Omnicom is spending $835 million on Flywheel Digital: The deal—which would be the advertising giant’s largest-ever—is the latest sign of the growing influence of marketplaces and retail media.
With AI companies making it a pain for artists to opt out of data scraping, a new subset of solutions protects artists. It’s the latest industry pushback on AI’s hunger for data sets.
Google invests $2 billion in Anthropic: It underscores the tech giant’s commitment to lead in generative AI by leveraging Anthropic’s innovation while intensifying competition.
On today’s podcast episode, we bring you the major themes that we witnessed directly from the Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Recorded from the conference floor, we discuss the data and tech required to offer customers payments choices, expectations in embedded finance, and consumers’ privacy and trust. Tune in to the discussion with host Rob Rubin, our principal analyst Tiffani Montez, and Sean Welsh, senior vice president and managing director of financial institutions at Affinity Solutions.
AI might be able to do most of a CEO’s job: It’s taking over a variety of tasks humans can do. Soft skills will be important in the wake of change.
Travel and retail will give a lift to France’s digital ad spending: Both industries will see expenditures rise higher than the country’s overall advertising outlays.
Carnival embraces 'granfluencer' wave: Cruise line teams up with Retirement House and Gronk for a multi-generational TikTok hit.
Insurtechs that rely heavily on AI have been struggling to stay afloat—let alone disrupt the insurance model—when they lack the data to build better models.
Nordstrom, Fiserv, and Insider Intelligence discussed the shift and how payment providers and retailers should think about it
These innovative features may set a new norm in the digital wallet space
Gift card spend will be strong this holiday season, per Blackhawk Network estimates, and Gen Z is leading this growth, reshaping the industry
Over a third (35%) of CMOs worldwide are using generative AI to create a great brand experience, per Dentsu Creative.
With the ascent of Chinese ecommerce disruptors and the ongoing rivalry between Amazon and Walmart, the upcoming holiday season is expected to bring some big shifts. Some of those shifts include the lessening of Cyber Five’s importance and retailers losing focus on profitability, said our analysts Jeremy Goldman and Zak Stambor on a recent episode of the “Behind the Numbers” podcast.
Gen Z’s attention is split across social media for shopping and search: The cohort’s use of multiple social networks spells opportunity for platforms and advertisers.
Another transformative European privacy bill takes shape: The UK passed the Online Safety Bill, greatly increasing penalties for moderation failures.
In its first rebrand in 14 years, Pepsi unveiled a new logo and color palette to be seen on shelves in North America this fall, marking the brand’s 125th anniversary. While the revamp nods to Pepsi’s nostalgia, it pushes into what Todd Kaplan, Pepsi’s CMO, said is an increasingly “phygital” world, where consumers engage with brands both in-store and online.
On today's podcast episode, we discuss what social networks can't stop getting wrong, whether Amazon can make its app fun, if enough people care about voice assistants, whether Uber's "Return a Package" feature will take off, how AI may change entrepreneurship, which music format has made the most money for the music industry in the past 50 years, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian, vice president of Briefings Stephanie Taglianetti, and analyst Max Willens.