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Honey: How a Coupon Browser Extension Built a $4 Billion Social Media Empire
Honey, founded in 2012 by George Ruan and Ryan Hudson, sold to PayPal for $4 billion in 2020 — built on creator-led YouTube distribution, not paid social.
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What Ulta Beauty World 2026 Reveals About the Future of Beauty Brand Activations
Ulta Beauty World 2026 named the next phase of activations: experiential retail layered on brand clarity, founder-led storytelling, and human connection. The exhibitors who got it right — and who didn't.
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Marketing Through Photos: Why Images Now Speak Louder Than Strategy
Learn how photo-driven marketing now dominates over words in capturing attention and driving engagement across social platforms and digital campaigns.
Marketing
How Cannabis Built Power Without Ads
Cannabis marketing didn't fail because the industry was restricted. It evolved because restriction forced it to. While most consumer categories grow by buying attention, cannabis brands were locked out of the playbook — and what emerged was rarer: brands that built power without megaphones. Kiva on predictability, Cookies on culture-as-infrastructure, Miss Grass on inclusion, Wyld on focus, Dialed In on event cadence, MedMen on the limits of narrative overreach.
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Betting on Success: How Gambling Marketing Agencies Drive Growth in the Industry
The verified marketing-company cohort serving gambling operators — public-company affiliate networks (Better Collective, Catena Media, Gambling.com Group, Raketech), sports data and advertising platforms (Genius Sports, Sportradar), and the agency holding companies (WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, IPG) running operator practices. Plus the AI Communications layer that operates above the legacy SEO and affiliate playbook.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
Why SaaS GEO Programs Fail — And How to Fix Them
SaaS marketing is the most mature digital discipline in B2B. SaaS GEO programs are mostly underperforming. Five failure modes — optimizing for branded search, product pages the engines can't resolve, review programs as reputation management, underfunded analyst relations, and thought leadership without methodology.
Marketing
The Worst Cybersecurity Campaigns Of 2026
Ineffective 2026 cybersecurity marketing is characterized by desperation — fear-based messaging, feature overload, AI buzzwords without substance. The brands that fell into the traps and why trust collapsed.
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TikTok Crisis PR: The 72-Hour Window
TikTok has recently soared in popularity, becoming a must-have social media platform.
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PR Fundamentals for Businesses
The foundational entry point for understanding public relations. What PR actually is, the six operational foundations of a working PR function, and how the discipline has evolved across the last decade.
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Personalization or Pseudoscience? The Diverging Paths of Modern Supplement Marketing
Learn how personalization in supplement marketing can be meaningful innovation or misleading pseudoscience through comparing Care/of and Balance of Nature strategies.
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