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Brand Strategy

How a road trip across the USA informed Coca-Cola’s America 250 campaign

“It was probably one of the best road trips I’ve ever had,” Joe Sciarrotta, deputy CCO at Ogilvy Worldwide, told us.


Screenshot of Discord Obsession Quest, which displays the broken One Wish WIllow stick on a desk with other movie objects and the phrase 'I wish Nikki Freeman loved me more than anyone in the entire world.'
Brand Strategy

How Focus Features is building deeper film engagement on gaming platforms

With recent and upcoming releases “Obsession” and “Pressure,” the studio is leaning into immersive games to drive engagement and connection, one exec told us.


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Brand Strategy

Coworking with Christy Roach

She’s CMO, AirOps.


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Brand Strategy

Why Coinbase is leaning on product-focused marketing for the first time

“We’re really focused on giving a voice to a utility that straddles” Big Tech and finance, CMO Catherine Ferdon told us.


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Brand Strategy

How do holding companies decide which agency brands to sunset?

“In theory, each brand in your portfolio should have a different positioning, a different benefit associated,” one exec told us.


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Brand Strategy

YouTube’s SVOD business is helping fuel the platform’s domination of TV, too

Subscription revenue makes up a third of the company’s total revenue, CEO Neal Mohan recently shared, and there are advertising opportunities stemming from that growth.


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Brand Strategy

Inside Hint’s satirical, sexed-up campaign to make consumers crave water

In addition to a campaign playing on sex-sells marketing tropes, the brand created an OnlyFans page.

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