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Industry Reports 2026

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IMRG's Growth Summit held up a mirror to UK ecommerce. The reflection was humming Keane.

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Sep 28, 2026
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In 2013, John Lewis took a Keane song, handed it to Lily Allen, slowed it right down and sold Christmas with it. A bear who’d never seen Christmas, a hare with an alarm clock, a nation in bits. It worked because it was the familiar thing, done gently, with nobody asked to change anything. Are you humming this song now?

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