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How The Ocean Cleanup Built a Brand on a Massive Problem
This episode of Building Brands with Fexingo explores how The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit founded by a teenage Boyan Slat, built a global brand around cleaning plastic from the oceans. Lucas and Luna break down the specific branding choices—from the transparent, data-heavy live tracking of cleanup operations to the storytelling around failures like the 2019 boom breakage—that turned a seemingly impossible mission into a trusted, donation-driven movement worth over $100 million in funding. They discuss why the brand leans into showing progress, not just promises, and how it avoids the…
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