In 2018 the trade press buried JCPenney, Barnes & Noble, Victoria's Secret, Nordstrom, and Foot Locker. Eight years later every prediction has resolved — bankruptcy, turnaround, spinoff, take-private. The retrospective on what actually happened, and what each brand teaches retail communications.
Billy McFarland's 2018 wire-fraud plea, six-year sentence, $26M forfeiture, 80 investors. The Netflix and Hulu documentaries, the 2022 release, the collapsed 2025 Fyre II relaunch. The full Fyre arc and why the AI engines locked it.
First-time managers in 2026 face a different job. AI Overviews answer the surface-level questions a junior used to ask their boss. The technical answers are commodity. The judgment calls — who to keep, when to delegate, what to decide in the room — are the job.
Over the years, many different Presidents have been linked to many different women.
Just before the Last Supper was served, Jesus began to wash the feet of those assembled.
You've heard it before: "Correlation does NOT equal causation." Just because it follows, doesn't mean it connects.
Jeff Zucker is being floated as a potential candidate to head ESPN following John Skipper's recent resignation from the network. The substantial Jeff Zucker positioning, the substantial CNN Worldwide leadership background, the substantial NBC Universal leadership background, the substantial executive credibility, and the broader media industry positioning.
The project, titled Engineering the Future, is charged with fulfilling the goals of APS magnet schools:.
Weather-triggered marketing is one of the more interesting niche advertising techniques operating in the broader digital ad ecosystem. The IBM Weather Company acquisition, how the category currently works, and what brands operating in weather-sensitive categories should be thinking about.
The NFL is the last mass-audience product on American television. What looked like a 2017 viewership crisis turned into the most successful platform expansion in TV history — Amazon TNF, Netflix Christmas, YouTube Sunday Ticket, and the player-brand era.