The Top Hollywood Entrepreneurs of 2026

What does it take for an advert marketing campaign to develop into a advertising and marketing blockbuster? In this fractured consideration economic system, not does it suffice to be a reasonably face hawking miracle lotions, luxurious SUVs or top-shelf spirits. CMOs are following the film publicity playbook by hiring Hollywood-founded businesses (Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity) and eschewing conventional advert buys in favor of social media virality and user-generated content material (UGC), each of which promise exponentially larger ROI.

Reynolds’ newest culture-jacking advertising and marketing grasp class arrived with Astronomer’s disaster PR marketing campaign that capitalized on the tech firm’s highlight post-“Coldplay couple.” Nine days after the kiss-cam second that solidified two divorces, Maximum Effort deployed a deadpan “fastvertising” spot strategically starring Gwyneth Paltrow, former spouse of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, who defined to 36.5 million viewers throughout social media how your workplace was “the best place to run Apache Airflow.” For a B2B enterprise platform, that’s advertising and marketing magic.

For its inaugural 2026 checklist of the most effective star-driven advertising and marketing campaigns, THR rounds up the viral launches, collaborations and advertisements that lower via the noise, drove the cultural dialog and obtained the world speaking ­­­— and shopping for.

Simone Ashley, Kendall Jenner x Han Wen, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

L’ORÉAL PARIS

Agency: Maximum Effort

For its 2026 Academy Awards industrial (additionally produced by Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort), L’Oréal Paris paid homage to The Devil Wears Prada 2 by tapping sequel star Ashley (who performs Amari, the brand new assistant to Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly) and Jenner (this checklist’s most frequent frontwoman) to play out a scene impressed by the enduring vogue movie. Mistaking the supermodel and L’Oreal Paris ambassador as a job candidate for an assistant function at Runway journal, Jenner is admonished to “look presentable” and is handed the model’s Colour Riche lipstick and Telescopic Lift mascara. The advert reached the Oscars’ 17.9 million stay viewers, with an astronomical 7 billion impressions generated throughout social. “Kendall was a great sport about it, and that willingness to be in on the joke is a big part of why the spot works. When talent is genuinely having fun, the audience feels it, and both Simone and Kendall knocked it out of the park,” says CMO Wen. “Debuting it during the Oscars, one of the last truly communal viewing moments on television, served as jet fuel for the cultural fire.” Adds L’Oréal Paris USA president Laura Branik, “When you can connect a brand message to a cultural moment in a way that feels authentic and drives measurable business growth, that’s when you know a campaign has truly succeeded. We saw notable increase in sales across our hero products; it earned a level of consumer engagement that signaled true cultural resonance. We are for the Mirandas and everyone else.”

Campaign you want you labored on

BRANIK ”Legally Blonde. Fortunately, we don’t must want anymore. Just this week we introduced that we’re teaming up with Elle, the Legally Blonde prequel collection on Prime Video because the official make-up sponsor of season one.”

Charles Barkley, Jennifer Garner, Samuel L. Jackson, Magic Johnson x Marc Mentry, Executive vp Brand Marketing

CAPITAL ONE

Agency: Saint James Studios

In Capital One’s 2026 March Madness marketing campaign, Barkley, Jackson, Johnson and Garner are seen internet hosting an NCAA-themed sleepover, full with friendship bracelet-making, an arcade cease, tailgating and a diner meal (the place they run into WNBA famous person Caitlin Clark) earlier than lastly reaching their courtside vacation spot on the Final Four. In tandem, a “Chuck Blimp” plastered with Barkley’s face sailed over Phoenix and Indianapolis throughout championship weekend. Measurement company EDO reported that social engagement fueled tens of millions of natural impressions. When followers clamored to purchase the advertisements’ matching branded PJ units and friendship bracelets, Capital One stepped up with a digital merch giveaway, boosting bank card consumer registration.

