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Are There Any Niche Brands with Crazy Loyalty?
We love the myth of the tiny brand with die-hard fans—but in kombucha and beyond, the data say big brands win on loyalty too.
Does 80% of Your Revenue Really Come From 20% of Your Customers?
The 80/20 rule is old—1896 old—but new data from 330 companies shows Pareto’s math doesn’t hold up quite the way we think.
Is Advertising a “Tax on the Poor”?
Antenna found that rich or poor, we skip—or sit through—ads in about equal measure.
Heavy buyers aren't loyal buyers
Heavy buyers aren’t your most loyal—because the more people buy, the more brands they buy.
How to be less human
Mondelēz says it’s moving from marketing to ‘humaning’—because nothing says human like inventing a new corporate buzzword.
How bad are our guesstimates?
We’re terrible at estimating reality—like how Americans have thought crime was rising every year for the past 24 years.
