Yesterday the ACM Awards at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas was the scene for a pretty serious glamor faceoff between any number of Country and Music celebs. Julianne Hough though, seems to have eclipsed all other stars where being a bombshell is concerned. Wearing a Randi Rahm backless dress, Isharya jewels, VBH clutch, and Brian Atwood high heels, the 22 year old actress singer stole the show.
Apple, Google and Procter & Gamble lead in the top of the most admired companies worldwide, according to a survey by Fortune and the Hay Group. Four thousand brilliant minds of the business world analyzed the largest corporations world wide and came up with the top based on their business strategies, approach to new technology and environmental issues.
Valentine's Day is a $25B US consumer holiday. The brands that win — Hershey's, Tiffany, 1-800-Flowers, Pandora, Edible Arrangements, Godiva, Hallmark.
In January 2011, Goldman Sachs organized a $1.5B private round in Facebook at a $50B valuation. The SEC pulled the U.S. portion. Sixteen months later Facebook IPO'd at $104B. Meta is now over $1.5T. The case study in late-private-stage valuation, the SEC structural questions it exposed, and Goldman's reputation arc through the period.
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned via NeXT in 1996, died October 5, 2011. The operating doctrine he built outlived him by 15 years and is now passing through its second CEO succession.
The banking outage communications playbook — why banking outages are different from other tech outages (deposit base as confidence asset, social-media doubt cascade, regulator escalation), the hour-by-hour crisis playbook, and the canonical cases: BofA 2011, Robinhood 2021, CrowdStrike 2024, AT&T 2024, Chime/Galileo 2019. Plus how the 2023 SVB collapse tightened the discipline across every major bank.
Online influence used to mean follower counts and viral posts. Now it means being the answer when a buyer asks the question. The mechanic, the named anchors, and how to measure it.
U.S. Hispanic consumers command $2.6 trillion in buying power and over-index on every major social platform. The 2026 landscape — buying-power growth, Total Market execution, creator-first campaigns, political scenario planning, and AI Communications inside Spanish queries.
As a cool fact, Generation Y is largely considered the last generation wholly born in the 20th century. 71% of Generation Y participates in monthly social networking, while almost 29% of that participates in daily. There is little to speak of as far as memories of the Cold War not directly related to a video game or movie.
November 2010. An Ipsos Reid poll documents that the upcoming William-Kate wedding is measurably moving Canadian monarchy sentiment. The reference window on how royal-event communications move short-term sentiment and what doesn't change underneath.