Hailey Bieber x Zena Srivatsa Arnold, CMO

SEPHORA

Agency: In-House

After Rhode’s $1 billion acquisition ­­— the 2025 magnificence deal heard around the world — founder Bieber, for her subsequent transfer, introduced her model’s glazed donut and strawberry lady aesthetic to Sephora cabinets. The TikTookay Shop best-selling model introduced again three of its most viral (sold-out) peptide lip therapies as in-store exclusives to drive foot visitors. Bieber deployed her tried-and-true advertising and marketing ploys: dropping product hints in GRWM movies to her 57.9 million Instagram followers, sending product mailers for influencers to unbox and embarking on a classy Sephora press tour in archival designer seems to be to maintain vogue media speaking. The end result: Rhode earned $10 million in gross sales within the U.S. and Canada in its first 48 hours, accounting for about 40 % of all Sephora launch gross sales, 2.5 occasions larger than any of the retailer’s earlier model debuts.

Bad Bunny x Zara

Agency: In-House

Bad Bunny didn’t must name out Zara (whose advertising and marketing head appears to be a state secret) throughout his Apple Music Halftime Show on the Super Bowl LX. But his cream football-inspired look — which drove $942.4 million in media impression worth, based on knowledge analytics agency Launchmetrics — spoke volumes. So a lot in order that when the Grammy winner’s Benito Antonio assortment with the Spanish quick vogue label dropped three months later, its core items bought out immediately.

Sabrina Carpenter x Jillian McVicar Nelson, CMO

DUNKIN’

Agency: Artists Equity

By the time Dunkin’ unveiled Carpenter’s Brown Sugar Shakin’ Espresso, greater than 10 million customers had already devoured the Instagram and TikTookay teaser movies. Co-created by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity, the cheeky “Shake That Ess” industrial noticed the pop star and her grandma vigorously shaking — not stirring — “that ess,” boosting downloads of the Dunkin’ app by 57 % and promoting out the collab’s $13 limited-edition tumblers in 17 minutes.

Charli XCX x Charlie Smith, Chief Business Officer (CBO)

NOTHING HEADPHONES

Agency: Object & Animal

As Nothing’s new ambassador and shareholder, Charli XCX introduced brat vibes and Gen Z advertising and marketing instincts to the London-based electronics firm. Piggybacking off her new single “Rock Music,” the pop famous person’s debut artistic collab was a low-fi marketing campaign (directed by frequent collaborator Aidan Zamiri) that noticed her locked in a room for 5 days to check the Headphone (a)’s 135-hour battery life. “Charli XCX is really the embodiment of rebellious creativity, which is something that Nothing has always championed,” says Nothing CBO Smith. “She’s an example of the cultural force we admire.” Gen Z heard the marketing campaign loud and clear. The $199 headphones bought out throughout the U.Okay. and Western Europe inside 48 hours.

Campaign you want you labored on

SMITH ”Probably the launch of Marty Supreme and Timothée Chalamet’s wonderful promo marketing campaign, which included customized merch, orange table-tennis balls and a Zoom name the place he claims to have invented the colour, pitches to show the Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty orange, after which truly makes a large orange blimp.”

Alex Cooper x Lorraine Twohill, CMO

GOOGLE PIXEL 10

Agency: Unwell Creative

For her Unwell Creative Agency’s inaugural challenge, Cooper co-wrote, directed and starred in a comedic digital advert for Google’s new Pixel 10 cellphone. The Call Her Daddy podcast powerhouse (and power drink entrepreneur) forged Saturday Night Live alum Aidy Bryant and The White Lotus’ Sabrina Impacciatore to star within the ladies’ trip-themed spot that introduced in additional than 39 million views on Cooper’s TikTookay alone. Part of a long-term partnership introduced in October with Google, the spot introduced Pixel gadgets as cool-girl tech instruments (whereas additionally hyping Gemini AI and Google Workspace) for Cooper’s hyper-engaged feminine Gen Z and millennial fan base.

Bradley Cooper, Matthew McConaughey x Georgie Jeffreys, CMO

UBER EATS

Agency: Special U.S.

