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Less Than a Year in, HLoveCo Expands its Team as the Agency Builds the Future of Personal Brand Strategy
New hires will support HLoveCo’s mission to redefine how leaders build influence in a human-first economy.
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Horse-Powered Travel Planners and Other Reasons the Indie World Doesn’t Do Boring
Indie Spin: The one with predictive creator math, a Kentucky Fried three-peat, and a zombie game announcement nobody saw coming.
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Indie Spin: The One Where Everyone Had Opinions About The Big Game
Indie Spin: The one with Super Bowl autopsies, AI efficiency traps, and frozen pizza opera rock
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Super Bowl Sermons and the Death of Discount Culture
Indie Spin: The one with protein theology, AI litigation, and the quiet extinction of "sale" stickers
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Media Mix Reality Checks and Other Strategic Recalibrations
Indie Spin: The one with measurement honesty, Gen Z pragmatism, and holiday commerce urgency.
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Fake Films, Real Friction, and the Death of Prompt Engineering
Indie Spin: The one with invisible representation, agentic AI, and why Amazon's $5 gambit matters