Shopping on Twitter—again: Twitter’s new “Shop Module” feature is its latest attempt to get people to buy on the platform, but competition in social commerce is already stiff.
Visa reported a 34% YoY rise in payments volume in its fiscal Q3—and its recent moves in the BNPL, cryptocurrency, and cross-border payments spaces can help it maintain its trajectory and build market share.
Citizens marches onward with push for scale: The US regional bank seeks to bulk up in the New York City and Philadelphia metros through a $3.5 billion tie-up with Investors Bancorp. But its mobile offering needs to improve to retain the customers it’s gaining.
Get them while they’re young (and maybe you’ll get them for life): The children’s finance app Spriggy plans more products after raising AUD $35 million. Current offerings range from letting parents give their kids pocket money to helping them invest. In time, app and kids could grow up together.
By giving its users access to cross-border fund transfers for more than 100 countries, the Brazil-based neobanking juggernaut can promote its brand well beyond its existing markets.
In 2020, US B2Bs overhauled their marketing and advertising as the coronavirus pandemic eliminated in-person channels. Digital ad spending, never a central part of B2B go-to market strategies, surged.
Three of the four largest ecommerce companies in the world are based in China—Alibaba, JD.com, and Pinduoduo (PDD)—and they are all still delivering impressive annual sales increases.
The digital therapeutics company earned a first-of-its-kind FDA breakthrough designation for its BiovitalsHF heart failure DTx—we unpack how the FDA is opening up the opportunity for DTx vendors to take the same road.
Monitoring adhesives could stick out in the RPM market: Remote monitoring startup BioIntelliSense scored $45M for its vital monitoring stickers—here’s why less-frillywearable products like itcould carve a sticky spot in the ballooning remote patient monitoring market.
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On today's episode, we discuss what brand new forecasts the forecasting team cooked up in Q2, including social media buyers and buy now, pay later service users. We then talk about the 2021 NBA finals ratings, a landmark ruling that lets brands work with NCAA athletes, and why OOH ad prices are on the rise. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer forecasting analyst Nazmul Islam and director of forecasting at Insider Intelligence Oscar Orozco.
Facebook announced it will make new Instagram accounts of users under age 16 private by default. While the move may provide a thin patina of privacy, it falls far short of addressing concerns about social media’s deleterious effects on minors.