In a 60-second Super Bowl advert (it prices $8 million to run a 30- second spot; you do the mathematics), McConaughey relentlessly trolls Philadelphia Eagles superfan Cooper with the conspiracy idea that the massive recreation was invented to promote meals, not soccer. The stars, says Uber Eats CMO Jeffreys, “brought ideas, humor and a willingness to build on the world of the campaign. What impressed us most was their commitment to the bit. Matthew has an incredible ability to take an absurd idea and deliver it with complete conviction, Bradley brought authenticity, particularly as a die-hard Eagles fan. Their chemistry created the tension and humor that powered the campaign, which helped make it feel like an ongoing cultural narrative rather than a one-off Super Bowl commercial.” The advert additionally featured appearances by Parker Posey and Amelia Dimoldenberg. Viewers may work together with a choose-your-own-adventure-style function throughout the Uber Eats app that delivered practically 1,000 completely different variations of the advert with cameos by Jerry Rice, Addison Rae, Severance‘s Tramell Tillman and others. It “generated thousands of unique ad combinations and extended the life of the campaign far beyond the broadcast,” provides Jeffreys, driving a 35 % enhance in seek for the meals supply app and a tsunami of user-generated content material throughout social platforms.

Campaign you want you labored on “I’ve always loved Jeep’s ‘Groundhog Day.’ It’s smart, funny, and incredibly rewatchable — everything a great Super Bowl spot should be. And Bill Murray reprising his role for the first time made it even better.” 

Macaulay Culkin, Kevin Garnett, Kevin Hart, Catherine O’Hara x Leanne Fremar, CBO

JPMORGAN CHASE FOR THE CHASE FREEDOM UNLIMITED CREDIT CARD

Agency: Big Spaceship

The firm banked on nostalgia for its Chase Freedom Unlimited bank card marketing campaign with a Home Alone-inspired spot starring the late O’Hara and a shopping center filled with “Kevins!” (Hart and Garnett). “We’d been building the Freedom Holiday idea over three years,” Fremar tells THR. “Kevin and Macaulay brought their own instincts, timing and point of view, which made the spots feel more natural. The [seasonal] timing gave it real momentum,” garnering the advert greater than 7.4 million views on YouTube. Culkin stayed within the joke when he joined Hart the next yr for a Halloween industrial that additionally nodded to the enduring ’90s Christmas movie.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Sadie Sink, Letitia Wright x Lorenzo Bertelli, CMO

PRADA RE-NYLON

Agency: National Geographic CreativeWorks

For its eco-conscious Re-Nylon line (made with Econyl, a fabric spun from ocean trash and deserted nets), Prada showcased quick movies starring Cumberbatch, Wright and Sink. Created in partnership with National Geographic CreativeWorks, the mini documentaries introduced the A-list ambassadors to Norway, Japan, Hawaii and Mexico to witness the results of world warming, overfishing and plastic marine air pollution. The campaigns exemplified accountable luxurious advertising and marketing that linked with a number of generations and audiences; 1 % of Re-Nylon’s international proceeds go to the UNESCO instructional program SEA Beyond. With viral moneymakers like purses and bucket hats, the eco assortment contributed to 14 % year-over-year gross sales progress for the style home.

Alix Earle x Amanda Goetz, CMO

REALE ACTIVES

Agency: In-House

How does a brand new impartial skincare model rake in $16 million and promote out in its first week? Having Earle (with 5.6 million Instagram followers) as a founder definitely helps. Known for overtly sharing her wrestle with cystic pimples, the 25-year-old influencer launched cryptic Instagram and TikTookay accounts, @WtfIsAlixDoing, and planted Easter eggs in her GRWM movies for months earlier than debuting her acne-focused skincare model, Reale Actives, in March. As the accounts amassed half one million followers, Earle seeded influencer mates Away suitcases (locked along with her new merchandise inside) and puzzle items that had been added to an NYC digital billboard that incrementally revealed the launch. Earle additionally invited followers to decode the thriller in actual time, producing huge engagement and UCG — to not point out gross sales for Reale Actives — within the course of. “I knew I wanted to do something that pulled people into the story the same way they already engage with me in real life,” Earle tells THR. “My content has always been very ‘come along with me while I figure things out,’ and I wanted my audience to be able to have a say in launching this brand by ultimately figuring it out themselves.” Says Reale Actives CMO Goetz, “When I was brought on, [Earle] had already been working for years with dermatologist Kiran Mian. Acne is usually marketed through insecurity, hiding, or “fixing” your self. Our objective was to flip that script and construct a model that made individuals with acne-prone pores and skin really feel seen, assured and allowed to indicate up absolutely of their actual life. The marketing campaign resonated as a result of it tapped into the need to cease planning your life round your pores and skin. We noticed individuals sharing their very own pores and skin tales and speaking concerning the model as a confidence motion, not only a product drop. From a enterprise standpoint, we bought out twice shortly after launch and needed to restock for a 3rd time.”

