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Dr. Squatch and IShowSpeed put $1 million behind a fan competition

9/1/2026

The structural weakness in most creator-brand deals is the same: the activation lives on one platform, reaches the audience in one mode, and asks fans to step outside their normal behavior to participate.

Competitions that stall usually stall there.

Squatch and IShowSpeed have put $1 million behind a fan competition designed to avoid that problem, building the contest around the existing patterns of how IShowSpeed and his audience already interact across social media, retail, and real life.

The architecture of the activation The decision to anchor the competition to all three channels (social media, retail, and real-world engagement) reflects a specific read on where IShowSpeed's audience actually lives.

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