The foundation for Nike’s “Energy Marketing” through ‘The Business of Hype’: Drieke Leenknegt
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The foundation for Nike’s “Energy Marketing” through ‘The Business of Hype’: Drieke Leenknegt
As tech and culture further co-mingle, we should expect more startups to follow MSCHF’s lead, using drops to win attention. In the process, programmatic methods may rise to contrive scarcity reliably, at scale, online.
Mario Gabriele • Scarcity as an API
Hype became a dirty word, and longevity increasingly feels like a myth.
Virality got conflated with relevance, while relevance comes with the curse of becoming imminently passé. Whist new gen brands like Corteiz are propped up by persistent presence, institutions such as Apple resist exploring their own hype, choosing omnipresence instead.
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One of the benefits of producing consistent creative work is that it comes with a narrative network effect: The more people who know and love the story of an object, the stronger the tie to that object becomes. For a brand like MSCHF, success might not always come from money—sometimes, it comes from products that reinforce how they want to articula... See more