Campaign you want you labored on

GOETZ ”The launch of The Dark Knight film. The marketing campaign included a real-life scavenger hunt that gave every one that discovered a Joker cake a Nokia cellphone and, finally, a ticket to the world premiere. I’m obsessive about desirous about how we will convey individuals into the world that you’re constructing, construct anticipation and finally reward your most loyal followers.”

Selena Gomez x Ashley Murphy, CMO

RARE BEAUTY

Agency: Fred & Farid L.A.

For her 405 million followers, Gomez’s unfiltered Instagram and TikTookay GRWM content material acted as genuine advertisements for her massively profitable Rare Beauty. The model was already essentially the most searched identify on Ulta’s web site earlier than the road expanded to the retailer’s 1,500-plus doorways in February, shattering gross sales information and changing into the chain’s largest model launch ever. The attendant “Every Story Belongs” marketing campaign displayed the True to Myself Natural Matte Longwear Foundation’s complete vary of 48 hues on ladies with heritages hailing from throughout Latin America. The L.A. launch get together was capped with a 600-drone present that lit up the sky with a large Soft Pinch Liquid Blush (a best-seller) — whereas Gomez’s staff shared each second on social media. The basis marketing campaign “was part of one of Rare Beauty’s most significant complexion launches and reached over 11 million social views organically,” Rare Beauty CMO Murphy says. “For us, that’s always the goal: proving that staying true to your values and creating work that genuinely resonates with people can drive cultural and business impact. What was most meaningful was seeing people connect with the campaign on a personal level — outside of beauty. The conversations it sparked around representation, belonging and identity reinforced that consumers want to see themselves reflected in the brands they are proud to support.”

Paris Hilton x Maria Jose Martin, North America advertising and marketing director

MOTOROLA RAZR

Agency:  LaForce, In-house

The flip-phone large unveiled its new Razr smartphone line with a Hollywood purple carpet and a vogue occasion designed for UGC moments, outfitted with an interactive Swarovski crystal show, a DIY cellphone attraction bar and sweetness touch-up stations. Hilton walked the runway and ended the night time with a DJ set, whereas different stars (together with Natalia Bryant, Isan Elba and Avan Jogia) coordinated with the colourful folding screens in matching seems to be styled by celeb stylist Danyul Brown. North American advertising and marketing director Martin notes that the starry soiree resulted in “more than 4 billion impressions across paid and organic channels, surpassing every previous Motorola launch benchmark. … This strategy’s success has also translated into sales, with the new Razr family achieving 54 percent more preorder sales year-over-year.”

Kendall Jenner x Selena Kalvaria, CMO

FANATICS BETTING & GAMING

Agency: Bolded/OBB Media & Fanatics Studios

Jenner was in on the “Kardashian Curse” joke — the fan conspiracy idea claiming that professional athletes endure dangerous luck within the subject once they date a Kardashian or Jenner — which solely helped Fanatics rating a large 10 % share of the U.S. on-line sports activities betting market. For its Super Bowl 2026 advert blitz, the staff merch retailer dared viewers to “Bet With Kendall” and gamble on the New England Patriots profitable, or “Fade Kendall,” and guess on the Seattle Seahawks, all in its Fanatics Sportsbook app, whereas providing a one hundred pc matching increase for wagers. Bettors who sided with Jenner left the massive recreation empty-handed, whereas those that put their cash on the Seahawks — together with her ex-boyfriend, Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker, who, sure, sustained main losses throughout their relationship — took residence payouts. (The NBA star trolled the marketing campaign by placing in $1 million and earned an $800,000 revenue.) “This was not a traditional endorsement — the idea worked because it leaned into Kendall’s cultural persona in a self‑aware way, and she helped craft how the concept would spark conversation. The campaign generated more than 27 billion earned media impressions; Super Bowl LVIII became Fanatics Sportsbook’s most bet game ever,” says Fanatics Betting and Gaming CMO Kalvaria. “That combination of cultural dominance and tangible business results confirmed that the approach delivered on both brand and performance goals.” The actual winner? The charity Feeding America, which obtained a $1 million donation from Fanatics as a part of the marketing campaign.

