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TUMI Celebrates 50 Years With Gold Luxury Luggage | Travel Unpacked Newsletter
PLUS: RIMOWA Launches Granada & Verde Collection
Zihan Lyu
April 30, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes
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Editor’s Pick 🌟
Marketing thought leadership has a tendency towards binaries. The funnel is either completely dead or very much alive. Brand marketing is either pointless or the solution to all your problems, and ChatGPT is ending 30 years of search overnight.
At Fospha, we love the measurement challenge of any new channel that offers our clients ways to reach more customers. However, Google is still very much the biggest advertising platform. Performance Max (PMAX) and Search products alone represent around 30% of our clients’ digital share of wallet.
In uncertain times, it’s more important than ever for brands to nail these core channels, so we produced the definitive best practice guide on PMAX and Paid Search. Here were our top findings:
⚖️ Best performing brands allocate 55% of Google budget to PMAX and 12% to Paid Search.
🏆 Brands that pair Search and PMAX with ~50% of their budgets in YouTube, Demand Gen and Paid Social see optimal results.
🎨 Especially for PMAX, high-volume creative is key for AI-powered optimization.
Sector Spotlight 🎥
LUXURY TRAVEL TRENDS
TUMI’s exclusive gold-hued luggage collection, launched for its 50th anniversary, features aircraft-grade aluminum pieces in limited quantities, each individually numbered to enhance exclusivity. This campaign highlights the effectiveness of premium materials and scarcity-driven product positioning in capturing luxury consumer attention. eCommerce channels expand global access and drive urgent demand for collectible travel accessories.
BRAND BUILDING
Shay Mitchell’s Stagecoach Festival look, featuring her brand Béis luggage, seamlessly merges personal branding with aspirational lifestyle marketing, resonating with consumers seeking affordable luxury travel accessories.
Her consistent alignment of fashion-forward appearances with product promotion offers marketing professionals insights into effective influencer-brand synergy and experiential event marketing strategy.
LUXURY PRODUCT LAUNCH
RIMOWA’s Granada & Verde Collection introduces retro-inspired, Mexico-themed luggage and accessories, targeting affluent, style-conscious travelers. With color-coded customization options and a focus on functionality, these products are positioned as aspirational status symbols, supporting marketers aiming to capture premium travel and lifestyle segments with experiential, design-driven messaging.
LUXURY PERSONALIZATION EXPANSION
Louis Vuitton’s expanded Mon Monogram personalization service offers marketers a clear illustration of how heritage brands can deepen customer loyalty by enabling unique product customization across a broad range of goods.
With digital printing and rapid fulfillment, the brand responds to heightened consumer demand for individuality and seamless multichannel eCommerce experiences. This move signals a growing trend for luxury marketers to balance tradition with highly tailored offerings.
LUXURY PRODUCT COLLABORATION
GoRuck and Carryology’s third collaboration, the GRXC3 Berserker Viking Collection, debuts a premium line of four bags and boots distinguished by American and Norse artisanal materials, leather construction, and expert craftsmanship.
Designed after a 2.5-year development cycle, this limited release targets EDC enthusiasts and collectors seeking exclusivity and strategic differentiation. With a $795 flagship GR1 backpack launching April 30, the collection strategically positions both brands for enhanced prestige and engagement within the eCommerce and outdoor gear markets.
Optimization Hub ⚙️
SEARCH INNOVATION
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) integrates traditional SEO with AI-focused strategies, ensuring content is both visible in classic search results and cited by AI models like ChatGPT or Perplexity. Marketers must structure content to answer specific questions, prioritize authority, and track AI-driven citations. Adapting to GEO is essential for maintaining discoverability in an AI-driven search landscape.
DISCOVERY COMMERCE INNOVATION
TikTok Shop’s newly released playbook, developed with Accenture Song, provides marketers and brands actionable frameworks for driving growth through discovery commerce, leveraging real-time creator content and robust measurement. With TikTok Shop rapidly capturing eCommerce market share, ignoring these trends risks falling behind competitors capitalizing on content-driven online retail.
INNOVATIVE PERSONALIZATION STRATEGIES
Cookieless personalization is reshaping digital marketing by requiring brands to use first-party and zero-party data, contextual targeting, and server-side solutions instead of third-party cookies, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA. This shift enables marketers to maintain effective, consent-driven customer engagement while safeguarding user privacy. Marketers must adapt quickly to sustain relevance and trust.
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