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Analytics Insight credits Deep Brew with a 15% engagement lift — the decade of identity data is the real moat
The algorithm can be bought; ten years of joined loyalty, location and purchase records cannot.
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Longer reads that connect dots others miss — across psychology, technology, and culture.
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Smart home tech is widespread in the US, but cost, privacy and reliability concerns pers…
OnePoll finds 80%-plus penetration but sharp divides on cost, glitches and anxiety, heaviest at the ends of the age distribution.
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Smart appliances send up to 19MB of data a week — regulators are watching the wrong scre…
Consumer Reports found a Samsung appliance streaming that data volume home while lawmakers focus on children's phones.
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In 2021, one Chinese live streamer sold $1.9 billion in goods in a single day
Trust, entertainment and checkout collapsed into one feed at a scale no ad campaign has matched.
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Same campaign, different math: impressions showed 2:1 while one value model showed 8:1
Engagement, one-year UGC rights, gifting-survey intent signals and SKU-level sell-through change the composite return without changing the spend.
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California lawmakers strip the searchable teacher database from AB 1381 but keep the pen…
California lawmakers unanimously passed AB 1381, adding real penalties to teacher background check rules after reporting found at least 14 educators…
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Jimmie Duncan spent 85 straight days in a 126-degree Angola cell for a crime the Louisia…
Jimmie Duncan spent 30 years on Louisiana's death row on discredited bite-mark evidence. His conviction was thrown out in June. He still cannot colle…
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Global sea-surface temperature hit 21.1°C last week, the highest daily reading Copernicu…
The current El Niño is projected to be the strongest on record, and it is landing on an ocean that was already running hotter than any instrument has…
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Lancaster coroner says the Amish baby died of a ruptured spleen, not measles — but the m…
A newborn's death in Pennsylvania's Amish country has become a national argument over what counts as a measles death — waged entirely without the gri…
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Influencer marketing pays for itself nearly 6 times over
Creator budgets grew 171% year over year and brands report up to eight dollars back for every one spent — but the composition of that return, and the…