August 19, 2025 Home Depot reports Q2 sales are up, thanks to this lingering consumer trend BY Associated Press Home Depot’s sales improved during its fiscal second quarter as consumers remained focused on smaller projects amid cost concerns and economic uncertainty, but its performance missed Wall Street’s expectations. Revenue for the three months ended August 3 … Continue reading Home Depot reports Q2 sales are up thanks to this lingering consumer trend
July 29, 2025 Stuck in a ‘trend’ economy? Here’s how you can break free from it BY Anna Pompilio It’s never felt more impossible to keep up with the trend cycle. Trends feel harder to predict, too fast to respond to, and even harder to get in front of. In many instances, it appears to be … Continue reading Stuck in a ‘trend’ economy? Here’s how you can break free from it
More data means a more comprehensive view of consumers, which should lead to more effective campaigns. That’s the theory, anyway. Mike Pastore on April 7, 2025 At the end of 2024 and the dawn of 2025, customer data platforms (CDPs) were the popular acquisition targets in the martech space. Digital experience vendors gobbled up … Continue reading The latest trend in martech M&A: Agencies buying data collaboration firms
September 20, 2024 The latest and strangest TikTok trend: eating dirt to reduce wrinkles As it turns out, the practice of eating dirt actually has a name and dates back some 2,500 years. BY Eve Upton-Clark Want to improve your gut health, reduce wrinkles, and even cure acne? Eat dirt. At least, according to the latest … Continue reading The latest and strangest TikTok trend: eating dirt to reduce wrinkles
July 30, 2024 What is overemployment? The controversial remote work trend, explained Some workers are taking on extra jobs to supplement their income. Here’s how they balance it—and the risks it involves. BY Henry Chandonnet The remote work era has given employees more flexibility. For some, that means taking on a second job (and maybe a … Continue reading What is overemployment? The controversial remote work trend, explained
May 08, 2024 Bombardier’s new logo is part of a growing trend: naming your logo Similar to Nike’s ‘Swoosh,’ Bombardier’s new logo, dubbed ‘Mach,’ is a kind of branding for branding. BY James I. Bowie The new logo introduced recently by Canadian jetmaker Bombardier is not only sleek and striking, but boasts a feature that is … Continue reading Bombardier’s new logo is part of a growing trend: naming your logo
By AJ Hess January 25, 2024 Polyamory is in right now, at least according to The New Yorker, New York magazine, and even The Wall Street Journal. “Ethical non-monogamy isn’t new (The Ethical Slut, the polyamorous bible, came out in 1997), and it isn’t exactly mainstream, but it isn’t so fringe either (or reserved … Continue reading Why ‘poly-employment’ may be 2024’s next big work trend
By Sarah Bregel November 29, 2023 Last Christmas, my teenage daughter didn’t write out her Christmas list like I kept asking her to do. Instead, she sent me an adorable and quirky video containing photos of the items she wanted, accompanied by notes revealing the specifics (“these in pink, but if they’re out of … Continue reading The latest TikTok trend: A Christmas wish list PowerPoint deck, from your kids
By Sarah Bregel July 19, 2023 If you’ve scrolled through TikTok (or, if you’re over 30, Instagram Reels a day later), you’ve likely seen users posting about their “lazy girl jobs.” These gigs are definitely not your average 9-to-5 office roles. They’re hyper-flexible, work-from-home jobs that manage to accrue a decent income. Some people on … Continue reading TikTok’s “lazy girl jobs” trend loves to cash in on doing nothing
By Rob Walker February 10, 2023 Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. Lots of brands desperately want to go viral on TikTok. But not the way Kia did. The “Kia Challenge”—involving videos sharing a purportedly straightforward hack that made it fairly easy to steal certain Kia … Continue reading How a TikTok trend vandalized Kia’s brand
