Vice on the trendy Stanley Tumblers

responsible for a $676 million increase in revenue, from 2019 to 2023, for the brand

dropping exclusives, like their Stanley X Starbucks collab, which led people to literally camp out outside stores.

Their most recent drop – a limited edition Valentine’s Day cup, in a fairly normal pink and a fairly normal red – has people performing citizen’s arrests in Target in an effort to cop.

A dash of (not untrue) snark:

following the rule-book of forced hyper-exclusivity typically only seen in hype bro fashion brands

The power of drops


From Exploding Topics:

Immersive dining is part of the Immersive Experiences meta trend.

Searches for “immersive experiences” have grown by 144% over the past 24 months.

Immersive experiences have become more accessible, thanks to technologies like AR, VR, and projection mapping.

Videos about immersive experiences have over 515 million views on TikTok.

The further we get from pandemic-era lockdowns, the more the consumer pendulum swings from goods to experiences.

a line graph showing the upward growth trend in search volume for Immersive Dining since 2019

When I started doing things just for growth’s sake and didn’t let the product simmer within the industry, I started making a lot of mistakes. With the products, with the customers, with the positioning.

Sleep, creep, leap


About that Google kicking cookies to the curb thing…

Google is phasing out third-party cookies this fall, but some sites will be able to temporarily re-enable them until the year end.

via MarTech

It’s GA4 all over again


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The day has come, with Google activating the first stage of its cookie-removal strategy today [January 4]

via SocialMediaToday