Insights

Customer behaviour, channel economics and the rules, with the sources shown

Short, evidence-led pieces from our research base across our industries: how patients choose a clinic, travellers choose a stay, buyers shortlist software and shoppers find a brand in 2026, what a customer costs to acquire and keep, and what you may say in each market. Every figure carries its source and date. Estimates are labelled as estimates.

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Patient behaviour · 2026

Patients now ask an AI before they search

In June 2026, AI tools overtook Google search as an influence on US patients choosing a doctor. The numbers, the sources, and the three things a clinic should change first.

21 August 2026 · 7 min read
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Clinic economics

A surgical patient costs about $610 to acquire, the highest in medicine

Patient acquisition cost by specialty in 2025–26, why it keeps rising, and the three places between enquiry and consultation where most of the money is lost.

21 August 2026 · 6 min read
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Regulation · UK, EU, US, Turkey

What a clinic may say in public

The rules that govern clinic marketing in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the US and Turkey, what they forbid, and the informational assets every one of them permits.

21 August 2026 · 8 min read
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Dentistry

All-on-4 is the most compared purchase in dentistry

Full-arch implant patients compare cost, clinics and countries before calling anyone. The numbers behind the segment, the prompts patients ask, and what an implant practice should publish.

21 August 2026 · 6 min read
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Hair restoration

Hair-transplant demand is rising and trust is the bottleneck

Patients per surgeon are up a fifth since 2021, women's share is rising, and 59 percent of surgeons report black-market clinics in their city. What a hair clinic, at home or in Istanbul, should publish to be named.

21 August 2026 · 6 min read
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Method

How to audit your clinic's AI visibility in an afternoon

The method behind point one of the 10-Point Growth Audit: how to choose the prompts, how to run them, how to score named, mentioned and absent, and what to do with the result.

21 August 2026 · 5 min read
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Distribution economics

What a booking actually costs

Base commission is the smallest part of what a marketplace booking costs. The full stack, the cancellation gap, and where rate parity is now unenforceable.

22 August 2026 · 8 min read
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Direct booking

Direct is now the minority channel for independent hotels

Independent hotels booked 63 percent of their 2025 business through marketplaces. Why direct share keeps falling, and the order in which it can be recovered.

22 August 2026 · 6 min read
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Measurement

Your booking engine is on another domain, and that is where your marketing data disappears

The guest jumps from your site to the engine and the trail breaks. The five-step fix, in payback order, and the one setup that cannot be fixed.

22 August 2026 · 7 min read
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Traveller behaviour · 2026

Travellers now plan with AI before they search, and the shortlist is written from sources you do not own

More than half of travellers plan with AI tools. An answer names two or three properties, mostly from guides and reviews rather than hotel websites.

22 August 2026 · 6 min read
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Resort markets

Island resorts hold the highest rates in the industry and the heaviest distribution costs

The five highest-rate hotel markets tracked are all islands. They are also the most channel-dependent, which makes every point of direct share worth hundreds per booking.

22 August 2026 · 6 min read
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Demand study · 2026

What 34 hotel owners and managers said they wanted, when asked directly

Our own study of 34 owners and general managers who requested an audit: who they are, what they run, and which growth problems they name first.

22 August 2026 · 5 min read
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Buyer behaviour · 2026

Half of B2B software buyers now start their research with an AI assistant, not Google

By March 2026, 51 percent of B2B software buyers started research with an AI chatbot more often than with Google. The numbers, the caveats, and what a software vendor should change first.

30 August 2026 · 7 min read
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Founder-led growth

Nobody owns go-to-market

The first customers come from the founder's credibility. Growth stalls when that well is dry. The measured case for systematising before hiring, and what a written sales playbook actually changes.

30 August 2026 · 7 min read
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Outbound · 2025–26 benchmarks

Cold outbound returns between 0.5 and 3.4 replies per hundred emails

Two large 2025 to 2026 datasets put average cold email reply rates at 0.45 percent and 3.43 percent. Why both are right, what the February 2024 sender rules changed, and where the outcome is really decided.

30 August 2026 · 7 min read
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Acquisition economics

What a D2C customer actually costs

Meta CPMs rose 13 percent in a year and beauty CPMs rose 33 percent. The margin arithmetic to run before adding budget, and why most ad problems are not ad problems.

30 August 2026 · 7 min read
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Retention economics

The list is the margin

Email returned £41 per pound in the DMA 2026 tracker, and automated flows drive up to 41 percent of email revenue from 5 percent of sends. Why most brands still under-invest in the channel they own.

30 August 2026 · 7 min read
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AI discovery

Shoppers now ask AI what to buy

AI-referred traffic to US retail sites rose 138 percent year on year and now converts better than average. What that changes for a D2C brand's product pages, reviews and content.

30 August 2026 · 6 min read
How these are written

Answer first, evidence second, sources at the end

Each piece leads with its finding, gives the numbers with their source and date, says where the data is thin, and ends with what an owner should do about it. Nothing here is professional advice; in regulated industries, claims in our client work are signed off by the professional responsible. If you want a figure checked or a source sent, write to hello@jadenmoor.com.

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