Retailers’ theft-prevention strategies risk alienating consumers: But Home Depot, Wegmans, and Best Buy show the difficulties of striking a balance between shopper satisfaction and store security.
Advertisers are flocking to clean room solutions: Where there's opportunity, there's hype—and confusion about security remain.
Instagram’s shopping tab sings its swan song: The app is testing a home screen without the tab that’s prompted complaints from celebrities and average users.
The average selling price (ASP) of smartphones will be $413 worldwide this year, up $70 from 2020.
Last week, thousands of consumer packaged goods (CPG) and grocery leaders gathered at Groceryshop 2022, including our own chief content officer Zia Wigder and analyst Andrew Lipsman.
Plant-based meat sales are declining: While rising prices are causing some consumers to trade down to cheaper proteins, there’s still plenty of interest in alternatives to animal products.
The online grocery giant is eyeing “Food as Medicine” for future growth. We detail how it could support insurers’ social determinants of health programs.
Primary care disruptors could reel in patients with $0 telehealth: We unpack Blue Cross MA’s new tie-up with Carbon and Health and Firefly Health and explain why consumers will ultimately benefit.
Netflix is learning that games are a long, costly business: The streamer announced that it’s building its own game studio after those it’s acquired run into trouble.
Are Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Discovery+, and Peacock on their way from five to two? Our analyst Jeremy Goldman thinks it could happen by 2025. He shared his thoughts on a recent “Behind the Numbers” podcast.
There are a few ways to view the decline of the pay TV bundle. In our pay TV figures, we exclude vMVPDs, which deliver live TV over the internet. When viewed this way, pay TV will decline 7.2% this year to 66.4 million households. That figure will drop to 54.3 million households by the end of 2026.
See our latest industry KPIs for ecommerce.
Money no longer fun at Google: Sundar Pichai faces off with employees over budget cuts. As a recession looms and tech’s fun money evaporates, there are other ways to keep employees happy.
Investors recoil from riskier tech bets: After record VC funding in 2021, 2022’s cash flow dwindles, especially for futuristic technologies. But government and corporate dedication could keep innovation on track.
The Fed is calling for tighter risk management and mitigation, and Ofcom is investigating risks raised by the concentration of cloud providers.
The UK-based insurance fund invested $10M in the Anthemis Female Innovators Lab Fund to help close the fintech gender gap.
On this episode, we discuss neobanks’ primary revenue streams, their sustainability, and insights from Insider Intelligence's "US Banking Digital Trust Benchmark 2022" report. In “Story by Numbers,” we pick four numbers to tell the story of the growth and health of neobanks. And in “Inside Baseball,” we run through which neobank players are heading to the big leagues and which are destined for a life in the minors. Tune in to the discussion with host Rob Rubin and our analyst Tiffani Montez.
Shopify’s latest product launches promise to help calm the waters for cross-border selling, but it isn’t likely to be entirely smooth sailing. Join our analyst Bill Fisher as he hosts analysts Paul Briggs and Carina Perkins to discuss the opportunities and threats to cross-border trading around the world.