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Big Ideas

Lack of loyalty

Global – Almost half of female Millennials feel overlooked for leadership positions, according to the 2016 Deloitte Millennial Survey.

Workplace Culture : Deloitte : Company Loyalty

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Facebook’s streaming service

Global – The world’s biggest social network is attempting to gain traction among younger users by tapping into the video streaming market.

Facebook : Live Streaming : Video

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Serious streaming

Global – Periscope has joined forces with GoPro cameras to let people live stream their adventures in high definition.

Periscope : Live Streaming : Social Media

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Lock ’n’ load

Global – Unlockd is an Android app that helps pay mobile phone users’ bills by showing them adverts on their lock screens.

Unlockd : Adblocking : Advertising

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The right tone

Global – Adorn uses an in-built sensor to match and dispense the right tone of foundation from more than 75,000 shades.

Adorn : Foundation : Cosmetics

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Online viewers

UK – A Childwise 2016 television survey proves that children choose YouTube and Netflix over broadcast programming.

YouTube Generation : Netflix : Gen I

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Shared deep learning

Global – Google is running an open course on machine learning through utilitarian nanodegree website Udacity.

Google : Udacity : Deep Learning

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Female voices

US – Video-sharing site Vimeo is taking aim at the gender gap in Hollywood.

Vimeo : The Athena Woman : Brandstanding

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Click and drop

San Francisco – Zum is an app-based taxi and childcare service that helps parents to manage their busy schedules.

Zum : Childcare : Taxi Service

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CES 2016 Review: Part 1

At International CES 2016 the technology world responded to consumer sentiment and lifestyles affecting our lives in the coming years.

CES 2016 : Connectivity : Wearables

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Millennial make-up

New York – Estée Lauder is setting its sights on Millennials and teenagers with its beauty line The Estée Edit.

Estée Lauder : Skincare : Make-up

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HR overhaul

London – Publisher Penguin Random House has removed degree qualifications from its recruitment criteria to broaden its appeal and encourage a wider...

Penguin : Random House : Recruitment

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Urban solutions

Global – Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Aravena will direct this year’s Venice Biennale, exploring architecture that has risen to the challenge of...

Alejandro Aravena : Pritzker Prize 2016 : Biennale 2016

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Masked connection

Paris – Wired Beauty has developed a digital sheet mask that will enable consumers to optimise their beauty regimes.

Connected : Beauty : Mask

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Street style

US – Lifestyle and celebrity street style website Who What Wear has shared the first images of its forthcoming collection with American megastore r...

Target : Who What Wear : Street Style

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Peak curtains

Global – Furniture brand Ikea’s chief sustainability officer Steve Howard says the West has reached peak home furnishings.

Ikea : Sustainability : Space 10

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Confidence gap

Global – Young people in emerging economies are more confident about their job prospects than those in developed countries.

Infosys : Education : Skills

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Crowdsourced skincare

US – Online beauty retailer Peach and Lily is inviting its customers to help develop a new range of sheet masks.

Peach And Lily : Glossier : Crowd-sourced

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Central Saint Martins Material Futures Work in Progress Show 2016

This year's stand-out projects from the MA Material Futures course proposed turning our bodies into complex interfaces.

MA Material Futures : Design Fiction : Biotechnology

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Baby bites

UK – Once considered too small for the market, miniature avocados are appearing on grocery shelves.

Avocados : Grocery : M&S

Big Ideas

The ideas and innovations that hint at the future of the consumer landscape