About Us

Backbone Studios is the marketing backbone for tourism and events. We exist for the brands that sell places and moments: experiences nobody can feel until they arrive. Our job is to make them impossible to ignore, and to put them in front of exactly the right people.

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We saw what was happening long before most brands reacted:

  • Video became non-negotiable.
  • The traditional user journey collapsed.
  • CPCs hit record highs.
  • Organic search volumes dropped.
  • And brands started drowning in an endless stream of content with zero meaning.

 

So we built something different: one team where narrative, distribution and intelligence work as a single system. Film that shows the experience. Media that reaches the exact buyer. AI-search optimisation so you are the answer when they ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google. One strategy. One story. One growth system.

We work with tourism and events brands: congresses, destinations, lodges, festivals. Your buyer commits before they ever walk in, so everything rides on how vividly you show the experience beforehand, and how precisely you put it in front of the right people.

Years on both sides of the industry
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Mission

One team for the brands that sell places and moments. Film, distribution and AI-search united into a single growth system, so your story reaches the right audience and fills the room.

Vision

Strategy → Narrative → Distribution → Intelligence. One team carrying it end to end, so creative and media never drift apart.

Travel, tourism and events businesses served
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Led by operators, not account managers.

Backbone is built on more than fifteen years inside the industries we serve: as COO of a multi-brand travel group, leading strategy inside agencies and safari brands, and building marketing systems for hundreds of travel, tourism and events businesses. We have sat in your chair. We budget like owners, because we have been owners.

Both sides of the exhibition floor.

We do not only market events for organisers. Through our own commerce brands we are the exhibitor too: choosing which shows are worth the money, building the stand, working the floor, and measuring what comes back against what it cost. When we market a congress, we know exactly what the people buying floor space need to see. We have been them.

Built for Impact.

Meet Our Team

Barend Potgieter

Barend Potgieter

FOUNDER · CLIENT STRATEGY

Danielle McDonald

Danielle McDonald

PRODUCER

konrad Raubenheimer

Konrad Raubenheimer

CREATIVE DIRECTOR