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  "headline": "Pulled TikTok brands like Mellow Sleep into home category overhaul.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ GOLD · Social-native brand scouting · Target\n\nPulled TikTok brands like Mellow Sleep into home category overhaul.\n\nmost retailers scout brands at trade shows or through distributors. Target watches TikTok and lets audience size do the vetting. If a brand is moving units on social, it has two things: demand proof and an audience that will shop the retailer to find it. Do not pitch retailers through traditional channels first. Build proof on TikTok, hit 50K organic followers minimum, and then reach out to the buyer with a link to your sales velocity. Retailers now use social following as a proxy for demand.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/target-2026-10-19t06-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/target-2026-10-19t06-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/target-2026-10-19t06-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ GOLD · Social-native brand scouting · Target\n\nPulled TikTok brands like Mellow Sleep into home category overhaul.\n\nmost retailers scout brands at trade shows or through distributors. Target watches TikTok and lets audience size do the vetting. If a brand is moving units on social, it has two things: demand proof and an audience that will shop the retailer to find it. Do not pitch retailers through traditional channels first. Build proof on TikTok, hit 50K organic followers minimum, and then reach out to the buyer with a link to your sales velocity. Retailers now use social following as a proxy for demand.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/target-2026-10-19t06-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/target-2026-10-19t06-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/target-2026-10-19t06-3",
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      "title": "Pulled TikTok brands like Mellow Sleep into home category overhaul.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nTarget launched buzzy TikTok-born brands like Mellow Sleep into its home category this fall, per Digiday.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): most retailers scout brands at trade shows or through distributors. Target watches TikTok and lets audience size do the vetting. If a brand is moving units on social, it has two things: demand proof and an audience that will shop the retailer to find it. Do not pitch retailers through traditional channels first. Build proof on TikTok, hit 50K organic followers minimum, and then reach out to the buyer with a link to your sales velocity. Retailers now use social following as a proxy for demand.\nWhat that means for you: most retailers scout brands at trade shows or through distributors. Target watches TikTok and lets audience size do the vetting. If a brand is moving units on social, it has two things: demand proof and an audience that will shop the retailer to find it. Do not pitch retailers through traditional channels first. Build proof on TikTok, hit 50K organic followers minimum, and then reach out to the buyer with a link to your sales velocity. Retailers now use social following as a proxy for demand.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Digiday: https://digiday.com/marketing/target-bets-on-buzzy-tiktok-brands-like-mellow-sleep-to-revamp-its-home-category/.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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