Neobank for digital creators gets $26M in investor ‘likes’: Karat Financial completed a Series A round based largely on the popularity of a credit card tailored to creators, such as influencers—and its take on underwriting for that niche could give it an edge with them.
The banking giant topped a J.D. Power ranking of US customers’ satisfaction with retail banks’ financial advice—an offering with potential to keep branches open despite digital disruption.
Like many regions around the world, Southeast Asia experienced an ecommerce boom in 2020, as various pandemic-driven social lockdowns encouraged more shopping from home. According to our estimates, ecommerce grew by 35.2% collectively in the region last year, and our newest forecast projects 14.3% growth this year. However, traditional retail is still overwhelmingly dominant.
eMarketer was pleased to moderate a Tech-Talk Webinar featuring Similarweb’s Chloe Nicholls, product marketing manager, and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA)’s Robbie Shepherd, insights development and capability manager. They shared how trendspotting via digital analytics can help you understand your customers better, and discover growth opportunities.
Like many regions around the world, Southeast Asia experienced an ecommerce boom in 2020, as various pandemic-driven social lockdowns encouraged more shopping from home. According to our estimates, ecommerce grew by 35.2% collectively in the region last year, and our newest forecast projects 14.3% growth this year. However, traditional retail is still overwhelmingly dominant.
Though virtually unknown outside of China, a new crop of local direct-to-consumer brands are making a name for themselves at home—and even outperforming some of the major foreign players.
The top back-to-school ecommerce platforms
Digital transformation of healthcare accelerates on the heels of the pandemic: Nearly 400 healthcare execs say so, per a new Accenture report—we unpack how this will spur even more synergies among healthcare organizations and tech companies.
On today's episode, we discuss how Prime Day performed versus last year, what kind of a halo effect took place, and whether Amazon was able to capture the back-to-school spending. We then talk about augmented reality's ability to help shoppers, what WhatsApp Shops might look like, and how many folks said social media content resulted in them buying products. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer analyst at Insider Intelligence Blake Droesch.
At least 11 US federal agencies are using facial recognition services from private companies with little or no oversight. Despite the growing patchwork of local and state laws, nothing short of a federal standard will work to hold these agencies, and their vendors, publicly accountable.
Back to class: US back-to-school ecommerce sales will grow more than 13% this year, even after last year’s spike, increasing their share of total back-to-school sales this season.
The gaming gender gap: The number of male teens who found in-game ads the most captivating was more than triple that of female teens, though this may be the result of female preference for mobile over PC and console gaming.