It isn’t just Shein and Temu that exploit the de minimis loophole: The Biden administration’s crackdown on the trade provision could significantly reduce the number of parcels entering under the exemption.
The digital wallet’s rollout has been slow, but we expect strong uptake in 2025 thanks to its innovative features and bank integrations
This should help boost volume for both the booking platform and for the card-linked installment offering, given BNPL’s popularity in the travel category and an overall spike in popularity for card-linked BNPL
Both Mastercard and Visa are spending big on fraud protection as threats pile up
A recent study reveals this generational cohort cares less about accumulating and paying off debt than they do about saving.
Amazon, Flipkart violated India’s antitrust laws, regulators say: The two allegedly gave select sellers preferential treatment and used discounts to undercut smaller merchants.
Ahold Delhaize sees big retail media opportunities in its stores: There’s good reason for that outlook since we expect 87% of grocery sales to occur offline this year.
Nearly 1 in 4 grocery dollars will go to private labels by 2030: Store brands are gaining popularity as shoppers seek value and CPGs cut back on innovation.
More women than men skip out on medical care: Marketers should make more meaningful connections with female consumers, many of whom are the key healthcare decision-makers in their households.
Health insurers’ use of AI tools linked to soaring claim denials: The claim denials process has become maddening for patients and providers alike.
Most healthcare AI startups want to sell their solutions to health systems: But these tech companies struggle to demonstrate their value prop to potential healthcare provider buyers.
On today's podcast episode, we discuss whether Facebook actually has a young person problem, what will be the most popular kinds of interactive ads, if Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ cashierless technology has found a new home, can a ‘Spotify for news’ like service work, where Americans are moving too in the country, and more. Tune into the discussion with analysts Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf and Max Willens, and vice president of Briefings Stephanie Taglianetti.
More bad news for Venu Sports: The proposed sports streaming service will go to court with Fubo in October, kicking a potential launch further down the road.
An EU court upholds decision that Google unfairly boosted its shopping services, likely influencing future cases under EU and UK competition laws.
GenAI is testing limits of IT teams, sparking executive concerns: As companies focus on AI, leaders fear basic services may be neglected, raising questions about long-term stability and system support.
In response to the CrowdStrike breach, Microsoft limits access to its Windows kernel, but vendors worry the new rules may stifle competition.
“If you’re a marketer looking to reach Gen Z, you need to be everywhere,” our analyst Blake Droesch said. Although Gen Z is known to spend a significant amount of time on social media, tapped into newer buying behavior such as social commerce, they also rely on physical stores. Here are three ways Gen Z’s path to purchase stands out.
Consumers may be concerned about the economy, but the outlook is good for ad spend in the final months of 2024. The share of advertisers concerned about a slowing US economy dropped 11 percentage points (from 49% to 38%) between November 2023 and August 2024, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Retail media’s popularity, an influx of value-based messaging, high political ad spend, and connected TV (CTV) monetization will boost the ad industry the rest of 2024.
A look at the psychology behind payments: A Mastercard-sponsored study took a behavioral science approach to understanding the reasons—conscious and unconscious—that influence consumer payment choices and help payment providers guide their behaviors.