Redundancy has a half-life

At first, this stop sign sign makes a lot of sense: Lives are at stake. Break the rhythm, turn something ignored into something noticed. The challenge with “highlighting” is that it fades. When everything is in all caps, nothing is. Exclamation points are like salt. When people are commanded to pay attention, it’s worth reminding…

4 TikTok Predictions that Creators on the Platform Are Preparing For [Expert Insights]

Few apps cycle through trends as quickly as TikTok. I spend endless hours scrolling through the app, and it feels like every other day, a new trending sound, topic, song, or challenge is going viral. It can be hard to keep up, and I say this as a content creator and marketer whose job is…

How to Create Strong Sales and Marketing Alignment in 2024, According to LinkedIn’s Global Product Marketing Leader

Welcome to HubSpot’s Expert Edge Series, where we interview top execs at major brands to explore their perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the industry. Puppies and the park. Beach days and ice cream. Some things just obviously go together — but what if I put sales and marketing together in that…

Normalizing selfishness

Shoplifters lurk in the shadows. They realize that they will have an easier time if they quietly steal stuff, because speaking up about it won’t help their cause. Sometimes, though, some people seek to change the culture in a way that celebrates taking. “I own this jetski and I can ride it as long, as…

Optimized or maximized?

Engineers can optimize a bridge. There are some bridge designs that satisfy aesthetic, financial, durability, safety and efficiency needs better than others. The work of optimization is finding the best set of tradeoffs. Maximization, on the other hand, seeks the solution that ranks the highest for just one goal. After it peaked, Yahoo sought to…