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Strategic intelligence reports and deep-dive breakdowns from The Branded Entertainment Brief. Evergreen resources, separate from the weekly summaries.

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Sep 24, 2026

Your Brand Owns the Podcast. Spotify Owns the Listener.

Eight branded entertainment formats, what each one tends to do well, where each tends to fall short, and where the audience ended up when brands used them.

What Brands in Your Category Have Actually Built

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Sep 3, 2026

What Brands in Your Category Have Actually Built

A free, browsable index of brand activations in entertainment, sorted by category and format family, with the source of every reported result named.

Creator Spend Is Scaling Faster Than Most Teams Can Track It

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Jul 25, 2026

Creator Spend Is Scaling Faster Than Most Teams Can Track It

A free tracker to log what you paid creators, what got made, and what it actually returned.

9 Content Strategies Brands Are Actually Running Right in 2026

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Jul 22, 2026

9 Content Strategies Brands Are Actually Running Right in 2026

The play, who's running it, and where it runs. Nine strategies, every example real and reported.