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SOCIAL MEDIA

The Creator Economy Grew Up, and Most Brands Are Still Treating It Like It Didn’t

The creator economy is no longer a supplementary channel bolted onto a media plan. For a growing number of brands, it is the actual media plan.

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ADVERTISING CREATIVITY

The Week Advertising Remembered How to Be Funny

The best campaigns of the week shared a quality the industry too often forgets — a genuine sense of humor paired with a sharp creative idea.

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CREATIVITY

Stone Island & New Balance’s New Billboard Changes Color The Longer You Look At It

Stone Island and New Balance built a boot that transforms with temperature and a billboard that does the same. Nothing at this World Cup comes close.

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BUSINESS

Apple Just Answered the Question the Industry Has Been Asking for Two Years

From a rebuilt Siri powered by Gemini to spatial photo reframing that rewrites the rules of memory, WWDC 2026 was a statement of competitive intent in the defining technology race of the decade.

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BUSINESS

On Running Is Playing a Different Financial Game Than Every Other Sneaker Brand

With a 64.2% gross margin, the Swiss brand now sits closer to Hermès than to Nike. What that number reveals about the future of sportswear is worth taking seriously.

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STRATEGY

Most Brands Have a CTV Plan, But Very Few Have a TV Strategy

Running programmatic connected TV ads is not the same as advertising on television, and the gap between those two things is where most brands are losing reach, inventory, and return.

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ADVERTISING CREATIVITY

Nike Said It Wasn’t Making a Hero Film — Then It Made the Biggest One in Years

"Rip The Script" is six minutes, 30-plus stars, and the most deliberately engineered piece of sports advertising since Nike's own 1998 Airport film.

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BUSINESS

In Beauty, Only the Brands That Move First Are Moving at All

The global appetite for beauty products has never been larger, and the number of companies capturing that appetite is shrinking.

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BUSINESS

Why Rhode Works When Others Don’t

Rhode's summer collection arrives with three new products, a national tour, and the kind of anticipation that most beauty brands spend decades trying to build.

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