Agency Comparison · F&B Paid Media

Schaefer vs Good Giant: five industries, or one.

Good Giant is a full agency — strategy, brand and creative, web and digital, media planning and buying, and public relations — serving casinos and gaming, travel and hospitality, sports and entertainment, food and beverage, and lifestyle and retail. Their partner wall runs from Jack Daniel's, Twix and Snickers to FanDuel, Caesars, Hilton and Wind Creek Hospitality. We work one category and offer four services.

Written by us, so weigh it accordingly. Rather than claim their other four industries are dead weight, the section below works through what genuinely transfers from each of them, because some of it does.

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Last verified 1 September 2026 · Good Giant facts sourced from goodgiant.com

The short answer

Breadth is a real asset. It is just not the same asset.

Choose Good Giant if

Your problem is a campaign, a brand or a reputation

  • You need brand campaigns, identity or content production — a genuine strength of theirs and not something we offer
  • You need public relations, media relations or crisis communications, none of which we do
  • You have a loyalty or reactivation problem, where their casino and hospitality experience is directly relevant
  • You want one agency across a business that spans hospitality, retail and food rather than sitting inside one aisle
Choose Schaefer if

You are fighting for a decision made at a shelf

  • Your buyer chooses between packs in a store or a marketplace, which is a different problem from choosing a casino or a hotel
  • Retail media and shopper activation are part of the plan — neither is named on their site
  • You want survey work at category scale fielded before the media runs rather than a campaign brief
  • You want a written guarantee: metric agreed upfront, 100% of fees back if it has not moved in three months
The landscape

Two axes decide who you should be talking to.

How narrow is the category focus, and how far does the work go past creative into running and measuring media. Everyone in the F&B agency conversation sits somewhere on this grid.

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Schaefer On this page Others in the set

Positions drawn from each agency's own published service list and stated industry focus, September 2026. Not a quality ranking.

Being fair about breadth

What their other four industries actually teach you.

The lazy version of this page would say a casino agency cannot do food. That is not true, and it is not what we think. Marketing skill does transfer between categories — just not evenly. Here is our honest read on each of their four other verticals: what carries into food and beverage, and where it stops.

Casinos & gaming
Transfers wellLoyalty, reactivation and lifetime value. Casino marketing is built on getting known customers to come back more often, measured obsessively. That is exactly the discipline a subscription or repeat-purchase food brand needs, and most F&B agencies are weaker at it than they are.
Stops atAcquiring someone who has never heard of you, in an aisle with eleven alternatives at eye level.
Travel & hospitality
Transfers wellSeasonality, booking windows and demand shaping. Knowing how to push spend at the moment intent spikes is a real skill and it maps cleanly onto holiday, grilling season and back-to-school.
Stops atA $4 impulse decision. Travel buyers research for weeks; nobody comparison-shops a yoghurt.
Sports & entertainment
Transfers wellOccasion and event-driven demand. Building a campaign around a fixed moment is close cousin to occasion marketing, which is where a lot of F&B growth actually comes from.
Stops atSustaining demand with no event to hang it on, which is most weeks of the year for a grocery brand.
Lifestyle & retail
Transfers wellMerchandising instinct and an understanding of how physical distribution and marketing interact. Closer to F&B than the other three.
Stops atThe retail media networks themselves. Running a store is not the same as buying Instacart, Kroger or Walmart Connect inventory.
The one thing that does not transfer

Each F&B category persuades on its own axis, and the axes are not similar to each other, let alone to a casino. In our vault, pizza advertising runs 65.2% promotional while dessert runs 82.6% emotional and supplements run 60.0% growth. That is not knowledge you carry in from another industry, or even from another aisle. It is the thing you have to have already done. The full argument, with the data →

Vertical list taken from goodgiant.com, 2 September 2026. Category figures from the Schaefer AdVault, queried the same day. This section is our own judgement about transferability, not a claim Good Giant makes or disputes.

Side by side

What each of us actually does.

CapabilitySchaeferGood Giant
Media planning and buying
Paid social — Meta, TikTok, Pinterest
Food & beverage exclusively
Buyer research fielded before media runs
Retail media — Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, Target, Kroger
Shopper activation — Fetch, Social Nature, Aisle
Ad corpus public and free to search
Published category research
Written performance guarantee
Pricing range published
Brand campaigns and identity
Public relations and crisis communications
Website design and development
Casino, travel and sports category experience

Teal dashes are work Schaefer does not do. Grey dashes mean the capability is not published on their site, not that it is absent. The last row is theirs and it is a real asset — the section above works through which parts of it carry into food and beverage.

What we actually do

Four services. They only work in that order.

Research is not a report we hand over and leave. It is the input to the creative, which is the input to the media, which is measured back against it. Pull any one of them out and the other three get worse.

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Still deciding

Three questions that settle it.

If the honest answer sends you elsewhere, we would rather you found that out here than four months into a retainer.

Question 01

Do you need PR or a brand campaign?

Media relations, community engagement and crisis communications are on their list and not on ours. If that is the brief, we are the wrong call.

Yes → Good Giant
Question 02

Is your problem retention or acquisition?

If it is getting known customers to buy more often, their casino and hospitality background is genuinely relevant. If it is winning a first purchase at a shelf, that is our side.

Acquisition → Schaefer
Question 03

Does the shelf decide your business?

Retail media and shopper activation are where grocery and marketplace brands now win, and neither appears on their site. Ask them before assuming.

Yes → Schaefer

Every answer here is one we would give on a call. Publishing them just means fewer wasted calls.

Our side of it

What the specialist bet has produced.

Three results from food and beverage brands. Every one started with research into why the category buys, not with a media plan.

MeatWorks · DTC subscription
Revenue growth in 12 months

Research replaced a 30–45 year-old grill dad with a retiree over 65. Conversion rates doubled. Not one additional dollar of media spend.

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Straus Family Creamery · Organic dairy
+118%
Monthly conversions, first six months

We rebuilt the best-customer cohort, re-pointed the budget behind it, and fed the platforms a volume of creative the brand had not run before.

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Stampede · New product development
$8M
EBITDA within 9 months

A competitive landscape study surfaced an entire product line inside existing capability — and an $80M category opportunity.

See the work →

We work food and beverage brands spending $5,000–$500,000 a month across paid social and retail media, and every engagement starts with buyer research.

The guarantee

Performance lift in three months. Or 100% of fees back.

Most agencies do not offer one because they do not want the pressure. Ours is the reason we turn work down — it only holds up if we are honest at intake about whether we can move your number.

01

The metric is agreed in writing

ROAS, CPA, conversion rate, revenue growth or foot traffic — named before anything launches, so there is nothing to argue about afterwards.

02

The clock starts at ad launch

Not at contract signing. Research runs first, two to three weeks, and the three months begin when the ads do.

03

Miss it and you get all of it back

100% of our agency fees for the period. No negotiation, no process to go through, no exceptions.

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F&B Brands Only

If your product is food or drink, we should talk.

And if it isn't, we'll say so on the first call rather than the fourth month.

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