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- 0:00Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gaddigal Land Always was, Always
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- 0:24Speaker 2: Where we break down the latest news and tea on
- 0:26Speaker 2: the Internet right now and today we have the absolute
- 0:29Speaker 2: pleasure to be joined by Lucy Nevill, our very good friend,
- 0:33Speaker 2: also the co host of the I'm Wigging Out pod
- 0:36Speaker 2: and everybody's favorite Internet bestie, Truel Ray of.
- 0:40Speaker 3: Sunshine's so nice.
- 0:41Speaker 4: Welcome back to the show that you are as if
- 0:46Speaker 4: you don't know that you are.
- 0:47Speaker 3: Literally every time we're around Lucy, I feel like light.
- 0:51Speaker 5: Yeah really nice way, I'm filing that away.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Yeah, you make us be better versions of ourselves.
- 0:57Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 0:59Speaker 4: Yeah, when you're gone, it's just.
- 1:09Speaker 3: Precisely.
- 1:10Speaker 2: But we're going to get into our tea. I think
- 1:13Speaker 2: il's going to kick us off.
- 1:14Speaker 4: Okay, So my tea of the week is Road is
- 1:19Speaker 4: launching new beauty products.
- 1:21Speaker 3: Have you guys seen this?
- 1:23Speaker 4: So Road did such a smart marketing tactic, which like
- 1:29Speaker 4: not surprised, but they used the met Gala to basically
- 1:33Speaker 4: tease Slash like soft launch some new products.
- 1:38Speaker 3: Have you guys seen them online? Have you?
- 1:41Speaker 5: I have? And like, it's always so interesting to me
- 1:44Speaker 5: to see Roads marketing strategy because Haley is their marketing
- 1:46Speaker 5: strategy exactly. And when they sold the company, I think
- 1:50Speaker 5: that the like finances were kind of released as part
- 1:53Speaker 5: of that, and the marketing budget was staggeringly low because
- 1:56Speaker 5: she is the marketing.
- 1:58Speaker 4: Now in the research, I found that Road earns nine
- 2:02Speaker 4: dollars for every one dollar of their marketing spend.
- 2:06Speaker 3: Much is insanely high.
- 2:09Speaker 4: Yeah, So like, yeah, if you're saying as well, like
- 2:12Speaker 4: their marketing spend is quite low, it's because they don't
- 2:15Speaker 4: even have to spend that much money. So the post
- 2:18Speaker 4: that they posted on Instagram that was not like collab
- 2:22Speaker 4: posted with Haley, it was purely just on Road and
- 2:25Speaker 4: it had like some bts of her at the met
- 2:27Speaker 4: gala as well as if you swipe through, you got
- 2:30Speaker 4: like some kind of blurry shots with like product names
- 2:33Speaker 4: blurred out.
- 2:34Speaker 3: That post got two.
- 2:35Speaker 4: Hundred and fifty nine thousand lines. Yeah, on the Road
- 2:39Speaker 4: brand page. Yeah, Like for a brand page to get
- 2:42Speaker 4: that many likes, I'm like, well damn yeah.
- 2:46Speaker 2: And especially for like a product launch or I don't know,
- 2:49Speaker 2: like something that isn't relying on some sort of gimmick
- 2:51Speaker 2: or anything else, you'd think that people would be like, yeah, whatever.
- 2:55Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely still like up in the air what
- 2:58Speaker 4: products were getting. But in video she's been teasing on
- 3:01Speaker 4: her own socials as well. Definitely this like glowy illuminating drops,
- 3:07Speaker 4: illuminating drops that she put on her skin.
- 3:10Speaker 3: And I haven't bought a single Road product.
- 3:14Speaker 4: Okay, I think my first I was like, she got me, yeah,
- 3:19Speaker 4: I said Road three times in the mirror. Haleey Beaber
- 3:21Speaker 4: appeared behind me and she said, you're going to use
- 3:23Speaker 4: these illuminating drops and.
- 3:24Speaker 3: I said, yes, Haley, okay, they look gorgeous.
- 3:28Speaker 5: They do, and it looks like there's like a bronzy
- 3:30Speaker 5: kind of shade and a more perlescent shade.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Yes.
- 3:32Speaker 5: And again with their marketing spend, she's posted to kind
- 3:36Speaker 5: of get Ready with Me is in the last week,
- 3:38Speaker 5: and every time she posts those are not accidental or
- 3:40Speaker 5: just casual, like this is them building hype for a
- 3:43Speaker 5: launch that's obviously going to break the internet. But it
- 3:46Speaker 5: looks like she was either mixing them in with her
- 3:48Speaker 5: glazing milk, which is smart from a business perspective because
- 3:50Speaker 5: then people have to buy the glazing milk and the drops,
- 3:53Speaker 5: and then with the bronzing she put straight on her face.
- 3:55Speaker 4: Yeah exactly. And there's also the pocket blushes. What looks
- 4:00Speaker 4: like to be to pocket bronzes, That's.
- 4:03Speaker 2: What I'd say, yeah, And I was like, that makes sense,
- 4:05Speaker 2: especially going into their summer season. Yeah, everybody's going to
- 4:09Speaker 2: want to look bronze and gorgeous. But what I find
- 4:11Speaker 2: really interesting about Road is that they definitely set trends
- 4:16Speaker 2: in some ways, but in others. For example, like illuminating
- 4:19Speaker 2: bronzing drops, they were huge, like probably last year or
- 4:23Speaker 2: the year before we were seeing remember we went to
- 4:25Speaker 2: like the House of Sephora event and we were like,
- 4:27Speaker 2: oh my gosh, went as well, yeah, well like every
- 4:29Speaker 2: brand is dropping their own version bronzing drops.
- 4:33Speaker 4: Everybody gets a bronzen druss, yeah, which the drunk elephant
- 4:36Speaker 4: ones went virals.
