Amid rising consumer demand for secondhand fashion, the e-commerce platforms that helped create the online thrifting economy are working to tempt specific audience cohorts in the hope of coming out on top. Click here to read the story at digiday.com. Discussion Questions:
U.S. lawmakers moved a step closer to banning the app after a vote on Wednesday in the House of Representatives. If ratified by the Senate, the bill would make it illegal to distribute or host TikTok in the U.S. Click here to read the story at digiday.com. Discussion Questions:
What will Starbucks come up with next? Nobody knows, but there’s a good chance it’ll happen sooner than later and an above-average chance of it being tasty. Click here to read the story at tastingtable.com. Discussion Questions:
“Avocados don’t get boring at all,” Alvaro Luque, the president and CEO of Avocados from Mexico, told Business Insider. Click here to read the story at businessinsider.com. Discussion Questions:
Coca-Cola launched a holiday campaign, “The World Needs More Santas,” that features a new ad as well as digital and experiential elements, per details shared with Marketing Dive. The global effort will be adapted for more than 80 markets worldwide. Click here to read the story at marketingdive.com. Discussion Questions:
A national TikTok ban in the U.S. would put an end to tourism agencies’ growing investment in the platform and push them to redirect it into Meta and Google’s social platforms as well limit their ability to influence global conversations about their destination. Click here to read the story at Read more…
McDonald’s has recruited award-winning digital content creator Karen X Cheng for its Lunar New Year campaign. Click here to read the story at nrn.com. Discussion Questions:
Austin Wells loves to travel the world. But he doesn’t like long flights, jet lag or an unsettled routine. Click here to read the story at cnbc.com. Discussion Questions:
Critics are calling out Coca-Cola and climate activism event COP27 in Egypt for a branded partnership that it deems is counterintuitive to the meeting’s mission, and meant to “greenwash” Coca-Cola’s reputation for being a major source of plastic waste. Click here to read the story at magazine.promomarketing.com. Discussion Questions: What Read more…
Seven years after its debut in the country, the American pizza giant has formally shut its storesafter it failed to win over locals who preferred homegrown options, according to a report by Milano Today. Click here to read the story at cnn.com. Discussion Questions: What is international business? Why would Domino’s be interested Read more…