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  "company": "Brooklinen",
  "headline": "Brooklinen brought celebrity campaign in-house and removed agency layer entirely.",
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  "source_url": "https://www.marketingdive.com/news/campaign-trail-brooklinen-goes-in-house-for-first-celebrity-led-effort/830987/",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · In-house creative production · Brooklinen\n\nBrooklinen brought celebrity campaign in-house and removed agency layer entirely.\n\nThe agency model has a tax—markup, delay, dilution. Brooklinen noticed and built around it. For a direct-to-consumer brand with a point of view, the in-house move is now table stakes. You don't need a 20-person agency. You need one producer and clear creative rules. The result is faster and cheaper and sounds like you.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/brooklinen-2026-09-26t15-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/brooklinen-2026-09-26t15-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/brooklinen-2026-09-26t15-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · In-house creative production · Brooklinen\n\nBrooklinen brought celebrity campaign in-house and removed agency layer entirely.\n\nThe agency model has a tax—markup, delay, dilution. Brooklinen noticed and built around it. For a direct-to-consumer brand with a point of view, the in-house move is now table stakes. You don't need a 20-person agency. You need one producer and clear creative rules. The result is faster and cheaper and sounds like you.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/brooklinen-2026-09-26t15-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/brooklinen-2026-09-26t15-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/brooklinen-2026-09-26t15-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · In-house creative production · Brooklinen\n\nBrooklinen brought celebrity campaign in-house and removed agency layer entirely.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/brooklinen-2026-09-26t15-2",
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      "title": "Brooklinen brought celebrity campaign in-house and removed agency layer entirely.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nBrooklinen moved its first celebrity-led campaign entirely in-house, displacing agency work, per Marketing Dive.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): don't hire an agency to find a celebrity. Hire a single freelance creative director or producer and have them source a micro-influencer or B-list TV personality who already aligns with your audience (cheaper than A-list, higher engagement). Brief them directly, ship in 4 weeks instead of 12, and own the footage. Your cost drops 40-60% and your production quality stays clean because one person owns the vision.\nWhat that means for you: The agency model has a tax—markup, delay, dilution. Brooklinen noticed and built around it. For a direct-to-consumer brand with a point of view, the in-house move is now table stakes. You don't need a 20-person agency. You need one producer and clear creative rules. The result is faster and cheaper and sounds like you.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Marketing Dive: https://www.marketingdive.com/news/campaign-trail-brooklinen-goes-in-house-for-first-celebrity-led-effort/830987/.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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