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  "company": "Miffy (character licensing pattern)",
  "headline": "70-year-old cartoon bunny Miffy displaced Hello Kitty as retail's 'it' character.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}",
  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
  "source_url": "https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/miffy-madness-a-70-year-old-bunny-is-the-it-character-for-brands/",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PAPER · Character licensing trend · Miffy (character licensing pattern)\n\n70-year-old cartoon bunny Miffy displaced Hello Kitty as retail's 'it' character.\n\ncharacter licensing works when the character has multi-generational appeal but hasn't been oversaturated in your category. Miffy just reached escape velocity; the licensing deals follow. The mechanism: a beloved character on your product becomes an instant reason to try it (Starbucks cup with Miffy = gift-worthy). Run this week: audit your product category for a character trending in licensing deals but *not yet* in your shelf. Reach out to the licensing agent — first-mover advantage in a category beats late-mover saturation. Negotiate a limited exclusive window (6–12 months). Launch with one seasonal SKU, measure attach-rate. If it works, expand.\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-character-licensing-pattern-2026-08-31t09-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/miffy-character-licensing-pattern-2026-08-31t09-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/miffy-character-licensing-pattern-2026-08-31t09-7",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PAPER · Character licensing trend · Miffy (character licensing pattern)\n\n70-year-old cartoon bunny Miffy displaced Hello Kitty as retail's 'it' character.\n\ncharacter licensing works when the character has multi-generational appeal but hasn't been oversaturated in your category. Miffy just reached escape velocity; the licensing deals follow. The mechanism: a beloved character on your product becomes an instant reason to try it (Starbucks cup with Miffy = gift-worthy). Run this week: audit your product category for a character trending in licensing deals but *not yet* in your shelf. Reach out to the licensing agent — first-mover advantage in a category beats late-mover saturation. Negotiate a limited exclusive window (6–12 months). Launch with one seasonal SKU, measure attach-rate. If it works, expand.\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-character-licensing-pattern-2026-08-31t09-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/miffy-character-licensing-pattern-2026-08-31t09-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/miffy-character-licensing-pattern-2026-08-31t09-7",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PAPER · Character licensing trend · Miffy (character licensing pattern)\n\n70-year-old cartoon bunny Miffy displaced Hello Kitty as retail's 'it'…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/miffy-character-licensing-pattern-2026-08-31t09-7",
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      "title": "70-year-old cartoon bunny Miffy displaced Hello Kitty as retail's 'it' character.",
      "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 👇\nMiffy, a 70-year-old cartoon bunny character, has become the 'it' character for brand licensing, displacing Hello Kitty, with partnerships from Starbucks to Calpak, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): character licensing works when the character has multi-generational appeal but hasn't been oversaturated in your category. Miffy just reached escape velocity; the licensing deals follow. The mechanism: a beloved character on your product becomes an instant reason to try it (Starbucks cup with Miffy = gift-worthy). Run this week: audit your product category for a character trending in licensing deals but *not yet* in your shelf. Reach out to the licensing agent — first-mover advantage in a category beats late-mover saturation. Negotiate a limited exclusive window (6–12 months). Launch with one seasonal SKU, measure attach-rate. If it works, expand.\nWhat that means for you: character licensing works when the character has multi-generational appeal but hasn't been oversaturated in your category. Miffy just reached escape velocity; the licensing deals follow. The mechanism: a beloved character on your product becomes an instant reason to try it (Starbucks cup with Miffy = gift-worthy). Run this week: audit your product category for a character trending in licensing deals but *not yet* in your shelf. Reach out to the licensing agent — first-mover advantage in a category beats late-mover saturation. Negotiate a limited exclusive window (6–12 months). Launch with one seasonal SKU, measure attach-rate. If it works, expand.\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/.)\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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