Ryan Hamburger on Instacart's Shift From Marketplace to Enterprise Partner
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Ryan Hamburger on Instacart's Shift From Marketplace to Enterprise Partner

3d Zihan Lyu

Ryan Hamburger on Instacart's Shift From Marketpla...

Grocery retailers spent years worried that a partnership with Instacart meant handing over the customer relationship. That fear has largely faded. Rya...

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Reddit's David Trencher Says the Linear Funnel Is Gone
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Reddit's David Trencher Says the Linear Funnel Is Gone

4d Zihan Lyu

Reddit's David Trencher Says the Linear Funnel Is ...

Reddit spent two decades being described by what it was not: not a feed, not a social graph. The platform is now cited by every major large language m...

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Marvis Protects Cult Status by Refusing Mass Distribution
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Marvis Protects Cult Status by Refusing Mass Distribution

5d Zihan Lyu

Marvis Protects Cult Status by Refusing Mass Distr...

Marvis built a following most oral care brands never manage: cult status in prestige beauty across the US, Asia and now Europe, in a category otherwis...

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Patricia Grundmann on Building OBI's Retail Media Business From Zero
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Patricia Grundmann on Building OBI's Retail Media Business From Zero

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Patricia Grundmann on Building OBI's Retail Media ...

Eight years ago, retail media inside a DIY retailer had no template. Buying departments had no frame of reference for it. The wrong pitch could make i...

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Product Discovery Now Begins with a Feeling, Says Pinterest's Caroline Orange-Northey
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Product Discovery Now Begins with a Feeling, Says Pinterest's Caroline Oran...

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Product Discovery Now Begins with a Feeling, Says ...

Product discovery has quietly stopped happening on the shelf, or even in the search bar. Shoppers no longer open with a keyword. They open with a visi...

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ETAM and Vuori: Global Growth Runs Through Local Trust
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ETAM and Vuori: Global Growth Runs Through Local Trust

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ETAM and Vuori: Global Growth Runs Through Local T...

Three out of four brands fail when they try to take a proven concept into a new market. That is not a niche statistic. It is the backdrop against whic...

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How Lego Retail Launched Smart Brick Through Omnichannel Experience
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How Lego Retail Launched Smart Brick Through Omnichannel Experience

1m Tamara Karsten

How Lego Retail Launched Smart Brick Through Omnic...

Launching genuinely new technology into a category defined by simplicity is one of the harder marketing problems in retail. The product cannot be expl...

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Disney and Selfridges Built a Pop-Up That Reached 1.1 Billion. Here Is How.
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Disney and Selfridges Built a Pop-Up That Reached 1.1 Billion. Here Is How.

1m Tamara Karsten

Disney and Selfridges Built a Pop-Up That Reached ...

The Christmas window is the most competitive activation period in UK retail. Brands compete for Oxford Street, luxury retailers want spectacle, and ag...

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Lululemon Has 39,000 Employees. It Calls Head Office the Store Support Centre.
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Lululemon Has 39,000 Employees. It Calls Head Office the Store Support Cent...

1m Tamara Karsten

Lululemon Has 39,000 Employees. It Calls Head Offi...

There is a version of community marketing that exists almost entirely in brand decks: the language of connection, belonging, and purpose that sounds m...

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Harrods' Pop-Up Rule: One of One, or Do Not Bother
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Harrods' Pop-Up Rule: One of One, or Do Not Bother

1m Tamara Karsten

Harrods' Pop-Up Rule: One of One, or Do Not Bother

Pop-ups have become so common they have almost stopped meaning anything. Every mall has them, every brand has done one, every activation deck includes...

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Bremont, The Ordinary, and Finisterre on Brand Storytelling at Shoptalk Europe 2026
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Bremont, The Ordinary, and Finisterre on Brand Storytelling at Shoptalk Eur...

1m Zihan Lyu

Bremont, The Ordinary, and Finisterre on Brand Sto...

There is a version of brand storytelling that fills conference sessions and does very little: narrative frameworks, brand purpose pyramids, customer j...

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Boots Is Building for an AI Discovery World. Data Is the Foundation.
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Boots Is Building for an AI Discovery World. Data Is the Foundation.

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Boots Is Building for an AI Discovery World. Data ...

The rules of retail discoverability are being rewritten. Not gradually, not eventually: the shift is already underway, and the retailers who are still...

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Six Reads from Shoptalk Europe 2026
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Six Reads from Shoptalk Europe 2026

1m Zihan Lyu

Six Reads from Shoptalk Europe 2026

Three days at Fira Gran Via last week made one shift impossible to ignore: the moment of discovery has moved off the retailer’s own shelf and in...

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