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When Better Features Stop Winning, Feelings Take Over

When Better Features Stop Winning, Feelings Take Over

CES 2026 and the Rise of Joyful Design Here's the shift CES 2026 made impossible to ignore: when products stop competing on features, they start competing on feelings. I've seen this pattern play out across industries for 25 years. When functional differentiation...

Diet Trends: Menopause and Perimenopause, According to Reddit

Diet Trends: Menopause and Perimenopause, According to Reddit

Diet trends affect F&B companies, but understanding the root causes and needs for the shift is an opportunity for any company targeting a specific demographic. And in the case of wellness and Gen X and millennials, who grew up proactive about their health and are...

How Three Award-Winning Ads Tap into the Stress-Free Imperative

How Three Award-Winning Ads Tap into the Stress-Free Imperative

In today’s relentlessly connected world, one thing unites us across regions, demographics, and devices: we’re stressed. The constant hum of modern life—notifications, demands, decision overload—has consumers craving one thing above all else: joy. As I explore in my...

Food & Beverage Trends & Strategies: Insights from CAGNY 2025

Food & Beverage Trends & Strategies: Insights from CAGNY 2025

In February, 2025, prominent North American consumer goods companies met at the Consumer Analyst Group NY conference (CAGNY). This presentation explores how some of the best-in-class companies are responding to evolving consumer preferences, leveraging technology, and...

Teen Skincare Trends and The Stress-Free Opportunity

Teen Skincare Trends and The Stress-Free Opportunity

Skincare brands have captivated teens and tweens with their packaging, applications, and social media content, and Gen Z and Gen Alpha are becoming skincare afficionados, able to dive into efficacy and ingredients. In fact, market research companies peg the teen and...

Brands are Responding to the GLP-1 megatrend

Brands are Responding to the GLP-1 megatrend

GLP-1 is creating new challenges and opportunities for food and beverage manufacturers, supplement companies, and retailers. It is a truly disruptive landscape, and companies have to address the skinny elephant in the room.

Personalizing Toys: From Digital to IRL – Toy Fair, Sep 2023

Personalizing Toys: From Digital to IRL – Toy Fair, Sep 2023

The Toy Association's Toy Fair is an iconic tradeshow taking place in New York, NY and catering to anyone in the ecosystem of play: manufacturers, buyers, distributors, inventors, designers, licensors, licensees and creators. The $104 billion global toy economy is...

Digital Marketers: Got Purpose?

Digital Marketers: Got Purpose?

I recently attended DigiMarCon East 2022, where I was invited to speak about Consumer-to-Consumer commerce and the implications for digital marketers. The conference was dedicated to digital marketing and naturally, some of the content and exhibitors pertained to...

Trend Brief: Post-COVID Gen-Z Trends to Know in 2022

Trend Brief: Post-COVID Gen-Z Trends to Know in 2022

Post-COVID Gen-Z Trends to Know in 2022: by Dylan Chung and Anja Husemann The Schieber Research internship program proves to be an amazing way for the company to discover more ways to detect possible trends. Our process includes: 1. Identifying potential trends. This...

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