- 4:38Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, and then there were you know, duops and
- 4:40Speaker 2: then people making their own and whatnot. But I find
- 4:43Speaker 2: it really interesting because they did that, and then for
- 4:45Speaker 2: Coachella they did the eye patches and the pimple patches,
- 4:47Speaker 2: similar sort of thing, right, Like pimple patches were huge
- 4:51Speaker 2: five years ago. Now you can kind of get them anywhere.
- 4:54Speaker 2: But it's like Road has this special power that even
- 4:57Speaker 2: if it is even if they're dropping a product in
- 4:59Speaker 2: a very saturated part of the market, people still want
- 5:03Speaker 2: it because it's Road.
- 5:04Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 5:04Speaker 5: Well, I think she's aspirational for her consumer. So I
- 5:07Speaker 5: also saw sneakily in that second Get Ready with Me,
- 5:10Speaker 5: she uses a pocket blush and if you look down
- 5:12Speaker 5: the bottom of the screen, there's a white label on
- 5:14Speaker 5: the back of it, and I think it might be
- 5:15Speaker 5: a sample of a new shade.
- 5:17Speaker 3: Ah see.
- 5:19Speaker 4: Rhoders also in the last week just signed a deal
- 5:23Speaker 4: to go into Sephora in Europe.
- 5:26Speaker 3: Okay, so she's literally.
- 5:28Speaker 4: Expanding this empire that I was like, they're gonna launch
- 5:33Speaker 4: for Eurosummer. However, they're launching in Europe in September twenty
- 5:38Speaker 4: twenty six, which is then after Eurosummer. So I'm like,
- 5:42Speaker 4: when I'm trying to think, like, what is this drop
- 5:46Speaker 4: going to because normally and sometimes they like coincide with
- 5:50Speaker 4: something to kind of make it, you know, contextual to
- 5:54Speaker 4: what's happening. That I was like, that makes so much
- 5:57Speaker 4: sense to launch new products when you launch into Europe,
- 6:00Speaker 4: into Sephora. But that's too late. So I'm like, when
- 6:04Speaker 4: is this one of these new products going to be launching.
- 6:06Speaker 4: I do think they're going to be an instant sellout.
- 6:10Speaker 4: In the first day that Road launched in Australia, they
- 6:13Speaker 4: made eleven point five million.
- 6:16Speaker 3: Really that is wild. Oh my god.
- 6:18Speaker 4: I don't get out of bed for less, you know,
- 6:22Speaker 4: but it made me start thinking, is the celebrity beauty
- 6:27Speaker 4: brand back or is it in its flop era? So
- 6:31Speaker 4: I started looking at like a bunch of other celebrity
- 6:34Speaker 4: beauty brands. And when you think of celebrity beauty brands,
- 6:38Speaker 4: which do you think of.
- 6:40Speaker 5: I think of House Slabs, I think of Red Beauty,
- 6:43Speaker 5: fenty fenty.
- 6:45Speaker 4: Which do you think is the most successful celebrity beauty brand.
- 6:51Speaker 4: Is it like Victoria Beckham Beauty or something Rogue Road. No,
- 6:56Speaker 4: it's actually fenty, which I was I like noting that. Yeah,
- 7:01Speaker 4: Rihanna's Fanti Beauty is the highest grossing celebrity beauty brand
- 7:05Speaker 4: to date and it's valued at nearly three billion dollars,
- 7:10Speaker 4: which also up there is not to start the fucking
- 7:13Speaker 4: feud again, but Selena Gomez and Rare Beauty, which has
- 7:18Speaker 4: also had valuations of two point seven billion. I want
- 7:21Speaker 4: to preface that those estimations because the Internet is the Internet,
- 7:26Speaker 4: but also the most googled celebrity brands worldwide in the
- 7:30Speaker 4: third quarter of twenty twenty five was Rare Beauty, but
- 7:35Speaker 4: with Rare Beauty was number one, Fancy Beauty was number two,
- 7:39Speaker 4: and Kylie Cosmetics was number three.
- 7:42Speaker 3: Wow.
- 7:43Speaker 4: I really surprised with because I would have thought Road
- 7:46Speaker 4: would be up there, but I do think it is
- 7:50Speaker 4: getting there.
- 7:50Speaker 5: Was that around the time of the skin tint launch
- 7:52Speaker 5: though for Kylie really really well.
- 7:55Speaker 4: Yeah, But it's interesting because there was research also to
- 7:59Speaker 4: show that twenty four percent of consumers purchased a beauty
- 8:02Speaker 4: product from an influencer or celebrity.
- 8:04Speaker 3: Brand in twenty twenty three.
- 8:07Speaker 4: So it does kind of pose the question of like,
- 8:11Speaker 4: is there a place for celebrity brands? Are they coming back?
- 8:14Speaker 4: Because also in the last twelve months, we've seen two
- 8:17Speaker 4: celebrity brands from Drew Barrymore and Gwen Stefani both shut down.
- 8:23Speaker 5: Yes, I think that celebrity brands work when the brand
- 8:27Speaker 5: enhances the celebrity So for like Hailey Biber, I think
- 8:30Speaker 5: she is now synonymous with Rhode. Whereas when you think
- 8:33Speaker 5: of a Drew Barrymore, the first thing that comes to
- 8:35Speaker 5: mind wasn't Flower Beauty. It would have been.
- 8:39Speaker 3: Charlie at the race car track.
- 8:41Speaker 5: And sorry, I really liked Flower Beauty, but I can
- 8:45Speaker 5: see that it wasn't loved Flower Beauty.
- 8:48Speaker 3: Yeah, I fucking loved it.
- 8:50Speaker 4: They had the best fucking mascara ever, a Lush Warrior.
- 8:56Speaker 3: I was heartbroken when they shut down.
- 8:59Speaker 4: They also had a really great lipstick that was a
- 9:02Speaker 4: very close match for pillow Talk by Charlotte Tilbury.
- 9:06Speaker 3: So I was quite upset.