Dakota Johnson x Jonathan Bottomley, CMO

CALVIN KLEIN

Agency: GvS Creative

Calvin Klein’s ’90s-inspired spring 2026 marketing campaign starring Johnson mastered the artwork of assembly the cultural second. Ryan Murphy’s American Love Story kick-started a wave of nostalgia throughout the web and turned Sarah Pidgeon right into a star for her portrayal of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy (the style designer’s VIP publicist for eight years till her loss of life). Wearing archive-inspired high-rise slim denims and a white tee in some advertisements whereas sporting simply underwear in others, Johnson channeled easy, CBK-coded minimalism. Shot by Gordon von Steiner, the marketing campaign linked with Love Story‘s Gen Z and millennial followers in a refined, subtle method that was in line with the Calvin Klein muse. “Dakota is a fantastic partner because she brings so much of herself to the partnership — her natural confidence, sense of humor and self-awareness to life through Calvin’s lens. We saw double-digit growth in our denim business through our direct-to-consumer channels during the quarter the campaign launched,” Calvin Klein CMO Bottomley tells THR. “We also felt the impact on the cultural conversation and its connection with consumers, generating over 26 million views on Calvin Klein’s Instagram alone in the first 24 hours.”

Campaign you want you labored on

BOTTOMLEY ”The unique Kate Moss campaigns — from underwear via to CK One, they continue to be a timeless expression of how vogue shapes tradition and nonetheless influences tradition as we speak.”

Kim Kardashian x Nicole Hubbard Graham, Nike CMO

NIKESKIMS

Agency: Wieden+Kennedy

Move that yoga mat over, Lululemon. The record-breaking launch of NikeSkims (the co-brand effort of Kardashian’s Skims and the sportswear large) was a slam dunk in experiential advertising and marketing, with the #SkimsxNike tag’s 12 million views on TikTookay simply the tip of the iceberg. To hype up their September debut, the collaborators took over the New York Public Library steps with a choreographed flash mob (clad in NikeSkims, naturally), seeded product for GRWM movies and starred Nike’s iconic athlete ambassadors (Serena Williams, Sha’Carri Richardson and Chloe Kim, to call just a few) in a brief movie and marketing campaign imagery alongside Kardashian. It didn’t damage that your complete Kardashian-Jenner clan (with a mixed 1.5 billion followers on Instagram alone) had been in on the social media cross-promo. Key merchandise bought out instantly, with the collab on monitor to outearn Nike and Skims’ preliminary funding ($1.7 billion and $1.1 billion, respectively) in income projected to land at greater than $4 billion within the partnership’s first three years. Kardashian, in the meantime, loved a $5 billion valuation for her firm throughout its post-Nike-Skims funding spherical.

Katseye x Fabiola Torres, CMO

GAP

Agency: Invisible Dynamics

Hollywood fell into the Gap with the debut assortment of recent artistic director Zac Posen, who outfitted Anne Hathaway, Kendall Jenner, Timothée Chalamet and others in his GapStudio items on the pink carpet. But the model leaned into its historical past of constructing cultural moments in its digital-first advertising and marketing technique with “Better in Denim” advertisements starring Katseye dancing in low-rise denim to the tune of Kelis’ “Milkshake.” (The 2003 monitor noticed a 179 % soar in streams in consequence.) In an announcement, the corporate stated that the worldwide lady group’s spots scored greater than 8 billion impressions and a file of greater than 600 million views in a month, making it their “most successful social media campaign to date.”

