Learning from the Virgin Megastore
The rapid development of platforms and services that empower individuals to build a business around themselves is a major one. Top talent wants more control and ownership over their work, having options to transcend their reputation and financial success from a parent brand.
Brian Flynn • A New Media Structure: The Ownership Economy
3LAU turns to both the streetwear and fine-art industries for inspiration, because both of those worlds invert the mainstream music-industry model of low-margin ubiquity in favor of high-margin scarcity.
Cherie Hu • Digital music’s new drop culture
The thriving Westfield World Trade Center mall in downtown Manhattan, for example, is part museum, part entertainment complex, part showroom, part social watering hole. Its stores are doing fine, but management understands it needs to invest in access and amenities to keep feeding the Disney Parks “flywheel” growth model of foot traffic, entertainm
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