Your content calendar probably used to look a lot like this:

Organic post, organic post, organic post, maybe a paid advertisement or two. Match the copy to your brand voice, find the right visual, and move on to the next. But times have drastically changed.

We came, we saw, and now we’re going to talk all about it.

After the U.S. Women’s National Team won the 2019 World Cup, Nike did this:

If you’ve ever been a kid with a dream (or, ahem, a curly-haired little soccer player with a poster of Michelle Akers on her wall), that spot is a tearjerker. We were all riding high after that win—despite the controversy over goals scored, celebration moves, and the ongoing fight for pay equality—no brand more so than Nike, the reigning champ of provocative sports advertising.