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  "company": "Dove Men+Care",
  "headline": "Reformulation campaign leveraged Strava fitness community for audience targeting and messaging.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ STEEL · Community platform activation for product messaging · Dove Men+Care\n\nReformulation campaign leveraged Strava fitness community for audience targeting and messaging.\n\nMost brands announce product news on their own channels and hope someone cares. Dove went into a place where people are already thinking about their bodies, their performance, their skin in relation to their goals. That's a smarter match than age or zip code. The move is not complicated — it requires knowing your audience well enough to find the platform where they are motivated.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/dove-mencare-2026-07-03t03-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/dove-mencare-2026-07-03t03-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/dove-mencare-2026-07-03t03-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ STEEL · Community platform activation for product messaging · Dove Men+Care\n\nReformulation campaign leveraged Strava fitness community for audience targeting and messaging.\n\nMost brands announce product news on their own channels and hope someone cares. Dove went into a place where people are already thinking about their bodies, their performance, their skin in relation to their goals. That's a smarter match than age or zip code. The move is not complicated — it requires knowing your audience well enough to find the platform where they are motivated.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/dove-mencare-2026-07-03t03-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/dove-mencare-2026-07-03t03-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/dove-mencare-2026-07-03t03-5",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ STEEL · Community platform activation for product messaging · Dove Men+Care\n\nReformulation campaign leveraged Strava fitness community for audience targeting and…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/dove-mencare-2026-07-03t03-5",
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      "title": "Reformulation campaign leveraged Strava fitness community for audience targeting and messaging.",
      "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 👇\nDove Men+Care promoted its reformulation by activating on Strava, a fitness-tracking social platform where customers already engage with wellness and performance content, per Marketing Dive.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): when you reformulate or launch a new version, don't announce it on your house channels first. Find the one community platform where your best customer is already hanging out and already engaged in something related to why they'd want this product. Strava for a performance-focused grooming brand. A music platform for an audio product. A gaming Discord for a hydration drink. Sponsor one community conversation or create one native piece of content inside that platform before you pay for broad reach. The cost is lower, the relevance is higher, and the audience feels like you came to them, not the other way around.\nWhat that means for you: Most brands announce product news on their own channels and hope someone cares. Dove went into a place where people are already thinking about their bodies, their performance, their skin in relation to their goals. That's a smarter match than age or zip code. The move is not complicated — it requires knowing your audience well enough to find the platform where they are motivated.\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/dove-mencare-takes-to-strava-and-social-media-to-promote-reformulation/824351/.)\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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