- 9:09Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's some interesting choices.
- 9:15Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, Drew Berry Montell was quite sad. But
- 9:19Speaker 3: I agree with you. I think most people are buying.
- 9:23Speaker 4: Things for the quality, definitely, But I think celebrity celebrities
- 9:28Speaker 4: can still get the attention, but they can't necessarily get
- 9:32Speaker 4: the conversion. Yeah, because thirty nine percent of consumers still
- 9:37Speaker 4: are driven by the quality of products, opposed to five percent,
- 9:41Speaker 4: which is due to celebrity endorsement or leadership. So it's
- 9:45Speaker 4: interesting because in twelve months we saw two celebrity beauty
- 9:47Speaker 4: brands shut down, and then also in the last twelve months,
- 9:51Speaker 4: ELF revealed that Road generated two hundred and twelve million dollars.
- 9:56Speaker 5: I think you can't. It's not enough to slap a
- 9:58Speaker 5: celebrity name and face onto a product.
- 10:00Speaker 1: More.
- 10:00Speaker 5: I think they have to be really invested in the
- 10:02Speaker 5: beauty industry and have their consumers be like, Okay, well,
- 10:07Speaker 5: Hayley has been really foundational to the whole like clean
- 10:10Speaker 5: Girl kind of makeup right which love it or hate it.
- 10:13Speaker 5: It's had a really big moment, and so I think
- 10:16Speaker 5: when people go Clean Girl makeup, now, I want to
- 10:18Speaker 5: be able to get my skincare, my makeup, all of
- 10:20Speaker 5: the things that I want for that look from one
- 10:22Speaker 5: brand that I trust and that the formulations you know
- 10:25Speaker 5: that they're going to be good.
- 10:26Speaker 4: So do you think her Met Gala look with the
- 10:28Speaker 4: gold plate was kind of because she was launching like
- 10:32Speaker 4: gold illuminating drops or am I just going too deep
- 10:35Speaker 4: in given matrix?
- 10:37Speaker 3: I have like a whiteboard with like a wrench.
- 10:40Speaker 2: We I'll be interested to see if there's a link
- 10:42Speaker 2: in the marketing campaign around it saying.
- 10:45Speaker 3: Yeah, dou sy, I know. I wonder who will be
- 10:48Speaker 3: the next well.
- 10:49Speaker 4: I also Kim shut down her beauty brand, So I
- 10:52Speaker 4: wonder who will be like the next celebrity beauty brand.
- 10:56Speaker 3: You know what I want? Bring back the perfumes, bring
- 10:58Speaker 3: back the fragrances. Don't want the Britain.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Paris Hilton is still absolutely blinding. She's released like a
- 11:06Speaker 2: hundred fucking fragrance.
- 11:07Speaker 6: Og.
- 11:08Speaker 5: Do you think Paris Hilton wears Paris Hilton fragrance?
- 11:10Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, I don't ruin she won Undah, definitely.
- 11:17Speaker 2: Maybe Sabrina Carpenter.
- 11:20Speaker 5: I think that would have to be hair, that would
- 11:23Speaker 5: be amazing.
- 11:24Speaker 4: Yeah, Sabrina Carpenter beauty brand. I can black with blushes though, Margine.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Yeah, in like vintage inspired packaging, gorge. Yeah, we'll be
- 11:34Speaker 2: buying it.
- 11:35Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 11:36Speaker 3: Look if you want to collab, Sabby, come on. Yeah,
- 11:40Speaker 3: we know you listen to the show. Yeah, big fan. Okay,
- 11:43Speaker 3: Well that's my.
- 11:44Speaker 6: Tea, Lucy, what's the tea? Okay?
- 12:04Speaker 5: I spent my weekend watching off campus anyone else.
- 12:07Speaker 2: Just like everyone else.
- 12:09Speaker 5: Yeah, because it went well. I know that everyone else was.
- 12:11Speaker 5: Because it went to number one in like just every
- 12:15Speaker 5: country within two days of launch.
- 12:17Speaker 6: Shock.
- 12:18Speaker 4: There was such a big campaign and media build up
- 12:23Speaker 4: behind this because obviously Prime has had such success with
- 12:27Speaker 4: the Summer I Turned Pretty, Yes, And I think this
- 12:30Speaker 4: is their this is their follow up, because we've got
- 12:33Speaker 4: the Summer Return Pretty movie coming next year. But I
- 12:36Speaker 4: think they're like they've seen the power that is, you know,
- 12:40Speaker 4: for the girls.
- 12:41Speaker 5: Book to TV adaptations. Yeah, I did go to a
- 12:43Speaker 5: Prime book Club event last year where they basically showcased
- 12:48Speaker 5: all of their book to TV adaptations that were coming.
- 12:50Speaker 5: Obviously the Summer I Turned Pretty. There's also we were
- 12:53Speaker 5: liars and the kind of is it your our your fault,
- 12:59Speaker 5: our fault, Yes, my fault.
- 13:00Speaker 3: The Copper the series.
- 13:03Speaker 5: If you're not familiar with Off Campus, it was a
- 13:05Speaker 5: best selling book series first by the Canadian author L. Kennedy,
- 13:08Speaker 5: and the TV series is eight episodes drama rom com
- 13:12Speaker 5: setting college.
- 13:13Speaker 3: Which I think sexy hot, sexy play.
- 13:16Speaker 5: Is slash slash The Summer I Turn Pretty Yeah, essentially
- 13:22Speaker 5: love triangle. It follows a star player of the elite
- 13:25Speaker 5: hockey team, Garrett, and the protagonist Hanna. They initially strike
- 13:28Speaker 5: a deal to be in a fake relationship. The story
- 13:30Speaker 5: does also touch on some heavier themes, so definitely a
- 13:32Speaker 5: content warning for any chick. So that's not right for
- 13:35Speaker 5: it at the moment, but I did want to flag
- 13:36Speaker 5: that because it is being compared a lot to Heated
- 13:39Speaker 5: Rivalry in the way that it's like really sexy but
- 13:42Speaker 5: there and there are definitely a lot of sex scenes
- 13:44Speaker 5: and it's also about hockey, so hated rivalry. There you go.
