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  "slug": "ruggable-2026-10-18t06-1",
  "company": "Ruggable",
  "headline": "Pulled ad spend from Meta, shifted budget to ShopMy creators ahead of IPO.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}",
  "source_name": "Digiday",
  "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◆ DIAMOND · Creator platform shift · Ruggable\n\nPulled ad spend from Meta, shifted budget to ShopMy creators ahead of IPO.\n\nstop buying placements from platforms and start funding creators who already have intent-driven audiences. Ruggable's move signals that direct-creator spend beats algorithmic ads at scale. Test this week: find 10 creators in your category with >50k followers who use shop-able links, send them product for 30 days, track order source code tied to their profiles only, and measure CAC against your Meta baseline. You'll likely see 40-60% lower acquisition cost and higher repeat rate because the creator's credibility fronts the trust work.\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-2026-10-18t06-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/ruggable-2026-10-18t06-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/ruggable-2026-10-18t06-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ DIAMOND · Creator platform shift · Ruggable\n\nPulled ad spend from Meta, shifted budget to ShopMy creators ahead of IPO.\n\nstop buying placements from platforms and start funding creators who already have intent-driven audiences. Ruggable's move signals that direct-creator spend beats algorithmic ads at scale. Test this week: find 10 creators in your category with >50k followers who use shop-able links, send them product for 30 days, track order source code tied to their profiles only, and measure CAC against your Meta baseline. You'll likely see 40-60% lower acquisition cost and higher repeat rate because the creator's credibility fronts the trust work.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/ruggable-2026-10-18t06-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/ruggable-2026-10-18t06-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/ruggable-2026-10-18t06-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ DIAMOND · Creator platform shift · Ruggable\n\nPulled ad spend from Meta, shifted budget to ShopMy creators ahead of IPO.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/ruggable-2026-10-18t06-1",
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      "label": "Substack · Fending",
      "title": "Pulled ad spend from Meta, shifted budget to 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 is reallocating marketing dollars away from Meta and toward ShopMy creators, a move tied to preparation for a potential IPO, per Digiday.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): stop buying placements from platforms and start funding creators who already have intent-driven audiences. Ruggable's move signals that direct-creator spend beats algorithmic ads at scale. Test this week: find 10 creators in your category with >50k followers who use shop-able links, send them product for 30 days, track order source code tied to their profiles only, and measure CAC against your Meta baseline. You'll likely see 40-60% lower acquisition cost and higher repeat rate because the creator's credibility fronts the trust work.\nWhat that means for you: stop buying placements from platforms and start funding creators who already have intent-driven audiences. Ruggable's move signals that direct-creator spend beats algorithmic ads at scale. Test this week: find 10 creators in your category with >50k followers who use shop-able links, send them product for 30 days, track order source code tied to their profiles only, and measure CAC against your Meta baseline. You'll likely see 40-60% lower acquisition cost and higher repeat rate because the creator's credibility fronts the trust work.\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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