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๐Ÿ‘€ Anthro Issue #001 | ๐Ÿธ Bar Culture, Drinks Disruptors, Video and Social Commerce

Your weekly newsletter on brands, campaigns, culture and insights.

Sanya-Jeet Thandi
Jul 26, 2020
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Welcome to Anthro, a weekly community newsletter featuring must read content about the best and most exciting movements by brands, with a heavy focus on culture and actionable insights. Iโ€™m trying to make this one of the most valuable emails you receive each week. If youโ€™ve enjoyed this first issue, please like it above โค and leave me a comment ๐Ÿ’ฌ

Good morning friends,

Thank you for joining me in this Anthro Community and reading Issue #1 of the Newsletter. Iโ€™m so excited to have you here! โœจ

My aim is to bring you the most valuable professional insights, industry analysis, trends, culture, dos and donโ€™ts that will help you stay on top of your brand & campaign game. Whether youโ€™re the founder of a company, at a start-up, in an agency or in-house- this is the place for your dose of industry news.

Every Sunday Iโ€™ll ping you with an interview with a badass industry pro, some deep analysis, and a curated pick of the must read happenings that you need to know.

Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn today:

  • Culture, community and cocktails from the Worldโ€™s Best Bar team. Interview with Lyanessโ€™ Veronica Di Pietrantonio

  • Investing in your brand purpose has a long term pay off. The lowdown on Oatly - from relaunching, to winning a $200 million investment and $2B valuation in Anthro Industry Analysis

  • The low-and-no-alcohol category. New aperitif brand Ghia is doing it well in Anthro Industry Analysis

  • Video first and social commerce are growing. TikTok and Chinese Super Apps are inspiring the future of how we consume content and products. Is there a new content-centric business model here?

  • The Facebook advertising boycott continues. Where will brands reallocate their budgets? Owned content? Google?


What can we learn from the Worldโ€™s Best Bar Team about community and cocktails?

I interview Veronica Di Pietrantonio, the friendly face of Lyaness cocktail bar on Londonโ€™s Southbank. Having previously won the title of Worldโ€™s Best Bar, she tells us about the brand culture, being a woman in a male dominated industry, and her go-to cocktail recipe you can try at home. ๐Ÿ‘€ Read the full interview with Lyanessโ€™ Veronica Di Pietrantonio

Veronicaโ€™s French 75:

  • 30 ml Gin

  • 15 ml of fresh lemon juice

  • 15 ml of sugar syrup

  • Top up with champagne

How investing in your brand purpose pays off

Analysis of cult alt milk brand Oatly shows us how standing for something and knowing your audience is more valuable than ever. By relaunching and focusing on the environment, and getting to know their โ€œstealth healthโ€ consumer, they are taking the global dairy free market by storm and this is just the beginning. ๐Ÿ‘€ Read the Anthro Industry Analysis on Oatly

Twitter avatar for @kevinleeme
Kevin Lee @kevinleeme
1/ Oatly doesn't think like the rest. They've been around for 20 years as a Swedish company fighting for attention. Last week, the oat milk company raised $200mm at a $2bn valuation. This is a lesson on creativity and how @oatly turns disadvantages into massive opportunities.
5:36 PM โˆ™ Jul 24, 2020
3,156Likes554Retweets

Alcohol is so passรฉ. Why thereโ€™s everything to play for in the low-and-no alcohol space

Glossier alumna ๐Ÿ’„ Melanie Masarin shows us how a brand can have โ€œall of the spiritโ€ and โ€œnone of the boozeโ€. Thereโ€™s a huge opportunity to stand out in a small but growing niche, and Masarinโ€™s aperitif inspired Ghia ๐Ÿน is leading the way. ๐Ÿ‘€ Read the Anthro Industry Analysis on Ghia

Video and Social Commerce

What can we learn from China about social commerce? And how does this impact our current social media strategies? ๐Ÿ‘€ Read this Medium article by Jess Li from Soma Capital

Personalisation and recommendations are the future of social, and video is the medium. Covid has accelerated video ๐ŸŽฅ People are becoming video native. Video first is sticking around - for social as well as e-commerce. It gives us more information, itโ€™s relatable and it gives your audience confidence. Ultimately, video is more human. The likes of Super Apps (e.g. WeChat) and TikTok are driving these changes. ๐Ÿ‘€ Listen to Connie Chan, GP Andreesson Horowitz, on the Business Casual podcast or read the key takeaways here

The relationship between content/product discovery ๐Ÿ” and social media is set to strenghten, and TikTokโ€™s algorithm is a potential enabler in Western markets. Chinese users see shoppable video functionality in their version of the app. Zyper founder Amber Atherton calls out the nuisance of constant ads on Instagram and Facebook. She cites TikTok as the alternative. Are we seeing the rise of an alternative content-centric business model?

  • Current: Monetisation of adverts/paid content ๐Ÿ’ฐ

  • Future: Monetisation of discovery and โฌ† social recommendations ๐Ÿ’ธ

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Amber Atherton ๐ŸŒŸ @AmberAtherton
In 2015 I was over Facebook. Each session = no value & negativity. I delete my account. Today I have the same feeling about Instagram. I am over being a part of a shopping network / how impossible it now is to see content from my friends. Time to delete..and go...full tiktok?
2:03 AM โˆ™ Jun 25, 2020
22Likes1Retweet

Facebook Advertising Boycott

The recent Facebook advertising boycott is about brands standing up to the social giantโ€™s decisions not to address hate speech ๐Ÿšซ Brands will use this time to experiment on other platforms. If these are successful, is there any reason for them to return to Facebook in future? ๐Ÿ‘‚ Listen to Amber Atherton, Zyper CEO at 13 minutes in on Bloomberg Businesssweek Podcast

If brands continue to boycott the social media giant, where will these funds be reallocated? Google ads? Investing in better content? More owned video content? Publishers and PR? ๐Ÿ‘€ Read John McCarthyโ€™s article on The Drum

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Patagonia @patagonia
Patagonia is proud to join the Stop Hate for Profit campaign. We will pull all ads on Facebook and Instagram, effective immediately, through at least the end of July, pending meaningful action from the social media giant.
10:32 PM โˆ™ Jun 21, 2020
131,853Likes25,097Retweets

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Have a great day and see you next week on Anthro!

Sanya ๐Ÿ˜Š


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