- 13:46Speaker 5: But I wouldn't want anyone to be like incited by
- 13:49Speaker 5: more complex themes. But there have been lots of differences
- 13:53Speaker 5: between the books and the show that people as always
- 13:57Speaker 5: have lots of feelings about. I think anytime there's an adaptation,
- 14:01Speaker 5: there are going to be things that are different to
- 14:02Speaker 5: the book, and there are reasons that has to be
- 14:05Speaker 5: Did you read the books.
- 14:07Speaker 4: All four books in I think I blacked out and
- 14:09Speaker 4: I read them all in like seven days, and they
- 14:13Speaker 4: were I think I spoke about them on the pod.
- 14:15Speaker 3: They were like my smooth brain read like I was like,
- 14:18Speaker 3: I can't.
- 14:19Speaker 4: Do hectic world building. And then I think I read
- 14:22Speaker 4: Alchemized afterwards I was like, fuck.
- 14:24Speaker 5: I'm going back.
- 14:25Speaker 3: I'm going back to bry you.
- 14:28Speaker 2: It's a palate cleanser.
- 14:29Speaker 4: It is just such a perfect It's like literally watching
- 14:35Speaker 4: off Campus is like just enjoyable and that's exactly you know,
- 14:40Speaker 4: how it was reading the books like it obviously delves
- 14:43Speaker 4: into some very important and serious storylines as well, But
- 14:49Speaker 4: I just I loved the characters.
- 14:51Speaker 3: I don't think there was like a single character that
- 14:54Speaker 3: I was like, yuck, hate you. I was going to say,
- 14:56Speaker 3: how did you feel the casting?
- 14:59Speaker 4: I think they did a great job. I am now
- 15:03Speaker 4: on blonde man propaganda, like Dean and Ali stole the
- 15:08Speaker 4: show as well, Like they were incredible.
- 15:10Speaker 3: So for those who haven't watched.
- 15:13Speaker 4: In the books, it's kind of structured a little bit
- 15:16Speaker 4: Bridgeton esque. So in the books, it's like there's a
- 15:19Speaker 4: group of four hockey players, and then the books follow
- 15:22Speaker 4: each of those love stories. So book one is Garrett
- 15:25Speaker 4: and Hannah, Book two is Logan and Grace, Book three
- 15:28Speaker 4: is Dean and Ali, and then book four is Tucker
- 15:31Speaker 4: and Sabrina, And so we kind of saw something very
- 15:36Speaker 4: different in the show.
- 15:37Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go ahead and put.
- 15:39Speaker 4: A spoiler warnings now if you haven't watched it, I'm
- 15:42Speaker 4: probably gonna spoil it at some point, sabreak, So yes,
- 15:45Speaker 4: skip for like ten minutes if you don't want any spoilers.
- 15:48Speaker 3: But Dean and Ali are book three.
- 15:51Speaker 5: I feel like the last thirty seconds of season one
- 15:55Speaker 5: has led us to believe that season two is about them.
- 15:57Speaker 4: Absolutely, and we've seen today that the show runner has
- 16:03Speaker 4: made a very strong hint that the next season will
- 16:06Speaker 4: be about Dean and Alley.
- 16:07Speaker 5: Because it was renewed for season two before it even launched.
- 16:10Speaker 3: Literally, people are ready, yeah, yeah, people are locked in.
- 16:14Speaker 4: And the thing that was I saw was probably the
- 16:17Speaker 4: most divisive was that Dean and Ali's storyline was pushed
- 16:22Speaker 4: through earlier in the timeline to also be a storyline
- 16:26Speaker 4: in season one. I think this was a really smart
- 16:29Speaker 4: decision because we've seen with shows that follow one couple
- 16:34Speaker 4: per season that that couple kind of ends up becoming
- 16:37Speaker 4: a bit of a mood point.
- 16:39Speaker 2: Like Bridgeton. Yes, Like we almost don't have any sort
- 16:42Speaker 2: of three of the stories with any of the greatest characters.
- 16:47Speaker 3: Could do.
- 16:48Speaker 2: Honestly, way to go, Yeah, it's very busy. How did
- 16:52Speaker 2: you feel about the like going off script for the
- 16:56Speaker 2: TV show versus what.
- 16:57Speaker 3: We asked you to adaptations. Oh, it's to the book
- 17:01Speaker 3: to be true.
- 17:02Speaker 2: Like do they need to be sure one hundred percent.
- 17:04Speaker 3: Accurate to the plot. I'm really curious to see what people.
- 17:07Speaker 2: Said, So forty five percent said, yes, needs to be
- 17:10Speaker 2: one hundred percent accurate to the book, forty six percent
- 17:14Speaker 2: said as long as they inspired by the book, and
- 17:17Speaker 2: then ten percent said I don't mind if they completely.
- 17:19Speaker 3: Mix it up. Oh, so very small amount was like, yeah,
- 17:23Speaker 3: go for it.
- 17:24Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Like I think they want it to the majority,
- 17:27Speaker 2: But it's pretty much equal between yes one hundred percent or.
- 17:30Speaker 3: It needs to be like sim alarm very similar. Where
- 17:33Speaker 3: do you guys fall on that spectrum?
