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Pinterest bets on conversational commerce

Pinterest, Global

Global – Pinterest has launched Ask Pinterest, an experimental AI-powered shopping app that transforms product discovery into a conversational experience. Rather than relying on keyword searches, users can ask complex, natural-language questions to receive personalised recommendations informed by Pinterest’s proprietary Taste Graph and their own saved Pins and Boards.

The standalone app signals how discovery is shifting from search to dialogue as platforms compete with AI chatbots for consumer attention. Pinterest is betting that its understanding of aesthetics, taste and intent can provide a competitive advantage in an increasingly crowded AI landscape.

In Mood-matching Fashion, we unpack how emotionally attuned styling and shopping tools are reshaping fashion discovery, helping people to move away from keyword and product searches to intuitive, feelings-led journeys.

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Strategic opportunity

As AI-powered shopping shifts from keywords to conversation, brands must move beyond search optimisation and build richer signals around taste, context and intent, ensuring products can be discovered through natural-language recommendations and aesthetic preferences

EA launches in-game advertising platform for brands

Global – Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a platform enabling brands to market directly within gameplay through dynamic, real-time placements, including stadium signage, in-game content and reward-based activations.

The move reflects the growing commercialisation of gaming environments as media channels, giving brands new ways to reach highly engaged audiences within immersive digital experiences. EA says the platform is designed to enhance rather than disrupt gameplay, with targeting and measurement tools built into its Frostbite engine.

EA’s latest venture signals expanding opportunities to integrate marketing into gaming ecosystems with greater precision and accountability. Early partners include Visa, Red Bull, Mountain Dew and Peacock.

Head to our Gaming topic for the latest consumer behaviour and product innovations in this immersive digital world.

EA Sports FC, Global

Strategic opportunity

Shift budgets towards gameplay-integrated brand experiences, using dynamic sponsorships, virtual placements and reward-driven interactions that create visibility through participation and entertainment rather than traditional interruptive advertising

Stat: Gen Z women face historic motherhood delay

UK – Gen Z women are set to become mothers later than any previous UK generation, according to projections from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

It expects that women born in 2008 will have their first child, on average, at age 35, signalling a historic shift in the timing of parenthood. This delay is being shaped by a convergence of social and economic pressures, including the rising cost of housing, longer periods spent in education, financial strain, mental health challenges and changing expectations around family life.

The same projections suggest that Gen Z women will have 1.48 children on average, well below the 2.1 children needed to maintain population levels without immigration.

This points to a longer, less linear adulthood, as explored in our Gen Z Now and Next: From Vision to Contradiction report, where we highlighted how milestones such as home ownership, family formation and financial security are being postponed, redefined or decoupled altogether. Lean more about Gen Z Parents in our Communities report.

Strategic opportunity

How can your brand support people through longer, less linear life stages? Consider creating products, services and communications that respond to postponed parenthood, financial pressures and evolving definitions of fulfilment