The high cost of returns continues to weigh on retailers: Nordic department store Boozt took the extreme step of banning “serial returners.”
A card comparison widget could hurt affiliate marketing sites—and open the door to Google controlling the entire card acquisition journey.
Supply chain headaches mount for retailers: Disruptions in the Red Sea are driving up shipping rates and creating backups at key ports.
As digital makes up more remittance share, providers need to compete on costs and find new ways to bolster revenues.
Paramount streaming gets more expensive as Skydance merger evaporates: The company is raising prices as it looks to recoup $500 million in costs.
But it needs to accelerate adoption of Klarna Plus before it can commit more resources to those efforts.
A cyberattack on CDK Global disabled key systems for nearly 15,000 car dealerships, seriously disrupting operations. Ransomware can paralyze entire industries relying on single service providers.
Industry giants say the new requirements are “practically impossible” with today’s technology, and high costs will trickle down to consumers.
Patients aren’t sold on the safety of GLP-1s: It’s why most consumers prefer adopting healthy habits to taking medication for a health condition. We explore what this means for healthcare/pharma brands and marketers.
Kaiser Permanente-owned Risant Health to buy Cone Health: Here’s what the acquisition means for Risant’s value-based care ambitions in the not-for-profit provider space.
GenAI music platforms need to watch legal lines as music publishers continue their fight against misuse of copyrighted content.
CNN bets big on the presidential debate: The challenged news network is bucking tradition by selling ad space and allowing simultaneous broadcasts as it looks to recharge its brand.
Behavioral advertising could be on the federal chopping block: A draft of the American Privacy Rights Act drew criticism from ad groups for proposing harsh restrictions.
Nike’s Jordan brand makes a major push in China: It opened the Jordan-specific World of Flight store in Beijing—affiliated with domestic basketball stars—and offered limited-edition collaborations.
Desire to travel outweighs consumers’ financial concerns: American tourists are happy to spend more and go farther to satisfy their wanderlust.
56% of adults 18 to 24 in select countries have used ChatGPT, but that number decreases as people get older, according to April 2024 data from YouGov and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.
On today's podcast episode, we discuss what Apple Intelligence promises to help users do, what a partnership with Apple means for OpenAI, and why this might be a bad move for the iPhone maker. "In Other News," we talk about the advent of the AI PC. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jacob Bourne and Yory Wurmser.
Amazon will pull in over 80% of US retail media search dollars this year, per our forecast. But Walmart will continue growing its share of non-Amazon retail media search ad spending over the next two years.
Off-site and on-site display ad spending will each more than double over the next five years.
The world’s biggest advertisers converged at Cannes Lions last week. At the festivities, marketers discussed everything from AI (it’s everywhere) to retail media (it’s growing). Other hot topics included the creator economy, which people are optimistic about, and data privacy, which has people more concerned. Here are some hot quotes overheard at Cannes.