\NBCUniversal is further diversifying into the beauty world, signing a deal with beauty brand Volition to have NBCU talent create beauty products—capitalizing on the celebrity beauty craze.
The food and beverage category is seeing the biggest gains in retail ecommerce sales growth this year as more consumers have gotten comfortable shopping online amid the pandemic. Over the past few months, Kellogg’s has also experienced this digital growth and implemented ongoing efforts to adapt to the rapidly changing retail environment.
People with disabilities make up a large, but diverse and underserved, segment of the US population. According to recent statistics from the CDC, 67 million adults in the US—or 26% of the population—report living with at least one type of disability.
Sports postponements and broader cord-cutting trends will slow the growth of addressable TV ad spending to just 4.3% this year, but election-related ad targeting will keep the format growing.
Nielsen announced it will be rolling out a cookieless identity resolution system next year, which is especially important for marketers looking to measure their ads as third-party cookies are phased out.
eMarketer principal analyst Mark Dolliver, junior analyst Blake Droesch, and vice president of content studio at Insider Intelligence Paul Verna discuss the we-used-to-share-things economy, Amazon's new online pharmacy, Twitter keeping some election tactics, the sudden surge in disappearing messages, the share of Facebook content that's political, why movie previews are called "trailers," and more.
BuzzFeed and HuffPost are the latest publishers to merge in an attempt to scale—the media industry continues to lose ad dollars to the duopoly in a year when the pandemic has only weakened the industry.