May 26, 2026 at 1:00 CT

Cart Culture: Why F&B Brands Need a Creator Strategy That Never Sleeps

Your brand is producing content. But is it always on? Most food and beverage brands are stuck in a cycle of campaigns, bursts, and going dark — without a creator strategy that keeps running. In this conversation, we will dig into what it actually takes to build an always-on creator strategy that works for F&B brands, why most brands are optimizing for the wrong metrics, and how to build a content engine that drives real awareness without burning out your team or your budget.

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What you'll learn

Your content is running. Your creator strategy probably isn't.

In this edition of Cart Culture, Emily Steele, CEO and Co-founder of Hummingbirds, sits down with Adam Brown, Founder and President of Sircle Media, for a candid fireside chat on what it actually takes to build a creator strategy that never goes dark. Adam has been in digital marketing for 25+ years and has spent over a decade helping F&B brands like Chomps, Driscoll's, Catalina Crunch, Harvest Snaps, and Health-Ade win on social. If you are building or managing a food or beverage brand and trying to figure out how to make creator content work consistently — not just in bursts — this session will challenge how you think about content, creators, and what always-on actually means in practice.

In this conversation, we'll cover:

🔁 What "Always On" Actually Means

Why most F&B brands confuse posting frequently with having a strategy. What a real always-on creator engine looks like — and how to build one that doesn't depend on a single person or a single campaign.

📵 Why Brands Keep Going Dark

The most common reasons F&B brands lose momentum with creator content — and what the brands that stay consistent are doing differently. How to build a system that runs even when bandwidth is low.

🎯 The Creator vs. Influencer Distinction

Where influencer marketing works for F&B brands and where it quietly fails. What separates a creator who builds real awareness from one who drives impressions and nothing else.

📱 Authenticity at Scale

Why "authentic" content is harder to sustain than it looks — and when it breaks down. How to build lived-in, community-rooted creative that still feels real when you're producing it consistently.

🏪 What Winning Actually Looks Like

Real examples of F&B brands with creator strategy figured out. What they do differently, what metrics they actually care about, and what brands still getting it wrong have in common.

🎤 Straight Talk from a Practitioner

Adam Brown brings 25+ years in digital marketing, branding, and content production — and has seen the inside of F&B brands at every stage of growth as both an agency founder and an investor. This is not a theory conversation. It's a practitioner conversation.

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