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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.


General Mills' corporate archivist Natasha Bruns pictured with Betty Crocker materials.
Brand Strategy

10,000 items, 5,000 square feet, 160 years of history: Inside General Mills’s brand archive

The company’s senior corporate archivist supports brand marketers’ various requests, dives deep into brand histories, and creates the archives of tomorrow.


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.”


A photo of a couple in bed underneath the sheets. Another photo of two martinis on a set of bedsheets.
Brand Strategy

‘Sex is back’: Why Brooklinen went from double entendre to ads that are ‘overt’

“We’re seeing now that people, culture, entertainment [are] a little less fearful of it,” Brooklinen’s CMO told us.


Dua Lipa and George Clooney posing together
Brand Strategy

Inside Nespresso’s dual-ambassador strategy

The brand is pairing singer Dua Lipa with its long-standing partner and actor George Clooney for multigenerational impact.


New Yorkers out to celebrate the NYC Pride wave flags along the street.
Brand Strategy

‘Funding joy’: How NYC Pride planned for another year of reduced corporate allyship

The nonprofit scaled back its budget for 2026, anticipating less funding from big brands once again.


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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