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  "headline": "Influencer marketing budgets up 171% as 500+ brands convene on strategy.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Budget reallocation pattern · Influencer Marketing (Creator Economy cohort)\n\nInfluencer marketing budgets up 171% as 500+ brands convene on strategy.\n\nWhen 500 brands simultaneously cut paid-ad budgets to fund creators, the media landscape just shifted. Paid ads are now the fallback; creators are the first move. If you're still spending 60% of media budget on ads, you're competing against brands that already moved.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/influencer-marketing-creator-economy-cohort-2026-08-05t15-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/influencer-marketing-creator-economy-cohort-2026-08-05t15-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/influencer-marketing-creator-economy-cohort-2026-08-05t15-6",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Budget reallocation pattern · Influencer Marketing (Creator Economy cohort)\n\nInfluencer marketing budgets up 171% as 500+ brands convene on strategy.\n\nWhen 500 brands simultaneously cut paid-ad budgets to fund creators, the media landscape just shifted. Paid ads are now the fallback; creators are the first move. If you're still spending 60% of media budget on ads, you're competing against brands that already moved.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/influencer-marketing-creator-economy-cohort-2026-08-05t15-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/influencer-marketing-creator-economy-cohort-2026-08-05t15-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/influencer-marketing-creator-economy-cohort-2026-08-05t15-6",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Budget reallocation pattern · Influencer Marketing (Creator Economy cohort)\n\nInfluencer marketing budgets up 171% as…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/influencer-marketing-creator-economy-cohort-2026-08-05t15-6",
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      "title": "Influencer marketing budgets up 171% as 500+ brands convene on strategy.",
      "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 Tech Times, influencer marketing budgets increased 171% as 500+ brands attended Creator Economy Live East, signaling wholesale reallocation from paid ads to creator partnerships.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): the shift is not that influencer marketing is growing in absolute terms — it's that brands are cutting paid-media budgets to fund influencer programs. For a brand: (1) creator budgets now outrank paid search and display in many categories, (2) this means you can't compete on reach with paid ads anymore — you compete on creator relationships, (3) the best creators are no longer available for low deals — you need margin and creative freedom. The play: audit your paid-media spend. Take 30% of it (the lowest-performing 30% by ROAS) and reallocate to 5-10 creators at $2-5k per month each. Let them run autonomous campaigns — they pick the product, the angle, the cadence. Measure incrementality: what sales lift happens during their campaign window that doesn't happen in control weeks. Scale what lifts.\nWhat that means for you: When 500 brands simultaneously cut paid-ad budgets to fund creators, the media landscape just shifted. Paid ads are now the fallback; creators are the first move. If you're still spending 60% of media budget on ads, you're competing against brands that already moved.\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 — Tech Times: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMizAFBVV95cUxPMXZlUnFLVDg2N3BDMDVBT1l4NmVod2Y2Y1l0aWZscGo0UW9FWTU5YmV0UnVVajN0c19QZ3VWbUk1R2pOb1pEWjFuTFo0bmxES1JBSFpGUUUtOERvdUsyNHhWcno3MC1QMS1Xb1JtS3ltM25YNFlmanZwMTlsaG82UVlvcVZocWlTQnZDTlotZjUyNXBlOTlnUXlXMlJWYnRBY0pjRUJsVFlZandVZzU2RGw0UlVEdi1rV05rcjRkOE5sLWhHUi1FRFBQSU4?oc=5.)\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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