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Five Champagne and Wine Brands Exploring Provenance Retail

Moving away from the traditional store experience, champagne and wine brands are using authentic storytelling to disrupt how and where consumers vi...

Wine : Retail : Champagne

News

McDonald’s takes anime inspiration to real life with WcDonald’s universe

In a ground-breaking move, fast food giant McDonald’s is bringing fans’ beloved WcDonald’s from anime fiction into reality.

Fandom : Youth : Entertainment

News

Coach unveils Find Your Courage campaign set in a virtual universe

Luxury fashion brand Coach has launched its latest campaign, Find Your Courage, featuring a virtual universe.

Luxury : Advertising & Branding : Fashion

News

Elf Cosmetics Launches its First Beauty Shopping Experience for Apple Vision Pro

Elf Cosmetics has unveiled a ground-breaking beauty shopping app designed specifically for the Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s innovative new spatial com...

Retail : Technology : Beauty

News

NRF 2024 Retail’s Big Show daily recap: Emerging luxury consumers and the Claire’s Zalpha expertise

On the third and final day of the NRF 2024 Retail’s Big Show, insights ranged from the resilience of luxury stores to Crocs’ commitment to being a ...

Retail : Fashion : Beauty

News

McLaren brings a video game hypercar to life

Luxury car-maker McLaren’s latest hypercar, the Solus GT, originally appeared in the racing simulation video game Gran Turismo in 2017.

Mobility Series : Four Flexible Mobility : Sports Luxury

News

Mango’s latest store captures teenage dreams

In a bid to entice and excite young shoppers, the fashion retailer has unveiled its first Mango Teen store in Barcelona.

Gen Z : Youth : Retail Experience

News

This hotel accepts bookings via NFT

The NoMo SoHo hotel is targeting alternet investors with the introduction of non-fungible token (NFT) reservations.

Finance : Travel & Hospitality : Technology

Macro Trends

Alternet Economies

A technological counter-culture is decentralising capitalism, reforming the internet and powering new value frontiers for creators, consumers and b...

Technology : FinTech : Internet

News

Foresight Friday: Pavan Bivigou, senior foresight analyst

This week, LS:N Global’s senior foresight analyst Pavan Bivigou shares the bots, bad AI jokes and bears on her radar.

Society

Big Ideas

Five Ways Fintechs are Engaging with ESG

Fintechs are combining technology, financial services and ESG practices to help customers prioritise purpose, sustainability and traceability.

Finance : Technology : Sustainability

News

Key takeaways from the 2023 Pentawards Festival

Held at the Science Museum in West London, the second edition of the Pentawards Festival explored the role of innovation and AI in the future of pa...

Technology : AI : Events

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: January

Welcome to the Futures 100 Innovators, our annual longlist of global innovators and disruptors creating the future across 10 sectors.

Futures 100 Innovators : Beauty : Food

Big Ideas

Web Summit Lisbon 2023: The Future of the Creator Economy, Podcasts and Gaming

Influencers, strategists and businesses gathered at the world’s largest tech conference in search of solutions to cut through the noise in a satura...

Technology : Influencer Marketing : Gaming

Big Ideas

Future Forecast 2023: Food

The post-Covid rush to be out, meet people and eat out has faded, dampened by rising living costs and global financial turmoil, which is set to con...

Food : Sustainability : Technology

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2024: Retail

Retail is settling into a post-Covid landscape in which consumers frequently welcome brands into their homes, exploring products, consuming content...

Retail : Luxury : Fashion

Viewpoints

Elevating Travel Narratives

AboundStudio’s founder James Huntly discusses design’s role in creating meaningful brand narratives that reflect travellers’ changing values and de...

Travel : Design : Hospitality

Micro Trends

Crypto Dining Clubs

Web3 communities are using technologies such as blockchain and DAOs to encourage people to break bread together – both online and offline.

Food : Drink : Technology

Micro Trends

Game-Fi Rising

Brands are using game-based finance to create new retail opportunities, rewarding game play loops and building a greater sense of in-game status.

Gaming : Finance : Technology

Viewpoints

Scents and Scent-ability

Scent is set to change the nature of health, wellbeing and self-care, according to Firmenich’s chief consumer and innovation officer, Matteo Magnani.

Beauty : Sustainability : Health And Wellness

Markets

Gastro Gaming Market

Joining forces with video game publishers, food and drink brands are turning to gaming to offer tastes, skins and experiences that are transcending...

Food & Drink : Gaming : Food

Viewpoints

How Medicine can Learn from Gaming

Clinical learning experiences through simulation have gained momentum and virtual reality (VR) is emerging as a new, powerful training tool for sur...

Health & Wellness : Technology : Gaming

Big Ideas

Envisioning Tomorrows: Dubai Future Forum 2023

Described as the world’s largest gathering of futurists, Dubai Future Forum envisaged an array of futures, all focused on compassion, care and coll...

Dubai Futures Forum : Event : Tomorrow's Leadership

Micro Trends

Crypto-and-Mortar

With more consumers investing in virtual assets, bricks-and-mortar retailers are exploring ways to market and sell NFTs in physical shopping spaces.

Retail : Media : NFTs

Design Directions

Synth-aesthetic Evolution

From dystopia to delight, an AI-aesthetic Revolution is transforming how we perceive and embrace artificial intelligence.

Design : AI : Artificial Intelligence

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