Marketing around the cost-of-living crisis? Maybe think again
Kalshi and Polymarket recently offered people free groceries in NYC, but the optics weren’t necessarily in the brands’ favor, experts told us.
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Kalshi and Polymarket recently offered people free groceries in NYC, but the optics weren’t necessarily in the brands’ favor, experts told us.
Since January, many heritage months and days have disappeared from brands' marketing calendars, but some are continuing to be loud and proud.
Brands may be more hesitant to speak out on social and environmental causes during Trump’s second term, experts said, but others may stay the course.
“If [companies] don’t advocate for what’s right, for the freedoms we think democracy should espouse, then they become part of the problem,” Ron Hill, a professor at American University, told us.
While GSD&M and Bospar aren’t pushing clients to speak out on the potential fate of Roe, they’re making sure they’re part of the conversation.
Agencies like GSD&M and Bospar PR aren’t pushing clients to speak out on the potential fate of Roe, but they’re making sure they’re part of the conversation.
Until companies put the work in and hold themselves accountable to commitments, consumer skepticism “is what it is,” a retail and e-commerce analyst told us.
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