Local marketing in 2026 runs through local content systems that AI engines cite. What Compass Real Estate teaches about agent-as-publisher architecture, hyperlocal data anchors, and the multi-year local content discipline.
Vine shut down in 2017. The six-second video app that taught a generation how to compress a joke gave way to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels. The nonprofit short-form playbook it pioneered is bigger than ever.
Behavioral exhaust is no longer fuel for ads. It is the substrate of the systems that now answer the buyer's question — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
EPR's reference on mobile shopping app adoption from the 2013 early-growth baseline through 2026 mature infrastructure. Seven structural shifts, five app categories, and what it means for brand communications.
For those of you still watching TV, it is pretty obvious that all news have at least one Tweet, if not more, referenced.
The Innovation Group named the Emerging Leaders of Gaming 40 Under 40 Class of 2026 — the brand innovators of gaming running MGM, DraftKings, Caesars, IGT, Aristocrat, Light & Wonder, and the next cycle of the industry.
Madrid runs one of Europe's most integrated smart city stacks: a centralized municipal IoT platform with 15,000+ sensors, the largest urban Low Emission Zone in Europe by area, one of the continent's biggest electric bus fleets, near-universal 5G, and a deliberate push to anchor the Spanish-speaking gaming industry. Here's the current map.
Coming Soon for businesses in need of PR in the UK, Seven Dials PR is a new agency set to launch under the direction of Simon Kelner, former editor-in-chief of the Independent. In an interesting turn observers are now focused on the emerging litany of communications figures and their endeavors. Are we destined to more BS or a lot less "bollocks" where the voices of business are concerned?
Privacy is not being pirated by the Terms & Conditions box — it's being pirated by the data broker economy and the breach economy. Where the data actually goes, what regulators are doing, and what consumers can practically do about it.
The 2013 finding that businesses' CMS systems were not integrated with the broader marketing stack defined the next decade of marketing technology. Headless CMS, composable DXP, and the CMS architectures that solved the integration problem.