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05/29/2026

46 years of BOLD, and the energy is still unmatched. 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

This Memorial Day, the BOLDERBoulder 10K community showed up once again for one of Colorado’s most iconic race day traditions. From the runners and walkers to the fans, volunteers, elite athletes, and everyone cheering from the sidelines, the 2026 race was a celebration of movement, community, and everything that makes this event so special.

As a proud partner of BOLDERBoulder, BLKDG is excited to celebrate another incredible year and help direct the community to all the race-day moments worth reliving!

🏅 Check out the 2026 stats, photos, results, and highlights from 46 years of BOLD here

Join “America’s All Time Best 10K” Memorial Day in Boulder, CO. Recognized as one of the most prestigious in the US, with perfect waves for runners and walkers.

05/22/2026

BLKDG will be out of office on Monday, May 25, for Memorial Day.

We’re heading into the long weekend and hope you’re able to enjoy some extra time to rest, recharge, and soak up the start of summer. ☀️

Our team will be back online Tuesday, May 26.

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Memorial Day weekend! 🇺🇸

05/15/2026

For years, B2B e-commerce was treated like a back-office function: log in, place the order, move on.

But today’s wholesale buyers expect more. They want fast, intuitive, mobile-friendly purchasing experiences that feel just as seamless as the B2C sites they use every day. 🛒

For manufacturers and distributors still relying on aging platforms, heavily patched systems, or disconnected wholesale portals, the cost of “just keeping things running” can quietly turn into a serious growth blocker.

In our latest blog, we break down the warning signs that your legacy platform may be holding you back — and why Shopify Plus has become a stronger foundation for modern B2B growth. 🚀

Click below to learn when it may be time to migrate, what Shopify Plus now offers for B2B brands, and how BLKDG approaches replatforming with strategy, UX, data, and operations in mind. 👇

For years, B2B e-commerce was treated as a purely transactional space. As long as wholesale buyers, distributors, and retail partners could log in and place bulk orders, the user experience didn’t matter much. Today, that outdated mindset is costing manufacturers and distributors serious revenue. ...

05/08/2026

Most e-commerce brands aren't losing because they lack data.

They're losing because there's too much friction between collecting it and actually using it.

A CDP that needs an engineering ticket to launch a campaign isn't a growth tool — it's an expensive dashboard.

At BLKDG, the gap between insight and ex*****on is the most common problem we see across the stacks we audit.

Klaviyo's 2026 architecture closes that gap. Embedded CDP, AI agents that handle support autonomously, identity resolution, and true omnichannel — all from one place.

The brands winning right now aren't the ones with the most data. They're the ones acting on it the fastest.

We broke down exactly how in our latest piece — link below 👇

https://www.blkdg.com/blog/why-klaviyo-is-the-customer-data-platform-your-brand-needs-in-2026/

At BLKDG, we audit dozens of complex e-commerce tech stacks every year. The most common vulnerability we see isn’t a lack of data—it’s the friction between collecting that data and actually using it. Historically, brands have poured budgets into standalone Customer Data Platforms (CDPs...

04/21/2026

The calm before the summer storm is here. ☀️

For active lifestyle brands and eCommerce retailers, summer means high traffic—and heavily distracted, on-the-go mobile shoppers. If your digital storefront isn't built for lightning-fast transactions from trailheads or airports, you are leaving revenue on the table.

We just published a new guide on how to stress-test your Shopify store before peak season hits. We cover:

📱 Bulletproofing your mobile checkout flow
📧 Tightening up your Klaviyo and CRM automations
⚡ Compressing heavy media assets for faster load times
🧪 Running A/B tests now—not in July

Read the full checklist and get your site ready for the summer surge. Link below! 👇

https://www.blkdg.com/blog/gearing-up-for-summer-4-ways-to-stress-test-your-shopify-store-before-peak-season/

At BLKDG, our Denver roots mean we live for the summer outdoor rush. But before you clock out to hike the Rockies or hit the river, there’s serious work to do. For active lifestyle brands, apparel retailers, hospitality groups, and any eCommerce business banking on summer, late spring is the c...

04/17/2026

We're hiring — and we'd love for it to be you. 🎯

BLKDG is looking for a Senior Paid Media Campaign Manager to join our growing digital marketing team here in Denver. If you live and breathe PPC, get excited about campaign structure and bid strategy, and take pride in squeezing every dollar of ROAS out of a media budget — this role was built for you.

You'll own campaigns across a diverse client portfolio spanning Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and more — bringing the technical depth to build them right and the analytical instincts to make them better every day.

Sound like you? Or know someone who'd be a perfect fit? Send them our way — we'd love to meet them. 👇

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4400016504/

04/02/2026

Celebrating wins the right way — the BLKDG team's favorite happy hour spot, Wheat Ridge Lanes. The scores were so good we might be coming for a league spot. 🎳

03/20/2026

Are your design, dev, and marketing teams actually collaborating, or just taking turns? 🤔

Clients don't hire us for isolated deliverables. They hire us to solve complex problems that span brand, experience, technology, and performance. Those problems don't live in silos—they live in the overlaps. 🔀

In our latest post, we break down exactly how BLKDG structures our teams to bring different disciplines into the room early, surface friction faster, and build better digital products. 🚀

Read it here: 👇
https://www.blkdg.com/blog/why-cross-disciplinary-teams-build-better-digital-products/

There’s a common misconception in our industry: that great digital products are the result of one isolated team doing exceptional work. The reality is far messier—and much more interesting. At BLKDG, we’ve seen this firsthand. The strongest work we ship doesn’t come from perfect handoffs...

03/04/2026

Denver Restaurant Week is back — and it’s never been easier to plan your next meal. 🍽️ 🏙️

BLKDG is proud to celebrate our third year partnering with Visit Denver — and the 2026 experience is built to help diners plan faster and help restaurants manage details smoothly.

Denver Restaurant Week runs March 6–15, 2026 🎉

What’s new on the site this year:
• Menu cards + a new homepage CTA: Explore Menus 📋
• OpenTable integration to make booking reservations easier than ever 🗓️🍴
• A live Diner Portal where guests can favorite restaurants and track where they’ve dined ❤️📍

More UX wins we’ve built into the experience:
• Rich restaurant profile pages with clear pricing + full multi-course menus (easy to browse, easy to choose) 🥘
• Separate Restaurant Login + account creation to manage restaurant + menu info ✅
• A dedicated Sponsors hub to showcase 2026 partners 🤝
• Year-based archives that keep past Restaurant Week menus accessible 📚

Go explore menus, lock in a reservation, and enjoy the best of Denver’s dining scene. 🍷🍝 Plan your week here: https://denverrestaurantweek.com/

Denver Restaurant Week 20th anniversary presented by Superior Farms American Lamb. Support Denver's restaurants or become a participating restaurant.

02/27/2026

1 in 4 adults in the US lives with a disability. Is your content actually accessible to them? 👀 💻

Most accessibility barriers aren't coming from your developers — they're coming from your content team. Vague link text, missing alt text, broken heading structures, inaccessible PDFs. Small oversights with a big impact.

🔍 BLKDG audits websites every month, and the same issues show up again and again. They broke them all down — along with exactly how to fix them. ✅

Read the full blog! 🔗

We audit dozens of websites every month for accessibility compliance. And while we see plenty of developer-side issues like keyboard navigation problems, ARIA misuse, and focus management, the most persistent barriers come from the content side. These aren’t malicious oversights. They’re...