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  "company": "Zevia",
  "headline": "Beverage brand taps Cardi B for biggest campaign, signals creator partnerships in soda category.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}",
  "source_name": "Marketing Dive",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ PAPER · Major celebrity endorsement campaign · Zevia\n\nBeverage brand taps Cardi B for biggest campaign, signals creator partnerships in soda category.\n\nMost brands wait until they are big enough to afford celebrity. Zevia decided to become big by spending on celebrity. That is a different strategy — you are borrowing the creator's audience to build your own. It works if the creator is credible to the product and the audience converts. The risk is: big moment, wrong creator, no repeat. The fact that Zevia called this their biggest campaign suggests they saw the data before they went public — trial velocity, social conversation, intent signals. They are betting the creator partnership pays back.\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-2026-07-23t03-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/zevia-2026-07-23t03-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/zevia-2026-07-23t03-7",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ PAPER · Major celebrity endorsement campaign · Zevia\n\nBeverage brand taps Cardi B for biggest campaign, signals creator partnerships in soda category.\n\nMost brands wait until they are big enough to afford celebrity. Zevia decided to become big by spending on celebrity. That is a different strategy — you are borrowing the creator's audience to build your own. It works if the creator is credible to the product and the audience converts. The risk is: big moment, wrong creator, no repeat. The fact that Zevia called this their biggest campaign suggests they saw the data before they went public — trial velocity, social conversation, intent signals. They are betting the creator partnership pays back.\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-2026-07-23t03-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/zevia-2026-07-23t03-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/zevia-2026-07-23t03-7",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ PAPER · Major celebrity endorsement campaign · Zevia\n\nBeverage brand taps Cardi B for biggest campaign, signals creator partnerships in soda category.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/zevia-2026-07-23t03-7",
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      "title": "Beverage brand taps Cardi B for biggest campaign, signals creator partnerships in soda category.",
      "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, a real-sugar soda brand, launched its biggest campaign to date featuring rapper and cultural figure Cardi B, marking a shift toward high-profile creator partnerships in the natural beverage space.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): when a smaller brand partners with a major creator, the creator's audience becomes your first audience. Cardi B brings awareness and credibility to Zevia in a way a $2M media buy cannot. The mechanism: her fans do not learn about Zevia first and then decide to trust Cardi — they trust Cardi, so they try the brand. The endorsement is the entire funnel. This play works if: the creator's audience overlaps with your target buyer, the creator is authentic to the product (Cardi B + bold, unapologetic brand is a fit; Cardi B + boring soda is not), and you have inventory to handle velocity spike. Zevia's biggest campaign suggests they are betting this partnership drives significant trial. Test this in smaller form first: micro-creator partnerships with audiences between 50k and 500k, measure trial and repeat rate, then scale to major partnerships.\nWhat that means for you: Most brands wait until they are big enough to afford celebrity. Zevia decided to become big by spending on celebrity. That is a different strategy — you are borrowing the creator's audience to build your own. It works if the creator is credible to the product and the audience converts. The risk is: big moment, wrong creator, no repeat. The fact that Zevia called this their biggest campaign suggests they saw the data before they went public — trial velocity, social conversation, intent signals. They are betting the creator partnership pays back.\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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