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.

Sacred Sojourns

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

Markets

The Bromeopathy Market

Bromeopathy is entering the mainstream as the wellness industry caters for a new wave of men seeking science-backed products and supplements to fuel their masculinity. 

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

The Sexuwellness Men’s Market

Meet the innovators rebranding men’s sexual wellness as a pillar of male pleasure and wellbeing.

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

Russia’s Amazon equivalent sees 55% sales boost

Moscow – Describing itself as the ‘Amazon of Russia’, online shopping platform Ozon.ru, recorded a 55% rise in sales by dollar value in 2012.

Ozon : E-commerce : Russia

Big Ideas

BabyTime gives mothers visual access to newborns

A new BabyTime service is helping to make the time that mothers and their newborn babies spend apart less upsetting at Cedars-Sinai hospital.

BabyTime : Babies : Mothers

Big Ideas

Mobile games market surges ahead in Russia

Internet : 4G : Networks

Markets

Multi-faceted networks

Social networking has become increasingly central to how consumers interact, function and shop. Sina Weibo and Twitter already have 500m users each...

Social Media : Social Networks : Instagram

Big Ideas

L’Oréal tailors products for Chinese consumers

Cosmetics brand L’Oréal has begun tailoring its products to suit the needs of Chinese consumers in a bid to increase profits in the country’s $34bn...

Cosmetics : L’Oréal : Herbal

Big Ideas

Telecoms brands join forces in Myanmar mobile bid

Mobile : Vodafone : Chona Mobile

Markets

How to: Showroom

UK, US – Retailers are realising that showrooming is not the enemy. Bargain-driven consumers are increasingly researching purchases in-store before...

Showrooming : Bricks-and-mortar : MasterCard

Big Ideas

New Yorkers buy shares in local fishery start-up

Village Fishmonger : Fishing : Start-up

Big Ideas

Facebook news feeds refine personalised targeting

Facebook : Personalised : Social Networks

Big Ideas

Airline charges Travel & Hospitalitylers by weight

Airline : Samoa Air : Passengers

Big Ideas

Shazamification spreads to tv in new service

Shazam : Music : App

Big Ideas

Ecommerce site sets new manhood agenda

Sussex, UK – Fatherhood blog Not a Bad Dad, the self-styled ‘antidote to the multitude of saccharine parent-focused sites around the world’, has la...

Not A Bad Dad : Blog : Father

Big Ideas

New blind-booking Travel & Hospitality site launched

GetGoing : Website : Holiday

Markets

Macau Luxury

Less than 10 years after the first foreign casino opened its doors in Macau, the sleepy former Portuguese colony has transformed itself into the wo...

HSBC : Macau : China

Big Ideas

Starbucks invests in Costa Rican farm

Starbucks : Costa Rica : Coffee

Big Ideas

Bangkok mall puts exclusivity at the centre of its offer

Thailand – The relaunched Siam Center in Bangkok will carry retail products that are uniquely available in its stores to drive footfall and encoura...

Siam Center : Thailand : Bangkok

Big Ideas

Beauty goes abroad as scales tip in favour of BRICS

Cosmetics : M.A.C : Emerging Affluents

Big Ideas

Walmart plans customer crowdsourcing delivery scheme

US- US retailer Walmart is considering a new scheme to enable its customers to deliver goods to online shoppers rather than using delivery firms su...

Walmart : Crowdsourcing : Delivery

Big Ideas

Flipboard update invites readers to create magazines

Flipboard : App : Magazine

Big Ideas

Amazon Studios puts Silicon Valley ‘nerds’ in the spotlight

US – Amazon Studios is piloting a new TV show centred around the nerd culture of Silicon Valley.

Amazon : Nerd : Betas

You have 3 free News articles remaining. Sign up to LS:N Global to get unlimited access to all articles.

BECOME A MEMBER