01 / Creativity
Jia Curated 2026
Creativity
What an Architectural Model Lets You See
At Jia Curated’s Architecture in Scale, Elok House shows how one maquette can make spatial relationships easier to inspect.
Reject the noise. Spurn the rest.
02 / Culture
Type Around Town
Culture
Look at What the Letters Are Attached To
Kwazi Design’s Type Around Town documents Kolkata lettering with the buses, shopfronts, plaques and facades that carry it.
03 / Technology
Australia → U16
Technology
What Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Numbers Actually Measure
Platform account actions, reported account holding and actual use are different measures.
04 / Brands
KALLAX Storageborn
Brands
KALLAX Storageborn Makes IKEA’s Storage Logic Playable in Skyrim
The IKEA Skyrim Creation builds on familiar follower inventory, turning KALLAX’s real-world storage role into visible, playable behaviour.
The Latest
All News
The Latest
US states settle antitrust challenge to proposed Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery deal
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OpenAI Formalises Framework for Reporting Model-Misalignment Incidents
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Court rejects Google ad-tech breakup, orders behavioural remedies
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Meta launches Meta One subscription family across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp
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Donatella Versace and REVOLVE Group Announce Beauty-and-Fashion Joint Venture
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Google Adds Live Avatar to Gemini Enterprise
Brands
Adidas updates its full-year outlook
Intelligence
Research translated into decisions
GATEWAY →
Distribution
The Gateway Is Moving. The News Brand Is Harder to Measure.
News discovery is becoming more intermediated across many markets. But distribution, source recognition, trust, habit and payment do not move together.
WPP ↔ PUBLICIS
Performance
The WPP–Publicis Gap Is Easier to Measure Than Explain
On the closest comparable growth measures, Publicis has outpaced WPP since 2022. The evidence points to layered contributors—account dynamics, business mix and organisation—not a single AI or strategy explanation.
AUSTRALIA → U16
Measurement
What Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Numbers Actually Measure
Platform account actions, reported account holding and actual use are different measures. Australia’s early evidence supports each with a different level of confidence.
Editorial
Arguments worth having.
Earning More Is Not the Same as Being Resilient
England’s 15 DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries have become more reliant on self-generated income. The shift is not straightforward commercialisation, but a harder question about what each income source actually contributes to resilience and public purpose.
Walmart Doesn’t Need to Own the Whole Media Chain
Walmart is buying selected media layers while making its audiences and commerce-linked measurement usable through external tools and inventory. The more useful question is not whether the system is open or closed, but what remains Walmart’s as access expands.
Who Owns the Song Is Only Part of the Question
Music rights can now move through investment vehicles, debt structures and secondary sales while administration, licensing and catalogue development remain specialised functions. Understanding control increasingly means looking beyond the economic owner alone.