- 17:35Speaker 5: I think there's so much pressure for authors and screenwriters
- 17:37Speaker 5: who turn books into series because when you have, especially
- 17:42Speaker 5: if there's a big fandom around a book, people when
- 17:44Speaker 5: they're reading, we're imagining. So we have our own vision
- 17:48Speaker 5: of what Brier you the college looks like. We have
- 17:51Speaker 5: our own imagined version of Garrett and all the characters,
- 17:55Speaker 5: and so when you see them casts and you're like,
- 17:57Speaker 5: hang on, that's not what are it look quite And
- 18:00Speaker 5: also the thing is, as much as I appreciate forty
- 18:03Speaker 5: six percent of the chicks being like has to be
- 18:04Speaker 5: exactly the same. There are four books in that series,
- 18:07Speaker 5: four books of what three hundred pages each. We've got
- 18:10Speaker 5: eight episodes a season. Books are written in a certain
- 18:13Speaker 5: way for reading. When you adapt them for screen, there's
- 18:17Speaker 5: visual elements you can do storytelling through what you're seeing
- 18:20Speaker 5: as well, and music and all that kind of stuff.
- 18:23Speaker 5: So I think that it would be impossible and also
- 18:26Speaker 5: probably very boring.
- 18:27Speaker 4: You also don't have internal monologues, no, so that's also
- 18:30Speaker 4: the really difficult thing to do, because you have to show,
- 18:33Speaker 4: don't tell, otherwise you end up with a constant narrator
- 18:38Speaker 4: that becomes very annoying.
- 18:39Speaker 2: Yeah, that can be very cliche watching a show of
- 18:43Speaker 2: Sex and the City where like Carry doesn't shut out.
- 18:46Speaker 5: And then I love her. Yeah, sometimes I often want to.
- 18:49Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm like, girl, stop wondering.
- 18:53Speaker 4: Maybe just go to bed, maybe like get a diary,
- 18:56Speaker 4: you know.
- 18:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I honestly think it.
- 18:58Speaker 2: Yeah, it depends. Hey, because I read Game of Thrones
- 19:02Speaker 2: and I remember thinking, like, fuck, like some of these
- 19:05Speaker 2: plots could have definitely been condensed, some of these storylines
- 19:08Speaker 2: could have moved faster, and in the TV show they
- 19:12Speaker 2: actually achieved that. Yes, I think the pacing was really
- 19:15Speaker 2: really good. So I do think that sometimes you can
- 19:18Speaker 2: actually win by making changes in an adaptation to screen.
- 19:23Speaker 2: But I really think it depends, and it depends if
- 19:25Speaker 2: you're like really changing storylines and characters, because it's when
- 19:30Speaker 2: you're like watching a TV show and you're like, that
- 19:33Speaker 2: character is nothing like the character in the book, that's
- 19:35Speaker 2: when it's really frustrating.
- 19:37Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
- 19:38Speaker 4: I do think moving the timeline up was smart. And
- 19:43Speaker 4: also Dean and Ali's book is kind of on booktop.
- 19:49Speaker 4: I would go to argue just as popular or if
- 19:52Speaker 4: not more than book one. Okay, So they were kind
- 19:55Speaker 4: of setting up this storyline that everyone foams at the mouthful,
- 19:59Speaker 4: and by everyone, I mean me to be like cool,
- 20:03Speaker 4: Let's make sure we've got the really strong one to
- 20:05Speaker 4: follow up with so that it's not just a really
- 20:08Speaker 4: high peak. This is just what I think, and then
- 20:11Speaker 4: we can follow through on that because everyone's like online
- 20:14Speaker 4: that I've seen on my FYP has been like Ali
- 20:16Speaker 4: dinner Allie, Yes, and.
- 20:18Speaker 5: Me as well?
- 20:19Speaker 6: Guilty?
- 20:20Speaker 3: Luck me up. I love her.
- 20:23Speaker 4: She's her hair Oh Ali, rais I have booked and
- 20:28Speaker 4: to go and get a haircut, getting a perm yeah,
- 20:31Speaker 4: literally getting my shag haircut again.
- 20:33Speaker 3: I've been like tossing up and I was like, yep, okay.
- 20:34Speaker 4: Also, did you know that in the show she wears
- 20:37Speaker 4: clinic black Honey.
- 20:38Speaker 5: There you go. And I did think, well her lived looks.
- 20:41Speaker 4: Alie Hayes wears clinic black Honey in off campus and
- 20:46Speaker 4: she also wears the Lioness red jacket and she wears
- 20:51Speaker 4: and I am ga like Sylvie coat which is like
- 20:55Speaker 4: the fur trim one that she wears.
- 20:57Speaker 3: And just ten out of ten, no notes. So if
- 20:59Speaker 3: anyone has clinque like Honey at home, or if that's
- 21:02Speaker 3: your ride or die combo stuck up.
- 21:05Speaker 5: It will sell out.
- 21:06Speaker 3: It's going to go.
- 21:06Speaker 2: I've got one in my bag right now.
- 21:08Speaker 3: Yeah. But out of ten? What would you rate the show?
- 21:12Speaker 2: Oh?
- 21:12Speaker 5: I loved it.
- 21:13Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I washed it on the plane.
- 21:16Speaker 5: That was like, so so I do not look Yeah,
- 21:19Speaker 5: and I was like maybe it's.
- 21:21Speaker 3: On prime off campus. You can use my logan if
- 21:24Speaker 3: you want.
- 21:25Speaker 5: I would give it like an eight.
- 21:27Speaker 3: Yeah, that's solid, it's solid. Yeah, I think i'd give
- 21:30Speaker 3: it a nine. Yeah, Yeah, I loved it.
- 21:33Speaker 2: Do you think that the book is better or the
- 21:35Speaker 2: TV shows? I?
- 21:40Speaker 3: Fuck? Oh they're really really close. Okay, they're really close.
- 21:48Speaker 5: And books are your own world. It's your own world
- 21:50Speaker 5: that you created, it's your own imagination. So you're going
- 21:52Speaker 5: to feel your own connection.
- 21:53Speaker 4: I think I'm going to go with book purely because
- 21:56Speaker 4: I have I've eaten the whole series. I've been able
- 21:59Speaker 4: to make a judgement, whereas, like so I've been able
- 22:02Speaker 4: to I was able to just really enjoy all four
- 22:04Speaker 4: because I've only got one Onesea's in Evolved Campus, but
- 22:07Speaker 4: they're like inanely close.
