How The North Face, Vans and Timberland are trying to transform their businesses in 2026

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Apparel and outdoors giant VF Corp is revealing more details of its growth playbooks for three of its core brands: The North Face, Vans and Timberland.

The company, which recently reported a 2% rise in revenue for its second fiscal quarter, knows it’s at a crossroads as 2026 gets underway. Two of its brands — The North Face and Timberland — have managed to hold onto gains. Meanwhile, Vans — once VF Corp’s top-performing brand — has struggled with muted demand. This last quarter, Vans reported a 9% drop in year-over-year revenue — progress over other quarters, but still not where the company would like to be. Meanwhile, VF Corp just sold Dickies for $600 million, a decision it hopes will help drive shareholder returns.

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‘We don’t care if you don’t use our UX anymore’: Yahoo recasts its DSP as a data backbone for the agentic world

Yahoo is intentionally making its demand-sider platform (DSP) less sticky. 

That cuts against the grain of ad tech, which has spent the better part of two decades engineering software to trap budgets, data and behavior inside proprietary dashboards. But Yahoo is making a different bet. Lower the friction to exit, and it also lowers the friction to enter.

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If that still sounds backwards, put it this way: Yahoo is recasting its DSP less as a place marketers go, and more as infrastructure their systems can plug into. So instead of logging into the DSP’s interface, clicking through menus and troubleshooting campaigns, marketers would deploy their own software agents and internal tools to talk directly to Yahoo’s ad platform and run campaigns for them.

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