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Happy King's Birthday, Perth! 👑🎉

There are great perks to celebrating a WA public holiday in late September. Spring is here, the arvo sun is out and all of Perth has a ripper excuse to knock off early and enjoy it.

So what are your plans today? Are you heading down to Cottesloe for a swim and a cheeky Sunday session on Marine Parade? Packing a picnic at Kings Park while the kids explore the payground? Chucking some snags on the Barbie with the family and mates? Making the drive down to Margaret River or Dunsborough for a couple of days of wineries, beaches and good eats?

Or honestly, is the plan just a sleep-in, have brekkie at noon and doing absolutely nothing productive? Because fair enough, that counts too.

Whatever you are up to today, we hope it is a goodie. Drop your plans in the comments below; we would love to hear what everyone is getting up to for the King’s B’Day 👇☀️

Grand Final Day is here. 🏆🏉

Fremantle Dockers vs Brisbane Lions at the MCG. Two teams from opposite ends of the country. No Victorian side in the mix for once.

For Freo, this is 13 years in the making. They have been waiting for another shot since 2013 and today they get it. 🟣⚪⚓

For Brisbane, it is the chance to cement back-to-back Premierships and go down as one of the great modern dynasties. 🔴🔵🟡🦁

But who wants it more?!

Watch parties are packed. The country is split. Purple on one side. Maroon, blue and gold on the other.

One game. One Premiership. Who will make history?

Happy Grand Final Day! May the best team win!

Drop your game predictions below. 👇

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to everyone celebrating today! 中秋节快乐!

To the Chinese-Australian community, our clients, our team and everyone who has a mooncake within reach right now, we are thinking of you today and wishing you a beautiful celebration with the people you love most.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most cherished occasions in Chinese culture. A time to gather under the fullest and brightest moon of the year, share mooncakes, light lanterns and be reminded that no matter how far apart we are, we are all looking up at the same sky.

From all of us at Ignite Search, may your evening be full of warmth, family and maybe a few too many mooncakes. 🥮🏮

中秋节快乐 Zhōngqiū jié kuàilè 🌕

#中秋节 #中秋快乐 #中秋節快樂

Most carousels get scrolled past before the second slide and the reason is almost never the topic.

It is the ex*****on. Reading patterns ignored. Wrong dimensions used. Poor colour contrast. No clear structure to keep someone swiping. These are the things that separate content people save and share from content that disappears into the feed.

Swipe through to see exactly what makes a carousel viral and what makes it invisible.

📩 Want content that actually performs? Get in touch with the Ignite Search team today.

Better late than never; meet Josh 👋

Josh is our Digital Advertising Specialist, and he brings decades of experience in digital marketing and digital advertising to the Ignite Search team.

Josh builds and manages ad campaigns across social media and Google, using proven full-funnel strategies that reach new audiences, nurture interest and turn it into real conversions. Whether the goal is brand awareness, leads or sales, he makes sure every dollar has a job to do. When ad spend and results start to feel stressful, Josh is the calm in the storm. He genuinely loves what he does, and it shows in the way he helps business owners grow with confidence.

He's also no stranger to the team. Josh and Ellen go way back, having worked together in Melbourne long before they both landed at Ignite.

Josh is a big fan of the quiet rural life away from the big city and can be instantly recognised by his headphones and his can of Kirk’s soft drink by his trusty mechanical keyboard. A level-headed, down-to-earth member of the team.

The diamond engagement ring is 85 years old. The two months salary rule was written by a copywriter and the surprise proposal was a sales strategy.

Before 1938, only 10% of engagement rings in America contained a diamond. Rings were not even universally expected. There was no tradition. De Beers built one from nothing.

In 1938, De Beers hired ad agency N.W. Ayer with a single brief: make every person planning to marry feel compelled to buy a diamond ring. What followed was one of the most deliberate and complete pieces of consumer engineering ever executed.

They did not run straightforward advertisements. They understood that telling people to want something rarely works. Instead, they made diamonds appear everywhere culture was already looking. Hollywood proposal scenes. Celebrity photographs. A lecture series in American high schools planting the expectation in the next generation before they were old enough to recognise what was happening.

In 1947 they wrote the slogan "A Diamond Is Forever." Not to sell diamonds, but to eliminate the resale market. If a diamond is an eternal symbol of love, nobody sells theirs. Supply stays controlled. Prices stay high.

