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The A/W26 Pre-Season Checklist: Getting Your Shopify Store Ready for Peak Trading

Black Friday 2026 is 27 November. The brands that post their best numbers in Q4 are the ones who spent the summer fixing their store, not the ones who started...

Jason West ·20 Aug 2026 · 6 min read

Adidas use of AI Labels EU DirectiveNews

AI Labels on Product Imagery: What the EU AI Act Now Requires, and How adidas Is Already Responding

AI-generated imagery shown to EU customers now needs a clear label under the EU AI Act, and adidas is already doing it....

18 Aug 2026 · 6 min read

Get Your Best Seller Out of Your Prospecting Ads: Inside the New Fabrik Intelligence UpdatesAnnouncements

Get Your Best Seller Out of Your Prospecting Ads: Inside the New Fabrik Intelligence Updates

If your best seller is not the product winning new customers at the lowest friction point, it should not be eating prospecting...

14 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

Frasers Group Buys Harvey Nichols. So What Happens to Its GCC Stores?News

Frasers Group Buys Harvey Nichols. So What Happens to Its GCC Stores?

Frasers Group has bought Harvey Nichols out of a pre-pack administration, ending 35 years of Dickson Poon family ownership. The question the...

13 Aug 2026 · 6 min read

Creator Content Won't Replace Your Campaign Imagery. Here's How They Work TogetherMarketing

Creator Content Won't Replace Your Campaign Imagery. Here's How They Work Together

Fashion sells aspiration, not outcomes. Why campaign imagery still leads the funnel for fashion brands, and the narrower, genuinely useful job creator...

13 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

Q4 Starts Now: The Fashion Brand's Playbook for October to DecemberMarketing

Q4 Starts Now: The Fashion Brand's Playbook for October to December

The decisions that decide Q4, stock commitments, creative production, budget pacing, email calendars and site readiness, all lock in August. A market-split...

10 Aug 2026 · 6 min read

The EU De Minimis Rule Is Now Live: What UK Fashion Brands Shipping to Europe Must Do NowNews

The EU De Minimis Rule Is Now Live: What UK Fashion Brands Shipping to Europe Must Do Now

The EU scrapped its €150 duty-free threshold on 1 July 2026, and every UK parcel now carries customs duty. What the change...

7 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

Two-Hour Delivery Is the Expectation: Why Fulfilment Speed Decides GCC ExpansionRetail

Two-Hour Delivery Is the Expectation: Why Fulfilment Speed Decides GCC Expansion

Ounass averages 89-minute delivery across the UAE. For fashion brands entering the GCC, fulfilment speed is not a logistics detail, it is...

4 Aug 2026 · 4 min read

The New CTRNE Website: Two Customers, One Stone, and a Brand Rebuilt Around Its PurposeAnnouncements

The New CTRNE Website: Two Customers, One Stone, and a Brand Rebuilt Around Its Purpose

CTRNE's new website is live. One consolidated brand story for two very different customers, built to put citrine, the merchant's stone, and...

3 Aug 2026 · 4 min read

How to Get Your Shopify Products Found in ChatGPT and AI Shopping AgentsTechnology

How to Get Your Shopify Products Found in ChatGPT and AI Shopping Agents

AI-referred orders to Shopify grew nearly 13x year on year in Q1 2026, and those shoppers convert around 50% higher than organic...

3 Aug 2026 · 7 min read

One Partner, One Plan: Why Fashion Brands Are Consolidating Agencies in 2026Marketing

One Partner, One Plan: Why Fashion Brands Are Consolidating Agencies in 2026

Most GBP2m+ fashion and footwear brands run five or six vendors at once, and nobody owns how they perform together. Here's the...

27 Jul 2026 · 6 min read

What Klaviyo Announced at K:LDN 2026: The Retention Marketing TakeawaysMarketing

What Klaviyo Announced at K:LDN 2026: The Retention Marketing Takeaways

Klaviyo's fifth K:LDN drew 1,000+ marketers to Tobacco Dock and set out its vision for an autonomous CRM. Here's what the announcements...

13 Jul 2026 · 5 min read

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