EssilorLuxottica stretches outside its comfort zone: The parent company of Ray-Ban, Sunglass Hut, and LensCrafters agreed to buy streetwear brand Supreme.
GenAI’s user growth rate in 2024 is 28.6%—still strong, but more than 30 times slower than last year’s meteoric rise of nearly 900% from a relatively small base of users.
Record labels say Verizon encourages piracy through lax policies and prioritizes customer retention over legal compliance.
27% of UK and US adults plan to start buying holiday gifts as early as October, according to an April 2024 survey from Salsify.
Clienteling is a retail tactic that helps brands forge a deeper connection with customers via 1-to-1 relationships between store associates and customers.
AI’s potential to transform search: GenAI can enhance search efficiency by delivering direct answers, reducing reliance on traditional keyword-based search engines like Google.
It’s implementing a strategy that more deeply connects each branch to its local community.
Consumers don’t feel great, but they’re still spending: Retail sales blew past expectations in June despite subdued confidence among lower-income households.
Google is still battling against made for advertising sites: A Pixalate report found that 72% of MFA sites sold ads via AdExchange in May despite industrywide improvements.
TikTok Shop overtakes Alibaba’s Lazada as Southeast Asia’s second-largest ecommerce platform: The company nearly quadrupled regional GMV in 2023 to $16.3 billion, and is expanding into services to bolster its share
Delinquencies are coming down but are still higher than pre-pandemic levels
The price would set it up for a strong IPO—but we think the firm still has work to do first
The investigation could lead Apple to open up its NFC tech to third parties in the UK, making a similar US move all but inevitable
US, UK consumers’ drinking habits have changed: UK sales of no- and low-alcohol beer soared during the UEFA Euro 2024 as many avoided overindulging during the week.
A lifeline for digital therapeutics? A proposal to reimburse doctors for treating patients through digital therapies could help a small group of DTx players, but it might be too late for struggling companies.
Where patients get GLP-1 prescriptions: In-person clinics with familiar doctors are the current preference. However, we still see a huge market opportunity for online providers.
UnitedHealth Group records $4.2B in Q2 profit: We unpack the financials behind UnitedHealth Group’s big Q2 and explore why reining in the influence of massive healthcare companies is so difficult.
The line between digital out of home (DOOH) and connected TV (CTV) advertising is blurring as advertisers invest in small-screen formats at gas stations, in bars, on transit, and everywhere in between.