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41% of Americans earning $100k–$249k now live paycheck to paycheck, and the side hustle has quietly become a h…
A CNBC and SurveyMonkey survey published in July puts a floor of anxiety under what used to be a ceiling of comfort.
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Christian Healthcare Ministries cut call transfers from 48% to 4%, then spent the recove…
Intelligent routing identified 80% of inbound calls before an agent answered, freeing capacity for outbound welcome and pastoral outreach.
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Yale study of 1.72 million Polymarket accounts: 3% of traders produce the accuracy the c…
Theis Ingerslev Jensen and co-authors find the majority does not produce accuracy — it funds it.
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ICE gave 12,000 new hires access to a surveillance tool that queries addresses and crimi…
ICE deployed Palantir's ELITE surveillance app to newly hired officers — many without completed background checks — and skipped the privacy assessmen…
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Adults who prefer texting to phone calls often aren’t avoiding intimacy — they may…
The preference for texting is often read as avoidance. The research, and the lived experience behind it, suggests something more specific: a need for…
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People who overexplain themselves in emails aren’t being thorough — they may be pr…
The overexplained email is often not a communication style. It is a defense strategy aimed at a critic who left the org chart years ago.
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Why a 2026 marketing shelf needs Byron Sharp more than the latest AI paperback
How Brands Grow refuses to flatter marketers, which is exactly why its findings keep outlasting the trend books.
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Getting spoofed can count toward your bulk-sender threshold — then authentication failur…
Under the 2024 rules, spammer traffic using your domain eats into the same 5,000-message daily cap.
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How DonorsChoose used email to help build a $1.9 billion classroom marketplace
The education nonprofit runs several parallel email tracks instead of one calendar-driven newsletter, matching specific donors to specific classroom…
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Ranking on Google no longer guarantees visibility: firms now compete to be cited by AI a…
AI Overviews, SearchGPT, Gemini and Perplexity are replacing the ten blue links, and Generative Engine Optimization rewards machine-readable, data-ri…
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Google’s AI Overviews correlate with 58% lower click-through rates for top-ranking…
Ahrefs' 2025 study found branded mentions and branded search volume now top the factors driving AI-search visibility.
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A Beverly Hills attorney says 60% of creator brand contracts need editing — and brands a…
CMG Talent's Joey Roesler cites a 2022 deal granting perpetual likeness rights terminable only by the brand.
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Williams-Sonoma’s digital share hit two-thirds as tariffs and mortgage rates thinn…
Home furnishings spend weakened again in Q1 2026, and the survivors are the ones with a distinctive channel, not just a product.
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She still buys the Playtex bra from 2004. Her daughter thinks Playtex makes tampons
One Sacramento household captures the recognition gap heritage intimates cannot close with a media plan.
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Shadow AI drove 43% of breaches last year — and marketing briefs are the entry point
IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach report flags unsanctioned tools as the fastest-growing exposure vector.
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AI Overviews are satisfying the query without the visit, and publisher impressions hold…
How-to guides and definitional pages are being absorbed into the answer at the top of the results page.