Kate Moss, Teyana Taylor, and so on. x Jonathan Kiman, CMO

BURBERRY

Agency: In-house

Burberry’s gabardine trench coats are so recognizable that the British heritage vogue home wanted solely to launch black-and-white portraits to fete the silhouette. “This campaign was created to celebrate Burberry’s 170th anniversary and our iconic trench coat,” Burberry CMO Kiman says. “The idea was simple: Let each person’s personality shine through naturally.” Supermodels Kate Moss, Karen Elson and Kendall Jenner; Hollywood stars Jonathan Bailey and Daisy Edgar-Jones; athletes Jack Draper and Eberechi Eze; Chinese actor Wu Lei; and musicians Hikaru Utada, Kid Cudi and J.Y. Park had been amongst those that donned trenches in spots that hit tens of millions of social media impressions throughout generations, significantly within the East Asian market. The multichannel marketing campaign included 15-second behind-the-scenes snippets on TikTookay that garnered excessive loop charges, with high-impact posters greeting arriving jet setters at Heathrow’s baggage carousel. “The campaign drove strong brand relevance and engagement, and we could really see the excitement around our iconic rainwear and trench coats,” provides Kiman. “One of the best signs of success is when my friends, who don’t work in fashion, start texting me about a campaign. That’s when you know it’s landed beyond our industry.”

MrBeast x Ariel Kelman, former CMO

SALESFORCE

Agency: In-house

What occurs while you hand the keys to your Super Bowl marketing campaign selling your enterprise software program’s agentic AI to YouTube’s largest star? For Salesforce, MrBeast dreamed up an interactive “Million Dollar Puzzle” marketing campaign (with a 30- second advert shot by Oscar-winning Inception cinematographer Wally Pfister) that led greater than 53 million individuals to the corporate’s web site (based on an X post by CEO Marc Benioff) and generated 37.3 occasions extra search engagement than the typical Super Bowl advert. The content material creator (né Jimmy Donaldson) had full artistic management of the scavenger hunt, which encompassed a 45-minute behind-the-scenes documentary that reached his 300 million-plus subscribers and scored 419 million views throughout social platforms. One month later, software program developer Colin Sanders solved the puzzle, bringing to an finish the wildly profitable advertising and marketing saga, and a month of steady engagement and media protection.

Ozzy Osbourne x Daniel Murphy, Senior vp Marketing

LIQUID DEATH

Agency: In-house

About a month earlier than he died at 76, the godfather of heavy steel demanded, “Clone me, you bastards!” in his June 2025 marketing campaign with Liquid Death. The edgy beverage model launched 10 iced tea cans laced with Osbourne’s DNA, every signed and hand-crushed by the Prince of Darkness for $450 a pop. “Ozzy was so easy to work with and absolutely got our sense of humor. Our founder, Mike Cessario, pitched Ozzy and Sharon the clone idea, and they loved it. Ozzy even let us film in his iconic basement — you can see the signatures of famous visitors on top of his fireplace,” says Murphy. “Before we launch a campaign, [we ask] ourselves: ‘Did it genuinely make us laugh, and would we actually share it with our friends?’ ” The world agreed with the ultimate evaluation, and this marketing campaign shortly racked up greater than 10 million views, with “Infinitely Recyclable Ozzy” cans promoting out immediately, together with one pattern reportedly going for $4,600 on eBay.

Pedro Pascal x Greg Joswiak, Senior vp Worldwide Marketing

APPLE AIRPODS 4

Agency: TBWA/Media Arts Lab

Convincing an viewers to look at a five-minute advert is not any straightforward feat, however Apple did simply that final yr with its Spike Jonze-directed AirPods 4 industrial starring Pascal. The electronics large continued its custom of forgoing tech specs jargon for cinematic promoting to showcase its new earbuds’ energetic noise cancellation function. More than 7 million YouTube customers watched the Mandalorian star get away into an brisk dance quantity (in a sequence dreamed up by Tanisha Scott, choreographer to Rihanna and Beyoncé) inside 24 hours of the spot’s digital premiere, and Apple leveraged its #Shotoniphone tag to share unique behind-the-scenes footage selling the iPhone’s director-grade cameras.

Ryan Reynolds, Marie Kondo x Andrew Fried, CMO

MINT MOBILE

Agency: most effort

You’d be hard-pressed to discover a wi-fi firm that may outwit Reynolds’ Mint Mobile. After getting acquired for $1.3 billion by T-Mobile, the cell service had organizing professional Kondo be a part of up with Reynolds in convincing viewers to “choose joy” by decluttering their “big cable” invoice and switching to Mint’s $45 bundle, scoring tens of tens of millions of views throughout Instagram, TikTookay and YouTube in its first week, whereas content material creators uploaded natural UCG “thanking and discarding” their previous utility payments.

