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Collage of images from microdramas made by Starbucks, Crocs, and MCoBeauty.
Brand Strategy

The era of the microdrama is here

Six years after Quibi folded, short-form, serialized content is having a moment with creators and brands. Is it here to stay?


Photo collage combining an Archer billboard featuring the Mandalorian and Grogu, a still from an ad in which a yellow hand holding a Slim Jim is busting through a laptop screen, and a package of Jack Links Original flavor 3 Simple Ingredients beef jerky.
Brand Strategy

How meat-snack marketers are meeting the moment

The category is still “really under-penetrated,” one exec said. Partnerships, education, and community-building social strategies are aimed at changing that.


Actor Jude Law in a campaign for legal AI startup Legora
Brand Strategy

Inside legal AI startup Legora’s celebrity and sports partnerships playbook

The company has partnered with Jude Law and Aaron Judge and is focusing its marketing in law industry hubs like New York and London to help it stand apart.


Adobe tool showcasing data related to a night serum purchase
Brand Strategy

How Adobe is building AI and agentic tools for brands—while keeping an eye on actual adoption

Traffic to US retail websites stemming from AI increased 393% year over year in the first three months of 2026, according to the company.


Photo collage showing multiple brand partnerships with 'The Devil Wears Prada 2,' including a person wearing a Starbucks jacket that has pockets to hold multiple cups of coffee, actress Helen J. Shen taking a selfie with a S26 phone in front of a Samsung display on the red carpet, and a Diet Coke banner ad that reads "A diet Coke please. That's all." next to the movie's iconic visual of devil-pronged red high heels.
Brand Strategy

‘Everybody gets it’: Inside the brand partnerships powering ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’

The staying power and cultural relevance of the film meant marketers flocked to the sequel—and “it was extremely competitive for brands to get involved,” one exec said.


A still from Kotex's latest spot with many women in bathrooms.
Brand Strategy

Inside the Kotex brand overhaul

After a period in which the personal care brand was "losing relevance," it is retooling, soup to nuts.


Hudson Williams working out in Peloton ad.
Brand Strategy

Inside the making of Peloton’s viral Hudson Williams ad

“I knew it was going to connect,” Peloton CMO Megan Imbres said. “I did not think it was going to connect at the level that it has.”

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