How a fashion creator turned audience demand into a 500+ client styling business 

Maddy Gustini built a following by telling men what to wear. Now she’s turning that audience into a styling business — and a stake in a fashion app.

Gustini started creating content in 2023, not long after graduating with a degree in fashion merchandising and joining Neiman Marcus’ buying team. She focused on a gap she saw in the market: practical fashion advice for men. Within a year, she had more than 100,000 Instagram followers. Today she has nearly 300,000. 

As followers began asking her for personal fashion advice, Gustini saw an opportunity to turn that demand into a new revenue stream: personal styling. At the time, she was (and still is) making $5,000 to $10,000 a month from brand deals.

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Ad Tech Briefing: Can flipping the ad auction wrest control of ad tech from Google?

Last week, one of the industry’s premier fall ad tech gatherings took place, where host Prebid offered a sneak peek of a bold vision: an open internet without Google’s dominance.

Prebid, a non-profit organization that helps publishers monetize with open-source tools, wants to spearhead industry efforts, read: independent ad tech and publishers, to break its reliance on Google, at least in sell-side ad tech.

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