A perspective piece from The Listening Market On Thursday evening, a woman who works a normal office job does something that used to be reserved for trips away: she opens a notes app and

A perspective piece from The Listening Market Somewhere between 4pm and 9pm on a Sunday, in a few million households at once, a ritual is being performed that no one taught anyone and almost

A perspective piece from The Listening Market On a Tuesday evening in a community hall in Adelaide, a dozen adults between the ages of twenty-five and sixty are sitting in a circle playing the

A perspective piece from The Listening Market Something has shifted in the way people spend their money, and it is not the shift that economists were predicting a decade ago. The conversation around consumer

A perspective piece from The Listening Market Something has shifted in the way people fill their homes, their wardrobes, and their daily routines, and it is not the minimalist aesthetic that dominated the last

A perspective piece from The Listening Market There is a particular feeling that comes from walking into a shop where the person behind the counter knows your name, remembers what you bought last time,

A perspective piece from The Listening Market Attention has always been finite. Every person who has ever tried to read a book while a conversation happens nearby, or work while worrying about something unrelated,

A perspective piece from The Listening Market There was a time when getting your first car was a rite of passage, a symbol of adulthood as reliable as turning eighteen or finishing school. The

A perspective piece from The Listening Market There was a time when owning something felt permanent. A DVD sat on a shelf. A music collection lived in a binder of CDs. Software arrived in