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Founded in 2019, Studs reframed ear piercing as Earscaping® — expert piercings in a welcoming studio environment with a curated range of high-quality earrings. JBC built Studs into the category authority through founder positioning, business storytelling, and a consumer press program tied to every studio opening.
A handful of locations at kickoff. A national footprint and tier-one editorial drumbeat by 2024.
Media impressions generated for Studs in 2024.
Studios nationwide — expanded from a handful at partnership kickoff.
Category leader on Earscaping® and modern piercing.
How does a young brand turn ear piercing — a category long associated with mall kiosks and clinical dread — into a curated, fashion-credible studio experience worth covering?
Studs had the studios, the curation, and the founder voice. What it needed was a press program that established the brand as the category authority — not just a startup competing for the same conversation.
That meant landing the Series B fundraise as a business-press moment, building Earscaping® into a vocabulary editors actually use, and securing consumer reviews that proved the in-studio experience was as good as the brand promise.
An integrated press program that built category authority across business, founder, and consumer media — with every studio opening reinforced as a national press moment.
Announced and amplified the company's Series B as a tier-one business-press moment within months of partnership kickoff.
Studs leadership as the category authority on ear curation, piercing technique, and modern retail design — in business and consumer press, podcasts, and speaking engagements.
Built Earscaping® into a term editors used — turning a brand trademark into the language consumers and journalists adopt to describe a category.
Outstanding consumer and lifestyle press of the in-studio piercing experience — the kind of editorial that turns coverage into bookings.
From a handful of studios to a 30-plus national footprint, Studs scaled with editorial reinforcement at every milestone. Each studio opening became a press moment. Every founder feature reinforced category authority.
Coverage across business, retail, fashion, and consumer media — 1.3B+ impressions in 2024 alone, anchored by sustained tier-one editorial.
JBC kicked off the Studs partnership in late 2021 by announcing the company's Series B fundraise — a business-press moment that established Studs as a serious player in modern retail before it had the national footprint to match.
From there: 30+ studios nationwide, a category-defining vocabulary, and the kind of sustained editorial momentum that turns a single fundraise into category authority.
A selection of the moments and outlets that defined the partnership — business, retail, and consumer fashion press, in tandem.
Plus sustained editorial cadence across business, retail, and consumer fashion outlets.
Authority is built when editors adopt your vocabulary — and when every studio opening, fundraise, and product drop reinforces the same category-defining narrative.
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