Google lays off more workers amid financial prosperity: It’s streamlining staff amid a focus on AI dominance, contributing to an anxious, disgruntled workforce and ethics challenges.
Midsize lender hopes to avoid making dyslexic déjà vu headlines: Unlike First Republic, Philadelphia-based Republic First has hung onto its deposits—so far anyway.
This is not your grandfather’s bank branch: Digital pods, flagship branches, showrooms, and lounge-like café branches are just a few of the innovative environments that banks and credit unions are creating.
Disputes have blown past pandemic-era highs, leading to more overall fraud
The card will benefit from the popularity of gaming but is entering a precarious credit card market
Credit cards are enjoying a volume boost from growing travel demand
Indonesia mulls social media sales ban: Platforms like TikTok and Meta may need strategy shifts.
TikTok and Meta still struggle with content moderation: Threads has blocked search terms related to COVID-19, while TikTok cast too wide a net reining in Qanon.
Generative AI (genAI) has come to work. “Half the people who are using genAI are in what we consider prime working years,” said our analyst Max Willens on a recent webinar. “This diffuse adoption of a technology, especially one as momentous as this one, really doesn’t have much precedent.”
TikTok is rolling out its Shop feature to all 100 million US users (per our May forecast), using a tab on the home screen to drive users to the marketplace and allowing videos directly containing purchase links, in order to drive in-app ecommerce traffic.
T-Mobile’s bid to acquire Comcast’s 600 MHz spectrum holdings is a strategic move to expand its network dominance.
Travel will see the fastest growth in US digital ad spending of any industry in 2023, according to our forecast. Travel, retail, healthcare and pharma, automotive, and entertainment will outpace the national digital ad spending growth rate.
The US consumer remains resilient: While there are a host of reasons to expect spending to fall off a cliff, there are also many reasons to expect growth to continue.
The IAB and MRC propose retail media guidelines to help solve the industry’s measurement problem: The framework is meant to improve transparency and ensure consistency across RMNs.
Brands must balance personalization with privacy considerations and ensure product pages are comprehensive and complete. Lower-funnel ad tactics and easily accessible shipping and returns info also help to encourage purchases. Here are four strategies to boost online conversion rates.
What does artificial intelligence taste like? Coca-Cola launched a new soda conceived and designed by AI as the company goes deeper into exploring the tech.
Walmart rolls out late-night express delivery: The retailer’s relentless focus on offering more convenient ways to shop is winning it more customers and market share.
Barrymore returns to taping despite writers' strike: WGA protests and audience ejections spotlight broader industry divisions.
Roblox Assistant empowers creators, enhances AI adoption, and reflects a broader industry trend of integrating AI assistants to tailor services and democratize AI use.
Google is the defendant in the biggest antitrust trial in over 20 years: The case echoes the 1998 lawsuit against Microsoft, but Google could make it through relatively unscathed.