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Poppi's Playbook: own mass-market wellness by committing category treason

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Aug 11, 2026

Poppi's Playbook: own mass-market wellness by committing category treason

How deleting the "Hippie Tax" and burning its own origin story made a fermented vinegar drink worth $1.95 billion to PepsiCo.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
How Christopher Nolan stayed the only voice in the room on The Odyssey

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Aug 5, 2026

How Christopher Nolan stayed the only voice in the room on The Odyssey

Every studio is racing to cut costs with AI. Nolan shot the whole thing on cameras nobody else had — and refused to shortcut a single frame.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
KURU footwear and their comfy zombie mayhem

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Aug 5, 2026

KURU footwear and their comfy zombie mayhem

A deadpan zombie apocalypse proves that when the world ends, comfortable shoes still matter.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
What your company does when nobody's watching is the brand now

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Jul 30, 2026

What your company does when nobody's watching is the brand now

A fired NICU mom, a fake mascara review, and the year audiences stopped reading what companies say and started reading what they do.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Beefeater built the floor Jamiroquai couldn't afford in 1996

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Jul 28, 2026

Beefeater built the floor Jamiroquai couldn't afford in 1996

Nine sets by hand, a real moving floor, and Jay Kay dancing on the one thing CGI would have made easy. Sometimes the best way to move forward is to remake the impossible.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Gap's biggest denim launch of the year is a girl sitting on a bedroom floor

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Jul 22, 2026

Gap's biggest denim launch of the year is a girl sitting on a bedroom floor

After two years of viral dance ads, The Hailey Jean bets that Hailey Bieber doing nothing is worth more than eight dancers hitting a mark.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Inside the clipping economy: the industry turning 3 seconds into millions of views

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Jul 15, 2026

Inside the clipping economy: the industry turning 3 seconds into millions of views

The right fifteen seconds from a three-hour livestream beats anything a production budget could manufacture. That's the entire thesis of an industry most brands still don't know exists.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Must be the coffee. And guess what, it isn't.

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Jul 8, 2026

Must be the coffee. And guess what, it isn't.

When brands stop casting characters and start telling the stories of real communities, advertising becomes culture.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
What happens when you take the visionary out?

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Jun 24, 2026

What happens when you take the visionary out?

Everyone is replaceable" is what you tell yourself — until your best creative walks out the door. Jonathan Anderson's exit from Loewe is the rare case where the person who left had already made sure the work could stay.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Apple found a better way to talk about privacy

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Jun 17, 2026

Apple found a better way to talk about privacy

Apple’s Clingers turns an invisible privacy problem into something impossible to ignore, proving that people change behaviour when they feel discomfort, not when they're given information.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Nike tears up the football rulebook with Rip the Script

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Jun 11, 2026

Nike tears up the football rulebook with Rip the Script

The last time a football ad felt like this, Brazil were dancing samba in the changing room. That was 2006.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Every brand is racing to sound human. Etsy already is one.

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Jun 2, 2026

Every brand is racing to sound human. Etsy already is one.

When the anti-AI wave recedes and everyone who surfed it moves on to the next positioning, Etsy won't need a new campaign. The marketplace they've built is their entire argument.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Human taste will save your brand soul

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May 21, 2026

Human taste will save your brand soul

Why the brands that matter next will be the ones that couldn't have been prompted into existence.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
The $20 smoothie and the weaponization of wellness

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May 7, 2026

The $20 smoothie and the weaponization of wellness

A $6.8 trillion industry built on ancient practices, a growing class divide, and an empty space that neither side of the market has figured out yet.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Stop copying campaigns. Start stealing questions.

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Apr 21, 2026

Stop copying campaigns. Start stealing questions.

You know the meeting. Someone spent the weekend scrolling. By Monday morning they'd already decided what they wanted to look like.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
A$AP Rocky's rebellion as craft: Why saying no is worth $2M a campaign

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Mar 19, 2026

A$AP Rocky's rebellion as craft: Why saying no is worth $2M a campaign

How a kid from Harlem who studied Raf Simons on Tumblr ended up the only rapper Chanel wanted.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena

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