Transcreation Services
Creatively repackage your messaging and brand essence into culturally engaging masterpieces that inspire, connect, and transcend borders.
Are you ready to take your brand’s message to the world? Do you want to connect with customers in new markets on a deep, emotional level that motivates customers to take action? Our transcreation services might be just what you need.
Transcreation is the art of adapting your content and message to resonate with local cultures, while preserving the essence and impact of your original brand. And we’re true artists.
Art meets language
Transcreation is a translation technique – applied to content designed for marketing and sales purposes – that creatively reworks content to reach for resonance rather than equivalence.
In other words, the focus isn’t so much on the meaning of the source text as on its intended impact in the target audience.
Transcreation goes beyond mere translation by capturing the nuances, idioms, and cultural references that make your content truly relatable to your target audience.
At Crisol Translation Services, we understand the transformative power of transcreation. We are true artists, wielding language and culture to create masterpieces that inspire, connect, and transcend borders.
Who needs transcreation services?
Transcreation is about capturing the spirit behind your words and artfully recreating them to evoke the same emotional response across different languages and cultures.
Transcreation is a powerful tool that can elevate your brand’s messaging and help you connect with audiences on a deeper level.
Here are some common scenarios where transcreation services can make a significant impact:
• Advertising: Adapt posters, slogans, and brochures to resonate with local audiences.
• Branding: Create culturally appropriate taglines and brand names.
• Marketing campaigns: Customise campaigns for cultural relevance and engagement.
• Website content: Adapt creative website content for international users.
• Social media posts: Optimise posts, captions, and hashtags for local engagement.
• Product naming: Develop appealing and culturally appropriate names.
• Multimedia content: Adjust videos and presentations for cultural understanding.
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Price list (end clients)
Are you a marketing agency or LSP? You can request an agency discount (up to 20% off).
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Price per hour From £100
We need to know the specifics of your project before providing a more precise and tailored pricing proposal. The project's scope, complexity, turn-around time, and requirements are all factors that impact the final pricing.
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25-hour package 5% off
Buy 25 hours upfront to enjoy the benefits of our bundled package pricing. This package allows you to allocate the purchased hours flexibly based on your project's needs. All our packages let you use the hours within a 3-month period,
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50-hour package 7% off
Book our 50-hour package to benefit from an extended engagement with our team. All our packages let you use the hours within a 3-month period.
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75-hour package 10% off
Pay for 75 hours upfront to maximise your savings. All our packages let you use the hours within a 3-month period.
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100-hour package 13% off
Our 100-hour package is specifically designed for large-scale projects involving complex websites with multiple languages and numerous pages. All our packages let you use the hours within a 3-month period.
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Frequently asked questions
Transcreation is a subset of creative translation that concerns marketing texts. It’s the application of an extreme form of creative translation for marketing or advertising purposes that looks to emulate the tone, style, and intent of the original without necessarily transferring the same concepts or conveying the same message.
Transcreation differs from traditional translation by reaching for resonance rather than strict equivalence. The message might be sacrificed or changed altogether in an effort to licit a similar emotional impact in the target audience as the original text did with the original audience. Read more in this transcreation blog post.
The purpose of transcreation is to adapt content, typically for marketing and selling purposes, to evoke the same emotions in audiences around the world as the original source message did at home.
This objective is rooted in the understanding that emotions form the bedrock of conversions, and these emotions are profoundly influenced by cultural factors. Therefore, transcreation seeks to bridge cultural gaps and resonate on a deep, emotional level with diverse audiences, ultimately driving engagement and action.
Transcreation is particularly beneficial for scenarios such as advertising, branding, marketing campaigns, website content, social media posts, product naming, and multimedia content when you want to adapt your message for cultural relevance and engagement while preserving your brand’s essence.
Common examples of transcreation are taglines, puns, jokes, and word plays – linguistic gems that often seem impossible to replicate across languages due to language-specific intricacies and cultural contexts.
However, it’s important to recognise that not every translated pun automatically falls under the realm of transcreation. Here’s where the distinction between transcreation and creative translation comes into focus.
We share three examples in this transcreation blog post.
Successful transcreation requires:
• Cultural understanding
• Language proficiency
• Knowledge of marketing principles
• Knowledge of marketing psychology
• Creativity
• Copywriting skills
• Market-specific knowledge
• User experience understanding
Localisation has three meanings. It can refer to a marketing strategy, to an industry in itself, or to a linguistic procedure. Read all about it in this localisation blog post.
The confusion between transcreation and localisation normally arises from the notion of localisation as a linguistic procedure. This is the process whereby a translator adapts some elements of a text to better suit the target audience. This might involve:
• Making sure the text uses local colloquialisms, idioms, and slang
• Ensuring that it conforms to local regulations]
• Adapting date/time formats, measurements, currencies, and so on.
Transcreation is also a linguistic technique, but it’s closer to copywriting than it is to translation or localisation. Transcreation moves further from the source text and might even change the message completely and compromise meaning to preserve the text’s impact.
Normally, yes. Transcreation is usually charged by the hour rather than by the word, and it transcreation requires a significantly bigger budget than regular translation projects. A 5-word slogan could take 2 hours to transcreate.
However, the benefits of transcreation usually outweigh its hefty price tag – they can lead to fruitful payoffs for the client in terms of branding and positioning as well as a significant increase in sales.
Transcreation is a subset of creative translation. Unlike transcreation, which completely rewrites the original text, creative translation is quite faithful to the original while allowing for some creative leeway. Here’s a blog on creative translation that you can consult.
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