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  "company": "Fanatics",
  "headline": "Shifted from audience targeting to LTV optimization, lifted customer value 19%, per Digiday.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Outcome-based media buying · Fanatics\n\nShifted from audience targeting to LTV optimization, lifted customer value 19%, per Digiday.\n\nThe reason this works is obvious once you say it out loud — you should buy media for customers who stick around. But most brands still measure success by the first sale or the first week. Fanatics didn't invent anything; they just looked at the customer ledger instead of the ad dashboard. A 19% lift is not incremental. That is reallocation. They have the data; most small brands will need to backfill it. Start with your repeat buyer segment. Who came back? What channel found them first? Buy more of that channel, for that type of person.\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-2026-06-21t18-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/fanatics-2026-06-21t18-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/fanatics-2026-06-21t18-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Outcome-based media buying · Fanatics\n\nShifted from audience targeting to LTV optimization, lifted customer value 19%, per Digiday.\n\nThe reason this works is obvious once you say it out loud — you should buy media for customers who stick around. But most brands still measure success by the first sale or the first week. Fanatics didn't invent anything; they just looked at the customer ledger instead of the ad dashboard. A 19% lift is not incremental. That is reallocation. They have the data; most small brands will need to backfill it. Start with your repeat buyer segment. Who came back? What channel found them first? Buy more of that channel, for that type of person.\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-2026-06-21t18-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/fanatics-2026-06-21t18-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/fanatics-2026-06-21t18-1",
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      "title": "Shifted from audience targeting to LTV optimization, lifted customer value 19%, per Digiday.",
      "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 👇\nFanatics moved its media buying framework away from traditional audience targeting toward optimizing every campaign for customer lifetime value, delivering a documented 19% lift in LTV, per Digiday.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): stop optimizing campaigns for engagement or conversion on day one. Optimize for who stays and spends six months later. Segment your audience by historical LTV, not by interest or demographic. Buy media specifically for the cohort with the highest predicted lifetime value. Track every channel against a twelve-month revenue tie, not a thirty-day ROAS. This shifts the whole media stack from attention-grab to retention-build.\nWhat that means for you: The reason this works is obvious once you say it out loud — you should buy media for customers who stick around. But most brands still measure success by the first sale or the first week. Fanatics didn't invent anything; they just looked at the customer ledger instead of the ad dashboard. A 19% lift is not incremental. That is reallocation. They have the data; most small brands will need to backfill it. Start with your repeat buyer segment. Who came back? What channel found them first? Buy more of that channel, for that type of person.\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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