From enabling Apple’s softPOS to expanding its BNPL program, we look back at the biggest announcements from Block this year.
Will TikTok’s China ties stymie its progress in US? Legislative and regulatory suspicions and scrutiny pile up even as the app gains favor with marketers and users.
Before the pandemic, Roku, Hulu, and YouTube made up about half (45.9%) of the US connected TV (CTV) ad market. That market has expanded significantly. Despite solid US CTV ad revenue growth across all three companies, their combined share will account for around one-third of the $26.92 billion that will go to CTV in 2023.
As consumers are forced to make hard decisions about where they spend their money, brands that rely on tired loyalty tactics may struggle to keep up.
Netflix versus TikTok is the battle to watch in 2023.
On today's episode, we (and hopefully you) play our holiday retail game show spectacular where our retail analysts battle it out to win the infamous—and hitherto unknown—Retail Cup. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analysts Sky Canaves, Suzy Davidkhanian, Blake Droesch, Carina Perkins, and Zak Stambor.
While most US consumers are more likely to buy from brands with good loyalty programs, according to Bond, 58% of those ages 18 and older told Dynata they’re less loyal to brands due to rising costs. And 65% of consumers had recently canceled memberships to cut costs as of Q1 2022, per PYMNTS.com and sticky.io.
2022’s outages increased and took longer to resolve: Wired and wireless networks continue to be under duress as Big Tech, streaming services, and cloud gaming proliferate while legacy infrastructure and overloaded systems buckled.
A fragmented world is tech’s undoing: The post-pandemic global landscape is experiencing geopolitical friction that could derail decades of technological progress rooted in collaboration. Tech companies should be worried.
Fortnite doesn’t get a pass anymore: The popular game and metaverse platform will pay half a billion in fines and refunds for violating privacy and child consent laws.
As 2022 comes to an end, this is the data you need to kickstart 2023 for your business.
Amazon continued to dominate ecommerce in 2022: But advertising, not retail, was the company’s biggest success story this year—although not enough to prevent the layoffs of 20,000 employees.
Consumers have noticed this uptick after identity fraud losses topped £15.3M last holiday season. Many are on board with using biometric data to speed up the process.
Those that already engage or plan to engage in digital currency activities must submit a business plan for approval.
It focuses on small amounts of money to help kids as young as six learn about saving.
It partnered with merchants and mobile wallets to offer customers coupons and discounts across select markets in Asia-Pacific and Europe.