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Actor Jude Law in a campaign for legal AI startup Legora
Brand Strategy

Inside legal AI startup Legora’s celebrity and sports partnerships playbook

The company has partnered with Jude Law and Aaron Judge and is focusing its marketing in law industry hubs like New York and London to help it stand apart.


Photo collage showing John Cena biting into a Met-Rx bar on a pixellated video game-style desert background, and the Skittles gaming flute.
Brand Strategy

Why brands are turning to video games for creative inspiration

As gaming grows in popularity, brands are going beyond the look itself, tapping into the interactivity and metaphors the medium offers.


Ben Stiller and Benson Boone in character as an '80s Europop duo.
Brand Strategy

Behind Instacart’s ‘bananas’ Super Bowl ad

With Spike Jonze behind the camera and Benson Boone and Ben Stiller in front of it, the brand built out a universe for a faux-’80s Europop duo.


Screenshots of Maybelline's microdrama ad, showing Lacey Chabert applying concealer, speaking with Dustin Milligan, and holding the concealer between their hands.
Brand Strategy

‘Something super bingeable’: why Maybelline released a holiday microdrama

The ultra short content format isn’t yet popular among advertisers, but the surge in interest in microdrama apps is one reason Maybelline is leaning in, an exec told us.


A doodle come to life tries to brush its non-existent teeth.
Brand Strategy

Disney’s holiday short is a story of friendship and imagination

Consumer products are scattered through the spot, but the goal is that viewers “don’t feel it like product placement,” an agency exec said.


A still from the Gushers Fruitheads ad from the 1990s, showing a child whose head has transformed into a blueberry, next to a still from Gushers' 2025 short horror film FruitHead, featuring a man whose head is transformed into a strawberry
Brand Strategy

‘A safe bet’: Brands are digging into their ad archives for creative inspiration

Gushers, Pringles, and Acuvue are betting that blasts from the past will resonate with consumers.


Coworking with Lisa Hurst
Brand Strategy

Coworking with Lisa Hurst

She’s chief client officer, Amp.

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