eCommerce Strategy Consultant - Rick Watson - RMW Commerce Consulting

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Superplastic Raises $20M Led by Amazon

SUPERPLASTIC® is the world's top creator of animated celebs, vinyl toys & digital collectibles.

What’s a synthetic celebrity you ask?  Almost like a comic-book character that exists only in social media videos.

I can imagine this will be a big overlap with Amazon’s Twitch audience, but the company also mentioned a tie-in with Whole Foods which my brain literally cannot even comprehend.

TechCrunch: Superplastic, a creator of ‘synthetic’ influencers, raises $20M led by Amazon in deal to make TV shows and more