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…
The morning glance now carries two numbers: the temperature, and the air. In Dhaka, where the second one is rarely good news, a whole generation has learned to read the…
You know the feeling. It is a Tuesday, the morning was heavier than it should have been, and somewhere between the bus and the desk a small voice suggests that…
A World Cup seat now costs a median of $900. The world's top tours gross 60 percent more than they did in 2019. And in Bangladesh, the official price of…
A few years ago, sustainability occupied a predictable place in most board meetings. It appeared near the end of the agenda. Usually after finance and sales. Sometimes after HR. It…
In May this magazine argued that the Hormuz crisis had not created Bangladesh’s vulnerability but revealed it, and asked what it would take to be less exposed. The strait has…
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…
How Gen Z reveals things slowly, and what that quiet strategy means for work and brands. You can tell your colleague is up to something. A vague “big things loading.”…
As AI makes shallow work cheap and notifications make focus scarce, the ability to concentrate has become a real competitive edge — and the antidote to a workforce burning out…
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…
How AI, Human-Centered Design and Sustainability Can Shape the Next Generation of Cities Keywords Artificial Intelligence (AI); Human-Centered Design; Intelligent Built Environment; Sustainable Development; Digital Transformation; Smart Cities; Urban Innovation;…
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,…