The Business of Pop Culture Episode 1: Cocaine Bear & the Future of Meme IP

Published 10 March 2023

Author
Christian Ward
5 min read

The Business of Pop Culture is a weekly video series from Stylus exploring the intersection of entertainment, media, online culture and consumer engagement. In each episode, we analyse a key pop culture trend from the perspective of branding, marketing and consumer engagement. We take a deep dive into the topic, put it into a wider pop-cultural context, examine the consumer drivers catalysing it and discuss the implications for current and future brand engagement.

Published 10 March 2023

Author
Christian Ward

The Business of Pop Culture is a weekly video series from Stylus exploring the intersection of entertainment, media, online culture and consumer engagement. In each episode, we analyse a key pop culture trend from the perspective of branding, marketing and consumer engagement. We take a deep dive into the topic, put it into a wider pop-cultural context, examine the consumer drivers catalysing it and discuss the implications for current and future brand engagement.

In this episode, we consider the new movie everyone’s talking about – Cocaine Bear – and ask: will memes be the next source of IP (intellectual property) for entertainment studios?