They also noticed that when women chose their own rings, they picked more affordable ones. So they popularised the surprise proposal, putting the purchasing decision in the hands of men, who consistently spent more.

Then in the 1980s a copywriter invented the two months salary rule. No cultural basis. No historical precedent. A number created entirely by the advertising department to raise the average spend.

By 1990, 80% of American brides received a diamond ring. A tradition that did not exist in 1937 had become so embedded that questioning it felt uncomfortable.

De Beers did not find a market for diamonds. They built the social conditions that made the market feel inevitable. They engineered the tradition, the expectation, the emotional weight, and the pricing rule, and then stepped back and let culture carry it forward.

That is Engineered Marketing at its most complete.

Follow Ignite Search for the next case study in the series 🔥

If your educational content is not performing the way it used to, you are not alone and the reason might surprise you.

In 2026, information alone is no longer a differentiator. Your audience can type any question into ChatGPT and get a clear, structured answer in seconds. Which means content built purely around tips, facts, and how-tos is competing directly with AI. And AI is fast, always available, and never runs out of ideas.

What AI cannot replicate is your perspective. Your story. The specific moment something clicked for a client. The mistake you made in month three that you wish someone had warned you about. That is the content that earns trust, builds connection, and gives people a reason to come back to you specifically rather than just consuming information and moving on.

Swipe through to see how to make the shift from purely informational to genuinely memorable.

📩 Want a content strategy that actually builds connection with your audience? Get in touch with the Ignite Search team.

We are absolutely over the moon to share this news 🏆🎉

Ignite Search has been named the #1 Best Advertising Agency in the Town of Victoria Park, WA, for 2026 by the Quality Business Awards, achieving an overall quality score of 95% or greater across satisfaction, service, reputation and quality.

This one means a lot to us. East Victoria Park is home. Our office sits right in the heart of this community and being recognised as the best in our own backyard is something we do not take lightly.

But this award is not ours alone.

To our incredible clients, thank you for trusting us with your brands, your businesses and your ambitions. Every campaign, every strategy, every trailblazing transformation happened because you believed in what we could do together.

To our Igniters, you show up every single day with passion, creativity and an obsession with getting results. This is yours as much as it is ours.

And to everyone who has followed, supported, shared and cheered us on along the way, thank you. You are the reason we keep pushing to be better.

Here is to continuing igniting your potential together in 2027 🔥

Have you heard of Blue Dot Fever? It is the music industry's biggest story of 2026 and it has a marketing lesson sitting right at the centre of it.

Blue Dot Fever takes its name from the blue dots on Ticketmaster that represent empty, unsold seats. In 2026, those dots have been appearing on some of the biggest tours in the world. Post Malone, Meghan Trainor, Zayn, Jelly Roll and the Pussycat Dolls have all cancelled or significantly scaled back their US arena and stadium tours amid lagging ticket sales. Most cited personal reasons or scheduling conflicts. The seating charts told a different story.

The average concert ticket in 2026 costs $144, up from $115 last year and $82 in 2020. In a cost of living environment where every discretionary dollar is being scrutinised, a $300 to $400 stadium seat is an increasingly hard sell for an artist whose audience likes them but does not love them.

And that distinction is exactly where the marketing lesson lives.

The artists whose tickets sell out within minutes are not always the most famous. They are the ones whose audience has a relationship with them that goes deeper than passive fandom. Oasis. Olivia Dean. Ed Sheeran. Taylor Swift. Their audiences do not think twice about the price because the emotional value of being in that room is not something they can replicate elsewhere.

The artists with blue dots everywhere built reach without building depth. Streams, followers and chart positions are not the same thing as a loyal audience willing to show up when it costs them something.

This dynamic plays out in every industry, not just music. When economic pressure tightens, consumers cut the brands they like and protect the ones they love. The businesses that survive discretionary spending cuts are the ones that have built genuine emotional connection with their audience over time.

What would your customers do if your price went up? Would they stay or would they find a blue dot?

The Reels formats that worked two years ago are not the ones working now and if your content is not getting the reach it deserves, the format might be exactly why.

The 2026 algorithm rewards shares, watch time and authenticity over likes and production value. Some of the most popular Reels formats from 2023 and 2024 are now being actively deprioritised. And the formats that most people overlook are the ones generating real distribution right now.

Swipe through to see what works and what does not in 2026.

📩 Want a social media strategy built around how the algorithm actually works? Get in touch with the Ignite Search team.