Be in The Know
⭐ Meta has added a new Testimonial feature for Instagram Ads.
💡 At least two agencies are expected to open creator campuses in early 2025.
🍷 The U.S. surgeon general wants cancer warnings on alcohol labels.
💰 Spotify’s video-first creator payout program launches in US, UK, Australia, and Canada.
🌯 Chipotle expands its Strava partnership just in time for resolution season.
🫰 What 2025 has in store for influencer marketing, according to experts.
😜 Behind Dunkin’s new “Shake That Ess” campaign with Sabrina Carpenter.
🥴 A brand steals a creator’s video and uses it as an ad. Is that legal?
30 Ways to Grow Your Email List (for Free)
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2025 is the year you hit your list goals. Here’s how:
- Create high-value lead magnets like cheat sheets, templates, or short videos that solve specific problems.
- Post social content with CTAs 3–5 times per week.
- Add pre- and post-CTAs to tease newsletter topics and share highlights.
- Send auto DMs to new followers.
- Reply to popular accounts.
- Add CTAs to your website, email signature, social bios, etc.
- Email warm contacts inviting them to subscribe.
- Start a LinkedIn newsletter to funnel users to email.
- Launch a referral program with incentives.
- Do cross-promotions with similar newsletters.
- Ask readers to forward your newsletter.
- Build relationships with other creators.
- Host partner giveaways.
- Be a podcast guest.
- Write guest posts for other newsletters.
- Submit content to curated link sections.
- Join engagement groups to boost each other’s content.
- Republish content with syndication.
- Engage in active forums, Slack groups, or Facebook groups related to your niche.
- Leverage Reddit to subtly link to your newsletter.
- Add web pop-ups, banners, or inline forms.
- Offer free work for exposure.
- Answer questions on Quora.
- Repurpose content for SEO.
- Turn newsletter content into SEO-friendly blog posts.
- Launch on Product Hunt.
- Advertise at events.
- Host virtual events.
- Celebrate milestones with giveaways.
- Run referral giveaways.
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Campaign
Blimp Centennial
The Goodyear Blimp is turning 100!
To celebrate, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has begun touring the famous blimp over 100+ cities across North America and Europe with aerial stops at sporting events, music festivals, and other cultural moments.
And to really get the campaign off the ground, Goodyear will give 3 lucky tire-buyers a blimp ride to remember.
“With its century-long history and unique ability to instill a sense of wonder in those who experience it — whether from on the ground or in the air — the blimp gives Goodyear a way to connect with the public in a way no other tire company can match,” said Mark Stewart, CEO and President of Goodyear.
