TikTok’s new marketing tools focus on customization and commerce: It’s taking steps to make advertisers feel comfortable on the platform and heavily push social commerce.
Swan gets $18.7M to offer localized solutions across Europe: The banking as a service (BaaS) provider works with other companies to power their products. Its strategy of addressing specific services by market could help it stand out.
New insurance features and an added subscription tier could help Monese expand into more profitable lines of business.
US grocery ecommerce will keep growing after 2020’s spike: The online grocery space will steady over the next few years as trends take shape and retailers settle in for the long haul.
National chain pharmacies are the most common place to fill prescriptions in the US, with 43% of the country’s adults purchasing prescription drugs there as of July 2021.
Google’s command as a go-to search engine should especially worry the likes of ZocDoc and Sesame.
ViacomCBS offers another alternative to Nielsen after undercounting debacle: VideoAmp will join Comscore as an alternative currency as the company builds a more decentralized measurement system.
The Nordic region has taken to subscription streaming services at some of the fastest rates in Western Europe, and indeed the world. Thanks to the local appetite for foreign content, and these services’ appetite for subscribers, the audience there will keep expanding for the foreseeable future.
Magna’s ad growth revision signals more organic expansion rather than just loss recovery: Its US ad growth forecast is now up to 23.2%.
Big Tech’s undersea cable expansion could trap it in a geopolitical crossfire: Facebook’s addition of Asian landing points will make its 2Africa undersea cable the world’s largest when it's finished.
US looks to set an example with Chinese telecom equipment reimbursements: The FCC’s $1.9B program will reimburse small US carriers for replacing banned Huawei and ZTE telecommunications equipment.