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Ningning gives Bvlgari another route into K-pop luxury culture
K-pop luxury partnerships work because fans notice the details long before a brand needs to explain the strategy, and Bvlgari is entering that space with aespa’s Ningning. A new ambassador means a new styling language, new campaign images to decode, and a fresh way to connect an artist’s identity with a house’s visual codes. The…
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Tim Hortons turns the ‘Tims run’ into an adidas loyalty drop
A coffee run is usually too ordinary to look like campaign intellectual property. Tim Hortons is betting that its own version is familiar enough to become something people will wear. For National Coffee Day, Tim Hortons and adidas are bringing back Tims Run Club as a nine-piece footwear, apparel and accessories collection. The range uses…
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Subway revives ‘Feed Your SUBconscious’ with Will Arnett
Subway is calling Feed Your SUBconscious a new brand platform, but the phrase itself has history. Back in 2018, the sandwich chain used “Feed your subconscious” after a three-day burst of short, surreal ads built around subliminal-style cues. Eight years later, Subway is bringing the idea back with a much clearer character system: Will Arnett…
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Qantas turns Robert Irwin into a one-man tourism cast
Qantas’s latest tourism campaign does something unusually literal with its celebrity partner: it fills an aircraft cabin with Robert Irwins. The visual gag is funny because Irwin is not being used as a generic famous face. Qantas is treating him as a compact symbol of the Australia it wants international travelers to imagine: wildlife, local…
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Google’s Shopify AI checkout forces a new measurement trade-off
Google‘s expansion of native checkout for Shopify merchants turns agentic commerce into a practical ecommerce decision: whether to let the transaction finish inside an AI surface or keep checkout, measurement, and merchandising on the merchant’s own site. Search Engine Land reported on September 22 that eligible U.S. Shopify merchants can be automatically enrolled in checkout…
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Discord makes age estimation part of the everyday platform experience
Discord is turning age assurance from an occasional compliance check into part of the product itself. Starting this week, the platform is automatically placing users into adult, teen, or unconfirmed age groups based on account signals. Discord says more than 90% of users will not need to confirm their age manually, while teen accounts receive…
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Duolingo and Brawl Stars turn mascot rivalry into a 20v1 crossover
For weeks, two green characters have been acting like they are competing for the same scarce resource: your attention. Duolingo’s Duo wants people back in their lessons. Brawl Stars’ Spike wants them back in Starr Park. Their online rivalry already makes sense as a joke because both characters are tied to habits people repeat every…
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Claude Opus 5.5 makes safety and cost part of the same product decision
Anthropic‘s Claude Opus 5.5 arrives with two claims that enterprise marketing teams usually evaluate separately: lower operating cost and stronger safety controls. The model, released September 22, is priced at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. Anthropic says it costs about 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical…
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Automotive influencer marketing: how brands turn creator trust into test drives
Automotive influencer marketing has a different credibility problem from most consumer categories. A creator is not recommending a low-cost item that can be tested in minutes. They are helping an audience evaluate a high-consideration purchase with tradeoffs around price, safety, technology, running costs, charging, comfort, ownership, and service. That changes what good creator work looks…
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna cut the cost of scaling AI marketing workflows
OpenAI‘s new GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models make one question harder for marketing teams to ignore: how much AI work is now cheap enough to move from experiments into routine operations? The models arrived on September 22 with much lower API prices than OpenAI’s previous promotional pricing. That matters less as a model-release headline…