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Browsing Algorithms

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Amazon Echo Buds, US
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Marketing & Branding

The Future of Discovery

Discovery no longer happens in isolated moments but unfolds as a continuous state, reshaping trust, visibility and identity across fragmented cultural systems. How can brands sustain relevance in this evolving landscape?

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Communities

The Tech-Resisters

Meet the citizens armed with knowledge of addictive design and extraction mechanics, they are rejecting algorithms, embracing analogue alternatives and treating friction as protection.

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Marketing & Branding

Young Vic rebrands theatre as an antidote to algorithm culture

London theatre the Young Vic has unveiled a new identity positioning live theatre as a counterpoint to the algorithm.

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Marketing & Branding

Dove exposes the sameness driving algorithmic beauty

Dove called out the homogenising effect of algorithmic beauty standards with the installation The Beauty Machine. Set up at Waterloo Station in London, the installation mimicked the mechanics of a social media feed, appearing to offer variety while serving up the same unrealistic face on repeat.

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Marketing & Branding

Future Forecast 2026: Design

As we enter an era defined by symbiosis between human intuition and machine intelligence, creative practice will become a dialogue – between nature and data, hand and algorithm, emotion and system.

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Technology

Instagram tests algorithm hyper-personalisation to give users more control

Instagram is experimenting with a new feature that lets users fine-tune what appears in their Reels and Explore feeds by selecting specific topics of interest.

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Artificial Intelligence

Future Five 2026: Artificial Intelligence

As the inevitable ascent of AI continues at a rapid pace, we consider its impact on us as human beings. With technology transforming education and many other fields, we must address the elephant in the room: is AI empowering us, or are we becoming overly reliant on it?

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Technology

Swedish insurer hacks social media algorithms with mental health anthem

Swedish insurer Länsförsäkringar Göteborg och Bohuslän has launched Detoxify, a subversive campaign that uses music to retrain harmful social media algorithms.

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Fashion

Innovation Debrief 2025: The New Age of Discovery

Where can consumers still find newness amid algorithm fatigue, ad blockers and saturated content platforms? Part of the answer lies in gatekeeping resources, gamified marketing, decentralised spaces and a renewed sense of trust – between brands as curators and audiences as active participants in the brand universe.