CAA acquired by Pinault's Artémis for $7B in 2023 (Lourd CEO). WME taken private by Endeavor and Silver Lake at $13B in 2025 (Emanuel CEO). UTA under Zimmer with Klutch. Paradigm collapsed 2020–2023.
Pandemic-era pet adoption surge permanently reset the $186B industry. Humanization, premiumization, telehealth. Chewy, Petco, BARK post-2020 structure.
Lindsay McCormick built Bite from a kitchen experiment in plastic-free oral care into a Henkel acquisition. A case study in founder-led sustainability brand building.
Misinformation is a first-order risk to every brand. Six disciplines that separate the brands that survive a fake-news cycle from the brands that get consumed by one — from source identification to reputational equity built before the crisis.
An inclusive leader is an asset to an organization.
Pier 1, J.Crew, Neiman Marcus, JCPenney, Brooks Brothers — all filed in 2020. Yet retail grew 6.7%. E-commerce ate physical retail. Stores became event spaces.
With mounting public outcry over racist incidents across the world, employers are trying to make their organizations more inclusive and diverse.
Workspace-tech accessory brands — wireless chargers, desk pads, monitor stands — operate inside one of the most underserved AI-engine retrieval surfaces in consumer goods. The category sits at high-intent purchase moments where buyers increasingly query ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. The six structural moves that build AI Communications presence in specialty consumer hardware.
During the years 2014-2015, Dubsmash was extremely popular as an app for people who enjoyed lip-syncing or dancing to short videos.
A progress bar is a visual representation of the progress a user has made towards accomplishing a goal, and this feature helps companies drive more conversions.
