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No agency, and no budget and no campaign strategy. Atletico Madrid generated 41 million impressions and every marketing director in world football is quietly furious they did not think of it first.
Here is what actually happened.
Julian Alvarez to Barcelona rumours were circulating heavily. Most clubs in that situation issue a tight-lipped statement, say nothing publicly, or brief a journalist with carefully managed language.
Atletico Madrid posted their official "HERE WE GO" announcement offering Barcelona just four Bad Bunny tickets, an ABC subscription and a bag of sunflower seeds as their transfer counter-offer. The post was culturally precise, timing was perfect, the humour was completely native to the internet and it cost absolutely nothing to produce.
They have generated 41 million organic, unsponsored, unpaid views in hours.
This is the thing traditional football clubs still do not understand about the attention economy they are operating in.
Silence is not neutral anymore. It is just invisible. Every hour a club spends saying nothing in a news cycle is an hour someone else is owning the conversation about them.
With this one action, Atletico did not just respond to a rumour. They hijacked the entire narrative, made their rivals look like the straight man in a joke and built genuine brand affinity with a global audience that had never previously cared about Spanish transfer gossip.
The Bad Bunny reference was not accidental. The fax machine nostalgia was not random. The pipas are deeply embedded in Spanish everyday culture. Whoever constructed that post understood their audience, understood the moment and understood that the internet rewards specificity over polish every single time.
Football clubs spend millions on brand consultants and content agencies trying to manufacture exactly the kind of organic engagement Atletico produced for free on a Friday.
My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.
HERE WE GO! Hemos enviado un fax al @FCBarcelona_es con nuestra oferta de traspaso: 4 entradas para el concierto de Bad Bunny de mañana, una suscripción anual al ABC y una bolsa de pipas. Esperamos ansiosos la respuesta para preparar el ‘announce’.
La Junta Electoral del @realmadrid ya ha aprobado la candidatura de Enrique Riquelme
📅 Ahora solo queda esperar a que se fechen los comicios del club blanco
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Deberían hacer lo que hizo Taylor Swift cuando alguna de sus amigas filtraba su vida y no sabía quien. A cada una le contaba una versión y viendo que info se filtraba se descubría quien era… @florentino prueba eso
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Younger me has loved celebrating 20 years of Hannah Montana with you. This song is yours as a thank you for the life we’ve grown through together. I love you always.
“Younger You (from The Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special)” out now.
My favorite part about writing is that first spark of an idea. It can happen at any time, for any reason. The idea for the Opalite music video crash landed into my imagination when I was doing promo for The Life of a Showgirl. I was a guest on one of my favorite shows, @TheGNShow. For those of you who aren’t familiar, it’s a UK late night show where Graham Norton (the insanely charismatic and lovable host) invites a random group of actors, entertainers, musicians, etc to be on his show and we all sit there and chat like it’s a dinner party. They even serve wine. Anyway. I remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with. Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and @LewisCapaldi. All people whose work I’ve admired from afar. When we were all talking during the broadcast, Domhnall made a light hearted joke about wanting to be in one of my music videos. He’s Irish! He was joking! Except that in that moment during the interview, I was instantly struck with an *idea*. And so a week later he received an email script I’d written for the Opalite video, where he was playing the starring role. I had this thought that it would be wild if all of our fellow guests on the Graham Norton show that night, including Graham himself, could be a part of it too. Like a school group project but for adults and it isn’t mandatory. To my delight, everyone from the show made the effort to time travel back to the 90’s with us and help with this video. You might even recognize some friendly faces from The Eras Tour. I got to work with one of my favorite people in the world, Rodrigo Prieto, again! I had more fun than I ever imagined - Made new friends, metaphors, and fashion choices. It was an absolute thrill to create this story and these characters. Shot on film. The Opalite video is out now on Spotify & Apple Music.
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same reason a lot of her friends gracie, sabrina etc) hang out with charli and she doesn’t give a fuck.
cos she’s not actually losing sleep over insecure people’s one sided beef w her lmao
Estamos acabando con todo lo que consiguieron nuestros abuelos.
Hemos normalizado que la mayoría de jóvenes no se independicen antes de los 30.
Que trabajes… y cobres menos de lo que vale un alquiler en tu ciudad.
Que vivas en casa de tus padres con 27, 28, 29… y encima te sientas culpable, como si fuera por vago.
No, bro. A veces no es falta de ganas. Es que los números no salen.”
Hemos normalizado que tener pareja sea una odisea.
Que todo sea provisional: la gente, los curros, los planes.
Casarse antes de los 25 suena a locura.
Y formar una familia… ahora es ‘ser el raro’.
Y eso no es modernidad. Eso es miedo con filtro bonito.
Y mientras tanto, cada vez más divididos.
Clases sociales más separadas.
El de arriba viviendo un país… y tú viviendo otro.
Y encima nos tienen enganchados a discutir por bandos, como si nuestra vida dependiera de ganar una discusión en internet.
Justo lo que nuestros abuelos intentaron evitar: que no fueramos todos a una.
Hemos normalizado cosas que antes habrían provocado un escándalo de meses:
titulares de corrupción, tramas, gente señalada cerca del poder… y a los dos días, otra cosa.
Como si nada.
Como si la responsabilidad fuera solo para el currito y el resto jugara con otras reglas.
Y emprender… emprender aquí muchas veces es hacer malabares.
Trámites, cuotas, miedo a equivocarte, pagar antes de despegar.
Crear riqueza parece un privilegio, no un camino.
Y eso mata la ambición sana, la de levantar algo de verdad.
Y luego están los debates que se han vuelto tóxicos:
seguridad, convivencia, integración…
O estás en un extremo o en el otro.
Y si intentas decir ‘oye, se puede ser humano y también exigir normas’, te ponen una etiqueta y a otra cosa.
Yo no quiero dejarle a mis nietos un país donde trabajar no te da para vivir y donde todo se arregla con propaganda.
No pienso resignarme.
Porque si no defendemos nosotros una vida digna… nadie lo va a hacer por nosotros.
En qué momento aceptamos esto como ‘lo normal’… y cuánto más vamos a aguantar antes de decir: hasta aquí?