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  "company": "Coke",
  "headline": "Expanded college tour to 74 stops pairing creator content with fantasy sports.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Event & Experiential}\n◆ PLATINUM · Campus experiential + creator seeding · Coke\n\nExpanded college tour to 74 stops pairing creator content with fantasy sports.\n\nThis is the move every CPG brand is chasing: turn an event into a content factory and a predictable feedback loop. Coke understood that 74 stops isn't scale—it's speed. They can hit a different campus every 3-4 days, test creator types and messaging, iterate in real time. The fantasy sports angle is smart because it gives students a reason to keep showing up after opening day. It's not a one-touch activation; it's a repeating reason to engage.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/coke-2026-08-27t00-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/coke-2026-08-27t00-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/coke-2026-08-27t00-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Event & Experiential}\n◆ PLATINUM · Campus experiential + creator seeding · Coke\n\nExpanded college tour to 74 stops pairing creator content with fantasy sports.\n\nThis is the move every CPG brand is chasing: turn an event into a content factory and a predictable feedback loop. Coke understood that 74 stops isn't scale—it's speed. They can hit a different campus every 3-4 days, test creator types and messaging, iterate in real time. The fantasy sports angle is smart because it gives students a reason to keep showing up after opening day. It's not a one-touch activation; it's a repeating reason to engage.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/coke-2026-08-27t00-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/coke-2026-08-27t00-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/coke-2026-08-27t00-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Event & Experiential}\n◆ PLATINUM · Campus experiential + creator seeding · Coke\n\nExpanded college tour to 74 stops pairing creator content with fantasy sports.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/coke-2026-08-27t00-2",
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      "title": "Expanded college tour to 74 stops pairing creator content with fantasy sports.",
      "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 👇\nCoke's 'Fan Work Is Thirsty Work' platform, which debuted in 2024, expanded its footprint to a 74-stop college campus tour in 2026, integrating creator content and fantasy sports engagement.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): the tour is a distribution channel for creator content, not a product demo. Each campus stop is a content production studio where student creators film content tied to that week's fantasy matchups. Coke doesn't sell Coke at the event; it sells the experience of having your creator moment tied to live sports. The fantasy tie-in means every creator who films there is incentivized to promote—because their picks and commentary are part of the broadcast. You're buying word-of-mouth with a sports hook and a creator incentive that costs nothing extra.\nWhat that means for you: This is the move every CPG brand is chasing: turn an event into a content factory and a predictable feedback loop. Coke understood that 74 stops isn't scale—it's speed. They can hit a different campus every 3-4 days, test creator types and messaging, iterate in real time. The fantasy sports angle is smart because it gives students a reason to keep showing up after opening day. It's not a one-touch activation; it's a repeating reason to engage.\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/coke-tackles-college-football-season-with-creator-content-fantasy-sports/828780/.)\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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