Consumers are dining out less often: Darden Restaurants reported softer same-restaurant sales as price pressures drive lower-income households to cut back.
Peacock to offer extensive Paris Olympics coverage with interactive features: NBCUniversal aims to redefine sports streaming and attract a wider audience.
Meta is first in line for Nvidia’s Blackwell: The two companies are leading the marketplace on AI aggressiveness but remain dependent on sustained demand and the supply chain.
Nvidia’s and Google’s AIs predict climate events, yet their energy- and water-intensive servers risk significant environmental impact. Wider adoption could result in bigger carbon footprints.
Retail will account for over a quarter (28.7%) of all US digital ad spending in 2024.
The neobank may be trying to do too much as it diversifies
The average score isn’t cause for concern yet, but it’s a sign that delinquencies may be catching up with consumers
As their city shrinks, multiple New Orleans-based depositor-owned banks believe a change in ownership will help them grow.
This can make Galileo a more attractive partner for fintechs to work with and can help the modern card issuer keep up its momentum
MrBeast will create a reality series for Prime Video: In a move that defies platform allegiance, YouTube’s most popular creator will help generate a hit for Amazon.
Temu parent PDD spent $11.6 billion on marketing in 2023: The retailer’s ad blitz helped it win over cost-conscious shoppers in China and abroad.
Kohl’s wants to become a destination for home goods: The retailer is expanding its home assortment by 40%. But the category isn’t without its challenges.
The biggest gap between AI's potential and reality in marketing rests in finished products.
The impact of third-party cookie deprecation goes beyond changes to ad targeting and tracking. As the industry moves away from these identifiers, new challenges and trends have cropped up: IP addresses may be more difficult to access, retail media as an addressable channel is growing, and there’s greater focus on frequent media mix modeling (MMM) adjustments.
Rare Beauty mulls a sale amid soaring revenues: The company’s focus on delivering quality products at affordable prices is turning it into a beauty juggernaut.
South By Southwest was last week, and AI and VR were all the buzz. Gen Alpha is growing up with these technologies, which means the next generation of consumers will not just be used to AI and VR—they’ll expect to see it. Here are three takeaways from our analyst regarding tech trends at the event.
Microsoft makes a massive de facto AI acquisition through hiring: Inflection’s leaders will run Microsoft’s AI unit as the sector’s power becomes increasingly concentrated.
On today's podcast episode, we're at Shoptalk 2024 discussing the main takeaways, the best side conversations and booths, and the discussed trends we don't see coming to fruition. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts chief content officer Zia Daniell Wigder and analyst Jasmine Enberg, who were both at this year's conference.