Meta just casually announced an AI-powered AR glasses prototype.

Ambient computing accelerates.


Word spreads because taste aligns…not because of wild interruption.

Find the stories that mesh.


Adobe’s holiday shopping predictions are in:

major discounts this season–up to 30% off listed prices–as retailers compete for consumer dollars

Biggest discount wins?

share of the most expensive goods is set to increase by 19% compared to pre-season trends—driven in large part by competitive discounts

Inflation and price sensitivity who?

I think post-election holiday shopping is gonna pop like a champagne cork.


This.

If you try to be for everyone, you end up being for no one.

Or, as Vonnegut said, “if you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.”


Meta reportedly rolled out an ad algorithm update in August. It caused a lot of volatility, but includes some nice sounding features.

  • Conversion Value Rules

You can assign certain audience profiles OR conversion types higher values

  • Incremental Conversions Attribution

measure which conversions would not have happened w/o the ad being shown (true impact) AND optimize for these types of conversions

  • Third-party Analytics Integration
  • Cross-Channel User Journeys

more emphasis on cross-channel journeys to drive incremental conversions.