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Established Brands Threatened as More Consumers Favor Attributes Over Status: Clear M&C Saatchi

Lack of trust is followed by active hostility to established institutions – something else you might have noticed in recent days. Sure enough, the Clear strategy group at M&C Saatchi found that 86% of U.S. consumers now seek brands based on attributes instead of status, up from 75% in 2011. Vulnerability varies by industry, with infant formula, gin and whiskey (overlapping categories in my household) topping the danger list.  Household cleaners, laundry detergent, and toothpaste at the bottom. Clear says they’ll send a copy of the study if you ask them, but don’t take my word for it.

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Datorama Genius Offers AI-Generated Insights

May 23, 2017

Let’s try some actual industry news today. (So crazy, it just might work). Customer Data Platform vendor Datorama has released “Genius”, an artificial intelligence-powered feature that continuously monitors data the system collects and provides marketers with actionable insights such as which audience segments are responding above average. The system watches how marketers respond so it can learn which insights they find most useful and offer similar ones in the future.

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Algolia Gives AI Agents Real-Time Access to Salesforce, Adobe Data

May 9, 2025

If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.

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