Wrapped: Lessons From Spotify

04/12/2025 12 min
Wrapped: Lessons From Spotify

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Tell Us How You Feel With A Text ReviewThis episode provides an eight-point strategic blueprint for building intense brand loyalty, drawing on the success of Spotify as the primary case study for transformation. It demonstrates how Spotify moved beyond a basic utility (music streaming) by creating highly personalized, data-driven rituals like its globally anticipated "Wrapped" annual review. This framework is then directly applied to Yerba Madre, advising them to stop selling a commodity and instead focus on owning an exclusive emotional territory, defined as "aliveness." The blueprint calls for actionable tactics, including designing equivalents of "Wrapped," instituting weekly discovery rituals, and generating witty public campaigns that transform aggregate consumption statistics into shareable cultural stories.If you are interested in the original source material for this episode, just reach out to Gordon for a copy.