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  "company": "Unilever",
  "headline": "Brand deployed 300,000 creator partnerships, not all tactical the same way.",
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  "source_name": "Digiday",
  "source_url": "https://digiday.com/marketing/inside-unilevers-300000-creator-network-the-logistics-behind-the-headline-number/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ STEEL · Creator network tiering · Unilever\n\nBrand deployed 300,000 creator partnerships, not all tactical the same way.\n\ndo not count creators, count creator tiers. A micro-creator seeding a product to 5,000 highly engaged followers costs $200-500 and drives 15-25 trial units. A mid-tier creator at 100,000 followers costs $3,000-8,000 and drives 100-200 units. A mega-creator at 1M+ costs $15,000-50,000 and drives awareness and social proof. Build a creator tier playbook: for launch, seed 50 micro-creators, rotate 5-10 mid-tier in weeks 2-4, deploy 2-3 mega-creators at peak. Measure not reach, but trial conversion and repeat rate by tier. Track the cost-per-acquisition by tier and scale the tier with the best ROI.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/unilever-2026-07-30t18-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/unilever-2026-07-30t18-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/unilever-2026-07-30t18-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ STEEL · Creator network tiering · Unilever\n\nBrand deployed 300,000 creator partnerships, not all tactical the same way.\n\ndo not count creators, count creator tiers. A micro-creator seeding a product to 5,000 highly engaged followers costs $200-500 and drives 15-25 trial units. A mid-tier creator at 100,000 followers costs $3,000-8,000 and drives 100-200 units. A mega-creator at 1M+ costs $15,000-50,000 and drives awareness and social proof. Build a creator tier playbook: for launch, seed 50 micro-creators, rotate 5-10 mid-tier in weeks 2-4, deploy 2-3 mega-creators at peak. Measure not reach, but trial conversion and repeat rate by tier. Track the cost-per-acquisition by tier and scale the tier with the best ROI.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/unilever-2026-07-30t18-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/unilever-2026-07-30t18-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/unilever-2026-07-30t18-5",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ STEEL · Creator network tiering · Unilever\n\nBrand deployed 300,000 creator partnerships, not all tactical the same way.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/unilever-2026-07-30t18-5",
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      "label": "Substack · Fending",
      "title": "Brand deployed 300,000 creator partnerships, not all tactical the same way.",
      "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 👇\nUnilever says it works with 300,000 creators, but not all play the same role — a distinction that agency executives note is critical to understanding the actual economics of the creator spend, per Digiday.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): do not count creators, count creator tiers. A micro-creator seeding a product to 5,000 highly engaged followers costs $200-500 and drives 15-25 trial units. A mid-tier creator at 100,000 followers costs $3,000-8,000 and drives 100-200 units. A mega-creator at 1M+ costs $15,000-50,000 and drives awareness and social proof. Build a creator tier playbook: for launch, seed 50 micro-creators, rotate 5-10 mid-tier in weeks 2-4, deploy 2-3 mega-creators at peak. Measure not reach, but trial conversion and repeat rate by tier. Track the cost-per-acquisition by tier and scale the tier with the best ROI.\nWhat that means for you: do not count creators, count creator tiers. A micro-creator seeding a product to 5,000 highly engaged followers costs $200-500 and drives 15-25 trial units. A mid-tier creator at 100,000 followers costs $3,000-8,000 and drives 100-200 units. A mega-creator at 1M+ costs $15,000-50,000 and drives awareness and social proof. Build a creator tier playbook: for launch, seed 50 micro-creators, rotate 5-10 mid-tier in weeks 2-4, deploy 2-3 mega-creators at peak. Measure not reach, but trial conversion and repeat rate by tier. Track the cost-per-acquisition by tier and scale the tier with the best ROI.\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/inside-unilevers-300000-creator-network-the-logistics-behind-the-headline-number/?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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