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Creative Brief
The document that tells a creative team what to make: objective, audience, single-minded proposition, support, tone, mandatories, formats, and deadline. The media brief's counterpart, and in performance advertising the two are increasingly one document.
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Agency Echelon. "Creative Brief." Agency Echelon Reference, reviewed September 2026. https://agencyechelon.com/reference/glossary/creative-brief/