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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.


the YouTube logo on a screen with a woman's head blocking some of it
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.


Close up photo of a woman drinking from a bottle of cherry Hint water, with fancy cursive text overlaid that says "Mmmmm Water"
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.


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.


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.

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