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Q&A, Bryan Gildenberg, chief knowledge officer, Kantar Retail
Each Wednesday for the next few months, we will post an edited Q&A with one of the many experts and influencers we interviewed while researching our just-released 10 Trends for 2013 report. We...
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Data point: Consumers open to new retail channels
Everything Is Retail, one of our 10 Trends for 2013, spotlights how shopping is shifting from an activity that takes place in physical stores or online to a value exchange that can play out in...
View Article100 Things to Watch in 2013
Adult Playgrounds, Chia Seeds and Instant-Erase Apps—just a few items from our annual list of 100 Things to Watch for the year ahead. It’s a wide-ranging compilation that reflects developments that are...
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Q&A with Jill Puleri, VP and global retail leader, IBM Global Business Services
We spoke with Jill Puleri while researching two of our 10 Trends for 2013: Everything Is Retail (shopping is becoming a value exchange that plays out in multiple new and novel ways) and Predictive...
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Data point: When ‘Everything Is Retail,’ Millennials lead adoption
Shopping is shifting from an activity that places place in physical stores or online to a value exchange that can play out in multiple new and novel ways. Almost anything, from subway walls to...
View ArticleJWT MENA’s ‘8 Trends for 2013’ tracks shifts in five Middle East/North Africa...
JWT MENA's 8 Trends for 2013 – Executive Summary from JWT MEA JWT MEA The JWT MENA region has released its first annual forecast of key consumer trends that will shape or significantly impact markets...
View ArticleHashtag retail
Everything Is Retail, as we outline in our 10 Trends for 2013: Shopping is becoming a value exchange that can play out in new and novel ways. Increasingly, almost anything can be a retail channel—even...
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Data point: MENA consumers embrace e-commerce, with reservations
In the Middle East and North Africa, shopping is evolving from a traditional in-store interaction into a value exchange that can take place on multiple platforms in novel ways. As JWT MENA details in...
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Toward shoppable TV
As we note in our 10 Trends for 2013 forecast, today almost anything can be a retail channel, and the TV is a prime candidate. Many players are looking for viable ways to turn the screen into a retail...
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From analog (Lou Reed) to digital (YouTube) and beyond (Rem Koolhaas) at Cannes
“Good digital, these days, you can hear something two miles away. But it doesn’t do the analog thing, which is warm and beautiful,” observed Lou Reed at a Cannes Lions International Festival of...
View ArticleNow available: JWTIntelligence iPad app
Today, I’m extremely excited to announce the launch of the JWTIntelligence iPad app, which brings our trends intelligence to life for the tablet. With the launch, we have now consolidated our trends...
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‘Retail Rebooted’
Retail is undergoing a major shift, with brick-and-mortar stores forced to evolve for a digital-commerce age; multiple new ways to buy; the rise of data-based personalization; fast-changing consumer...
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Data point: Millennials lead the way toward unconventional retail platforms
Our new trend report, “Retail Rebooted,” outlines how retailers are evolving for an increasingly sophisticated digital and data-centric world. It includes an update of one of our 10 Trends for 2013,...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Micropopularity, biometrics and vaping
Find our roundups collected in magazine form on Flipboard, the iOS and Android app; download the app to view this week’s edition here: http://flip.it/J6FjO -The New York Times explores the emergence of...
View Article‘Everything Is Retail,’ from magazines to Hangouts
Shopping is shifting from an activity that takes place in physical stores or online to a value exchange that plays out in multiple novel ways: This is one of our trends for 2013, dubbed Everything Is...
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Uniqlo, H&M and Retail As the Third Space
“Retail As the Third Space,” one of our 10 Trends for 2011, is rapidly accelerating: As digital commerce becomes habit for consumers, brick-and-mortar is increasingly focused around experiences,...
View ArticleVogue’s shoppable Instagram
As we outline in Everything Is Retail, one of our 10 Trends for 2013 and Beyond, shopping is shifting from an activity that takes place in physical stores or online to a value exchange that can play...
View ArticleIntroducing The Future 100
As we race to the finish line of 2014, we’re also starting to look to what’s next. At JWTIntelligence, our 10 Trends and later 100 Things to Watch have traditionally marked this transition. This year,...
View Article10 Years of 10 Trends
Ten years ago, J. Walter Thompson made the pioneering move to set up what we now call JWTIntelligence, with the purpose of identifying global consumer trends and interpreting what they mean for...
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Data Point: Developing markets more open to alternative shopping
Consumers in developing markets are clamoring for new ways to pay, according to research from our 10 Years of 10 Trends report. These consumers were twice as likely as those in developed markets to...
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