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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.


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Brand Strategy

How Tinder is getting people off the app and into the wild

The dating app is expanding Tinder Events globally, with plans to be live in 26 cities by the end of September.


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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.

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