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Case study · Global marketing operations

From fragmented brand sites to one global marketing center.

How Jay helped Mastercard turn scattered digital brand resources into a clearer global platform for marketers.

January 2010–September 2013
Digital strategy
Content operations
Platform adoption
Global alignment

The problem beneath the request

The platform problem was really an operating problem.

Knowledge was scattered

Brand and marketing resources lived across separate sites, making useful material harder to find and apply.

Markets needed consistency

A global brand needed one useful source without ignoring the practical needs of regional teams.

Technology needed a job

A content platform only mattered if it made everyday marketing work faster and clearer.

Jay’s approach

Jay connected platform decisions to the way marketers actually worked.

01

Define the use case

Start with what global and regional marketers needed to find, understand, and do.

02

Consolidate the experience

Bring fragmented resources into a coherent Global Marketing Center.

03

Translate the brand

Make guidance usable across teams instead of leaving it as static policy.

04

Support adoption

Treat launch as the start of behavior change, not the end of a technology project.

What changed

A shared platform made the global brand easier to use.

One center

Marketers gained a clearer destination for global brand and marketing resources.

Stronger consistency

Teams could work from the same foundation while applying it in local markets.

A usable system

The technology supported the brand instead of becoming another disconnected destination.

The through line

Jay’s supplied record describes work on a shared global marketing platform, including access, consistency, and content use. No quantified cost saving is claimed.

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