Behaviours

Everything you need to face your future consumer with confidence, including the latest ethnographic research, generational insight, consumer-related stats and overarching human needs.

Gen Z in Kenya

From Silicon Savannah to the streets of Nairobi, Kenya’s Gen Z are rewriting the rules of power, protest and purpose for governments and brands.

Markets

Sacred Sojourns

Religious tourism is booming as a new generation of travellers seeks spiritual meaning, cultural rituals and connection across sacred destinations worldwide.

Big Ideas

SXSW 2025: Reclamation Versus Resistance

SXSW 2025 marked a radical shift from resistance to reclamation, as industry leaders build agency in a challenging democracy, create decentralised media platforms and focus on a shared humanity.

Markets

Gen Z in Indonesia

With millions of young, tech-savvy and entrepreneurial Indonesians reshaping culture, business and faith, Gen Z is a force no brand can afford to ignore.

Markets

Cortisol Control

Tackling stress is a major concern for the wellness community, with new research and innovations emerging to measure and lower cortisol, along with viral content promoting cortisol-focused solutions.

Big Ideas

Heathrow Airport restaurants offer carry-on food menus

Airline passengers are rejecting in-flight meals, instead preferring ready-prepared fare from restaurants in the terminal.

Heathrow Airport : Travel : Gordon Ramsay

Big Ideas

Cosmopolitan blurs the line with advertorial cover

US – Cosmopolitan magazine’s May subscriber issue features a stick-on cover sponsored by L’Oréal.

Future Media Landscapes : Magazines : Women's Magazines

Big Ideas

Surfing star Slater joins Kering to work on new brand

Surfer Kelly Slater has left Quiksilver to develop his own brand with Paris-based Kering Group.

Body Temples : City Surf : Kering Group

Markets

Online Beauty

Beauty brands are stepping up their e-commerce efforts in a bid to compete with retail heavyweights Amazon and Target.

Beauty : Luxury Beauty : YouTube

Big Ideas

All aboard for the Selfridges and HTC One skate park

Selfridges has joined forces with technology company HTC to open a large indoor skate park.

Skateboarding : Selfridges : HTC

Big Ideas

Cosmoprof 2014 Preview

Restaurants, espresso bars and taxi drivers are eager with anticipation as the international beauty world descends on the 47th Cosmoprof Worldwide ...

Cosmoprof : Beauty Show : Bologna

Big Ideas

Online fashion retailer offers personalised style advice on Instagram

Zappos hands out free outfit recommendations to Instagram users based on selfies.

Instagram : Marketing : Social Media

Markets

Restaurant Tech

Savvy restaurateurs are waking up to wider advances in technology and are harnessing IT to deliver better dining experiences.The restaurant indus...

Restaurants : Technology : Grillshack

Big Ideas

Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan 2014 Preview

The global design calendar’s main event, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, is set to descend on Milan for the show’s 53rd year. The city becomes ...

Milan : Milan Salone : Salone Internazionale Del Mobile

Big Ideas

Major fragrance exhibition lands at Abu Dhabi airport

DFS Group, the luxury travel retailer owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton, will present the Masters of Fragrance showcase at Abu Dhabi Intern...

LVMH : Duty Free : Abu Dhabi

Big Ideas

African mobile payment system branches out into Europe

Vodafone is rolling out its popular mobile payment system M-Pesa in Europe for the first time.

NEAs : Vodafone : M-Pesa

Big Ideas

App finds the perfect fit for women’s bras

US – Start-up company ThirdLove aims to make shopping for a bra a seamless experience.

3D Body Scanning : Athena : Women

Big Ideas

People feel emotional attachment to brands in times of fear

US – Consumers are more emotionally attached to brands that are present during moments of fear, according to a forthcoming study to be published in...

Scare Marketing : Marketing : Advertising

Big Ideas

4D cinema technology set for premiere in US

Wind, scent and rain will be part of the programme at a Los Angeles cinema this summer.

Los Angeles : Cinemas : 4D

Markets

Shock of the New Chic: Dealing with New Complexity in the Business of Luxury

The world’s consumers are in love with luxury, spending $1.8 trillion (€1.3 trillion, £1.1 trillion) in 2013 on luxury goods and services. Yet th...

Boston Consulting Group : Ipsos : China

Big Ideas

NASA invites the public to vote on new space suit design

NASA is developing a new space suit prototype and has asked the public to vote on the external design.

NASA : Science : Space

Markets

New categories in beauty

The beauty industry doesn’t do recession. Sales remain buoyant and the industry is continuing on the front foot, developing ever more clever prod...

Product Categories : Hair Fragrance : Cleansing Waters

Big Ideas

Travel website arranges meetings with the locals

My Plus One brings together travellers and locals for a small fee.

Plus One Berlin : Clare Freeman : Home From Home Hospitality

Big Ideas

Retail Week Live 2014: Part 2

Multi-channel is dead. Omni-channel is done. Welcome to the new fusion of physical and digital retail: phy-gital. We have been using this portmante...

Omni-channel : Multi-channel : Phy-gital

Big Ideas

Facebook to acquire Oculus Rift maker in $2bn deal

Facebook has announced it will acquire the virtual reality hardware start-up.

Facebook : Oculus Rift : Virtual Reality