Latest edition: 23 September 2026London — published continuously since 2026Free forever
The Founder Gazette
Startup news, held to newspaper standards

Filed under: marketing

9 stories

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Startup news

Vivobarefoot's falls research is five years old. Its campaign stars an NFL player

Two peer-reviewed papers put the shoemaker's footwear in front of people who had already fallen. Its September 2026 global campaign is built around a professional footballer.

255 · 21 September 2026
Startup news

GoHalves opens founding membership before matching begins

The London startup wants tech brands to file a partner profile and pay up to £249 a month for co-marketing matches.

236 · 13 September 2026
Founder practice

One startup bans video at its own launch events

The rule is simple: no cameras in the room when the product is shown. The reasoning is that a product should be able to survive the excitement built around it.

177 · 2 September 2026
Tips

Earned media supplies 84% of AI citations, study finds

Muck Rack looked at more than 25 million links cited by ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Paid placements accounted for 0.3% of them. Your homepage is not where the machines do their reading.

96 · 19 August 2026
Founder practice

Beauty founder drops ad agency, learns Meta Ads herself in a day

Allison McNamara of MARA Beauty took her Meta advertising in-house after tiring of the results. Inc. reports her return on ad spend then nearly doubled.

75 · 13 August 2026
Positioning

Sutherland's Buc-ee's lesson: fix the pain nobody else fixes

Ogilvy's vice chairman argues that repairing a neglected customer annoyance beats adding features or cutting price. The example he reaches for is a chain of American petrol stations known for its lavatories.

67 · 12 August 2026
Founder comms

Answer one question and you have a comms strategy

A ghostwriter who has drafted for founders says most of them freeze at the same point: they think they need to be vulnerable or contrarian, when all they need is a reason they started.

66 · 12 August 2026
Tips

Three places to put a press logo where buyers actually pause

Coverage in the footer does nothing, argues a marketing adviser writing in Entrepreneur. His case is that the same logo works only when it sits beside a price, a form or a bold claim.

44 · 10 August 2026
Marketing

Fake deodorant brand won AI recommendations within weeks

A marketer invented a deodorant company with no stock. Inc. reports that recommendation systems began suggesting it over real products.

41 · 9 August 2026