The Quibi Marketing Debacle

By trying to explain what Quibi was, they missed the bigger opportunity.

Barry W. Enderwick
5 min readApr 23, 2020

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UPDATE 10/21/20: After operating for barely over 6 months, Quibi is shutting down. This article was published in April of 2020 and while the marketing was clearly problematic it obviously was not the only reason for its demise.

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Barry W. Enderwick

Brand/marketing executive, Kaizen (ex Netflix). I write on startups, strategy, business, culture & design. Also Sandwiches Of History on Insta/TikTok/YouTube