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How beauty brand Glossier went from social media darling to social outcast

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Social media darling no more. On Instagram, which is the brand’s main social platform and was immensely instrumental to its initial success, Glossier’s account has been losing followers constantly since the ‘Outta The Gloss’ debacle in July of 2020. As a result, Glossier’s brand value has taken quite the hit.

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Burger Road drives local and interstate expansion

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Since opening the first store in 2017, the brand has built a network of three corporate and four franchisee-owned locations in Victoria. We’re also building a loyal digital following across the brand’s social media channels.”. Melbourne’s Burger Road is gearing up to expand interstate this financial year.

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Why Bulgari is embracing Zepeto, Asia’s most popular metaverse

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It is a 3D space for customising your avatar, completing quests and sharing content to social media. Zepeto users can add actions to their avatar such as popular dances, facial expressions and body movements before posting to social media platforms such as TikTok. About 80 per cent are aged between 10 and 24.

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Social creatures: How Alya Skin built their brand on Instagram

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Since launching Alya Skin in 2018, Manny Barbas and James Hachem have leveraged the power of social media to bring their brand to the world. Here, the founders share their social media secrets and the new platforms that are proving fruitful for the brand. Our database has since continued to grow and grow over the years.

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Cult-favourite Danish fashion brand Ganni to open stores in Australia

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Rather than using traditional marketing, the brand taps into real customers who share their outfits under the #gannigirls hashtag on social media. “If Because it straddles the line between luxury — L Catterton bought a majority stake in 2017 — and mainstream retail, there are a lot of possibilities. “It

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When founders go rogue, their brands suffer. Here’s what two PR experts suggest

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Social media can be a difficult beast to handle, especially for brand founders presenting as the face of their business. Many direct-to-consumer brands have successfully built consumer awareness by cultivating the founder’s own social media presence.

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How the Driza-Bone deal came about and what’s next for Propel Group

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Before taking the reins of Propel Group, the company behind some of Australia’s best-loved workwear brands, Caroline Elliott was the COO who restructured the local operation of French fashion label Kookai and orchestrated the local franchisee Magi Enterprises’ acquisition of the global licensing rights in 2017.