Corporate Hippie (spelt ' Hippy ' in British English), also referred to as Capitalist Hippie or Corporate Psychedelia , was an aesthetic and marketing tactic prevalent from the Late 1960s to Early 1970 s that attempted to appropriate the 1960s counterculture and Hippie movement for corporate applications. The phenomenon emerged out of the mainstream popularity of Flower Power . This aesthetic bridged the gap from the Pop Art and Psychedelia of the late 1960s to the Earth Tones of the 1970s.

The Hippie and psychedelic movements began in the Mid- 1960s (c, 1965-1967), promoting values such as anti-war, peace & love, recreational drug use, and rising to popularity largely in the psychedelic music scene. The scene primarily emerged from the American West Coast psychedelic scene with the earliest recordings being psychsploitation releases such as Kim Fowley's "The Trip" (1965), which sought to exploit the growing counterculture for profit. The Hippie movement reached new heights with the beginning of the Summer of Love , which gave corporate entities incentives to appeal to the movement.

By 1967, Hippie -influenced fashion and music had begun to become widely recognized in the mainstream. This saw corporations attempting to appeal to the broader public by using visuals associated with Psychedelia and Flower Power , spawning Corporate Hippie . These attempts at appealing to the youth was in direct conflict with the Hippie subculture's distain towards the "establishment", Corporate Hippie being largely consumed by normal people who adopted Hippie style and fashion but had little connection with the subculture as a whole.

By 1970, the zeitgeist of the 1960s and Hippie movement had begun to see decline, especially in the United States. This was largely due to the fact that the Hippie movement was no longer an underground subculture and had become mainstream, prominent motifs such as long hair or psychedelic rock music being adopted by general public; this diminished the exclusiveness the Hippie subculture embodied. Events such as Tate–LaBianca murders committed by Charles Manson and his cult in August 1969 also tarnished the reputation of the Hippie subculture in the eyes of some Americans, further contributing to its decline.

By 1973, Corporate Hippie and the Hippie subculture as a whole largely fell out of mainstream popularity, replaced by the Earth Tones style in advertising.

Corporate Hippie 's visuals can be described as a more watered-down, mainstream version of Psychedelia , both containing the same core visuals. Corporate Hippie , however, is less abstract and more consumer-friendly.

Common visual motifs include:

The people depicted in Corporate Hippie advertisements usually sport fashion and clothing reminiscent of Hippie fashion.