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  "company": "Fanatics",
  "headline": "Fanatics shifted from audience targeting to LTV optimization, lifted 19%.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}",
  "source_name": "Digiday",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Outcome-based media buying · Fanatics\n\nFanatics shifted from audience targeting to LTV optimization, lifted 19%.\n\nThis is the inverse of every growth-at-all-costs playbook from 2019-2021. A physical-product brand loses money on the first order almost by design, then bleeds when that customer never comes back. Fanatics is saying: acquire fewer, keep more, measure media on what sticks. For a DTC brand running on thin margins, this is the only math that survives. The move is unglamorous—it's spreadsheet work, not creative. But 19% is not noise.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/fanatics-2026-06-19t18-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/fanatics-2026-06-19t18-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/fanatics-2026-06-19t18-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Outcome-based media buying · Fanatics\n\nFanatics shifted from audience targeting to LTV optimization, lifted 19%.\n\nThis is the inverse of every growth-at-all-costs playbook from 2019-2021. A physical-product brand loses money on the first order almost by design, then bleeds when that customer never comes back. Fanatics is saying: acquire fewer, keep more, measure media on what sticks. For a DTC brand running on thin margins, this is the only math that survives. The move is unglamorous—it's spreadsheet work, not creative. But 19% is not noise.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/fanatics-2026-06-19t18-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/fanatics-2026-06-19t18-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/fanatics-2026-06-19t18-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Outcome-based media buying · Fanatics\n\nFanatics shifted from audience targeting to LTV optimization, lifted 19%.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/fanatics-2026-06-19t18-1",
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      "title": "Fanatics shifted from audience targeting to LTV optimization, lifted 19%.",
      "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 👇\nPer Digiday, Fanatics moved its media buying strategy away from audience targeting toward optimizing campaigns for customer lifetime value, yielding a documented 19% LTV lift.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): stop measuring media on CAC alone. Run a parallel test where you deliberately overpay to acquire a customer cohort you know will repeat — track their LTV against the cheap-acquisition cohort. The 19% lift suggests the math favors quality-of-customer over speed-of-acquisition. Audit your last 90 days of media spend: what percentage went to retention signals versus new-only targeting. Move 20% of that new-customer budget to incentivizing second and third orders in the same customer.\nWhat that means for you: This is the inverse of every growth-at-all-costs playbook from 2019-2021. A physical-product brand loses money on the first order almost by design, then bleeds when that customer never comes back. Fanatics is saying: acquire fewer, keep more, measure media on what sticks. For a DTC brand running on thin margins, this is the only math that survives. The move is unglamorous—it's spreadsheet work, not creative. But 19% is not noise.\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 — Digiday: https://digiday.com/marketing/how-fanatics-moved-from-audience-targeting-to-optimizing-campaigns-for-customer-ltv/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss.)\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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