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Katherine Durham

Senior Creative Director at Cubic Promote

MKatherine Durham is Senior Creative Director at Cubic Promote, with three years of experience in branded merchandise and a broader 15-year background across sales and entertainment.

She has been with Cubic Promote since 2024, working closely with Australian organisations on promotional merchandise, event products and corporate gifts. Her role combines client communication, product selection and creative problem-solving, helping businesses choose merchandise that suits their audience, campaign, and budget.

Professional Experience

Katherine brings around 15 years of broader sales and entertainment experience to her work, including experience understanding audiences, events, and customer engagement.

At Cubic Promote, Katherine progressed through client-facing account management responsibilities and is currently Senior Creative Director. Her work includes:

  • Understanding a client's campaign, audience and intended use for the merchandise
  • Recommending products suited to the client's budget and objectives
  • Coordinating promotional merchandise and corporate gift orders
  • Managing communication throughout the order process
  • Helping clients make practical decisions around product, branding and presentation

Her work regularly involves organisations ordering merchandise for corporate campaigns, events, education, community programs, and client gifting.

Areas of Expertise

Five areas Katherine works in day to day. Open any one to read the detail.

Event Giveaways and Merchandise

Katherine works directly with clients from initial product discussions through to the practical details that affect how merchandise is produced and delivered.

Her documented experience includes:

  • Managing merchandise requirements for corporate organisations and larger clients
  • Advising clients on corporate gifts, including notebooks, drinkware and gift packaging
  • Planning bulk packaging and kitting requirements before production begins
  • Reviewing branded products as part of Cubic Promote's quality-control process
  • Helping organisations match promotional products to different audiences and campaign objectives
Product and Campaign Planning

Katherine's advice is to start with who will receive the merchandise and what you want them to do with it, rather than choosing a product first.

The same giveaway will not work equally well for a corporate client, university event or community campaign, so she recommends getting the audience and purpose clear before deciding where to spend the budget.

Audience Engagement

Katherine has worked with organisations looking for merchandise that can be ordered in useful quantities without stretching their budgets. Sticky notes are one product she has seen performing particularly well with schools, universities and not-for-profits because they are practical, easy to distribute and suitable for high-volume branding.

Packaging and Kitting
  • Bulk-order planning
  • Corporate gifts
  • Branding and product presentation

Planning bulk packaging and kitting requirements before production begins is a core part of Katherine's client work.

Client Communication and Account Management

Katherine's relevant publicly documented industry involvement includes:

  • Around three years of experience in branded merchandise
  • More than 15 years of broader sales and entertainment experience
  • Hands-on involvement in client merchandise, product selection and account management
  • Contribution to Cubic Promote's product and marketing articles through first-hand account-management insights

Selected Projects and Client Experience

Merchandise for Schools, Universities and Not-for-Profits

Katherine has worked with organisations looking for merchandise that can be ordered in useful quantities without stretching their budgets. Sticky notes are one product she has seen performing particularly well with schools, universities and not-for-profits because they are practical, easy to distribute and suitable for high-volume branding.

Schools Universities Not-for-Profits

What Katherine Writes About

Katherine writes about:

  • Promotional product selection
  • Ethical product sourcing
  • Event and campaign merchandise
  • Audience engagement
  • Corporate gifts
  • Branding and product presentation
  • Bulk-order planning
  • Customer experience

Her articles and contributions draw on practical experience working directly with organisations, understanding what their merchandise needs to achieve, and helping them turn those requirements into workable product choices.

Katherine's Advice on Merchandise Order

Katherine's advice is to start with who will receive the merchandise and what you want them to do with it, rather than choosing a product first.

The same giveaway will not work equally well for a corporate client, university event or community campaign, so she recommends getting the audience and purpose clear before deciding where to spend the budget.

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