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Carolina Myer is a writer, editor, and digital media strategist who's been working in the news industry since she was 21. She writes about sports, education, and tech—and she's a huge geek.

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Spring Festival offers two omnichannel brands marketing exclusives 

At this year’s RetailX Event’s Spring Festival on 14 May in London, you can catch two eye-opening sessions on how some of the UK’s best-known brands are designing and maintaining their omnichannel strategies in a fast evolving digital landscape. Both Digital Marketing Evolution and CustomerX are part of Spring Retail Festival and attendance is free to retailers and direct-to-consumer […]

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What B2B media gets right about Subscriptions – and what others can learn from it

Subscriptions in B2B media aren’t new, but the growing sophistication behind them provides valuable lessons for other brands. Most publishers now view subscriptions and memberships as a core strategic approach to deepening audience relationships, driving recurring revenue, and developing customer lifetime value (CLV). As a result, leading B2B media businesses are sharpening their thinking around

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Bruce Nauman's pensive Conceptual art from the 1970s seems timely again

Out in the back garden of Marian Goodman Gallery in Hollywood, a solid steel square, four feet wide and four inches thick, sits on the gravel covered ground. “Dark” is a legendary 1968 sculpture, one that caused great consternation when first shown at an annual purchase competition at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, south of

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A charming Nintendo Switch 2 enters the Trump tariff crosshairs

New York — Nintendo’s games over the decades have had us battling a spiky-shelled lizard-dragon named Bowser. In 2025, however, Nintendo is facing a different monster: a global trade war. The Nintendo Switch 2 console, unveiled at a New York media event Wednesday, has a bigger, higher-resolution 1080p screen and more processing power than its predecessor to

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DATA 76% of consumers believe ecommerce lacks excitement

A new report by Retail MediaX headline sponsor Criteo has stressed that online shopping seems to lack magic and has become a mechanical, predictable process. The Spark of Discovery – Reigniting The Emotion of Ecommerce revealed that 76% of consumers say online shopping lacks excitement, with 29% of respondents describing it as a chore.  According

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How Jenny Slate swung between laughter and sorrow in 'Dying for Sex'

This article contains spoilers for the finale of FX’s “Dying for Sex.” Jenny Slate hasn’t quite figured out how to respond when people tell her they found themselves sobbing at the end of “Dying for Sex,” the new FX show she stars in alongside Michelle Williams. It’s an understandable reaction. The limited series, which began

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Free association with Yorgos Lanthimos: The filmmaker on his first photography show

Yorgos Lanthimos needed to relieve stress while filming “Poor Things” on soundstages in Budapest and “Kinds of Kindness” on location around New Orleans. So the Oscar-nominated auteur of such unnerving, challenging movies as “Dogtooth,” “The Lobster” and “The Favourite” took up art photography. “Something clicked in me while making ‘Poor Things’: I went ‘OK, why

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Levelling up your AI assistant: better prompts get better AI answers

Imagine you have a team member who’s underperforming. Simply saying “just do better” rarely yields results (the results you may have been hoping for, in any case!). But with today’s AI assistants, you actually can ask them to improve—and they will. Around two years ago, there was this little trick to tell ChatGPT, “You are now BetterGPT”

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US warehouse sector faces pressure amid trade tensions

Real estate investment trusts specialising in warehouses and logistics properties have experienced a market setback, with US-listed Prologis shares tumbling approximately 12 per cent since early April, while CBRE Group’s stock has declined 8 per cent during the same period. These industrial REITs had previously outperformed competitors with heavy exposure to offices and conventional storefronts

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