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  "company": "Mike's Hard & Genesis",
  "headline": "Brands shift to bespoke Netflix campaigns over standard ad buys — custom creative beats scale.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Event & Experiential}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Streaming platform custom partnerships · Mike's Hard & Genesis\n\nBrands shift to bespoke Netflix campaigns over standard ad buys — custom creative beats scale.\n\nstreaming platforms now prefer deep partnerships over high-volume ad buys. If you buy streaming ads, don't rent inventory — propose a custom integration tied to a specific show your audience actually watches. Offer creative collaboration, not just media spend. You'll pay more per impression but get production value, audience attention (because it fits the show), and earned media when Netflix promotes the partnership. This week: identify one Netflix show or film your customer actually watches, find the brand manager's contact, and pitch a co-created 30-second spot embedded into the premiere week, not a generic ad slot.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/mikes-hard-genesis-2026-07-11t12-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/mikes-hard-genesis-2026-07-11t12-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/mikes-hard-genesis-2026-07-11t12-6",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Event & Experiential}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Streaming platform custom partnerships · Mike's Hard & Genesis\n\nBrands shift to bespoke Netflix campaigns over standard ad buys — custom creative beats scale.\n\nstreaming platforms now prefer deep partnerships over high-volume ad buys. If you buy streaming ads, don't rent inventory — propose a custom integration tied to a specific show your audience actually watches. Offer creative collaboration, not just media spend. You'll pay more per impression but get production value, audience attention (because it fits the show), and earned media when Netflix promotes the partnership. This week: identify one Netflix show or film your customer actually watches, find the brand manager's contact, and pitch a co-created 30-second spot embedded into the premiere week, not a generic ad slot.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/mikes-hard-genesis-2026-07-11t12-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/mikes-hard-genesis-2026-07-11t12-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/mikes-hard-genesis-2026-07-11t12-6",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Event & Experiential}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Streaming platform custom partnerships · Mike's Hard & Genesis\n\nBrands shift to bespoke Netflix campaigns over standard ad buys — custom…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/mikes-hard-genesis-2026-07-11t12-6",
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      "title": "Brands shift to bespoke Netflix campaigns over standard ad buys — custom creative beats scale.",
      "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 👇\nMike's Hard and Genesis both partnered with Netflix on custom campaigns tied to specific content (Will Ferrell's 'The Hawk'), replacing standard ad placements with bespoke creative integrations, per Marketing Dive.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): streaming platforms now prefer deep partnerships over high-volume ad buys. If you buy streaming ads, don't rent inventory — propose a custom integration tied to a specific show your audience actually watches. Offer creative collaboration, not just media spend. You'll pay more per impression but get production value, audience attention (because it fits the show), and earned media when Netflix promotes the partnership. This week: identify one Netflix show or film your customer actually watches, find the brand manager's contact, and pitch a co-created 30-second spot embedded into the premiere week, not a generic ad slot.\nWhat that means for you: streaming platforms now prefer deep partnerships over high-volume ad buys. If you buy streaming ads, don't rent inventory — propose a custom integration tied to a specific show your audience actually watches. Offer creative collaboration, not just media spend. You'll pay more per impression but get production value, audience attention (because it fits the show), and earned media when Netflix promotes the partnership. This week: identify one Netflix show or film your customer actually watches, find the brand manager's contact, and pitch a co-created 30-second spot embedded into the premiere week, not a generic ad slot.\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 — Marketing Dive: https://www.marketingdive.com/news/mikes-hard-genesis-take-creative-swings-with-custom-netflix-campaigns/824804/.)\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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