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# The Daily Trend Report with giovanni gallucci: August 18, 2026 Good morning. This is giovanni gallucci, joined by Chloe Dawn and Rachel Donovan, and this is the Daily Trend Report. Morning, giovanni. ## In this episode **Social Media.** So Eddie put this near the top of his stack, and it's the kind of thing that sounds like big-brand news until you actually look at the mechanics. Starbucks just became the first brand to pilot TikTok's Custom Creator Network. **Clean Label Food and Beverage.** Okay, my desk, and this one is a numbers story that Kendall ran down and Travis had flagged right under it. Whey protein isolate is trading around eleven dollars a pound. **Content Creation Tactics.** Last stretch, and this one's straight off what actually shipped this week. Eddie pulled two videos off the tactics desk that had no business working, and both went nuclear. ## Quick takeaways - Pick the three people who already post, not the whole staff. Give them a one-page yes-you-can note, and put spend behind the best thing they've already made instead of reshooting it in a studio. - Don't script it. Find the good post and boost it. The reason it works is that nobody in marketing touched it. - Point the budget at profile follows and saves to the brand account, not likes on their post. That's how you learn which of your people actually pulls strangers back to you. - When your input cost jumps, say so on camera before a shopper notices the price. Thirty seconds, plain language, here's what moved and here's why. Confidence sells in a nervous aisle. - Put the receipt in the frame. Hold up the actual price chart, blur what you have to, and let people see it instead of taking your word for it. Rough evidence beats a clean claim right now. - Build one product's whole content lane around where it comes from and why you didn't cut it. Make the sourcing decision the story, not a line on the back panel. - Shoot one unbroken take, straight to camera, under thirty seconds, and put the whole premise in the title before your first word. The person who actually loads the truck at four in the morning beats any polished brand film you can afford. - State the stakes in the first two seconds. Eleven million people stayed four minutes because the girl told them what she was risking. Give the viewer a reason not to leave. - Use original audio or no audio lock, not a licensed track. Your brand account is shut out of the trending songs anyway, and the one-take formats are the ones the platform won't strip. ## Sources cited - Daily cross-LLM trend reports: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Copilot ## About the show The Daily Trend Report is a daily briefing on social media, clean-label food and beverage, and content, social, and AI for operators. Hosted by giovanni gallucci with a rotating cohost. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily-trend-report/id1896763846 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033jcZwbZNGKpeUTRJvt1J . . . | Strategy and creative are mine. AI helps produce it.

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:35) - Social Media
• (04:57) - Clean Label Food and Beverage
• (09:01) - Content Creation Tactics
• (12:51) - Outro