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A cheerful, whimsical landscape with grassy hills, flowers, and two pink cartoon characters beside a sign reading Lesser Evil: Simple Acts, Clean Snacks against a bright sky and mountains.

LesserEvil

Making snacking a little less evil.

LesserEvil’s growth story proves that purpose and performance can thrive together. As one of the most beloved better-for-you snack brands, they were breaking into national retailers, expanding their lineup, and welcoming millions of new shoppers. But what had worked before wouldn’t be enough for what came next.

The brand needed a marketing ecosystem that was capable of telling a bigger story, supporting rapid retail expansion, and meeting modern snackers wherever they discover, shop, and fall in love.

Together, we reimagined how the brand connects with modern snackers, bridging storytelling, retail, and digital experience into one connected, high-performing system. Now every impression, email, and CTV spot works together to make the world’s most joyful snack brand just a little more unstoppable.

A doll with curly yellow hair, sunglasses, and yellow boots sits on a gray sphere, surrounded by popcorn and round snacks on a light background.

The Big Idea

Making the good-for-you brand everyone’s craving.

LesserEvil has always been full of heart, a brand built on purpose, optimism, and better-for-you snacking. Our role was to help that spirit scale without losing what makes it special. The answer wasn’t a channel or a tactic, but a system: a connected engine where story sparks emotion, retail meets shoppers in the aisle, search and social capture rising intent, Shopify clears the path to purchase, and lifecycle keeps the love alive long after the first bite.

By unifying brand and performance, we built a full-funnel engine that grows awareness, strengthens intent, and turns new snackers into devoted fans.

Icons with text: dietitian-approved, goodness on-the-go, all crunch, no compromise, organic and gmo free on a light background.
Icons with text: dietitian-approved, goodness on-the-go, all crunch, no compromise, organic and gmo free on a light background.

Creative Expression

Turning brand charm into digital performance

LesserEvil has become a beloved name in better-for-you snacking, and their digital presence needed to rise to the moment. Building on their existing brand identity, we created a digital style system that introduces warmth, clarity, and personality across every touchpoint. From site structure to lifecycle to retail storytelling, every detail now feels true to the brand’s heart.

A basket with popcorn, pumpkins, and a blanket sits in a wheat field with hay bales. Text reads “Spice up your snack lineup” and promotes pumpkin spice popcorn.

Development Approach

Building a Shopify experience that works as hard as the brand

LesserEvil needed the freedom to move faster—launching campaigns, testing content, and merchandising products without waiting on developers. We rebuilt their site with Shopify’s latest Theme Blocks architecture, turning their entire experience into a flexible, modular system.

Every section, component, and template was engineered for speed, clarity, and ease. The team can now build high-fidelity pages in minutes, not days, while the brand benefits from cleaner code, stronger performance, and a platform ready for whatever’s next.

A product page for LesserEvil Himalayan Gold Organic Butter Flavor Popcorn, showing a popcorn bag on the left and product details with a “Find In Store” button on the right.
A collage of colorful website pages featuring snacks, cartoons, a store locator map, and playful graphics in pink, yellow, and teal tones.
Screenshot of a website featuring organic popcorn, with two popcorn bag images (Himalayan Gold and Himalayan Pink Salt) and a cartoon chef character on a pink background.

Lifecycle Marketing

Building an owned channel engine that grows with the brand

As LesserEvil’s retail footprint has expanded, the brand needed a retention system that could drive repeat purchases online and encourage return trips in-store. Our goal was to turn every new shopper—no matter where they discovered the brand—into a long-term fan.

We rebuilt lifecycle from the ground up, creating journeys that welcome, educate, prompt, and re-engage with clarity and personality. Every touchpoint feels unmistakably LesserEvil while being engineered to support both DTC and retail velocity.

A colorful promotional email features snack packs, savings, and holiday deals, with cartoon monsters, product images, and bold call-to-action buttons on a purple background.
  • Post First-Purchase

A bowl of cheese puffs, a cartoon character in red with a guitar, and a message inviting guesses on the number of Cheezmos in the bowl for a snack prize.

Cheezmos enters the group chat.

We regularly use simple, interactive SMS moments to build energy around new launches. For Cheezmos, a quick “guess how many are in the bag” prompt drove strong early awareness and pulled thousands of subscribers into the conversation.

6.1% participation rate

1,300+ engagements

Media Approach

Building an omnichannel system that moves shoppers

To accelerate new-to-brand growth, LesserEvil needed a system that connected brand storytelling with retail performance. We built a strategic media ecosystem where CTV drives awareness, search and social convert intent, and retail media reinforces the brand at the exact moment of purchase.

The result is a unified approach that increases household penetration, lifts retail velocity, and ensures every dollar works harder—across every channel, in every market.

Three ads for LesserEvil Organic Popcorn: a digital shopping screen, a city bus stop poster, and a large city billboard, all with popcorn imagery and the slogan “Better Snacks Are Within Reach.”.
Creative produced by LesserEvil
  • Story

The results

We layered retail audience data and programmatic precision to build campaigns that targeted customers of specific retailers, stores, and audiences to amplify conversion and retail velocity at scale.

+74%
Life in Purchase Intent
+59%
Lift in Brand Preference
+30%
Lift in Aided Awareness
+21%
Lift in Purchase Propensity

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