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Sézane: The Paris Label That Made 'DTC Fashion' Look Easy
From reselling vintage on eBay to a profitable, B-Corp certified fashion house courted by the Bettencourt family's investment arm, Sézane is the DTC fashion story Europe keeps trying to copy.
6 hours ago3 min read


Graza: How a Squeeze Bottle Turned Olive Oil Into a Brand
In three years Graza took a commodity nobody thought about — olive oil — and built a nine-figure brand on a squeeze bottle, creator seeding and a DTC-first playbook. Here's how.
6 hours ago3 min read


How Surreal Turned a Protein Cereal Into Britain's Cheekiest Billboard Brand
Surreal sells high-protein, zero-sugar cereal. What it's really famous for is billboards that troll celebrities, rivals and the entire ad industry — on a shoestring.
1 day ago3 min read


How Snag Built a Brand on Who Others Ignored
Snag turned one woman's frustration that tights never fit into a fast-growing DTC brand — built entirely on serving the customers the hosiery industry had ignored.
1 day ago3 min read


Two Farmers: The Crisp Brand Betting on Compost
Two Farmers, a Herefordshire crisp brand launched by two farmers in 2018, built its whole identity around a 100% compostable packet — proof that for a small producer, the packaging can be the marketing.
1 day ago3 min read


Pip & Nut's Kitchen-Table Climb to Profit
Pip & Nut, the nut butter brand Pip Murray started at her kitchen table, has hit its first operating profit as revenue jumped 50% to £26.4m — a lesson in patient brand-building.
1 day ago3 min read


TRIP Gave Celebrities Equity Instead of Cash — and Built a Soft-Drinks Phenomenon
TRIP survived a regulatory gut-punch to its CBD business, pivoted to functional drinks, and turned an 'equity-for-advocacy' model into one of the fastest-growing names on the shelf.
1 day ago3 min read


How a German Audio Box Quietly Conquered the World's Nurseries
tonies turned a screen-free audio box and a collectible figurine into a global children's-media business growing 41% a year. A spotlight on one of Germany's best growth stories.
1 day ago3 min read


The AI Honeymoon Is Over for CMOs — Here's Where the Money Is Going Now
Dentsu's new global CMO report captures the moment marketers stopped expecting AI to save them money — and started spending the time it frees up on things machines can't fake.
1 day ago3 min read


Zoe: Turning Gut Science Into a Business
UK health-science scale-up Zoe has turned personalised nutrition into a real business — 3 million monthly users, 70%+ recurring revenue, and a 2026 crowdfund that blew past its £1m target to raise over £3m.
1 day ago3 min read


Tony's Chocolonely: Ethics Built to Scale
Tony's Chocolonely turned an uncomfortable truth about cocoa into one of the world's fastest-growing chocolate brands, passing 240 million euros in 2025 — proof a mission can be a growth engine.
1 day ago3 min read


The Ad Industry Is Now a Three-Horse Race - What This Earnings Season Revealed
Publicis, Omnicom and a resurgent Havas are pulling ahead while WPP resets. Inside the Q3 earnings that redrew the agency power map.
1 day ago3 min read


The Quiet Arrival of Ads Inside ChatGPT: What Every Business Should Do Now
Paid advertising has started appearing inside AI assistants like ChatGPT. Here is how it works, who is already testing it, and the practical moves businesses should make before the channel matures.
6 days ago4 min read


Pernod Ricard Steadies After a Shaky Start to the Year
Pernod Ricard's Q1 sales fell less than feared — organic down just 0.9% — with the US and China weak but India and the rest of the world growing. A read on consumer caution.
Oct 163 min read


The 2026 Agency Shake-Up, Explained: Who's Up, Who's Down, and Why It Matters
Mergers, AI and a wave of account moves are redrawing the agency world in 2026. Here's a plain-English guide to the holding-company shake-up — and why it matters to businesses of every size.
Oct 163 min read


Havas Accelerates on a US-Powered Third Quarter
Havas grew net revenue 7.2% to EUR 703m in Q3 2026, with US-led organic growth of 2.4%, and held its full-year guidance. A read on the holding-company landscape.
Oct 163 min read


What GTA VI teaches marketers about the power of silence
Grand Theft Auto VI is the most anticipated entertainment launch in years, and Rockstar built that frenzy with almost no marketing, a masterclass in scarcity and restraint.
Oct 153 min read


Bannerflow unveils Creative Intelligence, bringing integrated AI to the advertising workflow
Bannerflow has announced Creative Intelligence, a connected suite of AI capabilities built into the advertising workflow to help brands create, evaluate, understand and scale advertising from one platform.
Oct 133 min read


Lidl Hijacks New York's Viral $60 Loaf With a Manhattan OOH Stunt
German discounter Lidl, via M+C Saatchi, ran a guerrilla out-of-home stunt mocking a viral $60 New York loaf to flex its own price competitiveness in the US.
Sep 252 min read


Serviceplan and Lufthansa Launch 'Premium Lives in the Details'
Serviceplan has created a new global premium-positioning campaign for Lufthansa, 'Premium lives in the details,' betting that specificity rebuilds premium credibility.
Sep 252 min read
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