Coupled with other loan and banking updates, the card can help Square tighten SMB relationships
WeChat Pay and Alipay users can now link foreign credit cards to their platforms
The company launched an AI-powered optimization engine to help merchants maximize efficiencies and savings in the payments flow
A major blow to trust in Google: A report alleges that Google violated its video ad standards 80% of the time for years, and industry figures are demanding refunds.
Creators descend on the Croisette: Influencer marketing spending is increasing as ad budgets remain tight.
Retail media, connected TV (CTV), and search will play key roles in the future of digital advertising. This shift has retailers like Amazon aiming to expand CTV and social network companies like Meta leaning into search. Here are five predictions, according to our analyst Andrew Lipsman, that were shared during our virtual summit earlier this month.
Bed Bath & Beyond is back (in digital form): Overstock will soon use the bankrupt home goods retailer’s banner for its digital presences after buying the company’s intellectual property.
There will be 3.86 billion monthly social network users this year, equal to almost half (48.3%) of the world’s population. Despite concerns about content moderation and data privacy that have plagued Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok—to name just a few—the social audience is still on the rise.
H&M will sell more third-party brands to head off competition from Shein: The fast-fashion company is the latest in a long line of retailers to turn to marketplace sales for growth.
Nike’s Q4 revenues benefited from strong growth in China and D2C: But the company’s inventory struggles continued to weigh on profits.
Kroger brings retail media in-house: The grocer ended a yearslong partnership with Microsoft in a move that won’t be the last of its kind.
Big retailers are accumulating assets from across the healthcare ecosystem. This includes adding pharmacy and health insurance capabilities, as well as provider services such as home health, telehealth, primary, specialty, and urgent care.
Digital health startups to watch: We spotlight AR surgical company Augmedics and Gen Z-focused virtual health provider Caraway on the back of fresh funding.
Calm Health will roll out cancer-specific mental health program: It’s working with clinical experts to develop the solution—its employer and health plan customers will feel comforted.
VillageMD gets a rebrand: A new campaign aimed at boosting chronic care patient panels comes on the heels of disappointing Q3 2023 results for Walgreens. Will it be enough?
Concerns regarding social media’s effect on young people are on the rise. Explore the current state of Gen Zers’ mental health, how they feel about social media, and their willingness to receive care.
CTV ad spending is expanding because more services have adopted ads, streaming services have increased their ad loads, and people continue to spend more time streaming. Not too long ago, HBO, Netflix, and Disney+ featured no advertising. Now they all have ads. And some of the most popular ad-supported streamers, like Hulu, have increased their ad loads in recent years.
Connected TV reigns supreme: New Innovid report indicates CTV holds 50% of global video impressions, as retailers harness its targeting capabilities.
On today's episode, we discuss the implications of the Federal Trade Commission thinking Amazon tricked customers into signing up for automatically renewing Prime subscriptions, whether it makes sense for companies to force livestream shopping on Americans, if speciality stores really work, the impact of Facebook and Instagram restricting news access in Canada, whether reduced inflation can save the day, what a real work-life balance looks like, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian, vice president of Briefings Stephanie Taglianetti, and analyst Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf.
US adults will spend an average of 230.3 minutes per day on mobile in 2023, according to our forecast. While they will spend less time with connected TV (CTV), at 114.9 minutes per day, the gap between CTV and mobile is shrinking.