Cadillac
× LaDarius Campbell
Creator Partnership Proposal · Escalade IQ
Escalade IQ · Dallas
Where style, luxury, family and fatherhood intersect.
My journey began by helping men optimise their wardrobes. Over time, my brand evolved into helping men optimise every area of their lives. Style remains a staple in my content, but luxury, family and lifestyle have naturally become the pillars of the brand — reaching an audience of more than one million followers across my platforms.
I've worked with over a hundred brands and executed campaigns across luxury, fragrance, jewellery, footwear, tech and entertainment. But the reason any of it works is that the styling and the family are not two different channels. They're the same channel.
That is also, precisely, what an Escalade is for — bridging the gap between style, luxury and family.
Three quarters men, aged 25 to 54. Which is to say: people buying this vehicle, right now.
That demographic is not a coincidence and it isn't decoration. Men between 25 and 54 sit in exactly three states, and all three end at a dealership:
Getting married, first child on the way. The two-door becomes untenable. First real vehicle decision of an adult life.
Second and third child, car seats, school runs. The current vehicle is now visibly too small.
Income has caught up with taste. The next vehicle is a statement about how far they've come.
I don't have an audience that likes cars. I have an audience arriving at the moment they need one.
Escalade IQ · Dallas–Fort Worth
Luxury isn't a stretch for this brand. It's already in the record.
Creed Fragrances flew us to the French countryside for a partnership — a house that does not lend its name loosely. That relationship exists because the audience I've built buys at that level, and because the work holds up next to it.
Ralph Lauren trusted me with Christmas — the busiest and least forgiving moment of the retail year, when a heritage house has the least room to be wrong.
And parked behind us in those pictures, a year before any of this: a classic Cadillac. I didn't arrange that. It's simply where this aesthetic already lives — which is the argument I'd be making anyway.
Creed · French countryside · classic Cadillac in frame
Aspirational enough to strive toward. Approachable enough to relate to.
That is the hardest position in luxury to hold, and it's the one Cadillac and I both occupy.
As a man from humble beginnings, my brand feels approachable. As a man currently at the height of his career, my brand feels aspirational. With that combination comes trust, and trust is what converts into buying power. I believe the intersection of approachability and aspiration is the strongest bond my brand and the Cadillac brand share.
Around the time I first worked with Cadillac, my grandmother passed. The cars that carried our family that day were Cadillacs. Two weeks later I was taking my daughters on a brand trip to Disney World, and I could picture the same badge in the driveway for that trip too.
Most luxury marques can only hold one of those occasions. Being present at both doesn't diminish Cadillac — it's the whole reason the badge means what it means to families like mine. A premium experience no matter the circumstance.
Aspiration nobody can reach is just advertising. Aspiration you can picture yourself inside is a purchase.
Milestone content · existing work
Three digital assets for Cadillac, approaching ten million views.
A short Escalade IQ loan came through Weber Shandwick with nothing long-term attached. What came out of it has run far past the length of the loan.
882K TikTok likes and 370K Instagram likes across the three assets. But shares and reposts are the operative figures: likes measure approval, shares measure earned distribution into networks a media buy does not reach.
In the same window I also shot second-row feature content, unbriefed — rear entertainment, seating, cabin. Demonstrated by an actual family instead of described in a specification.
Assets — links included in the accompanying note
Second-row feature content · unbriefed · same flight
A repeatable calendar, not a campaign that ends.
The value of a vehicle in my hands is that it goes from a depreciating asset to an investment that actively drives sales — while positioning Cadillac as the luxury family and lifestyle vehicle. These concepts fit directly into content I am already making.
Outfit and styling content shot on location with the vehicle present. Highest-volume format, running weekly.
“POV: the drive home from work is relaxing.” Positions the vehicle as something that makes a father more present, while showing features in use.
“Why this is the best stylish-dad vehicle.” The variable swaps — vacation, electric, family — so one format runs all year.
“What I wore to pick my daughters up.” Out the door, into the vehicle, gone.
Washing the car as a family. One of the few auto formats not about driving at all.
The unglamorous use case that actually sells a three-row vehicle to a household.
Range, second row, lighting, audio — shown in use. One already shot and unreleased.
Beyond content: I'd also welcome hosting ride-and-drive events — putting my audience in the seat, in this market. I don't have a fixed format in mind and would rather build it with your team than propose one cold.
Menswear · editorial
A single vehicle with uncapped marketing and earning potential.
Structure — ownership of an Escalade IQ, exchanged for a contracted content programme with monthly deliverables
Term — a mutually agreed timeframe
Beyond term — continued Cadillac content organically
Usage rights — organic repost and boost across Cadillac-owned channels during term; whitelisting and paid usage negotiable
A loan produces a campaign. Ownership produces a life the car is actually in.
Starting off in the green.
Across roughly ten million views of Cadillac content I have already produced, the probability that none of it moved a single buyer off a German or Japanese luxury SUV and onto a Cadillac is very low.
Measured against what marketing normally spends to acquire one Escalade buyer, this partnership is not a vehicle expense. It's a customer acquisition line with a marketing arm attached to it.
The content I've already produced delivered roughly ten million views. Run that against your own CPMs and the media value likely exceeds the cost of the vehicle — before we've made anything new.
This partnership has the opportunity to sell more than vehicles. It has the opportunity to shape culture.
I have no doubt this partnership will positively impact Cadillac's bottom line. What further excites me is the impact it can have on fatherhood and masculinity.
Together, I believe we can redefine what it means to be a modern man — present as a father, intentional in his relationships, successful in business, and fully engaged at home. A man whose drive isn't just internal, but is tangibly reflected in the vehicle he drives.