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The loyalty card sitting at the back of someone’s wallet, half-stamped and forgotten, may be a small…
Editor’s note: This article has been updated in June 2026 to reflect the latest trends in digital marketing and media.
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Digital
The way a company treats its best existing customers isn’t always as strategic as…
The B2B marketing industry has a vocabulary problem masquerading as a strategy problem.
Digital
Not every customer is worth saving, and that’s where the profit hides
Editor’s note: This article has been updated in June 2026 to reflect the latest trends in digital marketing and media.
Digital
When a brand emails you a birthday discount for a product you returned, it tends to say…
Editor's note: This article has been updated in June 2026 to reflect the latest developments in digital marketing and media.
Digital
The companies that are quietly thriving with AI in their marketing tend to have…
A pattern has emerged across B2B marketing organizations over the past eighteen months that deserves scrutiny.
Digital
Google+ launched without ads, and that silence spoke louder than any campaign
Editor's note: This article has been updated in June 2026 to reflect the latest developments in digital marketing and media.
Digital
People don’t search the way businesses name things — and websites that ignore…
Marketing teams conduct keyword research, often producing detailed spreadsheets of search terms, volume data, and competitive metrics.
Psychology
Caltech astronomers say a hidden planet may be quietly reshaping the outer Solar System…
I've been to the Atacama Desert in Chile exactly once in 2022, and it's not the kind of place you forget.
Psychology
Research suggests one overlooked part of the immune system may help explain why some…
There's a pattern most of us have noticed, even if we've never put words to it.
News
Research suggests AI may not take your job directly — but people who learn to use it…
Open any feed right now and someone is predicting which jobs artificial intelligence will erase by next year.
News
Research suggests you may not be bad at languages — you may just be trying to learn…
There is a story a lot of us tell about ourselves, and it goes like this: I am just not a languages person.
News
Research suggests your brain may already know when an old pattern is no longer helping…
Picture the version of yourself who keeps doing the same thing and quietly expecting it to land differently this time.
News
10 good news stories that made us grateful for scientists, neighbors, rescuers…
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Analysis
Companies using Claude Fable 5 should know their data is being retained for 30 days…
Buried in the release documentation was a policy that has since attracted considerably more attention from enterprise legal and compliance teams.
Digital
Anthropic spent two months deciding whether it was responsible to release an AI that…
The Direct Message: The name change from Mythos to Fable 5 isn't a rebrand — it's a signal.
Psychology
People raised in the 60s and 70s grew up with childhoods that had fewer passwords…
The things added to modern childhood are not neutral additions.