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The Daily Mail is claiming that Meghan's products will NOT feature in her upcoming show. Page Six is additionally claiming that her products won't be available for purchase until 'a few months' after the show is aired.

Daily Mail Article
Page Six Article

I hope this is not true, because it does not strike me as being a great strategy. The product launch will almost certainly gain attention when it finally comes, but surely it would make more sense to launch the show and the products together? How many viewers will remember to follow up when the products are finally available? How many other shiny objects will have demanded their attention by then? Timing is everything, I fear.

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Hopefully the daily mail is wrong in this case, I do agree though timing is everything and the public has a short attention span
 
GondorHasNoPants said:
The Daily Mail is claiming that Meghan's products will NOT feature in her upcoming show. Page Six is additionally claiming that her products won't be available for purchase until 'a few months' after the show is aired.

Daily Mail Article
Page Six Article

I hope this is not true, because it does not strike me as being a great strategy. The product launch will almost certainly gain attention when it finally comes, but surely it would make more sense to launch the show and the products together? How many viewers will remember to follow up when the products are finally available? How many other shiny objects will have demanded their attention by then? Timing is everything, I fear.

(Mods, if either of these links is inappropriate to share here, please remove my post).
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Well I suppose that means they haven’t had to reedit to keep up with the brand name change which is good. I think we all assumed there has been a long term plan and the show was filmed with selling the products in mind but it seems- as ever ;)- there wasn’t a well thought out plan as it is clearly loads better to have products available immediately i also don’t get the impression from a few different articles now that Meghan will be seen using or making anything or her own so there won’t necessarily be the opportunity to make things and sell what she has used in the show. It all seems a big miss to me. Basically sounds like they’ll be left with promotional merchandise rather than real new products but we’ll see. Tbh it made me wonder if Netflix is wanting to see if the show is a success before committing to launching products from it?
 
tommy100 said:
Well I suppose that means they haven’t had to reedit to keep up with the brand name change which is good. I think we all assumed there has been a long term plan and the show was filmed with selling the products in mind but it seems- as ever ;)- there wasn’t a well thought out plan as it is clearly loads better to have products available immediately i also don’t get the impression from a few different articles now that Meghan will be seen using or making anything or her own so there won’t necessarily be the opportunity to make things and sell what she has used in the show. It all seems a big miss to me. Basically sounds like they’ll be left with promotional merchandise rather than real new products but we’ll see. Tbh it made me wonder if Netflix is wanting to see if the show is a success before committing to launching products from it?
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I wonder what is the reason of this huge list of blatant Meghan's business mistakes- inability to fulfill correctly the application form, inability to search the name for potential brand to check if its' not used already, inability to find not used logo brand, ect... Meghan has no staff anymore and that's why she's doing everything on her own and with no business acumen she simply doesnt' know how proceed correctly? Or she doesn't listen to her staff, lawyers or everybody who's daring to give her advices? Because so far she's making one mistake after... It looks as she was making sabotage of her own actions.... :unsure:
 
zarat said:
I wonder what is the reason of this huge list of blatant Meghan's business mistakes- inability to fulfill correctly the application form, inability to search the name for potential brand to check if its' not used already, inability to find not used logo brand, ect... Meghan has no staff anymore and that's why she's doing everything on her own and with no business acumen she simply doesnt' know how proceed correctly? Or she doesn't listen to her staff, lawyers or everybody who's daring to give her advices? Because so far she's making one mistake after... It looks as she was making sabotage of her own actions.... :unsure:
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And at the same time receiving loads of free publicity both in the printed, on line media and social media.
 
GondorHasNoPants said:
She definitely attracts a lot of attention in whatever she does. But is that her end goal? Is she merely trying to be a famous name? Or is she trying to leverage the attention to become financially / commercially / artistically successful as well?
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Eyes on her new show. She and Netflix don’t care if people watch to see if it’s a train wreck; they just want people to watch.
 
kalnel said:
Eyes on her new show. She and Netflix don’t care if people watch to see if it’s a train wreck; they just want people to watch.
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Fans will watch the series , others will only continue to watch if the first couple of episodes draw them in. Could this type of programme attract a second series. That will be up to Netflix
 
GondorHasNoPants said:
She definitely attracts a lot of attention in whatever she does. But is that her end goal? Is she merely trying to be a famous name? Or is she trying to leverage the attention to become financially / commercially / artistically successful as well?
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This is a great short term way to gain fame, but my continuously being in the media for drama after drama for any of her business ventures will surely backfire long term as eventually the mud sticks as it were and people will look elsewhere for brands and people who don't bring such baggage with them.
 
According to attached the page 6 article there is to be no pop up shops in shopping malls.
 
The designer of the "As Ever" clothing brand was interviewed by the NY Times. Some key quotes:

Mr Kolski says he is not planning any legal recourse.

Mr Kolski also stressed that, despite reports in the tabloids to the contrary, he harbors no resentment toward the Duchess of Sussex.

"What it feels like is out there people are making comments, and the media they want to create a rift between us, but there isn't."

As of Friday afternoon, however, matters of trademark law were not on Mr. Kolski's mind. He was busy dealing with the surge of interest in his fashion line.

