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  "company": "Zevia",
  "headline": "Zevia taps Cardi B for biggest campaign, shifts from product-first to personality-first selling.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}",
  "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 — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ DIAMOND · Celebrity partnership campaign · Zevia\n\nZevia taps Cardi B for biggest campaign, shifts from product-first to personality-first selling.\n\nThis is the move a lot of smaller brands miss: they think celebrity means a one-off ad spot. Zevia is using Cardi B as a culture anchor — the product hangs on her credibility, not the other way around. The play scales because Cardi B's followers are already primed to trust her taste. You don't need a mega-celebrity; a micro-celebrity with 10k–100k aligned followers does the same job at 1/20th the cost. Pick someone your customer already follows, seed them the product, and let them talk about it in their own voice.\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-2026-07-22t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/zevia-2026-07-22t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/zevia-2026-07-22t03-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ DIAMOND · Celebrity partnership campaign · Zevia\n\nZevia taps Cardi B for biggest campaign, shifts from product-first to personality-first selling.\n\nThis is the move a lot of smaller brands miss: they think celebrity means a one-off ad spot. Zevia is using Cardi B as a culture anchor — the product hangs on her credibility, not the other way around. The play scales because Cardi B's followers are already primed to trust her taste. You don't need a mega-celebrity; a micro-celebrity with 10k–100k aligned followers does the same job at 1/20th the cost. Pick someone your customer already follows, seed them the product, and let them talk about it in their own voice.\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-2026-07-22t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/zevia-2026-07-22t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/zevia-2026-07-22t03-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ DIAMOND · Celebrity partnership campaign · Zevia\n\nZevia taps Cardi B for biggest campaign, shifts from product-first to personality-first selling.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/zevia-2026-07-22t03-1",
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      "title": "Zevia taps Cardi B for biggest campaign, shifts from product-first to personality-first selling.",
      "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 launched its largest campaign to date by partnering with Cardi B, per Marketing Dive, moving the brand from product messaging into culture-driven storytelling.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): a physical-product brand that partners with a major celebrity does not lead with product specs or health claims — it leads with the person. Cardi B becomes the guarantee. Run a short-form series where Cardi B uses the product in her actual world (not a studio), tag the real retail links, and let her audience convert without friction. The celebrity buys permission to be in their feed; you fill the link.\nWhat that means for you: This is the move a lot of smaller brands miss: they think celebrity means a one-off ad spot. Zevia is using Cardi B as a culture anchor — the product hangs on her credibility, not the other way around. The play scales because Cardi B's followers are already primed to trust her taste. You don't need a mega-celebrity; a micro-celebrity with 10k–100k aligned followers does the same job at 1/20th the cost. Pick someone your customer already follows, seed them the product, and let them talk about it in their own voice.\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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