Brands in the News
- Kylie Jenner has sold 51% of her Kylie Cosmetics brand to Coty for a cool $600 million. Which is more than that guy on “Shark Tank” got for his home-baked doggie treat company. (via CNBC)
- This new Twinkies Cereal will look great on your shelf, right next to the Honey Bun and Hostess Donettes cereals. Erp. (via Adweek)
- Rabble-rousing T-Mobile CEO John Legere will step down in April and the world of promoted tweets will never be the same. (via CNN)
- I’m 53 and tired as hell. But Hilton is 100 and feeling fresh. Damn you, Hilton. (via Adweek)
- But where will we go for our instant gratification? Instagram has begun hiding likes. (via The Guardian)
- Attention adorable high school volleyball players: TikTok may be getting into music streaming. (via CNN)
- The board at HP unanimously rejected a takeover bid from Xerox. (via CNN)
- GET ANGRY (for a good cause)! Rovio–the makers of Angry Birds–is letting us unleash as much mock anger as we can to benefit UNICEF. (via Mashable)
- Cannabis marketing is going through growing pains. Before we quip immaturely about how to ease those pains, go read this interview with the CMO of Old Pal Cannabis. (via Forbes)
- Those now-famous Popeyes chicken sandwiches are back and a Michigan medical marijuana dispensary is giving them away for free. Promise that’s our last weed-related blurb for the week. (via Detroit Free Press)
- Pretty sure this is what they call 1st-world problems: with Hollister and other brands, it’s hard these days to tell the models from the influencers. (via The Drum)
- Vrbo underwent a rebranding earlier this year. So how’s it going? The company’s VP for Global Brand Marketing dishes. (via PhocusWire)
The Craft of Marketing
- How can your brand break through all that holiday noise? Some ideas here. (via Forbes)
- Do brands that do participation marketing get a trophy at the end of the season, uh, campaign? (via Adweek)
- Not every marketing campaign hits the mark: here are five misfires, according to Marketing Dive. #TheirWordsNotOurs (via Marketing Dive)
- Bold prediction in this article saying authenticity will rule fast food marketing in 2020. Bold prediction from us: overuse of the word “authenticity” will also continue to rule. (via QSR Web)
That’s it for this week–our best to you.
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