While financial service's digital ad spending has historically outpaced the digital ad market, we expect a slowdown in 2021 and beyond as incumbents in both banking and insurance focus their budgets on technological innovations to compete with emerging fintech companies.

Clarify Health makes VBC easier to deploy: Its Apervita acquisition streamlines the implementation of value-based contracts for payers and providers—key to driving widespread VBC in the US health system.

The news: Anthem is teaming up with Emory Healthcare’s Innovation Hub and 11Ten Innovation Partners to develop 5G-enabled digital health solutions, like remote patient monitoring tech.

On today's episode, we discuss Twitter's Q2 performance, which features are likely to boost engagement, and what the rest of the year looks like. We then talk about what to make of Fleets being folded, the potential impact of Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces, and what, if anything, can give Clubhouse a second wind. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer senior analyst at Insider Intelligence Jasmine Enberg.

A year of CCPA: California provided examples of how it's been enforcing the CCPA over the last year—but publishers and marketers might not like how strictly it's upholding the privacy standards.

Twitter is offering researchers up $3,500 to uncover bias in its image cropping algorithm. Though bias bounty programs may reveal some instances of bias, they cannot hope to solve the broader issue of algorithmic bias entrenched within the bedrock of artificial intelligence.

Amazon is offering users $10 in promotional credits to sign up for its palm print-based One biometric payment system. Adding palm prints to its database could make One more attractive to third parties, though the practice raises major privacy and data security concerns.

After a significant pandemic-induced exodus away from major tech hubs, workers are returning to the Bay Area as their offices plan reopenings. Though traditional tech hubs may return to Californian, Big Tech’s largest companies may face significant work from home-related turnover.

Established Indian fintechs, like insurtech PolicyBazaar, are seeking to cash in on increased investor interest in tech businesses and hostile Chinese market conditions by filing for IPOs

Amazon fined under GDPR: The tech giant was fined €746 million for using consumer shopping data for ad targeting without consent—which doesn’t bode well for other Big Tech companies that are facing privacy-related scrutiny.

Square makes history: The payment giant will acquire buy now, pay later startup Afterpay for $29 billion to make inroads with younger consumers.

YouTube segments the market: A new subscription tier called Premium Lite is poised to help the video giant capture as many subscribers as possible.