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  "headline": "Miffy, a 70-year-old cartoon bunny, is the licensed character brands are chasing for co-branded retail.",
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  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Brand-Story Play}\n◆ PAPER · Character licensing acceleration across CPG · Miffy\n\nMiffy, a 70-year-old cartoon bunny, is the licensed character brands are chasing for co-branded retail.\n\nCharacter licensing feels like a big-brand move. It's not. What makes Miffy work is that she's cheap to license, she has no association with kids-only or trend-only aesthetics, and she drives a straightforward purchase impulse: collectibility. You don't need to be Starbucks to run this play. You need a consumable that people buy multiple times, a shelf position where design matters, and the ability to run a 90-day test. The Miffy moment is now — there's licensing availability and retailer openness. In six months, it'll be crowded. If you can negotiate terms and get to market in the next 60 days, you own a 4–6 month window of attention.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/miffy-2026-08-30t21-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/miffy-2026-08-30t21-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/miffy-2026-08-30t21-7",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Brand-Story Play}\n◆ PAPER · Character licensing acceleration across CPG · Miffy\n\nMiffy, a 70-year-old cartoon bunny, is the licensed character brands are chasing for co-branded retail.\n\nCharacter licensing feels like a big-brand move. It's not. What makes Miffy work is that she's cheap to license, she has no association with kids-only or trend-only aesthetics, and she drives a straightforward purchase impulse: collectibility. You don't need to be Starbucks to run this play. You need a consumable that people buy multiple times, a shelf position where design matters, and the ability to run a 90-day test. The Miffy moment is now — there's licensing availability and retailer openness. In six months, it'll be crowded. If you can negotiate terms and get to market in the next 60 days, you own a 4–6 month window of attention.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/miffy-2026-08-30t21-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/miffy-2026-08-30t21-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/miffy-2026-08-30t21-7",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Brand-Story Play}\n◆ PAPER · Character licensing acceleration across CPG · Miffy\n\nMiffy, a 70-year-old cartoon bunny, is the licensed character brands are chasing for co-branded retail.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/miffy-2026-08-30t21-7",
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      "title": "Miffy, a 70-year-old cartoon bunny, is the licensed character brands are chasing for co-branded retail.",
      "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 👇\nRetail's 'it' character is Miffy, a 70-year-old Dutch cartoon bunny, with brands from Starbucks to Calpak lining up for licensed collaborations, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you own a CPG or consumable product, negotiate a limited-run co-branded SKU with a character that has cross-generational, nostalgia-free cultural presence (not a trending TikTok character). Miffy works because she's 70 and has no baggage. Design a Miffy variant of your core product — packaging resin, color palette, maybe a small printed character detail on the label — and launch it as a limited run (8–12 weeks). Price it $1–2 above baseline. Test in 3–5 key retail chains. Measure sell-through against baseline SKU. If it outperforms by >15%, expand the run and negotiate a second character or a permanent Miffy line. Character licensing typically costs $50–150k for limited run rights; it's worth it if the SKU uplift covers the cost in the first 8 weeks.\nWhat that means for you: Character licensing feels like a big-brand move. It's not. What makes Miffy work is that she's cheap to license, she has no association with kids-only or trend-only aesthetics, and she drives a straightforward purchase impulse: collectibility. You don't need to be Starbucks to run this play. You need a consumable that people buy multiple times, a shelf position where design matters, and the ability to run a 90-day test. The Miffy moment is now — there's licensing availability and retailer openness. In six months, it'll be crowded. If you can negotiate terms and get to market in the next 60 days, you own a 4–6 month window of attention.\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 — Modern Retail: https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/miffy-madness-a-70-year-old-bunny-is-the-it-character-for-brands/?utm_campaign=modernretaildis&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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