- 22:11Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.
- 22:13Speaker 1: Wow.
- 22:14Speaker 3: Well, all right, Stanley Balley, what's the tea?
- 22:36Speaker 2: What's the tea? My tea is why there's so many
- 22:41Speaker 2: brands faking scandals right now? Have you guys seen this?
- 22:46Speaker 6: Yes?
- 22:46Speaker 2: Yeah, so obviously this is something that we've probably been
- 22:50Speaker 2: seeing more and more. But I was inspired to bring
- 22:52Speaker 2: it to the show today because I saw a post
- 22:54Speaker 2: from Business of Fashion and they also did a whole
- 22:57Speaker 2: podcast episode on this on their show The Debris, basically
- 23:00Speaker 2: breaking down why has this become a huge trend in
- 23:03Speaker 2: the marketing space? And they were talking about it specifically
- 23:06Speaker 2: in the beauty space. But I feel like I've seen
- 23:09Speaker 2: it far and wide in a lot more than beauty brands.
- 23:12Speaker 2: You guys feel the same, yeah, yeah, which is wild.
- 23:15Speaker 2: So for anybody who kind of like isn't familiar with this,
- 23:18Speaker 2: because I am conscious that we all work in like
- 23:20Speaker 2: a marketing space, so maybe we like clock onto stuff
- 23:22Speaker 2: like this a little bit more than like the average bear.
- 23:25Speaker 2: But it's essentially when brand's engineer like fake scandals or
- 23:29Speaker 2: controversies for the purpose of like shock advertising, Like so
- 23:35Speaker 2: the purpose of like maybe rage baiting people or getting
- 23:38Speaker 2: that shock value.
- 23:39Speaker 4: It makes people stop scrolling because they're like, oh, literally
- 23:42Speaker 4: pun intended, what's the tea?
- 23:44Speaker 5: They're like what do We're in an attention economy and
- 23:46Speaker 5: we scroll so fast. And I think if you see
- 23:49Speaker 5: a notesapp or a tile that looks like an apology
- 23:51Speaker 5: or something, well, hang on. While I was preparing for
- 23:53Speaker 5: this episode, I saw a story. I saw a story
- 23:57Speaker 5: that was like I have to address something from a creator,
- 23:59Speaker 5: and I literally caused my podcast to be like, no,
- 24:01Speaker 5: what's this going to be? And then it was just fake,
- 24:04Speaker 5: like a fake apology. And I was like, well, you
- 24:06Speaker 5: got me.
- 24:06Speaker 3: Yeah, good job.
- 24:08Speaker 2: Yeah, well, because I was going to bring that up
- 24:11Speaker 2: as like a huge example the fake apology trend, which
- 24:14Speaker 2: I believe started in the lead up to Black Friday.
- 24:18Speaker 2: So we were seeing this a lot late last year,
- 24:21Speaker 2: where brands would be posting exactly like you described, Lucy
- 24:24Speaker 2: like a black tile with white texts that's like we
- 24:27Speaker 2: need to address something. And it basically is like a
- 24:29Speaker 2: faux apology that's designed to make you stop scrolling, but
- 24:33Speaker 2: then as you read into it, they're essentially apologizing for
- 24:36Speaker 2: their product being too great or their sale being too competitive.
- 24:39Speaker 4: Now, at the start, like maybe the first one I saw,
- 24:42Speaker 4: I was like, TIHI.
- 24:44Speaker 3: Haha, didn't think that much of it. Yeah, right, became like.
- 24:48Speaker 4: A tidal wave that, especially a Black Friday. I felt
- 24:51Speaker 4: like my whole feed was just colorful, like colorful squares
- 24:55Speaker 4: with text on it.
- 24:57Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 24:57Speaker 3: Like and I was like, yeah.
- 25:01Speaker 2: And I think that's the thing as well, kind of
- 25:03Speaker 2: like any like internet trend or marketing campaign that really
- 25:06Speaker 2: takes off, Probably the first one, you're like, good one,
- 25:10Speaker 2: Now you got me, You got me.
- 25:12Speaker 3: But then the more and.
- 25:13Speaker 2: More you see it, you're like, Okay, this is just
- 25:15Speaker 2: kind of boring and annoying. And like you said, like this,
- 25:20Speaker 2: you saw those in the lead up to Black Friday,
- 25:22Speaker 2: but you saw one this morning and you still got
- 25:24Speaker 2: fulled by yeah, And like I feel like I still
- 25:25Speaker 2: get fulled by it for like a millisecond as well,
- 25:28Speaker 2: And rather than making me have a chuckle kind of
- 25:31Speaker 2: kisses me off.
- 25:32Speaker 4: Yeah, I think as well, because at first I was like,
- 25:35Speaker 4: oh haha, but then I did see and I can't
- 25:37Speaker 4: remember what the creator was, but they made a video
- 25:40Speaker 4: about it, and they made a really good point that
- 25:44Speaker 4: you know, these fake apologies or fake scandals flooding the
- 25:47Speaker 4: feed actually washes away genuine accountability or messages from brands
- 25:54Speaker 4: that have to use that term miss the mark.
- 25:58Speaker 3: Yeah, how many times have we seen that place?
- 26:01Speaker 4: You know, like they take away from those moments where
- 26:04Speaker 4: brands or creators or someone has had to you know,
- 26:07Speaker 4: acknowledge actions or actually take accountability for something, and it
- 26:12Speaker 4: has then minimized or you know, pushed those ones.
- 26:16Speaker 3: To the side. And I was like, that's actually a
- 26:18Speaker 3: really good point. Yeah, so true.
