We're a decentralized, remote-first network

Serving businesses across the world

We offer these services

Social Mobile Interface Design Content Analytics Growth

Social

Strategy

SOCIAL STRATEGY

Let us create or review your corporate/brand strategy approach to social media and engagement

Strategy

Costing structure: Per strategy deck

Service

SOCIAL MEDIA LISTENING

Put on a social ear over an entire industry, category, competitor or geography, and get insights served to your team

Service

Costing structure: Per time bracket

Service

COMMUNITY BUILDING

Allow us to select, create, manage and/or grow your all your company/brand online communities

Service

Costing structure: Per community + KPIs

Service

SOCIAL INNOVATION

Create an interactive infrastructure where prospects, consumers and employees can work together on innovation

Service

Costing structure: Per project

Mobile

Strategy

MOBILE USER EXPERIENCE

Let us combine know-how with your business challenge to draft the best mobile user story solution

Strategy

Costing structure: Per UX deck

Design

MOBILE INTERFACES

Have an idea? We can design all the screens you need, along with custom iconography and app store assets

Design

Costing structure: Per complete design

Production

iOS DEPLOYMENT

If you have a design, we can provide complete production, iTunes Store publishing and maintenance services

Production

Costing structure: Per app

Media

MOBILE ADVERTISING

Reach on-the-go prospects by deploying targeted mobile advertising across multiple platforms and geographies

Media

Costing structure: Per campaign

Interface Design

Design

RESPONSIVE DESIGN

Pixel-perfect, integrated interfaces that balance content and interaction across devices

Design

Costing structure: Per project/design

Design

SOCIAL INTERFACES

Whether on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest or tomorrow's new social place, we design the right assets for you

Design

Costing structure: Per community/design

Design

INSTALLATIONS

We can ideate, design and produce branded installations for your retail space, pop-up project or headquarters

Design

Costing structure: Per installation

Design

E-MAIL MARKETING DESIGN

A solid e-mail marketing setup is still one of the most effective ROIs in a company/brand's interactive toolkit

Design

Costing structure: Per deployment

Content

Production

FILM AND MOTION

Well scripted, engaging moving images for your social content strategy, advertising or internal needs

Production

Costing structure: Per deliverable

Production

AUDIO PRODUCTION

Sound logos, narration, track creation, or any other audio requirement you might need in your project

Production

Costing structure: Per deliverable

Production

PHOTOGRAPHY

Crafted, art directed imagery suited to your company or brand, sourced from photographers all over the world

Production

Costing structure: Per project

Production

COPYWRITING

From technical white papers to social media posts, and everything in between

Production

Costing structure: Per project

Analytics

Product

ANALYTICS SETUP

We have experience in using and installating a range of free and paid analytical tools

Product

Costing structure: Per deployment

Service

ANALYTICS REPORT

Let us look at your analytics data (either ad hoc or on ongoing basis) and report you on it

Service

Costing structure: Per project/report

Service

A/B TESTING

We help you set up, run and analyze the data on A/B tests for any kind of online asset

Service

Costing structure: Per experiment

Learning

ANALYTICS CERTIFICATION

Training your brand marketing staff in data and analytics is an investment we couldn't recommend more

Learning

Costing structure: Per session

Growth

Strategy

BUSINESS MODEL (RE)DESIGN

New target audience, market or value proposition are just some of the possibilities we can help you explore

Strategy

Costing structure: Per model/project

Service

VIRAL LOOP DESIGN

Either for campaigns, promotions or long-term, a well-designed viral loop is a great growth and exposure creator

Service

Costing structure: Per project

Strategy

PRODUCT/MARKET FIT

The quickest path to product/market fit is experimentation and feedback. Let us help you setup and run them

Strategy

Costing structure: Per MVP

Service

USER FUNNEL EXPERIMENTS

Now crucial beyond just e-commerce, we can help you test, enhance and redesign your current user funnel path

Service

Costing structure: Per time bracket/experiments

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WE SERVE BRANDS & agencies

Businesses and causes we've helped design experiences, products and services for

What OUR clients ARE saying

“It’s not everyday that you find a partner like Mecenato, one that not only helps you to crack innovative solutions but also integrates into your team so seamlessly”

— Guilherme Rangel, Founder, Portfy (São Paulo, Brazil)

“Look no further if you want vast imagination combined with a huge geeky technical curiosity. Having shared a few projects with Mecenato, I was blown away by their creativity and insane attention to detail”

— Tristan Fitzgerald, ECD, RAPP (NYC/Dubai, UAE)

“Even though thousands of kilometers away, they were able to understand and act upon all the communication needs I had for my restaurant brand”

— Bella Masano, Owner, Amadeus (São Paulo, Brazil)

about us

Mecenato Markets Services Clients Intellectual Property Operations Policies

Mecenato

What is Mecenato?

Mecenato is an international network of creatives and entrepreneurs. Marketers and ad agencies hire us in order to tap into the knowledge and capabilities of this network. Our mission is to facilitate innovation and networked collaboration, and we deliver on that by setting up an innovation space in the cloud, where talent, technologies and processes are grouped and work is commissioned, created, produced and delivered.

