Brands & Trends

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Brands & Trends Stories

Labubu and the Emperor’s New Clothes: The Psychology of Why We Buy

Why customers buy for belonging, not utility—and how brands capitalise on groupthink to manufacture desire.

e.l.f. acquired Rhode. Now the brand’s best defence is corporate silence.

Rhode didn’t scale through saturation. It scaled by becoming the brand for the TikTok generation. It spoke in Hailey’s voice,…

Has Valentine’s day lost Its commercial spark?

Smart brands play it cool—overstock the hearts, and they’ll be discount-bin bound by February 15th.

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