- 26:20Speaker 2: And on the Debrief podcast I kind of spoke about
- 26:24Speaker 2: that as well. They were like, which brands can do
- 26:26Speaker 2: this and which ones can't. That's interesting and I don't
- 26:29Speaker 2: think that there is necessarily like a clear cut answer,
- 26:32Speaker 2: But when they were kind of talking about it, they
- 26:34Speaker 2: brought up like two examples, one where Colour Pop did
- 26:37Speaker 2: it in like a way that they thought was really
- 26:39Speaker 2: like tongue in cheek, and then Landcom did one where
- 26:41Speaker 2: they saw that yeah, where they sent out intentionally misaddressed
- 26:47Speaker 2: PR packs to people, so people were getting them and
- 26:51Speaker 2: not some of the creators and whatnot. People on the
- 26:54Speaker 2: PR list were getting it and it would be addressed
- 26:56Speaker 2: to like.
- 26:56Speaker 3: Me More and they yeah, you guys open at of course.
- 27:02Speaker 6: But I think I.
- 27:06Speaker 4: Would never I've never seen that package in my entire life,
- 27:11Speaker 4: but I've never heard of Kylie Jenner.
- 27:13Speaker 5: Yeah, but it was because they just announced Always Heldana
- 27:16Speaker 5: and Demean Moore as their global ambassadors to day before,
- 27:19Speaker 5: and in my opinion, that kind of scandal, it got
- 27:23Speaker 5: a lot of videos, right, A lot of people were like, holy,
- 27:25Speaker 5: should've got to meet More's package, including Kate Hudson. She
- 27:27Speaker 5: made a video which.
- 27:28Speaker 3: Is pretty iconic.
- 27:29Speaker 5: I think that why that one worked so well is
- 27:32Speaker 5: because no consumers were duped in the process. And I
- 27:36Speaker 5: think that with these scandals, it's like, you don't want
- 27:39Speaker 5: to alienate your audience or make them feel silly or
- 27:42Speaker 5: make them want to gotcha, because then you go, well, well,
- 27:46Speaker 5: I've lost trust in this brand, and we buy from
- 27:48Speaker 5: brands that we trust. So I think that brands kind
- 27:50Speaker 5: of get one shot at, like a really cheeky marketing tactic.
- 27:55Speaker 5: If it's play, if it's like playful and there's no
- 27:58Speaker 5: harm done play on my opinion.
- 28:00Speaker 4: That reminds me of Kali fragrances they did in April Fools.
- 28:06Speaker 3: Yep, and their April Fools.
- 28:08Speaker 4: I didn't look into this too much, so you know,
- 28:11Speaker 4: grain trust me broke. But they made some posts indicating
- 28:18Speaker 4: that they were discontinuing or wouldn't be restocking a very
- 28:24Speaker 4: popular fragrance, and as a result, a lot of people
- 28:28Speaker 4: went out and brought it and panic bought it because
- 28:31Speaker 4: they were like, well, that's my favorite fragrance.
- 28:34Speaker 3: I love that fragrance. And as a result they were like, no,
- 28:39Speaker 3: t he just kidding. And I don't really know what
- 28:42Speaker 3: the just kidding was. I don't know if it was like, oh,
- 28:44Speaker 3: there's actually more coming.
- 28:45Speaker 4: Or whatever, but there was I saw a TikTok and
- 28:47Speaker 4: people were quite upset because they were like, you've now
- 28:50Speaker 4: caused people to go and spend a lot of money.
- 28:52Speaker 4: I'm sure I hope that they rectified it and were like, no,
- 28:55Speaker 4: it's okay, you can cancel your orders or whatever. Yeah,
- 28:59Speaker 4: but that's a really good example of what you're saying,
- 29:01Speaker 4: is how like you can't play a trick on your
- 29:05Speaker 4: customers like that leaves them at a disadvantage either feeling
- 29:09Speaker 4: silly or monetary.
- 29:12Speaker 3: Yeah, like actually losing out.
- 29:13Speaker 2: Because I think that's the risk that these brands are taking.
- 29:17Speaker 2: Whether it's huge brands like that or small brands. It
- 29:19Speaker 2: either can lead to moments of virality or you know,
- 29:23Speaker 2: like you could erode your customer basis trust. And it's like, yeah,
- 29:29Speaker 2: which is which one is more worth it? Yeah, Because
- 29:32Speaker 2: in that podcast as well, they were talking about, like
- 29:34Speaker 2: with any social media campaign, it is can be really
- 29:37Speaker 2: difficult to see how marketing campaign can lead up to
- 29:40Speaker 2: tangible sales, Like obviously a lot of these things when
- 29:44Speaker 2: they were they were talking to some of the people
- 29:46Speaker 2: who like were actually the social media teams behind some
- 29:48Speaker 2: of these campaigns, and they would talk about the metrics
- 29:51Speaker 2: in terms of like saves and likes and follows and whatnot,
- 29:54Speaker 2: which of course is very important, but in terms of
- 29:57Speaker 2: actual sales or brand trust. And we pulled you chicks
- 30:01Speaker 2: as well to ask how that does impact your trust
- 30:05Speaker 2: in a brand, and thirty nine percent of you said
- 30:07Speaker 2: that fake marketing scandals impact their trust, and fifty one
- 30:11Speaker 2: percent said it depends what it is.
- 30:13Speaker 4: And also, what was the stat on how many people
- 30:16Speaker 4: are over fake scandals and apologies is a marketing tactic?
- 30:22Speaker 2: Seventy seven percent.
- 30:24Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 30:25Speaker 5: I do somewhat empathize with brands though, because in that
- 30:29Speaker 5: Business of Fashion article they referred to these kind of
- 30:32Speaker 5: like orchestrated fake scandals as the gorilla marketing of twenty
- 30:35Speaker 5: twenty six. And obviously gorilla marketing started as a way
- 30:38Speaker 5: for small businesses to compete in the ad space, where like,
- 30:41Speaker 5: you don't have the money to buy a billboard or
- 30:43Speaker 5: a TV commercial, but you need people talking about your brand.
