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An agency submitted fabricated case study materials to Cannes Lions last year, won a…
Sometime before the Cannes Lions submission deadline in 2025, someone at the Brazilian agency DM9 made a decision.
Digital
When an AI interaction goes badly, 38% of consumers blame the brand and not the AI…
In early 2026, Invoca published a consumer study on AI interactions that should have moved faster through marketing leadership than it did.
Digital
For twenty years Google held more advertising revenue than any company on earth. In…
Tension: Google's twenty-year grip on advertising has ended, and the company that ended it removed human judgment from the creative process entirely.
Analysis
The brands earning durable loyalty stopped competing at the moment of purchase and…
After almost every significant purchase, a customer is quietly deciding whether they made the right call.
Psychology
Scientists can now mark the exact point a behavior stops being a decision, and for…
Princeton neuroscientists have identified the precise moment in the brain when a decision stops being a decision and becomes an action.
News
A Clemson study reframed consumer happiness and the finding is this: shopping calms…
What the research maps is the gap between that short-term relief and the kind of satisfaction that actually accrues to wellbeing over time.
Psychology
Goleman’s research found that EI competencies outpace cognitive skill in…
There is a number that quietly contradicts almost everything our institutions reward.
Digital
There’s a specific half-second where your brain has already sorted an email into…
Entire platforms have been built around A/B testing those 40 to 60 characters.
Digital
71% of patients think their healthcare provider’s website is failing them
A patient receives a diagnosis and, like most people, turns to their healthcare provider's website for answers.
Digital
The generation that grew up with paper catalogs may have understood something about…
The results, by every available measure, remain competitive or superior.
Digital
Picking up a cereal brand you’ve never tried before can feel like a spontaneous…
On one side of the ledger, the behavioral data tells a remarkably clear story.
Analysis
Most Tesla owners probably aren’t flooring it at every light — and the car may be…
The most consequential engineering decision behind the Tesla Model 3 Performance has almost nothing to do with its electric motors.
Digital
The stack of misdelivered mail on an apartment lobby table might be one of the most…
Roughly 40 million Americans file a change of address with the United States Postal Service every year.
Digital
The most honest question a team can ask before running an experiment may be: are we…
Across the performance marketing landscape, a quiet pattern has taken hold.
Digital
Social ads and search ads aren’t really competing with each other — for many…
Editor's note: This article has been updated in June 2026 to reflect the latest developments in digital marketing and media.