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Early Nike.com made athletes and campaigns feel live online, and in 1999 NIKEiD beta let fans design shoes in a browser, a radical idea later honored at The Webby Awards in 2009. Nike+ GPS in 2011 turned the phone into a training partner, Nike Run Club and Training Club made coaching a daily ritual, and SNKRS reframed release day as a shared cultural event. Films like the Webby recognized Write the Future, Find Your Greatness, and Winning Isn’t for Everyone showed that brand storytelling could move through feeds with the speed of sport. In the 2020s, .SWOOSH and collaborations like Fortnite’s Airphoria opened new ways to collect, play, and participate. The result is a set of expectations Nike helped invent: You can customize in a browser, be coached in an app, join a drop in real time, and watch sport’s biggest stories unfold online.
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