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How Notion Turns Its Superfans into a Community-Led Marketing Engine

How Notion Turns Its Superfans into a Community-Led Marketing Engine

From SXSW coffee shops to AI agents with personality, Notion’s EMEA marketing lead Áine Dundas is building a brand that hands the mic to its users and lets them co-create what comes next.

Marketing Brandmakers

Hannah Bowler

Hannah Bowler

May 28, 2026 — 4 min read
Why Founders Are Building Their Brands in Public

Why Founders Are Building Their Brands in Public

A new wave of founders are turning product development, missteps and everyday decisions into a live feed for social in order to forge deeper brand loyalty from the get go. But what do they need to be mindful of?

Marketing

Hannah Bowler

Hannah Bowler

May 27, 2026 — 5 min read
Where Do Brand Leaders Go for Inspiration?

Where Do Brand Leaders Go for Inspiration?

For the first season of Brandmakers, Hannah Bowler spoke to leaders across some of today's innovative brands, such as Notion, Zalando and Pinterest. During each interview she asked where the brand marketers go to reset and refill, and how they keep their minds fresh for new ideas.

Brandmakers Creativity

Hannah Bowler

Hannah Bowler

May 26, 2026 — 5 min read
How Dance Dance Revolution Rewired Pop Music (and Perhaps Invented Our Adaptive Future)

How Dance Dance Revolution Rewired Pop Music (and Perhaps Invented Our Adaptive Future)

There is a direct line from a sweaty mall arcade in 2001 to the hyper-saturated pop landscape of 2026 that we haven’t acknowledged properly yet, writes MassiveMusic’s Roger Sho Gehrmann.

Culture

Roger Gehrmann

Roger Gehrmann

May 25, 2026 — 6 min read
The Most Radical Move in Marketing: Make People Feel Alive

The Most Radical Move in Marketing: Make People Feel Alive

Make people feel alive, not numb: Nishma Patel Robb explains why joyful, human marketing beats slop, and how brands can rediscover the connection they have with their audience.

Marketing

Hannah Bowler

Hannah Bowler

May 23, 2026 — 3 min read
The Internet is Too Generic by Design

The Internet is Too Generic by Design

What happens to your brand when most people never visit your website again? In a recent talk, R/GA’s executive creative director Rob Northam argued that the internet we’ve been designing for is built on assumptions that no longer hold, and that AI is about to make those faults impossible to ignore.

Tech Brand Building

Alex Zeevalkink

Alex Zeevalkink

May 21, 2026 — 6 min read
Why Your Branded AI Needs a Soul

Why Your Branded AI Needs a Soul

We trust people, not machines. Plenty of brands are racing to bolt AI onto their products, but very few stop to ask whether what they’re building actually feels like them. If your AI does not behave like a member of your team, your audience won’t trust and adopt it. So how do we solve this?

Tech

Rosh Singh

Rosh Singh

May 20, 2026 — 4 min read
Brandmakers with Áine Dundas, Head of Marketing, EMEA at Notion

Brandmakers with Áine Dundas, Head of Marketing, EMEA at Notion

Notion's Áine Dundas on why the brand leads with community and small, thoughtful experiences, how formats like Café Notion turn power users into the marketing engine, and what its evolving visual identity says about infinite use cases.

Brandmakers Marketing

Hannah Bowler

Hannah Bowler

May 19, 2026 — 1 min read

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