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  "company": "Zevia",
  "headline": "Cardi B partnership marks brand's biggest campaign to date",
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  "source_name": "Marketing Dive",
  "source_url": "https://www.marketingdive.com/news/zevia-taps-cardi-b-to-serve-up-real-talk-in-biggest-campaign-to-date/825763/",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Brand-Story Play}\n◆ GOLD · Celebrity spokesperson integration · Zevia\n\nCardi B partnership marks brand's biggest campaign to date.\n\nZevia could have thrown money at TikTok creators and influencers. Instead they went bigger and narrower—a celebrity with cultural weight and her own audience. That's not a bigger budget; it's a smarter allocation. The campaign talks about Zevia, but it's really about Cardi B's audience finding Zevia worth talking about.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/zevia-2026-07-21t21-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/zevia-2026-07-21t21-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/zevia-2026-07-21t21-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Brand-Story Play}\n◆ GOLD · Celebrity spokesperson integration · Zevia\n\nCardi B partnership marks brand's biggest campaign to date.\n\nZevia could have thrown money at TikTok creators and influencers. Instead they went bigger and narrower—a celebrity with cultural weight and her own audience. That's not a bigger budget; it's a smarter allocation. The campaign talks about Zevia, but it's really about Cardi B's audience finding Zevia worth talking about.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/zevia-2026-07-21t21-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/zevia-2026-07-21t21-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/zevia-2026-07-21t21-3",
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      "title": "Cardi B partnership marks brand's biggest campaign to date",
      "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 👇\nZevia tapped Cardi B for its largest campaign, positioning the partnership as 'real talk'—moving beyond product features into cultural alignment and celebrity credibility.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): mid-size beverage brands typically lose to established players on paid reach. Zevia's move is to own one unambiguous cultural moment instead—the celebrity partnership IS the campaign, not one element of it. This compresses media spend and consolidates attention on a single narrative hook. The play: identify one influencer or personality whose audience overlaps 70%+ with your target demographic, negotiate exclusivity on product category for 90 days, build the entire campaign around that partnership instead of spreading budget across channels. One face, one story, one impression point.\nWhat that means for you: Zevia could have thrown money at TikTok creators and influencers. Instead they went bigger and narrower—a celebrity with cultural weight and her own audience. That's not a bigger budget; it's a smarter allocation. The campaign talks about Zevia, but it's really about Cardi B's audience finding Zevia worth talking about.\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/zevia-taps-cardi-b-to-serve-up-real-talk-in-biggest-campaign-to-date/825763/.)\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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