Living/Lifestyle

OK, people, let’s spitball some topics for this column. Annoying co-workers you would like to replace with artificial intelligence? Office wardrobe malfunctions? Bosses’ secret TikTok accounts? Go ahead, shout ’em out. There are no bad…

Nestlé SA promised it will work to boost the nutritional value of its snacks, drinks and food products, after most of its portfolio was rated as unhealthy. Less than half of Nestlé’s main food-and-drink…

Taylor Swift got her start in the music industry at the tender age of 16, with the release of her eponymous country album in 2006. In the years since, the 12-time Grammy winner has transformed herself into a pop superstar and built her…

Sonya Dube went to buy more of one of her favorite makeup products, a Charlotte Tilbury highlighter, this summer only to find it was out of stock—again.Ms. Dube, who is 23 and works in sales for a technology…

If brands next year flood social media with computer simulations of A-list endorsers, for example, remember this year’s marketing videos starring deepfakes of Elon Musk and Tom Cruise. Our report on deepfakes…

The Great Resignation—the decision by millions of workers to leave their jobs during the Covid pandemic—has shown signs of waning, but that is not a green light for companies to take their staff for granted, one U.K. academic says.…

A startup backed by an internet-search pioneer wants to give cash to users who share personal data including what they buy or watch on mobile apps. The startup, Caden Inc., operates an app by the same name that helps users download their…

A new campaign from the Ad Council and Meta Platforms Inc. is encouraging parents of teen and young-adult children to speak to them about the dangers of fentanyl. Drug…

While some advertisers were pulling back from Elon Musk’s Twitter Inc. last month, Tumblr began a new ad campaign to encourage users to return to its once-popular social-media platform.“Welcome back :)” one ad on Twitter read, linking to…

Chief marketing officers are spending more time, and increasingly spending money, to build a different kind of brand: their own.Eighty percent of marketing executives say they are actively developing their own brands, with more than half of…