TREND REPORTS
Netflix Deftly Spoofs Ads From Luxury Brands To Promote Final ‘Lupin’ Season
[Business]
2023/10/10 09:09
Netflix has pulled a masterful sleight of hand to steal attention for the third and final season of Lupin.With marketing agency Jellyfish France as its accomplice, the streaming giant has plotted elegant posters in parts of France that replicate advertisements by luxury brands like Rolex, Chanel, Hermès, Cartier, Celine, and Tiffany & Co, appropriating even their logos and brand aesthetics...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The State of Grocery in North America 2023
[Business]
2023/10/10 09:08
Grocery executives face a host of new challenges, including flat growth and margin pressure. Five trends could point the way to renewed momentum.After a tumultuous 2022, grocery executives hoped rampant inflation and snarled supply chains would soon recede, signaling the return to a more traditional landscape. In some ways, they got their wish: inflation has fallen significantly, and supply sho...
The Beauty Industry is A Mega-Polluter. This Innovative Solution Could Change That
[Business]
2023/10/10 09:07
The beauty industry churns out millions of pounds of unrecyclable plastic every year. Can better data get it to stop ?When my jar of Glossier concealer ran out recently, I stood in my kitchen for five minutes, trying to figure out if I could toss it in the recycling bin. I assumed that the metallic cap was not recyclable, but I squinted to see if the glass jar had a recycling symbol on it. It d...
Watch Out, the Debt Maturity Wall Is Near
[Investing]
2023/10/10 09:06
The hardest part for junk-rated companies on both sides of the Atlantic is yet to come.A better-than-expected macroeconomic backdrop, following record-low rates in the wake of the pandemic, has helped many teetering companies stay afloat since interest rates started to climb. That may be about to change as the maturity wall for junk-rated companies starts to steepen and firms find that the cash...
(Video) How Disney Packed Big Emotion Into a Little Robot
[Tech]
2023/10/10 09:05
Melding animation and reinforcement learning for free-ranging emotive performances.On Wednesday, at the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), in Detroit, a Disney Research team presented a brand new robotic character during their evening keynote address. The adorable robot packs an enormous amount of expression into its child-size body, from its highly...
(Paper) New AI Algorithm Transforms 2D Photos Into 3D Maps
[Tech]
2023/10/10 09:04
It might allow self-driving cars, drones, and robots to use regular cameras to move around our world.parked cars in "bounding boxes".A new method named MonoXiver uses AI to build up reliable 3D maps of a camera’s surroundings based only on 2D photos. The technology could be especially useful for navigation in self-driving cars. The challenge: As 2D representations of a 3D world, photos are mis...
Americans' Rankings of 40 College Majors
[Consumer]
2023/10/10 09:03
Still, if students have their eyes trained on post-college life, STEM subjects like engineering and computer science continue to make sense. A YouGov survey found that 61% of Americans believe a major in engineering leads to “above average earnings”, while just 19% felt the same way about studying foreign language — and that was the highest-rated humanities subject.Those generalizations are...
(PDF) Hiscox - Artist Trends and Top 100 Contemporary Artists
[Design]
2023/10/09 09:10
David Hockney and Aboudia are the best-selling artists in 2022, based on global auction value and most artworks sold respectively.Five-year trends show contemporary art sales by value peaked in 2021 and a record number of artworks were sold at auction in 2022More art being flipped as ‘wet paint’ sales (artworks auctioned within two years of production) jump 166% in 2022David Hockney was the b...
Grab a Free Bottle of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Using AR
[Business]
2023/10/09 09:09
People can scan a QR code on OOH screens to load an AR experience.The Coca-Cola Company.Learn the ins, outs, dos and don’ts of creator marketing at Social Media Week Europe this 10–11 October in London. Register for your in-person or virtual pass.In partnership with Tesco Group, Coca-Cola is inviting people to try a bottle of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar through an augmented reality experience runnin...
