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DoorDash's social-native Super Bowl campaign, "narrative engineers," and the AI content economy

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The End of Excess

From indulgence and spectacle to optimization and ideology, this year’s Super Bowl ads revealed a culture trading excess for control and asking brands to legitimize identity rather than invent it.

Story as a system

How to balance commercial and editorial content

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