A$AP Rocky & Margaret Qualley x Chanel

CHANEL

Agency: In-House

A$AP Rocky’s new gig for Chanel went viral months beforehand when he was noticed seemingly proposing to Qualley in NYC in October. The duo starred within the luxurious vogue home’s quick movie directed by Michel Gondry for its Métiers d’artwork 2026 assortment marketing campaign, which additionally marked the rapper’s debut as Chanel’s first Black male international ambassador. (Matthieu Blazy, former artistic director of Bottega Veneta, introduced his muse with him.) The ensuing vogue chatter introduced $5.7 million in media impression worth inside 48 hours, with the hip-hop star’s 20 million Insta followers producing extra Chanel buzz as they speculated a couple of potential menswear line.

Rosé x Kenneth Mitchell, CMO

LEVI’S

Agency: TBWA/Chiat/Day LA

Levi’s was already operating on a excessive after Beyonce’s Reiimagine marketing campaign (which performed off her hit, “LEVII’S JEANS”), when its derriere-focused collab with Blackpink’s Rosé debuted. Part of the worldwide “Behind Every Original” marketing campaign, the partnership was introduced in a 2026 Super Bowl spot (the clothes firm’s first in 20 years) and included an Instagram publish that garnered 1.3 million likes (essentially the most in Levi’s historical past) and a documentary-style video on the Okay-pop famous person. The 29-year-old singer sported customized Levi’s seems to be at Blackpink reveals that had been later placed on show on the model’s flagship within the Harajuku district of Tokyo, attracting 1000’s of followers. And when Levi’s added “As Seen on Rosé” labels to its ’90s-inspired trucker jackets and boot-cut denims, these items flew off cabinets, too.

Sydney Sweeney x Craig Brommers, CMO

AMERICAN EAGLE

Agency: In-house

Love it or hate it, AE’s controversial “Good Jeans” marketing campaign starring Sweeney had tens of millions of tongues wagging. When scorching takes argued whether or not the “genes vs. jeans” pun was meant (some interpreted it as a nod to eugenics), the model responded, ” ‘Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans’ is and all the time was concerning the denims. Her denims. Her story.” The Euphoria star’s response (somewhat, lack of it) solely fueled conversations, whereas the chatter resulted in 40 billion impressions for the marketing campaign and a 25 % soar in AE’s inventory costs, with the $80 “Sydney Jacket” snapped up in a day, and the $90 “Sydney Jean” (proceeds had been donated to Crisis Text Line) promoting out in per week. “The ability for a celebrity to move culture and product is very rare, and Sydney is able to blend the two. Following the campaign launch, we saw a 5 percent increase in new customer acquisition. We knew the campaign was resonating when it became part of the broader cultural conversation and reached well beyond our existing customer base,” CMO Sommers says. “To me, that’s the clearest indicator that the work wasn’t just generating attention, it was bringing new consumers into the brand and driving meaningful engagement with our products.” The actress finally responded to the backlash, saying that she doesn’t “support the views some people chose to connect to the campaign.” Case closed.

Campaign you want you labored on

BROMMERS ”Most not too long ago, the Nike Knicks marketing campaign with Billy Joel’s “New York, New York,” as a result of what may very well be higher than a Josh Safdie manufacturing celebrating the most important win in 53 years!”

Snoop Dogg x Pavel Durov, CEO

TELEGRAM

Agency: No Standing

Snoop Dogg confirmed the web3 world tips on how to drop it prefer it’s scorching in Telegram’s NFT launch marketing campaign. The cloud-based messaging app, headquartered in Dubai, tapped the rap icon to rep its foray into blockchain, leading to a benchmark marketing campaign that cracked the code in making fintech extra accessible to the plenty. Telegram leveraged its 1 billion energetic international customers and Snoop’s greater than 80 million followers to promote its “Telegram Gifts” NFTs, which bought out in half-hour and generated $12 million in gross sales straight throughout the app. The rapper additionally dropped an unique music video and tune, “Gifts,” that featured the NFTs’ digital designs, together with classic vehicles and hashish iconography.

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