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Each year, The Guardian’s advertising team delivers a research project cheekily called Shift Happens.
Blending survey data with first-party data, the study aims to unpack longer-term cultural trends in Britain that may well be of interest to savvy marketers.
Imogen Fox is The Guardian‘s chief advertising officer. She returns to the podcast to unpack the report’s key takeaways and its implications for marketers.
These include five major changes consumers have made in how they spend their time throughout the week. Among them, people are waking up earlier, maximising weekends, heading to the pub early on Fridays, and taking reexamining their work-life balance priorities.
This episode was produced in partnership with The Guardian.
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Highlights
1:05: Shift Happens toplines
5:00: How useful are trends reports?
8:15: Lifestyle changes: joy slicing, return-to-office, weekend maximising, chatbot friends
14:52: Advice for marketers
20:40: The Guardian‘s plans for 2026
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