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  "headline": "Ruggable shifts ad spend from Meta into ShopMy creators ahead of IPO.",
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  "source_url": "https://digiday.com/marketing/ruggables-new-ad-spend-strategy-shifts-focus-to-shopmy-creators/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ GOLD · Reallocation from paid social to creator commerce · Ruggable\n\nRuggable shifts ad spend from Meta into ShopMy creators ahead of IPO.\n\nmost DTC brands ladder all influencer spend into paid partnerships — a creator posts sponsored content to their feed, you pay them, then you hope followers click through to your link. Ruggable went backward to a simpler model: find creators with 5,000-50,000 highly engaged followers in your niche, set them up as a verified seller on ShopMy (or your own platform), and send them a Ruggable product free. They sell it from their own storefront. Commission structure: 25-40% of order value goes to the creator, you keep the rest. The creator owns the relationship, owns the data, and earns every time they sell — no post cap, no campaign contract. You pay only on results. This works because the creator now has skin in the game: their income is directly tied to how well they sell your product, not how many likes they got on a photo. Ruggable proved this displaced Meta spend before going public because the unit economics — creator commission per sale vs. CPM on paid social — showed real bottom-line impact.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/ruggable-2026-10-18t03-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/ruggable-2026-10-18t03-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/ruggable-2026-10-18t03-3",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ GOLD · Reallocation from paid social to creator commerce · Ruggable\n\nRuggable shifts ad spend from Meta into ShopMy creators ahead of IPO.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/ruggable-2026-10-18t03-3",
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      "title": "Ruggable shifts ad spend from Meta into ShopMy creators ahead of IPO.",
      "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 👇\nRuggable pulled budget out of Meta and reallocated spend to ShopMy creators, a platform enabling direct creator-to-consumer commerce, per Digiday.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): most DTC brands ladder all influencer spend into paid partnerships — a creator posts sponsored content to their feed, you pay them, then you hope followers click through to your link. Ruggable went backward to a simpler model: find creators with 5,000-50,000 highly engaged followers in your niche, set them up as a verified seller on ShopMy (or your own platform), and send them a Ruggable product free. They sell it from their own storefront. Commission structure: 25-40% of order value goes to the creator, you keep the rest. The creator owns the relationship, owns the data, and earns every time they sell — no post cap, no campaign contract. You pay only on results. This works because the creator now has skin in the game: their income is directly tied to how well they sell your product, not how many likes they got on a photo. Ruggable proved this displaced Meta spend before going public because the unit economics — creator commission per sale vs. CPM on paid social — showed real bottom-line impact.\nWhat that means for you: most DTC brands ladder all influencer spend into paid partnerships — a creator posts sponsored content to their feed, you pay them, then you hope followers click through to your link. Ruggable went backward to a simpler model: find creators with 5,000-50,000 highly engaged followers in your niche, set them up as a verified seller on ShopMy (or your own platform), and send them a Ruggable product free. They sell it from their own storefront. Commission structure: 25-40% of order value goes to the creator, you keep the rest. The creator owns the relationship, owns the data, and earns every time they sell — no post cap, no campaign contract. You pay only on results. This works because the creator now has skin in the game: their income is directly tied to how well they sell your product, not how many likes they got on a photo. Ruggable proved this displaced Meta spend before going public because the unit economics — creator commission per sale vs. CPM on paid social — showed real bottom-line impact.\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/ruggables-new-ad-spend-strategy-shifts-focus-to-shopmy-creators/?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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