I’ve been wrestling with this for a while now, and I think I’m finally starting to understand where we’ve been going wrong.
We had this amazing campaign with a beauty brand—huge success in Mexico, solid numbers, authentic creator partnerships, the whole thing. So we wrote it up as a case study and sent it to US prospects. And… crickets. The same story that felt urgent and relatable to Latin American partners just didn’t land with US teams.
At first, I thought it was a translation problem. But it wasn’t. It was that we were literally telling two different stories to two different audiences, using the same facts.
The Mexico version focused on community trust and long-term creator relationships. The US version emphasized ROI and predictability. Same campaign. Completely different narratives.
Here’s what I realized: when you’re building a success story for cross-market use, you can’t just translate the metrics and hope the message sticks. You need to actually understand what resonates as “proof” in each market. For LATAM audiences, it’s often about how authentic the partnership felt, how genuine the creator integration was. For US audiences, it tends to be about efficiency, scale, and measurable impact.
But here’s the tricky part—if you split them too far, you’re not really telling the same story anymore. You’re just lying differently to different people.
We’ve started experimenting with a different approach: documenting the campaign with this deeper layer of context. Not just what happened, but why it mattered to different stakeholders. Then when we adapt it for different markets, we’re highlighting different aspects of the same true story, not inventing new ones.
So my question is: when you’re publishing client success stories that need to work for both markets, how do you actually decide what stays as the core narrative and what gets adapted? Where’s your line between localization and just… changing the story?