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Sara Wilson breaks down the community-powered™ strategies that transform Gen Z audiences into brand loyalists. Get up-to-the-minute case studies, immediately actionable insights, and profiles of the organic communities driving growth today.
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How Claire's Found Its Fangirls (opens the original)
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I’m doing something a little different today. I usually keep deep dives like this for paid subscribers, but this one felt too important not to share, so it’s free for the next five days. It’s the most complete case study I’ve shared of what community-powered thinking looks like inside a big business, and this time, I had a front-row seat, because I helped shape the work. Like everything I publish, it’s built on original reporting. Forward it to someone who needs to read it, and subscribe for mor
The Community Rewriting Retirement for Gen Z (opens the original)
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Gen Z has a new fixation: saving for retirement.You read that right.But this isn’t retirement as we’ve traditionally understood it.By most measures, traditional retirement saving remains fairly far down Gen Z’s financial priority list. Recent surveys have found that only about one-fifth to one-quarter of Gen Z adults contribute to retirement accounts. When asked what they are saving for most, travel, transportation and housing all rank higher.But recently, a very different vision of retirement h
How Gaming Trained a Generation to Expect Participation (opens the original)
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Once upon a time, our media asked relatively little of us.Television was something we watched. Music was something we listened to. Magazines were something we read. Someone else made it; we took it in.Then social media arrived with a different promise: participation. We’d all be in the room together, shaping the conversation.The reality, as we all know, looked somewhat different.Social media democratized publishing, yes. But for most of us, the dominant behavior became scrolling. The feed became
Build for the Group Chat (and Other Lessons From my Copenhagen Keynote) (opens the original)
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Last month, I stood on stage in front of an audience of television executives, commissioners, and producers at the Copenhagen TV Festival and made an argument that would have sounded kind of weird just a few years ago:Fandom isn’t just what happens after a show becomes a hit. It’s how a show becomes a hit in the first place.What I meant was that fans are making the edits, memes, theories, recaps, and recommendations that pull new audiences into a show. They’re creating conversations in group cha
Build for the Hunger Behind the Behavior (opens the original)
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Late last month, Meta agreed to put limits on how much time teenagers can spend on Instagram and Facebook.No, the company didn’t just wake up one day and decide that maybe an infinite scroll engineered to be addictive isn’t great for developing brains.The company reached an $18 billion settlement with nearly every U.S. state over allegations that it deliberately designed its platforms to keep young people hooked.Among the terms of the settlement: a default two-hour daily limit for teenagers. It
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