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Frequency Matters. More So With Creators.

6 min read

Frequency Matters. More So With Creators.

By Isla Novak, +1

Oct 20, 2026

A Creator Program Built Like a Sales Team

Plus: Shapermint's 5,000 affiliates, Chili's ditches TV cutdowns, and Alo bans its own fans.

Oct 13, 2026

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5 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
A Creator Program Built Like a Sales Team

Only 15% of Marketers Run Creator Programs Well

Plus: CreatorIQ's integration bottleneck, Meta's live creator ads, and L'Oréal's TikTok Shop debut.

Oct 6, 2026

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4 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
Only 15% of Marketers Run Creator Programs Well

7,000 Hotels. 21 Brands. 100 Creators.

Plus: TikTok takes the admin out of creator deals, and Best Buy and Sephora open TikTok shops.

Sep 29, 2026

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3 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
7,000 Hotels. 21 Brands. 100 Creators.

Hire Smart People. Trust Your Creators. Then Go.

Molson Coors and Chipotle show how. Plus: the industry's own measurement problem.

Sep 22, 2026

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3 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
Hire Smart People. Trust Your Creators. Then Go.

A YouTube View Isn't Worth What It Was

Plus: Meta's $17B settlement changes teen reach, and creator-founded CEOs keep exiting.

Sep 15, 2026

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4 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
A YouTube View Isn't Worth What It Was

Temu Spent $962 Million on Creators Who Don't Exist

Plus, affiliate platforms are fighting over commissions that aren't theirs, and creator pricing still has no floor.

Sep 8, 2026

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5 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
Temu Spent $962 Million on Creators Who Don't Exist

Callaway Couldn't Say No to Good Good

Plus: Meta's $18B settlement, a $58M Sony lawsuit against Kroger, and the platforms racing past both.

Sep 1, 2026

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5 min read

Isla Novak
Isla Novak
Callaway Couldn't Say No to Good Good

YouTube Is Paying Creators to Skip Netflix

Plus: institutional capital buying creator channels, Alex Cooper's exit from UTA, and Google's new access for mid-tier creators.

Aug 25, 2026

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5 min read

Isla Novak
Isla Novak
YouTube Is Paying Creators to Skip Netflix

The Scariest Thing in Creator Marketing Is Watching It Fail in Public

Plus: Twitch, Neutrogena, Phia, CreatorIQ, and Meta — every story is someone letting a default make a call that was theirs to make.

Aug 18, 2026

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4 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
The Scariest Thing in Creator Marketing Is Watching It Fail in Public

Disney Opened the Vault. Amazon Opened the Ad Budget.

Plus: Unilever's 300,000 creators get stress-tested, OpenAI's luxury trip backfires, and Australia's ban barely moves the needle.

Aug 11, 2026

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6 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
Disney Opened the Vault. Amazon Opened the Ad Budget.

Nobody Opts Out of the Attention Economy

Plus: LinkedIn's AI slop button, Reddit's shaky search traffic, and H1's best honesty campaigns.

Aug 4, 2026

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4 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
Nobody Opts Out of the Attention Economy

The World Cup's Biggest Winners Never Paid FIFA

Plus: Gymshark's disclosure lawsuit, Amazon's new AI ad controls, and AE's back-to-school bet.

Jul 28, 2026

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3 min read

Isla Novak
Isla Novak
The World Cup's Biggest Winners Never Paid FIFA

Unilever automates everything except the relationship.

Plus: TikTok Shop's AI-fakes problem, provenance goes mainstream, and the EU's next move.

Jul 21, 2026

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5 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
Unilever automates everything except the relationship.

Google Shows You How Search Finds Your Social Posts. At Last.

A free tool to check your Search and Discover visibility, and an EU ruling that could reshape who competes on AI search.

Jul 14, 2026

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4 min read

Isla Novak
Isla Novak
Google Shows You How Search Finds Your Social Posts. At Last.

TikTok Shop isn't a loyalty play.

It's built for something harder. Plus Unilever's creator math and Victoria's Secret's casting bet.

Jul 7, 2026

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6 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
TikTok Shop isn't a loyalty play.

The two Cannes campaigns worth your Tuesday.

Vaseline and Heineken split Cannes' top social & creator prize. Albertsons just commissioned a soap opera.

Jun 30, 2026

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6 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
The two Cannes campaigns worth your Tuesday.

Creator marketing is chaos. YouTube disagrees.

Inside: creator content remixed without consent, True Classic's AI bet, and what 16,000 creators told Adobe.

Jun 23, 2026

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5 min read

Isla Novak
Isla Novak
Creator marketing is chaos. YouTube disagrees.

Brands Need Creator Infrastructure

Not just the creator campaigns that go with it — and Nike just showed why that matters.

Jun 16, 2026

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6 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
Brands Need Creator Infrastructure

3 platforms just bet on the same format

TikTok went to Sundance. Meta built a series tab. Creator marketers are flocking to Cannes. And YouTube earned what TikTok hasn't.

Jun 9, 2026

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4 min read

Isla Novak
Isla Novak
3 platforms just bet on the same format

A creator film just beat Star Wars at the box office.

How did that happen?

Jun 2, 2026

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6 min read

Isla Novak
Jeremiah Rosen
Isla Novak, +1
A creator film just beat Star Wars at the box office.

Viewer asks. AI answers. You get skipped.

Plus a quick Google quiz, a $2.2B data deal, and Spotify's AI cloning crackdown.

May 26, 2026

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6 min read

Isla Novak
Isla Novak
Viewer asks. AI answers. You get skipped.

Your best marketing in 2026 won't be read by humans

And that changes everything about how to think about creator content.

May 19, 2026

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4 min read

Isla Novak
Isla Novak
Your best marketing in 2026 won't be read by humans

Authenticity Is Now the Algorithm

Original Wins. Finally.

May 12, 2026

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5 min read

Isla Novak
Isla Novak
Authenticity Is Now the Algorithm

Creator marketing won't grow up until it's bought like media

$40 billion and still a rounding error. Plus: Cannes builds a creator summit, Nestlé's AI workflow, and YouTube's deepfake shield.

May 5, 2026

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4 min read

Isla Novak
Isla Novak
Creator marketing won't grow up until it's bought like media

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