Expert perspectives on AI-powered marketing, beauty and fashion trends, content strategy and the future of brand building.
Eleven days on the Croisette. Thousands of looks. A global audience watching in real time. The Cannes Film Festival is not just cinema — it's one of the most concentrated visual trend datasets that happens anywhere in the world. Here's how fashion brands should be using it.
Every first Monday in May, the Met Gala produces the single most concentrated visual trend dataset in fashion. The 2026 theme — Fashion Is Art — sent a clear signal about where aesthetics are heading. The brands that win are the ones who decode it fast. Here's how visual intelligence changes that race.
Later is a widely used visual content calendar and scheduling platform popular with beauty and fashion brands. Flaunt is an AI-native platform that starts with trend intelligence and produces content end-to-end. Here's how they differ — and which one makes more sense depending on where your content challenges actually sit.
Most beauty and fashion brands treat UGC as a campaign: a burst of creator activity followed by a drop-off. The brands consistently winning on social have made UGC systematic — an always-on pipeline rather than a periodic push. Here's how Flaunt's AI makes that possible.
Sprout Social is one of the most widely used social media management platforms on the market. Flaunt is an AI-native platform built to discover trends, create content and distribute it — with specialisation in beauty, fashion and lifestyle. For brands in these categories, the distinction matters more than it might appear.
The AI commoditization wave is real: foundation models are getting powerful enough that high-capability teams are building their own tools in days. For most software companies, this is an existential threat. For Flaunt, it is structural tailwind. Here is why.
EDITED is a leading retail intelligence platform used by fashion brands and retailers to track pricing, assortment and market positioning. Flaunt is an AI-native platform built for marketing and content teams in beauty and fashion. They are often mentioned together — but they solve fundamentally different problems.
The content brief is one of the most time-consuming parts of a brand's content workflow — and one of the most important. Getting it right determines whether a creative team produces something on-trend and on-brand, or spends days on work that misses the mark. Flaunt's AI automates the brief — here's exactly how.
Trendalytics is one of the most recognised trend intelligence platforms in fashion retail. Flaunt is an AI-native platform that starts with trend discovery and extends through content creation and distribution. The question is not which platform spots trends — it's what you can do with them.
Most brand teams use four or five different tools between spotting a trend and publishing content around it. Flaunt compresses that into one platform — and one workflow. Here's exactly how it works, from the first signal to the final post.
CreatorIQ is one of the most sophisticated enterprise influencer measurement platforms available. Flaunt is an AI-native platform that helps brands discover trends, create content and distribute it. For beauty and fashion brands, the choice comes down to what problem you're actually trying to solve.
The most useful competitive intelligence is not what competitors are saying about themselves. It is what content they are making, which creators they are working with, what formats are performing and where there are gaps. Flaunt's AI gives beauty and fashion brands a systematic way to see all of this — and act on it.
AspireIQ (now Aspire) is one of the most widely used creator marketing platforms. Flaunt is an AI-native platform built around trend intelligence, content creation and distribution. Both serve beauty and fashion brands — but they approach the problem from entirely different directions.
Most brands respond to trends after they've already peaked. Flaunt's Social Trend Agent is designed to change that — detecting early directional signals in beauty, fashion and lifestyle before they reach mainstream awareness. Here's exactly how it works and why the timing window matters.
GRIN is one of the most recognised influencer CRMs on the market. Flaunt is an AI-native platform built to discover trends, create content and distribute it at scale. They solve different problems — but many beauty and fashion brands are evaluating both. Here's how they compare.
A million followers who scroll past your posts is worth less than ten thousand people who feel genuinely connected to what your brand stands for. The fashion brands winning long-term are building communities, not just audiences. Here is how.
The most underused lever in most beauty brand content strategies is repurposing. A single well-produced asset - a tutorial, a data insight, a campaign visual - can generate content across a dozen touchpoints. AI makes this practical at scale.
The tension between AI automation and luxury brand values is real. AI suggests scale and efficiency; luxury is built on scarcity, craft and human judgment. Here is how leading luxury fashion houses are resolving this tension - and where AI genuinely belongs in the luxury marketing stack.
The Reels vs TikTok debate has been running in marketing teams for years. The honest answer is that both matter - but they work differently, reward different content and reach different people. Here is how to think about the split.
We are making predictions, and we are putting them on record. Here are ten ways we expect AI to reshape beauty and fashion marketing in 2026 - based on where the technology and the industry are heading.
Social commerce removes the gap between content discovery and product purchase. Beauty and fashion - where impulse, emotion and visual discovery drive buying decisions - are among its biggest beneficiaries. Here is the full picture.
Likes are the least useful metric in your analytics dashboard. Here is the measurement framework beauty brand marketing teams should actually be using - and the metrics that connect social performance to business outcomes.
The hashtag #dupe has accumulated billions of views on TikTok. Fashion brands that ignore this phenomenon are missing a cultural signal with real commercial implications. Here is how to turn dupe attention into brand equity.
The default output of AI writing tools is confident, well-structured and completely bland. It sounds like a brand - just not your brand. Here is how to fix that with a practical brand voice framework for AI-assisted content.
Pinterest consistently ranks among the highest-intent platforms for fashion and beauty discovery - people on Pinterest are actively planning to buy. Most brands still treat it as an afterthought. Here's the full case for investing in it.
Reactive content creation - deciding what to post the day you need to post it - is one of the biggest drains on beauty brand marketing teams. A 90-day calendar built with AI changes this entirely.
The influencer tier that drives the most engagement per post is consistently not the one with the most followers. Here is what the data shows about micro, macro and nano influencers for beauty brands - and how to build a strategy that actually works.
AI-generated imagery has gone from a novelty to a genuine production tool for fashion and beauty brands. But the technology has real limitations - and real controversies. Here is the honest picture.
TikTok Shop launched in the US in September 2023 and has since become one of the most significant shifts in social commerce for fashion and beauty brands. Here is everything you need to know to compete.
Instagram runs a separate algorithm for every surface - Feed, Reels, Stories and Explore. Each one rewards different signals. Most beauty brands optimise for only one. Here's the full picture.
Our AI agents have processed over 10 million social media posts across beauty, fashion and lifestyle. Here are the data-backed insights beauty brands need to shape their content strategy in 2025.
User-generated content drives higher trust and conversion than brand-produced content - but finding the right creators and managing campaigns at scale is a challenge. Here is how AI is solving the UGC problem for beauty brands.
Most brands waste hours on manual content workflows that AI can handle in minutes. This step-by-step guide shows you how to build an automated social media content pipeline - from trend discovery to cross-platform publishing.
D2C brands are using AI to produce more creative content, faster and cheaper than ever before. From AI product photography to trend-responsive content generation, here are seven ways AI is reshaping creative production.
AI agents are the next evolution beyond chatbots and automation tools. They can plan, execute and adapt autonomously - and they are about to transform how marketing teams work. Here is what you need to know.
Traditional trend forecasting relied on intuition and industry insiders. AI has changed the game - analyzing millions of data points across runways, social media and street style to predict trends with unprecedented speed and accuracy.
Beauty brands that embrace AI are outperforming competitors by spotting trends earlier, creating content faster and distributing it more intelligently. Here is how the smartest brands are doing it.
The social media marketing landscape has shifted dramatically with AI at the center of every major platform update. We break down the 10 best AI tools for social media marketing in 2025 - from trend discovery to automated publishing.