<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Kalo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kalo]]></description><link>https://explore.joinkalo.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:13:40 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://explore.joinkalo.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle Monster didn't launch a collection. They grew a garden.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Veggie Garden at the Pizzaslime Estate drew 10,375 guests and generated up to 25 million impressions — before a single ad was placed. Kalo's creator network was the infrastructure that turned an art installation into a media event. When a sunglasses brand builds a garden and the internet shows up. Gentle Monster doesn't do conventional. Their stores are art installations. Their campaigns are experiences. And for the April 2025 preview of their upcoming "Veggie" collection, they didn't...]]></description><link>https://explore.joinkalo.com/post/gentle-monster-veggie-creator-campaign-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a31ae0a655fbab8671091eb</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:36:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b9c909_d4232614a6084ad0a91b0b08e779f5ab~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_642,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marc Perkins</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Segway dominated festival season. Nobody saw an ad.]]></title><description><![CDATA[When 100,000 people descend on the desert, the last thing they want is a banner ad. So Segway didn't run one. Instead, they sent creators — and the results were 4x every KPI they walked in with. The smartest media buy at Festival Season wasn't a media segway-dominated-festival-season-nobody-saw-an-adbuy. Every brand wants to "win" Festival Season. Most of them buy a sponsored stage, a branded activation, or a social ad targeting attendees. Segway took a different approach: they put their...]]></description><link>https://explore.joinkalo.com/post/segway-coachella-creator-campaign-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a31998a655fbab86710617c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:28:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b9c909_341dbd0bfa0e402d9ce4d6d6128c0a90~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marc Perkins</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[150 million reasons the creator economy advertising is the media buy.]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Rise Festival opened its gates, 86 creators opened their cameras. What happened next is a masterclass in what programmatic reach looks like when it flows through real people — not banner ads. The brief was simple. The results were not. Rise Festival — one of the most visually electric events on the summer calendar — needed reach that matched its ambition. Not a handful of mega-influencers posting glossy shots to disengaged audiences. Real reach. Distributed reach. The kind that hits a...]]></description><link>https://explore.joinkalo.com/post/rise-festival-recap</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a318a0b21920c994c7754fb</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:06:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b9c909_2f4da7626d794b879503bf049029aa8d~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_187,h_269,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marc Perkins</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>