What does Mecenato mean?

Mecenato is a Brazilian Portuguese word that means "patronage", a system of economic production that was common in Rennaissance Italy. In this system, wealthy families and individuals commissioned artistic and scientific work directly from artisans and guilds. Much like what marketers and agencies can do through the web nowadays.

Where is your office located?

We currently don't have one, and there aren't plans at this point to have one. However, that might one day change. At this point, we're used to a disciplined mix of remote work, renting out office facilities for the duration of a project (we use Sharedesk), or working from the client's office.

How big is the network?

Around 1900+ nodes at this stage. Nodes include talents, institutions, digital marketplaces and creative service providers.

How many people work for Mecenato?

Three people run the operation at this stage. We expand and contract our staff dynamically, based on project scope, and we're constantly scouting and hiring on communities like oDesk, Elance, Dribbble, Behance, CollabFinder, ooomf, Audiodraft, and others.

Markets

What markets do you serve?

We are set to work globally using the cloud, but we're mostly seen in the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Ireland, Singapore, Germany, Italy, Brazil, and Argentina.

What languages do you speak?

We speak English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and we can also deliver work in Arabic through our network.

Services

What services do you offer?

A wide combination of marketing and innovation services in the areas of mobile, social media, content strategy, interface design, data analytics and growth hacking.

Why does Mecenato offer learning products?

We believe that in order to commission and work with innovation these days, everyone involved has to be fully informed of the ever-growing possibilities available. That's why we offer learning products that help members and clients learn about new technologies, processes and business models.

What services you don't offer?

Media buying on traditional media (TV, print, radio, etc). We don't offer traditional market research (we do offer user testing for sites and applications). We don't offer legal or intellectual property advisory. We also don't offer logistics services related to e-commerce sales of physical goods.

Do you have an in-house code development team?

No, we don't have any front-end or back-end developers full time in our staff at the moment. We do have many as part of our network.

Clients

I'm an ad agency, how can I become a Mecenato client?

Reach out using the Contact session or email hello@mecenato.co.

I'm a marketer, how can I become a Mecenato client?

Let's talk about your brand or company's business needs. Send us a note using the Contact section or email hello@mecenato.co.

Which brands are served by Mecenato?

We have no long-term retainers at this stage, but we have designed ideas, new business models and experiences for brands like CNN, Nokia, Nike, HSBC, Emirates Airline, dnata, Atlantis, Six Senses, and more.

Which agencies have Mecenato served?

We have worked with JWT in Dubai, Draftfcb offices in Munich and Prague, gyro in Dubai and Singapore, and many more.

Intellectual Property

Who owns the intellectual property of the work?

The intellectual property for work produced for agencies and marketers is 100% theirs, as stated in our IP Waiver contract. We do have specific clauses in the contract so we can retain the ability to enter the work into industry awards and to showcase the work online in our own website, blog and creative communities.

What's Mecenato's position on non-disclosure agreements?

We are able to sign NDAs previous to discussing or starting a project if we can retain the specific right to reach out for our trusted, global talent network to discuss the project scope in private.

How are files archived and transmitted?

We use Google Drive to storage and share large files for download. We also store a client backup for up to a year after the initial delivery of the files.

Is the Mecenato brand trademarked?

Yes, we are a globally registered trade mark.

Operations

How can I commission work from Mecenato?

Simple, just fill up the form in the Contact session.

What are your available payment options?

International bank transfer, credit card payment (Visa, Mastercard, American Express) using Stripe, PayPal transfer and Bitcoin.

Is your payment system secure?

Yes. We use Stripe, one of the best payment services on the Internet.

What are your payment terms?

By default, we go for thirty days (Net 30) after invoice is issued. We provide discounts for invoices that are paid in full at delivery day. We don't accept terms that involve more than 45 days for payment.

How can I view my current and past invoices?

You can access them from any Web Invoice link we have sent you in the past.

Policies

Do you have a Privacy Policy?

Yes, and you can read it in detail here. In case of any change, we will e-mail all current clients and members about the nature of these policy changes.

Does your website use cookies?

Yes. We use cookies for remarketing purposes.

How does Mecenato protect stored data?

We encrypt all data that currently sits in any of our company's hardware. All mobile devices are locked and remotely traceable in case of lost or theft. We also have an internal guideline for password creation (we use complex, computer-generated passwords). All hosted FTP files are protected by Mediatemple's safety policies. All work files in shared cloud services like Basecamp and Google Drive are subjected to these services' data protection policy.

What's your position on conflict of interest?

Mecenato doesn't accept project requests for the same company or brand but coming from different agencies. Mecenato doesn't take on direct work from a brand or company if we already work directly with another brand or company in a similar industry.

Does Mecenato participate in pitches?

No, we don't, and never will. However, we do provide consulting and work for agencies that do.

Your own digital innovation team in the cloud

Your own digital innovation team in the cloud

We're a decentralized, remote-first network

We're a decentralized, remote-first network

We offer these services

WE SERVE BRANDS & agencies

What OUR clients ARE saying

about us

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