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  "company": "Zevia (Cardi B Campaign)",
  "headline": "Zevia taps Cardi B for biggest campaign to date — celebrity-backed narrative play.",
  "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◆ PAPER · Influencer-as-story anchor · Zevia (Cardi B Campaign)\n\nZevia taps Cardi B for biggest campaign to date — celebrity-backed narrative play.\n\nCardi B as the centerpiece of Zevia's biggest campaign signals two things: first, Zevia has capital to spend on celebrity partnerships; second, they believe celebrity endorsement still moves the needle in the beverage category. That's a bet. The smarter play — and what I'd watch — is whether the campaign drives actual retail velocity or just social impressions. The campaign is real; the impact is the question.\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-cardi-b-campaign-2026-07-22t12-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/zevia-cardi-b-campaign-2026-07-22t12-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/zevia-cardi-b-campaign-2026-07-22t12-7",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ PAPER · Influencer-as-story anchor · Zevia (Cardi B Campaign)\n\nZevia taps Cardi B for biggest campaign to date — celebrity-backed narrative play.\n\nCardi B as the centerpiece of Zevia's biggest campaign signals two things: first, Zevia has capital to spend on celebrity partnerships; second, they believe celebrity endorsement still moves the needle in the beverage category. That's a bet. The smarter play — and what I'd watch — is whether the campaign drives actual retail velocity or just social impressions. The campaign is real; the impact is the question.\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-cardi-b-campaign-2026-07-22t12-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/zevia-cardi-b-campaign-2026-07-22t12-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/zevia-cardi-b-campaign-2026-07-22t12-7",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ PAPER · Influencer-as-story anchor · Zevia (Cardi B Campaign)\n\nZevia taps Cardi B for biggest campaign to date — celebrity-backed narrative play.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/zevia-cardi-b-campaign-2026-07-22t12-7",
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      "title": "Zevia taps Cardi B for biggest campaign to date — celebrity-backed narrative play.",
      "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 with Cardi B, positioning the celebrity as a narrative anchor for brand conversation, per Marketing Dive.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): the mechanism is not the ad spend (Cardi's rate) — it's narrative alignment. When a celebrity's public persona matches your brand's positioning, the partnership feels inevitable rather than transactional. Cardi is known for being direct, unfiltered, and not corporate. Zevia positions itself the same way. The partnership works because the story is already true. For a smaller brand, this is the lesson: if you partner with anyone (a smaller creator, a micro-influencer, or a public figure), make sure the partnership is rooted in authentic alignment, not just reach. Run this: audit your three core brand positions. List five creators or personalities whose public persona shares at least two of those positions. Reach out with a story that explains why the alignment is obvious, not why the reach is big.\nWhat that means for you: Cardi B as the centerpiece of Zevia's biggest campaign signals two things: first, Zevia has capital to spend on celebrity partnerships; second, they believe celebrity endorsement still moves the needle in the beverage category. That's a bet. The smarter play — and what I'd watch — is whether the campaign drives actual retail velocity or just social impressions. The campaign is real; the impact is the question.\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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