Filtering through this weeks headlines...
Top Headlines: Delivered by Advisory | Leonard Steinberg
December 11, 2025
1. ChatGPT - almost exactly 3 years old since launch - already has around 800 million weekly users and 1 million enterprise customers, including Spotify, Canva and Zillow..... Instagram took about 7 years from its launch to reach 800 million users, more than twice as long.....
(FT)
2. Black Friday online sales totaled $12 billion up 9% YOY and Cyber Monday was up 6% to $14 billion! Buy now-pay later sales rose 9%. Data shows that most of these gains are a reflection of higher prices - up around 7% - and slightly lower volume, down around 1%.
(Salesforce, Prof G Markets)
3. With the world feeling a bit chaotic, it makes perfect sense that many experts see 2026 as a time for rooted browns, naturally-inflected neutrals, and forest-adjacent greens that can provide a feeling of groundedness. But instead of planting seeds, the Pantone Color of the Year 2026 suggests we look to the sky for new answers. Cloud Dancer (11-4201) is an unbleached, wispy white that’s as unique and adaptable as its namesakes that grace the sky.
(Architectural Digest)
4. Imagine growing up without doom-scrolling, texting, emailing, online shopping, tweeting or posting..... I did, as well as the other 65 million Gen X-ers in the US.
(NY TIMES)
