Why 67% of Bangladesh’s Transaction Value Still Moves In Cash
A shopkeeper in Old Dhaka used to keep five QR stickers on his counter, one for each bank or wallet his customers might use. Since 1 July he has needed…
The Cost Of A Prompt: How Resource-Intensive is Everyday AI?
AI has made our lives easier, but every prompt comes with a hidden environmental cost that often goes unnoticed. While stopping AI use may not be practical, using it thoughtfully…
Two Readers, One Page: Writing for the Customer and the Algorithm at the Same Time
Take a jacket. A copywriter describes the morning it was made for, the walk to the station in a wet October, the particular relief of a hood that actually works.…
Bangladesh’s Rooftops Could Power the Country
On 17 August the National Board of Revenue issued a clarification that should never have been necessary. Industrial users, it confirmed, could continue importing solar equipment at 1 percent duty…
The Long Game: Gulf’s Bet on The AI Stack
On the evening of 11 June, bankers at Goldman Sachs priced the largest initial public offering ever attempted. SpaceX opened on Nasdaq the following morning at $135 a share, raised…
The Bag, The Brain, and The Ad That Never Mentioned Death
How Guardian Life turned Bangladesh's most avoided conversation into its most effective campaign. Picture this. You're a financial advisor. Your client’s quarterly meeting is happening this week. You begin preparation…
NOT ALL PIVOTS ARE EQUAL: HERE IS HOW TO TELL THEM APART
platform. The business was reasonable enough in its conception — audio content was growing, and the tools for navigating it were primitive. Then Apple added podcast management to iTunes in…
The World Cup Will Be Won Off the Pitch First
The 2026 World Cup kicks off on 11 June. The marketing tournament started months ago. Inside the build-up economy — the teasers, the jersey drops, the TikTok hype, and the…
The Expanding World of Buy Now, Pay Later
BNPL was sold as a smarter way to afford things you want. What the 2026 data shows is something different: it is increasingly how people afford things they need —…
Less Is More: The Strategic Logic Behind the Global Corporate Breakup Wave
In 2022, General Electric — once the most valuable company in the United States, a 130-year-old symbol of American industrial dominance — was worth $68.8 billion. It had spent decades…
The Return of Friction in a Frictionless World
Trader Joe's has no app. No delivery service. No partnership with Instacart, DoorDash, or any third-party platform. In 2025, despite this stubborn refusal to participate in the convenience economy, its…
How bot traffic is reshaping digital audience targeting
There is a quiet crisis playing out inside the dashboards of marketing teams across the world. Campaigns deliver strong click-through rates. Audiences look engaged. MQL numbers are hitting targets. And…
How the US Trade Deal Reshapes Bangladesh’s Apparel Competitiveness
Introduction: Market Access at a Price For Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) sector, access to the United States has never been cheap, but it has now become explicitly conditional. The US–Bangladesh…
ChatGPT Turns to Advertising. What Does It Mean?
The past two decades have established the digital advertising sphere of business owners as follows: Study Google Ads, dominate Facebook Ads and forecast your path to clicks. This is coming…
The Ramadan Economy: Bangladesh’s Biggest Consumer Season
THE MONTH THAT MOVES MARKETS On the evening of February 17, 2026, the crescent moon rose over Dhaka and Ramadan began. Within hours, the city had already transformed. The streets…