The New Meaning of Value in 2026: What Consumers Now Expect From Brands
It's a Friday evening in a Mirpur supermarket, and a schoolteacher has been standing in the oil aisle for a while now, phone in one hand, a bottle of soybean…
It's a Friday evening in a Mirpur supermarket, and a schoolteacher has been standing in the oil aisle for a while now, phone in one hand, a bottle of soybean…
Abstract Artificial intelligence has moved well past its early role as a tool for automating routine tasks and running analytics. It is becoming something more fundamental: a component woven into…
The complaint arrives in almost identical wording from marketers in Dhaka, Delhi, Manila and Milan. Paid media used to work. Now the same budget buys fewer customers than it did…
On 25 August the Food and Agriculture Organization published the fourteenth round of its Data in Emergencies monitoring for Bangladesh. It estimated that roughly 10 lakh agricultural households, about 50…
Every marketer believes in wear-out. The idea is intuitive enough that it rarely gets examined: run an advertisement long enough and people stop noticing it, so you retire the thing…
Vague purpose statements are losing credibility. Brands that attach specific, measurable commitments to their purpose are commanding loyalty and premium pricing that no mission statement has ever managed. Here is…
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 first episode of The Scene, Marc Jacobs's new micro-drama series, runs for less than three minutes. It follows Rachel Sennott — comedian, writer, and star of the HBO series…
On 1 March 2026, for the first time in modern commercial shipping history, zero vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz. Not a reduction. Not a slowdown. Zero. The day before,…
Scroll through TikTok or Instagram today and you will quickly encounter a phrase that has quietly redefined modern shopping: "run, don't walk — I found a dupe." Whether it is…
Retail in Bangladesh has never been a simple business. It is a landscape shaped by fragmentation, price pressure, shifting consumer loyalties, and a distribution infrastructure that stretches from organized urban…
A century ago, retail in Bangladesh went through a massive transformation that’s as much about culture as it is about cash. Shopping wasn't just a quick errand; it was the…
For millions of Bangladeshi families today, the monthly budget is no longer a calculation, it is an anxiety. The price of rice, oil, vegetables, and lentils has risen faster than…
THE NEW YEAR THAT MOVES MARKETS Every April, something extraordinary happens to Bangladesh's economy. Showrooms that had been quiet suddenly overflow with shoppers. The scent of fresh-fried hilsa and fermenting…
Over the last few years, data and predictive systems have become more and more integral to marketing. Digital twin technology, which was previously used in the engineering and manufacturing sectors,…