As hard as any number of brands in any number of categories struggle to secure the credibility of third-party earned-media recognition, sometimes it just drops into your shopping cart.
“Eleven” is the name of a psychokinetic child character in Netflix’s “Stranger Things” science-fiction/horror series that debuted in 2016, and was the third most-watched season of the digital platform’s original content in the US at the time.
As luck would have it for the Battle Creek, Michigan-based Kellogg Co., the program’s writers gave their lead character a predilection for its Eggo brand (even though English actress Millie Bobby Brown admits she...