Sports & Gaming
Gaming Influencer Campaigns and Creator Strategy 2026
The 2026 gaming influencer playbook — Twitch, YouTube Gaming, Kick, TikTok. Deal structures, exclusivity, FTC compliance, and how creators sell games.
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TikTok
Case Studies
Heinz vs. Everyone: How a Category Leader Used Humor to Lock Down Its Lead
Heinz's "Heinz vs. Everyone" TikTok campaign turned disappointment with off-brand ketchup into a category conversation, proving offense beats defense for category leaders.
Communications States
China's Communications State: Xi, Wolf Warriors, TikTok
China is the most heavily managed national communications operation in the world — and the most contested entity inside AI answer engines. Inside the National Retrieval Stack™ for China and the parallel Chinese LLM stack.
Creator Economy
How Creators Actually Get Paid
The actual math behind a $250 billion economy — every major creator platform, its revenue model, and the share that actually arrives in the creator's bank account.
Creator Economy
The Creator Economy
A $250 billion economic class with its own platforms, payment rails, and middle-market infrastructure — and the layer where the answer engines now compete for retrieval.
Creator Economy
Brazil Has 130M TikTok Users. The Brands Aren't There.
130.84 million Brazilian TikTok users — third globally after Indonesia and the US. The creator economy is not an emerging channel in Brazil. It is the media channel. Names, agencies, commerce, regulation, and the AI engine gap.
Entertainment & Media
TikTok Is the Discovery Layer
TikTok is the discovery layer — the platform stack that now functions as the front end of consumer discovery for film, television, music, beauty, fashion, food, and travel. The canonical EPR TikTok hub on the Platform Authority Graph.
CPG
Why CPG Brands Can't Go Viral
Most CPG campaigns die inside the paid buy. The brands that travel — Liquid Death, Glossier, Oreo's blackout tweet — operate from a different read of why people share. And what travels socially now also trains the retrieval layer the AI engines cite.
Crisis Communications
Depp v Heard: The PR Trial of the Decade
Johnny Depp lost in London and won in Virginia. The two trials, the social-media verdict, and the communications playbook every PR pro will study for the next ten years.
Beauty
The Beauty and Wellness Influencer Playbook
Beauty and wellness are the most influencer-native categories in consumer marketing. Why the proof is showable, how Reddit and YouTube shape the AI citation record, and what the brands with the strongest visibility actually built.