Are you building an audience or building traffic?

via ComicLab podcast


In the simplest terms, stores serve as hubs of fulfillment and support distribution logistics. This is increasingly more important as consumers are becoming more demanding for convenience or immediate deliveries.

While Walmart continues to try to Amazonify itself, Amazon is trying to crack Walmart’s advantage: physical stores.

via Retail Dive


Instagram looks to be experimenting with a new option that would enable you to hide the description and UI buttons on Reels clips, giving you a cleaner viewing experience.

Consider this your reminder to remember the safe zones of the various platforms you may be making content for.

We’re thinking about it a lot more at Blue Ion these days.

via Social Media Today


It seems to me that in recent times, there has been a great push toward exclusivity and identity. However, the universal problem of the COVID 19 pandemic may have helped to undercut this, though it is too early to predict how this will truly influence writing.

-John Robinson

Replace “writing” with “society” and this still holds.

via Periodicity Journal (the specific post appears to have been removed from the site, I read it in my RSS reader)


It’s been a while since I’ve written about the splintering of spending across demographics, turns out it may be keeping interest rates higher for longer.

Spending by older affluent Americans is helping grow the economy. But it’s also contributing to a delay in the Federal Reserve cutting rates.

People 55 and over own nearly 75% of all household wealth. With gains in both the housing and stock markets, older people are spending more on expensive services like travel, entertainment, and healthcare, keeping prices in those sectors high

via The Daily Upside