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I'm David Klingbeil, founder and CEO of Submarine.ai, a marketing intelligence platform that tracks how thousands of luxury and beauty brands perform on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. I'm a professor of luxury marketing at NYU, I taught at HEC Paris and Institut Français de la Mode, and I've lectured at Columbia. Before all that, I worked in Google's advertising division. The Submarine data feeds what I write, so you get numbers and receipts, not just opinions.
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