Farfetch is back and this may only just be the beginning of the turnaround. After rising like a phoenix to become a multi-billion dollar unicorn in the 2010s – hitting a peak valuation of $24… Read More »The Farfetch Turnaround Strategy
If you were wondering WTF is connected commerce, then you are not alone. It could easily be mistaken for another buzzword that rolls multiple trends into one abstract buzzword, but it actually makes a lot… Read More »Connected Commerce & Retail Media’s Boom
The hype around live shopping has been rising for years, but the potential has yet to be realized, at least in Western markets. Why? There are numerous possible reasons to explain why it has exploded… Read More »The Live Shopping / Video Commerce Intersection
Retail Media is on the rise in a multitude of ways as the media business model merges with the retail business model. Wait, what?! Advertising now accounts for almost a third of Walmart’s $6.7 billion… Read More »Retail Media and The Future of Advertising
We are on the cusp of another major market shift for D2C brands, and their retail counterparts. Born a couple decades ago on the backs of eBay, Amazon, Shopify and others, the eCommerce industry has… Read More »Business Case for Video Commerce – D2C Brands
This is the 5th and final instalment in the GLU1 series. The previous four posts have cascaded through my story with gluten, combined with existing and frontier research about various possible lenses to analyze the… Read More »GLU1 – Cayenne and the Pancreas
Making something simple is anything but easy. And yet the majority of customers – both consumer and enterprise – prefer simple experiences. Why is it so difficult to create a product that delivers a profound… Read More »Product Design & Simplicity
The market around AI is hopping. OpenAI just announced a fundraising at $150 Billion, and new consumer applications are popping up everyday. Whether it is consumer-facing video apps like Luma, Runway, or eventually Sora; or… Read More »Generative AI Business Model
Social commerce is no doubt taking off, becoming an ever-increasing % of global eCommerce sales each year; more recently, growth in the American market has began to take off. In many ways, the opposite can… Read More »Social Commerce & Web 3 Outlook
What are creative markets? . Normally, when we think about the term “markets” we think in terms of verticals, TAM (Total Addressable Market), CAGR (Cumulative Annual Growth Rate) and future expected market size. But how… Read More »Creative Markets & Talent Sourcing