Brand purpose used to be about telling a good story. A compelling narrative and the right emotional cues were usually enough to signal what a brand stood for. Gen Z changed the rules. They aren’t impressed by polished manifestos or high-budget launch videos. They scroll fast, they screenshot faster, and they cross-reference everything. When a message feels inconsistent […]
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The marketing world has been in a long, dramatic goodbye with cookies. But the end of tracking isn’t a disaster. It’s a return to fundamentals. Here is the reality: Cookies are declining. Tracking is harder. Attribution is messier. But this isn’t the catastrophe it’s often made out to be. If anything, the cookie era trained us to expect clean answers to messy human
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Not long ago, AI entered marketing teams quietly. It took on the role of the eager intern: writing captions, summarizing meeting notes, and polishing headlines until they sounded slightly less awkward. It was classic intern behavior – helpful, task-oriented, and entirely dependent on human instruction. But today, that intern is asking bigger questions. It is
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The defining shift in marketing for 2026 is structural. AI is no longer a tool marketers deploy at the edges of the organisation; it is increasingly the system coordinating how growth decisions are made. Planning, creative, media, and commerce are being connected through machine-led workflows that learn faster than traditional operating models can adapt. For
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AI in Marketing is at an inflection point. Over the last few years, brand marketers have raced to adopt individual AI tools such as copy generators, recommendation engines, automation tools, journey optimisers, chatbots, and much more. While these tools deliver incremental gains, they often operate in silos, creating fragmented intelligence and inconsistent experiences. As we
Automation driving Efficiency and Scale For years, martech has promised scale, efficiency, and personalization. Automation helped brands deliver faster, broader, and more consistent execution across channels. Then AI arrived and accelerated that promise — but it also exposed a critical gap. Automation alone does not improve customer experience. Without intelligence, it simply scales inefficiencies. The
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In 2025, Vietnam’s beauty market is entering a new growth phase, driven by changes in how consumers approach and sustain personal care habits. Alongside the advantages of a young population and the rapid expansion of e-commerce, consumer behavior increasingly reflects the role of beauty as part of everyday life. Amid intensifying competition between domestic and
Matcha has become a global beverage phenomenon in recent years, even leading to shortages in Japan (according to Thanh Nien Newspaper). In Vietnam, the matcha market size is forecasted by Mobility Foresights to grow from USD 340 million in 2025 to USD 500 or even USD 780 million by 2030. Furthermore, according to IPOS, consumers
After the Social Media “Craze,” is Matcha set to become a Sustainable Beverage Trend? Read More »
Marketing in 2026 is no longer organised around channels, campaigns, or even media plans. It is operating as a connected growth system, where media, commerce, data, and creativity are increasingly inseparable. For CMOs, the challenge is not choosing between brand and performance, but architecting infrastructure that delivers both at scale. This is the year marketing
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As winter arrives, demand for warm fashion on social media surges and gives rise to distinct seasonal consumer behaviors. Buzzmetrics research shows that knitwear is not only an essential wardrobe item but has also evolved into an emotionally meaningful product—often chosen to express care for loved ones during the year-end period. This article analyzes social
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