- 30:45Speaker 5: A social media post is free, it's free to do
- 30:48Speaker 5: so if you're a small brand and you're trying to
- 30:50Speaker 5: garner some attention and get people having eyes on your brand,
- 30:54Speaker 5: it's one of those things where like, well, this is free,
- 30:57Speaker 5: doesn't cost me anything.
- 30:58Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think it's too an extent though, I
- 31:00Speaker 4: do find it very frustrating when you see brands. You know,
- 31:06Speaker 4: I've seen videos online where people fake a robbery. Oh yeah,
- 31:10Speaker 4: and it's like, you know, someone's like, oh my god,
- 31:12Speaker 4: someone came in and stole this, and then the next
- 31:14Speaker 4: video it's like that want of the colleagues like taking
- 31:18Speaker 4: off the mask and like giggling because it's like, oh,
- 31:20Speaker 4: it's a prank that I do like those, I think
- 31:23Speaker 4: when it's just inherently dishonest and like an untruth, that's
- 31:29Speaker 4: where for me I find it quite tiring, because algorithms
- 31:34Speaker 4: reward negativity and clickbait and you know anger online that
- 31:41Speaker 4: I do think for me, marketing that's like positive and
- 31:45Speaker 4: helpful and kind goes a lot longer and a lot
- 31:49Speaker 4: further for me than you know, anything that's kind of dishonest.
- 31:55Speaker 2: I completely agree because I was thinking about that as well,
- 31:58Speaker 2: because some of the examples popped into my head where
- 32:01Speaker 2: even like fake confrontations with clients, like you know how
- 32:05Speaker 2: you'll see people and they're like in the hairdressing chair
- 32:07Speaker 2: and then they're like, oh, actually I don't I can't
- 32:09Speaker 2: afford to pay for this, or people getting their nails
- 32:11Speaker 2: done and maybe the customer isn't even in it, but
- 32:13Speaker 2: the person, the person doing the nails or whatever is like, oh,
- 32:17Speaker 2: well you have like and it's like a fake fight
- 32:19Speaker 2: between a client and the person offering the service, and
- 32:23Speaker 2: I'm kind of like, what's the point.
- 32:24Speaker 3: But again, it takes away.
- 32:25Speaker 4: From this real scenarios yeah, I know, maybe I'm just
- 32:28Speaker 4: deeping it, like maybe I'm just being boring.
- 32:30Speaker 3: It's like not that deep and it's a bit harmless.
- 32:33Speaker 2: But I think because it is, Yeah, exactly, I think
- 32:36Speaker 2: that's the thing. And like over half the chick said, like,
- 32:39Speaker 2: it does depend. I think that this is nuanced and
- 32:41Speaker 2: sometimes it can be funny. But what I think will
- 32:44Speaker 2: be really interesting to see because in that pot as well,
- 32:46Speaker 2: they were talking about how like the Sydney Sweeny American
- 32:49Speaker 2: Eagle campaign really blew the lid off this concept of
- 32:54Speaker 2: rage bait marketing, whether it's fake scandals or purposefully rage
- 32:59Speaker 2: and using campaigns, and that we're going to see more
- 33:02Speaker 2: and more of this, and they're like, this is just
- 33:04Speaker 2: the beginning. However, I wonder how long it will stick
- 33:08Speaker 2: around because previously these fake scandals were designed to stop
- 33:12Speaker 2: a scrolling right, but now that we are constantly questioning
- 33:17Speaker 2: what is real on our feeds, especially with AI. Every
- 33:20Speaker 2: single second post, I'm like, is this AI? And I question, like,
- 33:25Speaker 2: at least half my feed's got me good.
- 33:28Speaker 3: Yeah, they've got us so good. I was like, the
- 33:31Speaker 3: bunny's got me so bad. Actually, the Bunny's got me bad.
- 33:34Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm like, is this actually going to be
- 33:37Speaker 2: an effective form of marketing in twenty twenty six and.
- 33:40Speaker 3: Go really good?
- 33:41Speaker 2: Because we're so used to seeing stuff that's fake now
- 33:44Speaker 2: that it's almost going to be like content that is
- 33:46Speaker 2: real and authentic is actually going to be the outlier,
- 33:50Speaker 2: not a fake scandal. And you know, like I still
- 33:53Speaker 2: follow and love a lot of brands that have also
- 33:58Speaker 2: done the fake apology post. I don't think it inherently
- 34:02Speaker 2: also comes from this sinister place where people are like
- 34:05Speaker 2: doing the like Villain hand twelve, where they're like, let's
- 34:10Speaker 2: get them.
- 34:12Speaker 5: So much marketing is taking risk, taking calculated risk, and
- 34:16Speaker 5: you do your best to kind of look at what
- 34:19Speaker 5: you're doing anything like is this ethical? Is it's going
- 34:21Speaker 5: to land? Well? Sometimes we miss them, Mark.
- 34:24Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes we miss them.
- 34:28Speaker 2: Oh my god. Well that's a wraps today. Thanks so
- 34:32Speaker 2: much for coming on, Lucy, Thanks for having me every week.
- 34:35Speaker 2: It was an absolute joy to have you back on
- 34:37Speaker 2: the show. For any of the chicks who don't already
- 34:39Speaker 2: follow you, where can they find you at?
- 34:40Speaker 5: Lucy m Neville on TikTok and Instagram And I, as
- 34:44Speaker 5: you said, I have a podcast called I'm Waking Up
- 34:46Speaker 5: where we talk through anonymous dilemmas, mental health kind of
- 34:48Speaker 5: stuff for the deep thinkers, overthinkers and deep feelers.
- 34:53Speaker 6: I love that.
- 34:55Speaker 2: Got two of them, rap tug at my fur well.
- 34:59Speaker 2: Thank you so much again, and thanks to you chicks
- 35:01Speaker 2: for having us in the holes.
- 35:02Speaker 3: We love to be here.
- 35:03Speaker 2: Love you, bye bye