Craig Brommers, American Eagle Outfitters
Prior to stepping into the job of main advertising and marketing officer for American Eagle, Craig Brommers had stints as a direct marketer at outfitters Speedo, Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch and Hole, as properly as smoke model Juul. Considering the fact that getting the promoting guide at American Eagle, Brommers has leapt headfirst into the metaverse.
To enhance its spring 2021 line of jeans, American Eagle partnered with Snapchat to launch an augmented reality filter that allowed users to preview and buy the denim using their phone digicam. In the summer time, the youth clothier further digitized with a vogue line for Bitmoji, the avatar emoticon app. And it debuted its very first line of NFTs in early November, with a trend forward twist. The tokens, which marketed for only $1, could be redeemed for a bodily patch to sew on to American Eagle’s denim. Brommers mentioned the very first “drop” offered inside 30 minutes, the 2nd within three minutes and the 3rd in just 90 seconds.
“Gen Z carries on to evolve the means in which they shop and interact with models, and to stay related with this digitally-indigenous era, we consistently evolve by staying very first to introduce innovative, just about-led initiatives that are authentic to AE,” Brommers mentioned in an email.
For holiday, American Eagle is continuing to lean into augmented reality features on Snap with a vacation catalog-design lens and the new debut of the newest model of its procuring portal on the system, Brommers mentioned.