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Do prices feel like they are rising more than the CPI (Consumer Price Index) says? Yes. For 2025, the overall CPI increased by a fairly modest 2.7% (CPI-U for all urban consumers, December to December). The CPI measures the change in price of a basket of goods across eight major categories: food and beverages, housing, […]
Marketing has long operated under the premise that there are two ways to understand people and markets – often described as ‘nuance versus numbers’. Nuance wants to know how people feel, how brands are conceptualized and understood, what unknown drivers drive human behavior, and what drives business success. Numbers want to know exactly how big […]
Marketing organizations are rushing to adopt AI while trying to contain it. About 76.6% of marketers now have an AI policy in place, up from 55.3% just a year earlier, according to the Association of National AdvertisersSurvey January 2026 (registration required). Investments are also increasing. Nearly 89% plan to increase AI spending, and two-thirds would […]
Every few years, loyalty is reexamined. Customers are described as fickle. Switching costs are low. The attention span is getting smaller. The story is well known: loyalty is no longer realistic in a digital, price-sensitive world. That framework is convenient and usually wrong. Loyalty has not disappeared. Brands diluted it – slowly, deliberately and often […]
Credit: Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters via Gallo Images Opinion by inés m. pousadela (Montevideo, Uruguay) Monday January 26, 2026 Inter-Press Office MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan 26 (IPS) – When Ugandans went to the polls on January 15, there was no doubt about the outcome. As voting began, mobile internet services ground to a halt, ensuring minimal control as […]
Introduction: I am developing a WordPress website and want to use the Visual Portfolio plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/visual-portfolio/). This plugin gives me the ability to display a gallery of posts. It also gives me the ability to query my messages with a custom one question string: What I want to do: I want the visual portfolio plugin […]
Notifications have become the architectural pillars of the attention economy, designed to maximize engagement at the expense of human focus. The default design pattern – interrupt immediately, demand recognition, and dismiss ambiguously – is a business model disguised as a UX pattern. It’s time to design a new paradigm: one in which interruption is a […]
The Swedish government said Monday it is moving forward with a hotly contested bill to lower the age of criminal responsibility for serious crimes from 15 to 13, allowing for prison sentences in certain cases. Several authorities, including police, prison officials and prosecutors, have opposed the plans. Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer told a news conference […]
Shopify launches new cross-merchant product network and interview with Mike Ryan | EP. 412 This week on Marketing O’Clock: Microsoft tested grouping Bing ads under one “Sponsored Results” label, but confirmed the experiment is over. Shopify launched its new product network, which integrates products from merchants. Search Console has added weekly and monthly views for […]
Hi! Just a reminder that I’ll be teaching our monthly members-only workshop next Wednesday, January 28th at 12:00 PM ET. I share tips for investigate affiliate marketing fraud on TikTok (and elsewhere). I’m joined by a former threat intelligence researcher for Meta and Google, who will show how you can use an LLM to assist […]
