categories, audience information if available, and your rates. The creator path above includes a fuller checklist for video packages and licensing.
SEE THE CREATOR PATH ↗Entering the U.S. or growing your Midwest presence? Tell us what you sell, where it’s available, and who you need to reach. We’ll talk through the research, creator work, and launch support that fit your next move.
Brands: hello@thatgenz.agency · Creators: talent@thatgenz.agency · Join the Discord ↗