Severin Matusek

The takeaways? Consumers are redefining what value means to them, which is undoubtedly influencing how they shop. Discount and wholesale channels continue to attract consumers across age groups and income levels (for example, 80 percent of surveyed US Gen Zers report having shopped at a wholesaler in the previous month).29 Brands will need to... See more

My new piece is live. I think it's one of the more important things I've ever written.

“Every day, people learn more about the ways AI is impacting their lives, and it can often feel like this technology is happening to us rather than with us and for us,”

Local communities: we are connecting local communities, so that they can showcase their scenes and artists to the wider COLORS community around the globe.

That’s what you did with Glissant – you created this moment where you were able to bridge popular culture and philosophy, and put Glissant’s totally essential worldview into so many new hands.

The fundamental tension of narrative control in the networked era is that most companies impose a hierarchical brand management model onto what has effectively become a distributed, permissionless process. And when the emergent meme-space of networked media meets censorship-resistant infrastructures, brands take on a life of their own.