For a while, Netflix wanted to keep its watch time up because the amount of time people spent on the platform was a reliable proxy for how likely they were to continue to pay for Netflix. Lately, as the company has pursued advertising, those watch time metrics are even more important, and the bad news is that they've b...

Haven't filled your deer tag? Didn't draw a deer tag? Maybe don't have time to hunt? We're here to help! The famous recipe on how to make beef taste like venison! No. 1: Start by purchasing a steer approximately one year before cutting date. No. 2: Feed the steer only wild berries, slough grass, weeds, sage and tree b...

Bel Group is a French cheese company that produces the Baby Bel and Laughing Cow brands of snacks, and it's trying to scale up sales in the United States. As it stands, the company doubled its market share in the past five years and has products in 7.5 percent of households. In France, a Laughing Cow is an iconic after...

Oil Companies do 🛢️ High prices have been good for Chevron and Exxon. While most of the world sees high diesel prices as a cause for concern, the CEOs of Chevron and ExxonMobil probably don't. Both companies reported windfall Q3 profits yesterday amid prices being driven up by wars in Iran and Ukraine. Chevron's p...

The Atkins brand has been suffering due to the increased adoption of GLP-1s and people reaching diet goals without the same extent of diet control that sustained Atkins for years. Sales are down 20.9 percent over 2026, and with an estimated 55 million Americans - double today's total, and 15 percent of the population -...

Tourism to Antarctica has been booming and is expected to grow significantly in coming years. In the early 1990s, only around 8,000 tourists a year were visiting Antarctica, but by the 2023-24 season, that rose to 122,000 tourists, according to the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators - an organizatio...

Foreigners slurped up Coca-Cola's drink offerings last quarter, while Americans' intake was as flat as an unfinished soda left out overnight. Even so, the total number of drinks the company sold globally grew by 5% in Q3, the beverage behemoth reported yesterday and upgraded its earnings projections for the year. The i...

And, in more bad news for the Brewers, household spending on alcohol in the United States is at a record low, with alcoholic beverages accounting for 0.77 percent of average expenditures in 2025, just $630 per household. The lowest since this state was first tracked in 1984, it surpasses the depths logged in 2020, when...

Rising costs of confectionaries are causing a Halloween pinch, with candy prices up 15 percent in 2026, rising at a rate of four times inflation. Roughly 65 percent of ingredient costs in the candy industry come from the cost of cocoa beans, sugar and corn syrup, and all of those are having supply chain problems, hiked...

The average NFL game duration has hit 3 hours, 11 minutes this season, up seven minutes over the recent average. That is a shift in the wrong direction compared to other sports that have attempted to rein in their runtime and cut out the tedious elements that spark delays; Major League Baseball games, by comparison, ar...

The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game contends that any actor in Hollywood can, within a reasonable number of steps, be connected to a film also starring Kevin Bacon. Drawing from a dataset of 169,000 actors, 1 percent of actors have appeared in a film with Bacon, 70 percent of actors just two movies away, 29 percent of ...

By Doug Leier No matter how you appreciate North Dakota's outdoors, be it by hunting, fishing, or simply hiking, here's a simple way to invest in its future: buy a federal duck stamp. You don't even have to hunt to make a difference. Birdwatchers, photographers and anyone who enjoys watching wildlife can purchase a sta...

Hundreds of Pokémon cards and sports trading cards valued at $963,000 were boosted from a FedEx truck last week in California, bound for a company that appraises cards. Two pallets were taken from the truck, and a third pallet of cards showed signs of being disturbed. The theft was reported by PSA, the card grad...

Holiday airfares will hit their highest levels in a decade, with the average round-trip Thanksgiving ticket being 31 percent more expensive than last year and the round-trip Christmas ticket being 23 percent higher. According to Hopper, the average round-trip domestic airfare for the Thanksgiving travel period has reac...

Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary organization founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, continues to hold a firm grip in the Central African Republic even years after the suspicious death of Wagner's founder. His 28-year-old son, Pavel Prigozhin, has reportedly salvaged the operation and righted the relationship with the Kremli...

Cookie sales are flat, which is a problem for Mondelēz, given that it owns two of the largest cookie businesses in the United States: Oreo (with $2.1 billion in annual sales) and Chips Ahoy! (with close to $1 billion). The category that it's seen some growth in is what's internally grouped as "Americana," wh...

Thanks to social media influencers shilling the business as a get-rich-quick situation, laundromats have become a trendy investment. The process of actually running a coin-operated laundry is slightly more hands-on than a TikTok might illustrate, but the content does great on social, so, much like vending machines a fe...

In September, Canadian travel to the United States was slightly less down than it was in the same month of 2025, but remains really low compared to 2024 levels as Canadians avoid the U.S. Trips by car were up 5.6 percent and trips by air were up 11.6 percent year over year in September. That is the sixth consecutive mo...

While the retail market value of breakfast cereal has risen from $11.5 billion in 2020 to $12.6 billion in 2026, that's mainly driven by higher prices, as the actual volume of cereal consumed in the United States is down over the period. The total market volume of cereal dropped from 2.2 billion kilograms in 2020 to 1....

In the middle of the 20th century, the contiguous 48 U.S. states were home to 1,453 glaciers that covered 562 square kilometers across six Western states. As of today, that total area has shrunk by 35 percent, and over that time, 398 glaciers that had been cataloged in the original assessments disappeared. That doesn't...