The YouTube channel Cocomelon, which features an animated cast of colorful creatures dancing along to the delight of content-craving kids, racks up 2.5B views a month, making it the 2nd most watched YouTube channel (after T-Series, which features Indian music). And although Cocomelon rakes in as much as $11.3m per month, the couple-owned company is […]
Maybe selling everything under the sun for $3 a pop isn’t such a great idea after all. The D2C upstart Brandless, which rose to fame peddling generic home goods and personal-care products, is shutting down, according to Protocol. It’s the first SoftBank Vision Fund-backed startup to close its doors entirely. In the early days, the […]
Loop, a company that makes stainless steel canisters and other reusable vessels for giant companies like Nestlé and Procter & Gamble, will soon roll out in retail stores. It’s a system designed to end disposability It works like this: Loop ships products — ranging from Häagen-Dazs ice cream to Tide laundry detergent — in tote […]
Last fall, Instagram banned filters that let users see what they might look like with a little nip and tuck — or a major face-lift. It’s not hard to see why people thought the digital effects were sketchy — one of the filters was literally called FixMe. It mimicked how a surgeon might draw lines […]
Stock in Skechers, the shoemaker that made sub sandwich-sized sneakers before frumpiness was fashionable, rose more than 6% at the end of last week — part of a 37% stock rally in a year. Chunky became chic In the past few years, “dad-core” style has become fashionable, with the trend hitting full, ummm, stride this […]