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This year\u2019s Super Bowl highlighted a striking reality: companies are willing to spend record sums for cultural relevance they often lack the organizational capability to sustain.<\/p>\n

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With viewership projected<\/a> to rival last year\u2019s 127-plus million U.S. audience, yesterday\u2019s Super Bowl LX reinforced the event\u2019s unrivaled power to concentrate mass attention as the Seahawks and Patriots took the field and Bad Bunny delivered a halftime performance engineered to dominate global conversation. Brands paid NBCUniversal as much as $10 million for just 30 seconds of airtime \u2014 the most expensive advertising real estate in the world. Roughly 40 percent of advertisers were first-time Super Bowl participants, underscoring how aggressively companies are pursuing cultural visibility \u2014 even as many organizations still struggle to translate cultural moments into sustained growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For a few hours, those investments delivered exactly what marketers hoped for: attention, buzz, and viral engagement.<\/p>\n

For most companies, however, the days following the Super Bowl reveal a predictable reality. Cultural momentum fades. Sales lift proves temporary. Leadership teams are left asking why the largest marketing stage in the world rarely produces lasting growth.<\/p>\n

The answer has little to do with creative quality or breadth of media reach. It reflects a deeper structural problem inside the enterprise itself. Most companies have not built the capabilities required to convert cultural relevance into durable economic value.<\/p>\n

For decades, companies believed growth followed a predictable formula: awareness, consideration, conversion. The marketing funnel made markets \u2014 and consumers \u2014 feel controllable. That era is over.<\/p>\n

The infrastructure that supported it \u2014 cookies, stable audiences, and linear media consumption \u2014 is collapsing. Attention is now fragmented across creators, platforms, communities, and algorithms. Personalization technologies distribute content with extraordinary precision but rarely create shared and sustained demand at scale.<\/p>\n

At the same time, trend cycles have accelerated dramatically, reshaping how consumers engage with brands. They engage from anywhere, exit unpredictably, and return only when meaning \u2014 not messaging \u2014 pulls them back. What has replaced the marketing funnel is something executives still underestimate: culture.<\/p>\n

Culture is no longer a marketing input. It has become the operating system for growth.<\/p>\n

Consider where investment is already moving. A November 2025 IAB study projects U.S. creator-economy advertising spend will reach $37 billion this year \u2014 growing roughly four times faster than overall media spending. Nearly half of major brands now treat creator partnerships as a mandatory channel rather than an experimental one.<\/p>\n

This shift reflects a deeper truth. Consumer demand increasingly forms inside cultural ecosystems that compel participation. A tunnel walk during a major sporting event can sell out products in real time. A streaming franchise that integrates brands into characters, storylines, and social conversation can reset brand relevance overnight. A culturally fluent creator can outperform a multimillion-dollar media buy. The impact is already visible. New Balance\u2019s sustained resurgence \u2014 fueled by its integration across sport, streetwear, and creator culture \u2014 has helped grow the company into a nearly $8 billion global business, roughly doubling revenue since 2020 while dramatically increasing relevance with Gen Z, illustrating how institutionalized cultural strategy can translate directly into sustained market share gains.<\/p>\n

The Super Bowl represents the ultimate test of this reality. It remains the largest cultural stage in American commerce. But it also exposes a widening capability gap. Most companies treat cultural moments as campaigns. The companies winning today treat culture as a core enterprise capability. Brands such as New Balance, American Eagle, Gap<\/a> Inc., Sephora<\/a>, Liquid Death, and Spotify<\/a> do not rely on sporadic cultural hits. They design their organizations to consistently sense cultural signals, create culturally resonant experiences, measure impact in real time, and scale demand across product, commerce, and community ecosystems.<\/p>\n

This distinction is fast becoming one of the most consequential competitive fault lines in modern markets. Over the past two decades, most corporate transformation efforts have focused overwhelmingly on cost efficiency, scale-driven mergers and acquisitions, and digital modernization. Those initiatives often improved productivity and shareholder returns but left organizations structurally unprepared for markets shaped by fragmented attention, hyper-accelerated trend cycles, and nonlinear demand creation.<\/p>\n

Too many companies remain trapped optimizing outdated growth systems designed for stability, predictability, and media scale rather than relevance, agility, and cultural fluency. This disconnect explains why culture has become a CEO-level priority \u2014 and why incumbents with strong legacies increasingly struggle to translate brand awareness into sustained growth.<\/p>\n

Winning companies are redesigning their operating models around culture as a strategic growth engine. They are collapsing silos between storytelling and performance, brand and commerce, product and go-to-market execution, and between insight and action. Decision-making cycles are shortening. Teams are organized around fandoms, creators, and cultural moments rather than rigid functional structures or media channels. Data and analytics are tracking cultural signals alongside traditional performance metrics. Some companies are even elevating culture and entertainment leadership into the C-suite, reflecting how central these capabilities have become to growth.<\/p>\n

Culture ignites attention. Content sparks participation. Creators accelerate credibility. Commerce validates relevance. Communities amplify meaning \u2014 and the cycle repeats. This is the new growth engine. It is what I call the Culture Flywheel \u2014 where growth compounds through feedback loops, not linear funnels.<\/p>\n

Executives who dismiss culture as intangible or uncontrollable are misreading how today\u2019s markets and consumers behave. Cultural signals are among the most powerful early indicators of future demand. But capturing and acting on those signals requires new capabilities, new ways of working across the enterprise, and often new partnerships.<\/p>\n

Culture does not replace strategy. It reshapes how strategy is built and executed. Companies that institutionalize cultural relevance increasingly capture sustained market share.<\/p>\n

The irony is that cultural advantage is becoming harder \u2014 not easier \u2014 to replicate. Artificial intelligence is rapidly commoditizing content production and distribution. What remains scarce is institutionalized cultural intelligence: the organizational ability to consistently interpret cultural signals and convert them into scalable business outcomes.<\/p>\n

These capabilities cannot be purchased overnight or outsourced indefinitely. They must be deliberately built into how companies operate. In a business environment where traditional competitive advantages are increasingly fragile, culture is emerging as one of the few durable drivers of enterprise value.<\/p>\n

The Super Bowl remains the most expensive megaphone in business. The real strategic question is which companies will still be culturally relevant \u2014 and commercially advantaged \u2014 long after the final whistle.<\/p>\n

The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solely the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of\u00a0<\/em>Fortune.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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