Fanatics raises $700 million: Despite market turmoil, investors continue to pour cash into the sports-merchandising giant.
Amazon stumbles on its own missteps: The tech giant doubles its layoffs plan as it buckles under economic pressure. Its own ecommerce and cloud errors are partly to blame.
Retailers are increasingly turning to robotics to enhance their operations: No longer just for early adopters like Amazon, automation is taking retail by storm, from the warehouse and the fulfillment center to the cashier.
Banks, FIs, and fintechs must work together to quickly identify scams and to build stronger preventative controls.
The agency is reviewing its current rules, but it’s already said banks should expect changes to capital reserve mandates.
It claims fintechs didn’t implement proper controls. But fintechs say that even under pressure, they followed the SBA guidelines.
Reddit looks to get its engaged audiences on advertisers’ radar: Insights director says CES is opportunity to showcase platform’s value.
Disney ups its clean room measurement capabilities: The media giant enlists VideoAmp to take advantage of advertiser interest in clean room tech.
The firm introduced a crypto payments onramp to facilitate purchases for web3 platforms despite recent crypto turmoil.
BJ’s Wholesale Club is the latest retailer to launch a media network: At the same time, Instacart is adding more promotional capabilities to help drive sales among cost-conscious shoppers.
If Cyber Five trends hint at what to expect from the rest of the holiday season, expect buy now, pay later (BNPL) to be a big hit.
The US ad market has declined five months in a row, according to MediaPost and the Standard Media Index’s US Ad Market Tracker. But as people return to planes, trains, and automobiles, out-of-home (OOH) ad spend is growing. Here are five charts with what you need to know about this unique time for traditional, digital, and programmatic OOH advertising.
TikTok is Gen Z’s No. 2 social commerce destination and is almost as popular as Facebook among millennial social buyers, per Klarna.
As the cost-of-living crisis continues, the British Retail Consortium has warned there may be “more gloom than glitter” this Christmas. With families preoccupied with making ends meet, what can retailers expect from the festive trading period? This Analyst Take will explore how shopping habits might change, what will happen to total spend this holiday season, and how retailers can maintain loyalty and attract new customers amid inflation.
On today's episode, we discuss the various chapters of social media, teens' relationship with the medium, and what this tells us about its future. "In Other News," we talk about how people view companies that advertise on the current version of Twitter and sneak a peek at one of our 2023 social media trends. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Debra Aho Williamson and Jasmine Enberg.
On today’s episode, we turn our attention to fintech regulation. Jason Mikula, publisher of Fintech Business Weekly and managing director at 312 Global Strategies BV, a consulting firm focused on financial services product strategy, talks about the challenges banking as a service (BaaS) providers and their partners face as regulators pay more attention to banks’ relationships with third parties. We also ask Mikula to take the role of "Pretend CCO" at a fintech company as he lays out his top priorities for 2023 given potentially new regulatory scrutiny. Listen to the discussion with our host Rob Rubin.
The retail landscape in Europe looks bleak: Retail sales in Europe fell at the highest rate since July 2021. That’s a sharp contrast to the US, where consumers keep spending.