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The Fast-Foodification of Everything
The next wave of big consumer companies will be community-based products:
- Niche, not everything to everyone
- Unique aesthetic
- Built-in community
- More memorable than big platforms
- Rewarding loyalty
- Unbundling large platforms
- An experience not a transaction
- Fun
GREG ISENBERGtwitter.com- The long tail of the internet has provided a way for sovereign creators
and businesses to ‘
niche at scale
‘ in ways not possible at any other time in history, fostering unparalleled creativity and innovation; - The quality of an audience matters;
- Being tiny is mighty;
- Delighting the weird is a superpower;
- When you build a business, you’re building a new
Tiny Worlds: A Manifesto for Sovereign Creators—Attract, Build & Curate an Audience of True Fans
From Brand Strategy to Brand Anarchy
withinsight.substack.com
Second, I’m reflecting on a point former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale famously made in 1995: “There are only two ways to make money in business: bundling and unbundling.” I think we’re burnt out by the fragmentation that the D2C era brought to everything. After subscribing to tons of hyper-niche content over the years, the idea of a couple brands we ... See more
Michelle Rose Joseph • No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms
These are the run clubs and swim clubs with very robustly branded websites for some reason, websites that greet you with full-width videos of delighted people being very sweaty together. New ventures for “group conversation” or exclusive social spaces or curated clubs with sign-up flows and membership levels that evoke the rigor of a bank account r... See more