Be in The Know
📉 Lululemon paused sales of a new collection following consumer complaints. Stock plummeted.
💭 Prime Video’s redesign leans heavily on AI recommendations to cure decision paralysis.
🤷 Report: 67% of marketers say lack of training is primary barrier to AI adoption.
📍 Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google.
🎨 High-low culture: Meet the artist behind those viral oil paintings of popular foods.
🔍 OpenAI is testing a prototype called SearchGPT.
🧲 Reddit has launched its own version of Lead Gen ads.
Dialogues: Kimberly Bailey, Head of Marketing at Alpaca
The Dialogues series spotlights marketing mavericks, adland disruptors, and cool creatives in The Daily Carnage community who have new tactics to share. Is that you? Tell us your story.
Meet Kimberly Bailey, Head of Marketing at Alpaca and OG subscriber (’16) of The Daily Carnage.
Kimberly started her career at Flywheel, a high-growth startup later acquired by WP Engine, where she advanced from marketing intern to in-house photographer and producer.
Today, she leads marketing efforts at Alpaca, an Omaha-based edtech startup on a mission to make school the happiest place to work.
Alpaca’s employee engagement platform provides pulse surveys to help school leaders understand school culture and teacher wellbeing on a monthly basis, provides actionable insights for school leaders and districts, and prompts thoughtful celebrations for teachers.
We caught up with Kimberly to hear more about the content strategy that grew her professional community to over 2,100 connections on LinkedIn. Here’s what we learned:
- Celebrate your little wins on LinkedIn. Relatability creates engagement and connection.
- Curate your personal LinkedIn feed to learn more about what excites your brand’s target audience—what they celebrate, what they find newsworthy, what troubles them.
- Find creative opportunities for your CEO to repurpose and generate insights for thought leadership content.
Head to the Carney blog to read our conversation with Kimberly.
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Sometimes, It’s OK to Give Up
Why is Hyundai shifting gears from its usual lighthearted tone—for the Olympics, of all occasions?
In a new spot for the Games, called “It’s OK,” the brand takes on a more somber note with stories of young people who are ready to take an open-ended break from their sport for their mental health.
“It resolves into a happy moment because you get to find that thing you love to do, but sometimes life isn’t so perfectly laid out,” Hyundai Motor America CMO Angela Zepeda told Marketing Dive.
