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Samsung New Zealand plays the “Tim Cook” joke to sell foldables
There is a specific kind of internet satisfaction in watching a brand land a joke that feels obvious in hindsight. “Tim Cook switched phones” is one of those ideas: instantly legible, inherently shareable, and built for the comment section. In New Zealand, Samsung turned that premise into a short-form social series by casting a real…
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Make Up For Ever taps NMixx to spotlight its ColorGlow lip balm push
There’s a specific kind of beauty moment that travels fast online: a new lip product, a clean shade range, and an idol group that makes the visuals feel instantly “collectible.” That mix is especially potent in K-pop fandom spaces, where styling is part of the story and makeup is treated like identity, not just a…
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How Samsung turned Apple launches into a 15-year content strategy
For four years, Samsung had a very simple joke waiting for Apple: “Let us know when it folds.” It was the kind of line that worked because everyone already understood the setup. Samsung had foldable phones. Apple did not. The joke barely needed a second sentence. Then Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable…
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Old Navy’s MrBeast campaign lifts kids traffic by 22%
Creator partnerships often get sold on audience size, but Old Navy now has a cleaner signal: people moved from watching to shopping. In the days after its 2026 back-to-school campaign with MrBeast launched, traffic to Old Navy’s online kids assortment rose more than 22%. Beyond the lift, the campaign shows a deeper change in how…
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Uber Eats makes 2013 feel exhausting to sell the relief of Phew
Uber Eats is asking Australians to remember a time when a missing dinner ingredient meant shoes on, keys in hand, and another trip to the shops. The joke only works because that kind of friction has become easy to forget. That is the setup behind Phew, the new brand platform Uber Eats detailed in its…
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Liverpool FC turns Champions League programmes into local art collectibles
A matchday programme can look like a small piece of paper until it becomes tied to a specific night, opponent and memory. For football supporters, that is where the collectible value starts. Liverpool FC is leaning into that ritual with its first Champions League matchday programme artist series, commissioning local artists to create covers for…
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Tinder turns Pitbull’s bald-cap fandom into a dating campaign
Tinder Canada is using one of Pitbull fandom’s most recognizable visual jokes to make a point about dating preferences: the person outside your usual “type” might be worth a second look. The dating app’s “Tinder Baldies” campaign, created with Toronto agency Academy, arrived around Pitbull’s September 5 Toronto show. Instead of putting the artist in…
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Burson innovation chief Chad Latz exits after 17 years
Burson is losing the executive who has led its global innovation agenda through the agency’s first two years under its current name. On September 11, global chief innovation officer Chad Latz said on LinkedIn that he is leaving after 17 years across WPP, Burson and its predecessor agencies. The move is notable because Latz’s remit…
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Dmitry Rudenko: 165 million views taught him to stop trusting his own taste
Dmitry Rudenko made an AI-generated Reel about a chef in Sicily. He thought it was charming. Almost nobody watched it. The day after, he made a Reel of a couple sitting on a couch, borrowed loosely from another creator’s idea. He didn’t think much of it going in. It became the video that changed how…
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Your content distribution strategy needs a dependency map, not a channel list
Most content distribution strategies are still organized as channel lists. Search. LinkedIn. Email. Paid social. Creator partners. Syndication. The list looks diversified because the logos are different. But the logos can hide the same underlying risk. A search program may depend on Google rankings, AI Overview citations, crawling rules, and paid-search economics at the same…