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  • Digital

Why Coca-Cola still needs a third party to explain who buys its product

  • Digital

LinkedIn’s redesign proved something most marketers still refuse to accept about their audience

  • Analysis

Australian researchers say travel could be one of the more overlooked contributors to healthy ageing — not because it is relaxing, but because of what it does to four key biological systems

  • Digital

USPS betting that internet retailers will circle back to catalogs

  • Digital

What happens when the firm you hired to build your brand has never built its own

  • The Noise

Accenture keeps buying capabilities it used to claim it already had

  • Digital

The mailbox is the last uncontested attention channel, and most marketers are wasting it

  • Psychology

Your customers are already writing your best marketing copy — are you using it?

  • Psychology

Your abandoned cart strategy is recovering sales and training customers to never pay full price

  • News

Organizations keep migrating bad data to better systems and wondering why nothing improves

  • Psychology

More data, less clarity: the customer integration trap marketers keep falling into

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Psychology

Australian researchers say travel could be one of the more overlooked contributors to healthy ageing — not because it is relaxing, but because of what it does to four key biological systems

Your customers are already writing your best marketing copy — are you using it?

Your abandoned cart strategy is recovering sales and training customers to never pay full price

More data, less clarity: the customer integration trap marketers keep falling into

Elon Musk said SSRIs zombify people. I took them for 18 months and I know what he means

What 15 years of Bitcoin crises taught us about decentralized money

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Politics

Why “we’re too small for GDPR” is the most expensive assumption in marketing

White House banned Anthropic in February. Now its own agencies are negotiating classified access to Mythos.

White House banned Anthropic in February. Now its own agencies are negotiating classified access to Mythos.

Why doctors are prescribing gardening clubs instead of pills — and why some patients hate it

Why doctors are prescribing gardening clubs instead of pills — and why some patients hate it

How Trump turned provocation into a workshopped engagement strategy — and why outrage only helps

How Trump turned provocation into a workshopped engagement strategy — and why outrage only helps

With Democratic favorable views of Israel at 19%, the Iran war has accelerated a party-wide fracture

With Democratic favorable views of Israel at 19%, the Iran war has accelerated a party-wide fracture

The firehose strategy: AI-era propaganda doesn't aim to persuade — it aims to make citizens stop caring

The firehose strategy: AI-era propaganda doesn’t aim to persuade — it aims to make citizens stop caring

The quiet math of deportation: ICE data under Trump 2.0 tells a more complicated story

The quiet math of deportation: ICE data under Trump 2.0 tells a more complicated story

The people who never appear in the briefing slides: Cuba-Russia intelligence and its real casualties

The people who never appear in the briefing slides: Cuba-Russia intelligence and its real casualties

How U.S. sanctions on Venezuela crushed ordinary businesses while the regime adapted and survived

How U.S. sanctions on Venezuela crushed ordinary businesses while the regime adapted and survived

Why MAGA's most dangerous problem isn't defection — it's disengagement

Why MAGA’s most dangerous problem isn’t defection — it’s disengagement

A Biden NSC spokesperson just validated Trump's naval blockade — and no Democrat objected

A Biden NSC spokesperson just validated Trump’s naval blockade — and no Democrat objected

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Culture

The gap between your brand guidelines and your customer’s actual experience is your real strategic problem

The Ticketmaster verdict is a legal victory. For fans, it arrived as grief, not vindication
Bond 26 has a director, a writer, and a producer — the missing actor is the point

Bond 26 has a director, a writer, and a producer — the missing actor is the point

Spielberg built the franchise machine — now he says it's eating Hollywood alive

Spielberg built the franchise machine — now he says it’s eating Hollywood alive

The blockbuster that promises pain instead of triumph: how Dune Part Three breaks Hollywood's hero formula

The blockbuster that promises pain instead of triumph: how Dune Part Three breaks Hollywood’s hero formula

Why Billy Crystal is rebuilding his Palisades home on a Broadway stage, eight shows a week

Why Billy Crystal is rebuilding his Palisades home on a Broadway stage, eight shows a week

Disney cut 1,000 jobs with compassion and respect — and that made the grief harder to name

Disney cut 1,000 jobs with compassion and respect — and that made the grief harder to name

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Digital

Why Coca-Cola still needs a third party to explain who buys its product

LinkedIn’s redesign proved something most marketers still refuse to accept about their audience

USPS betting that internet retailers will circle back to catalogs

What happens when the firm you hired to build your brand has never built its own

The mailbox is the last uncontested attention channel, and most marketers are wasting it

You don’t have an audience on X. You have borrowed access to one, and the terms keep changing.

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Analysis

Australian researchers say travel could be one of the more overlooked contributors to healthy ageing — not because it is relaxing, but because of what it does to four key biological systems

Elon Musk said SSRIs zombify people. I took them for 18 months and I know what he means

Corner stores learned to survive by becoming everything a supermarket refused to be

The USPS surcharge was supposed to end when the recession did. It didn’t.

Hilton figured out that loyalty lives in the details nobody asks about

Young marketing leaders didn’t disrupt their way up. They filled the gaps their organizations were too comfortable to address

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News

Organizations keep migrating bad data to better systems and wondering why nothing improves

Everyone believes in inbound marketing. Far fewer can make it work. The difference comes down to one step.

HiddenVM Malware

How CRON#TRAP malware turned trusted tech into a weapon

Hedge funds are buying Tasmania one paddock at a time and calling it climate strategy

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