Recently in Santa Clara, California, a work crew spent part of June draping a giant white tarp over the side of a football stadium. The stadium is called Levi's Stadium. It has been called that since it opened in 2014, home to the San Francisco 49ers and, this summer, six…

On January 30, 2000, 17 companies that did not exist five years earlier paid roughly two million dollars apiece for 30seconds of Super Bowl airtime. Most of America had never heard of them. Many of them were losing money on every single transaction they processed. Several would not survive the…

If you have been feeling a little exhausted by AI lately, you are not alone, and you are not wrong. For the past three years, the AI conversation has been relentless. Every week brought a new model launch, a new capability announcement, a new round of breathless coverage about what…

Picture the average small business marketing budget. Most of it (the social media ads, the Google campaigns, the promotional offers, the new signage, the sponsored posts) is pointed in one direction: outward. Toward people who have never heard of the business. Toward strangers who need to be convinced, converted, and…

In 1996, George Foreman appeared on QVC to demonstrate a countertop grill that had been struggling to find its audience. The segment was going fine. Not spectacular, but fine. Foreman was doing what he had been doing since 1994, showing up with his infectious grin, cooking meat on both sides…

Why Memorial Day Weekend Is Different From Every Other Weekend The Jersey Shore is always busy on weekends throughout the summer. Fourth of July is large in raw volume. Late July and August bring the deepest crowds of the season. But Memorial Day Weekend occupies a category of its own.…

Vinyl record sales in the United States cracked $1 billion in 2025, the first time that has happened since the year 2000. Sales of "dumbphones" (basic mobile devices without internet access or app ecosystems) rose 25 percent last year. Arts and crafts retailer Michaels reported a 136 percent sales surge.…

Picture this. Sometime in the mid-1990s, your family is on vacation. Maybe it is in Orlando. Maybe it is in New York City or Las Vegas. Maybe it is a big shopping mall somewhere in the middle of the country that has turned a Tuesday into a destination. The line…