Experts on Surveillance Pricing Explain How to Beat the Bots and Get the Best Deal
Retailers can tailor prices using your data, location, and shopping behavior. Consumer advocates recommend six practical ways to find a better deal.
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How Small Businesses Win Loyalty One Small Interaction at a Time
In small business, every customer interaction is a marketing opportunity. Here's how to win the entrepreneurial "room" every time.
Industry Moves
2026.40: Dots and Question Marks
The best Stratechery content from the week of September 28, 2026, including Meta's focus, what OpenAI is doing, and Mao and NBA Media Day.
Agency Business
SPUR publishes AI content tracking standard, pitches OpenAI and Google to join advisory board
Publishers are pushing for AI transparency with a new SPUR standard to track how AI tools use content, and inviting frontier AI labs to help.
Industry Moves
Future of Marketing Briefing: Agency fees in creator deals are the next transparency headache for marketers
As creator marketing budgets grow, so do questions about what agencies are taking.
Industry Moves
Sociable: TikTok adds certification tiers for agency partners
The platform will offer Agency Partner or Premier Agency Partner badges to assure marketers that partnership requirements have been met.
Talent & Hiring
What If Your Hiring Best Practices Aren’t Actually Best Practices? Here’s How to Find Out.
Learn why your standard hiring criteria might be screening out your best candidates — and how to fix your recruitment process.