The holiday shopping season is shaping up to be bigger, more competitive and more complicated than ever. Consumers are spending, but they’re also scrutinizing every purchase. Here’s what marketers need to understand before the year’s biggest shopping event.
Read MoreAs AI reshapes how consumers find and evaluate products, marketers are racing to improve visibility in AI-generated recommendations. But the real competitive advantage may have less to do with search optimization and more to do with the people willing to recommend a brand. For years, brands have invested heavily in…
Consumers are discovering apps through personal recommendations, questioning subscription value, and approaching AI-driven discovery with skepticism. For marketers, the next phase of app growth will depend less on acquiring downloads and more on earning a permanent place in people’s lives.
As financial anxiety reshapes holiday shopping behavior, marketers face a fundamental challenge: generating demand is no longer enough when consumers are increasingly uncertain about their ability to spend.
NordVPN’s new partnership with the Los Angeles Lakers is the latest example of a growing relationship between technology brands and professional sports.
As AI agents take control of product discovery, comparison and purchasing, marketers face a fundamental challenge to how brands create value. The real threat isn’t that consumers will stop caring about brands, but that brands may lose the opportunity to influence the decisions consumers increasingly delegate to machines.
Jenna Bromberg inherits one of America’s most recognizable fast-food brands, but recognition is no longer translating into growth
The next competitive advantage won’t come from making packaging greener. It will come from making sustainability invisible to the consumer experience.
Read MoreIn an environment flooded with content, credibility becomes the ultimate differentiator. The organizations that understand this shift—and actively shape their narratives around trust, expertise, and transparency—will be best positioned to win the next era of digital marketing.
Despite being the most digitally connected generation in history, Gen Z continues to seek out experiences that feel tangible, participatory, and human.
The future of social media marketing will not belong to the brands producing the most content. It will belong to the brands creating content that people actually remember.
Brands don’t have a marketing measurement problem. More often, they have a decision-making problem.
What a college-bound teenager can teach business leaders about growth, resilience, and achieving ambitious goals.
As AI, automation, and agentic media buying reshape commerce media, the platforms with the strongest infrastructure—not necessarily the flashiest AI tools—will be best positioned to win.
