No one left the cake out in the rain, but just as illogically, someone launched a projectile from a slingshot–inside the house, of all places–causing a chain reaction that destroyed a chocolate confection meant for a kid named Norah. Ordering a triple-layer replacement sets off a new flurry of activity, at a local bakery, followed…
Celebrating a promotion by going out to dinner is so 2023, according to Expedia’s annual Unpack report of travel trends for the coming year. The report, compiled using data from Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo, found that people are commemorating big life events by taking trips rather than saving their jet-setting for traditional vacations. And the…
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First there was the Golden Age of TV. Then there was Peak TV. Now … all hell is breaking loose. “We’re amid a linear to streaming transition, and it’s being accelerated by a pending content drought from the Hollywood strikes,” Mike Proulx, vice president and research director at Forrester, told Adweek. “Just like many of…
The past year was disheartening for many who work in creative businesses, whether it was rounds of layoffs across industries or renewed fears over AI taking over jobs. But it was noteworthy that the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs 2023 report ranked creative thinking as the second most in-demand skill for workers, above attributes…
For publishers, the two meteors hurtling toward them in 2024 are growing signal loss, exacerbated by Google’s deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome limiting publishers’ ability to generate ad revenue. And–surprising no one–generative AI, which arguably splinters into multiple meteors around content production, operational efficiencies and distribution. It’s no news that publishers are forced to…