The Collab Economy: Why Every Brand Suddenly Wants to Wear Another Brand’s Logo

Coca-Cola is selling Crocs, Nike is co-branding with Kim Kardashian, and Louis Vuitton opened 2025 by reviving a twenty-year-old partnership. Behind the strange pairings sits a trade that has become…

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China Maxxing – Why Shein, Temu, and TikTok Stopped Hiding Their Chinese Roots

For a decade, Chinese brands chased global success by hiding where they came from. Now Shein’s reclusive founder is thanking his suppliers on a Chinese stage, Americans are flocking to…

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From presence to dominance: de-risking Bangladesh’s next digital advertising growth curve

Bangladesh's digital advertising market has outgrown the credit it's been given. At Roar Global, we've spent the past year advocating for it. Now we're pushing for its next stage of…

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In Praise of the Unhinged — The strategic case for weird in an age of infinite feeds

Liquid Death sells water like a heavy-metal album. Duolingo killed its own mascot. In an internet too crowded to notice the safe, calculated strangeness has become a serious growth strategy,…

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Inside Cannes Lions 2026: Creativity, AI and the New Rules of Global Marketing — What Bangladesh Must Learn from the World’s Biggest Creative Stage

Festival Representative, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity The World’s Creative Capital for One Extraordinary Week Every June, the French Riviera town of Cannes turns from a beach resort into…

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Inside Cannes Lions 2026: Creativity, AI and the New Rules of Global Marketing — What Bangladesh Must Learn from the World’s Biggest Creative Stage

The World’s Creative Capital for One Extraordinary Week Every June, the French Riviera town of Cannes turns from a beach resort into the working capital of the global creative economy.…

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Multisensory Branding How Sound, Motion, and Touch Are Becoming Core to Brand Identity

Mastercard dropped its own name from its logo. BMW hired Hans Zimmer to give its silent electric cars a voice. As media goes audio-first and screen-everywhere, the logo is no…

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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…

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Emerging Markets Are More Optimistic Than Developed Ones — and They May Be Right

The gap between economic sentiment in emerging and developed economies is widening in 2026 — and for once, the optimism in the developing world may be grounded in something more…

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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…

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