"It has brought a new set of eyes to my business, " Mr Kolski said. "That's the positive for me. More people are aware of me now. So will it hurt my business in the future? I don't think so?"

www.nytimes.com

Meghan’s New Name? He’s Been Using It for Years.

The founder of a New York clothing brand learned that he had something in common with the Duchess of Sussex this week: a business called As Ever.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
I'm glad the publicity has brought the NY As Ever some interest. They are a small company, and don't deserve to be financially or commercially harmed.

The two companies should be able to co-exist, as long as Meghan's As Ever and this New York As Ever don't have overlapping products. Which shouldn't be a problem, given what we have seen of Meghan's product intentions so far. She might sell a few small clothing or clothing-adjacent items, but she is not intending to become a full-on fashion and clothing brand.
 
Meghan won’t be able to sell any clothing or clothing adjacent items. Her trademark was partially rejected because there is already a company in China that sells clothing under that name. She had to amend her trademark to remove the clothing category.

Meghan Markle has been barred from selling any clothing under her new ‘As Ever’ brand because of the name’s similarity to a cut-price Chinese clothing company.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal documents filed at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in October 2022 by Meghan’s high-powered lawyers applied for permission to sell aprons and other items of clothing- along with a long list of products including jams and dog biscuits - under the ‘As Ever’ name.

But USPTO issued a 145-page ‘partial rejection’ of Meghan’s trademark application in July 2023 saying she could not sell clothing because her company’s name was too similar to Chinese ‘fast fashion’ brand ASEVER.

ASEVER, based in Shenzhen, China is a clothing company which supplies popular high street stores like H&M.
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A Los Angeles trademark lawyer said last night: ‘If she sells clothing under the As Ever brand she risks being sued.’
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I honestly don’t understand her reasoning for not using a different name. Not only because it’s similar to another company, but because it also limits her brand. Aprons, tote bags, oven mitts and t-shirts are big for lifestyle brands and now she can’t sell any of those things. Why take money off the table and limit your brand?

Mr. Kolski didn’t trademark the name, plus he’d be going against a multimillion dollar company (Netfix). So he might not feel he has much legal recourse. Hopefully all the publicity will be good for his business.

Pamela Anderson has a cooking show called, “Pamela’s Cooking with Love” and people have pointed out how similar it is to Meghan’s Netflix show (With Love, Meghan).

The problem with celeb cooking shows is most of them follow the same format and come out looking the same. Unless you bring something unique, it’s hard to stand out.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Meghan is accused of ripping off Pamela Anderson's lifestyle show

Pamela's cooking show launches this week - but some fans have been left outraged on the Hollywood icon's behalf after spotting the similarities between the trailers for her series and Meghan's.
www.dailymail.co.uk
 
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It’s a bit odd that Hello! Canada would call her “LA-based” when Suits was filmed in Toronto.
 
Prinsara said:
It’s a bit odd that Hello! Canada would call her “LA-based” when Suits was filmed in Toronto.
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She was LA-based before that though, for a big chunk of her life. She’s from there and did the struggling working actress years before her biggest role took her to Canada.
 
I follow another actress on social media who acts (not as the lead) in a series that is filmed in Toronto, but she only goes there for 1 or at most 2 weeks at a time to shoot her scenes..maybe ot was similar for Meghan in Suits days?
 
HRHHermione said:
She was LA-based before that though, for a big chunk of her life. She’s from there and did the struggling working actress years before her biggest role took her to Canada.
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So put another way, Meghan went from being an LA-based struggling actress back to being a working royal, and on one of the largest platforms for charitable entrepreneurship. She is now an LA-based struggling not quite sure what.
 
Meghan lived in Canada for all or the better part of filming Suits, she may have spent chunks of time in LA but she was more Toronto-based than LA-based. Also she started The Tig a few years after she started Suits, so the lifestyle guru part was definitely during her time in Toronto. She had another blog prior to The Tig but it was not a lifestyle blog.
 
Queen Claude said:
Meghan lived in Canada for all or the better part of filming Suits, she may have spent chunks of time in LA but she was more Toronto-based than LA-based. Also she started The Tig a few years after she started Suits, so the lifestyle guru part was definitely during her time in Toronto. She had another blog prior to The Tig but it was not a lifestyle blog.
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Right. The way H!C doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge her as the formerly-“Toronto based actress” is interesting.
 
A good report of what was actually said here in People magazine

Prince Harry Talks Fatherhood and Why He’s Never Voted in Surprise L.A. Appearance ;-

This intrigued me "Following Prince Harry’s remarks, he joined Mark Suster, Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures, for a Q&A. The conversation ranged from a deeper discussion about service, leadership and Harry’s military background to more light-hearted, rapid-fire personal questions.

I want to know what was said!
 
People magazine conveniently left out parts of the speech, aren’t they? (And I find the expression “through the lens” pretentious, what’s wrong with “point of view”?)

Also, technically nobody kept him from voting in UK. It’s just that it would have been a faux pas. Again, semantics.
 
Has there ever been a royal who voted in an election? Just curious.
 
Maryrose said:
Has there ever been a royal who voted in an election? Just curious.
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I believe that it is possible that one of the non-working royal family members have, but have chosen to keep that information private. I believe that anyone who is considered to be a styled and titled working royal would respect the tradition to not vote to avoid controversy.
 
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