Community as a Marketing Channel
GYMSHARK, SEPHORA, AND NOTION BUILT THEMSELVES ON BELONGING RATHER THAN AD BUDGETS. AS THE COST OF BUYING ATTENTION CLIMBS AND TRUST IN ADVERTISING FALLS, MORE BRANDS ARE TREATING COMMUNITY AS…
GYMSHARK, SEPHORA, AND NOTION BUILT THEMSELVES ON BELONGING RATHER THAN AD BUDGETS. AS THE COST OF BUYING ATTENTION CLIMBS AND TRUST IN ADVERTISING FALLS, MORE BRANDS ARE TREATING COMMUNITY AS…
Jaguar sold 49 cars in a month. Cracker Barrel lost 100 million dollars in a week. X erased one of the most recognised names on the internet. Companies keep betting…
Laura Higgins runs brand and innovation at Dollar Shave Club. She spent years at Procter & Gamble, which is to say she knows exactly what an agency is for. Asked…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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.…
Dhaka runs a commercial week found in almost no other city: zoned, staggered, and packed into a Friday–Saturday surge. It is also the clearest window onto how the country really…
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…
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 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…
As AI automates more execution, the marketing organisation is flattening, team boundaries are blurring, and the CMO's role is shifting from managing people to architecting systems. What that shift looks…
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…