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Brand Strategy

Inside the marketing powering Whoop’s ‘pivotal’ next act

With a new slate of executives at the helm, the wearables company is focused on making deeper inroads in sports sponsorships as it looks to win over women consumers, CMO DJ van Hameren said.


a close-up of actor Nicholas Braun in a red sweater appears in an ad for Shinola
Brand Strategy

Inside the marketing strategy powering Shinola’s ‘new era’

A campaign with Nicholas Braun released last month is just the start of more brand-forward marketing from the American-made timepiece brand.


Photo collage showing puppets from three different marketing campaigns: On the left, a cabbage puppet from Pinterest; in the middle, a Franken Berry puppet from General Mills, which looks roughly like a pink Frankenstein's monster; on the right, Liberty Biberty from Liberty Mutual, a fuzzy yellow sphere with big blue eyes and a human mouth wearing a Statue of Liberty crown.
Brand Strategy

Trying to personify your brand? Consider a puppet

As AI ads become increasingly commonplace across platforms, “nothing is more analog” than a handmade figurine, one executive told us.


a Polaroid billboard on Coney Island Beach reading "go jump into some water before the data centers drink it all up."
Brand Strategy

Inside Polaroid’s provocative, pro-analog marketing strategy

“We’re tapped into something that is rather culturally relevant now,” Patricia Varella, creative director at Polaroid, told us—which is why the brand brought the message back for a second year.


Black and white headshot of Kasia Leyden, a light-skinned woman with wavy dark hair parted in the middle, leaning her face on her hand and smiling warmly at the camera.
Brand Strategy

Why this fintech marketer is betting on trust over attention

Kasia Leyden, CMO of Acorns, shared her thoughts on why she stopped optimizing for urgency and started focusing on optimism instead.


Photo collage combining a still from the Gist's ad campaign, showing a dark skinned woman wearing an academic school uniform removing an acceptance letter from an envelope. Next to it on the right is a neon green hoodie that reads "Leveling the playing field" in black, and on the left a black tote bag that reads in white "Sports are for the girls, the gays, and the theys"
Brand Strategy

Behind the scenes of The Gist’s first brand campaign

The sports media company is capitalizing on mass interest in the World Cup with a spot called “Fandom Belongs to Everyone.”


Two women look on at the Statue of Liberty. One of them holds a Coca-Cola.
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.

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