Can subscriptions drive D2C growth? A new report suggests that as many as three-quarters of D2C brands will have a subscription-based offering by next year.
Does customer experience trump advertising? That's the question being asked in the wake of Ford CEO's recent comments.
Peacock offers free movie ticket or rental to market subscription plans: Promo leverages corporate assets to try to convert free-tier customers into paid ones.
A tight labor market causes Dollar General to rethink store checkouts: The discount retailer is expanding its use of self-checkouts as it grapples with low margins.
TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter continue to experiment with social commerce: YouTube sees a path forward with shoppable Shorts, but Twitter’s tentative approach won’t win it any customers.
Retail media networks need to differentiate themselves: Dollar General’s retail media expansion highlights their reach with rural customers.
NFTs may be going through a rocky patch, but brands still turn to them for engagement: Budweiser is tokenizing its famous Clydesdales in a new campaign.
Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service is ready for takeoff: But it isn’t clear if the service is ready for primetime.
Beauty is one of the fastest-growing ecommerce categories: Newly minted unicorn Purplle hopes to keep that momentum going even as shoppers return to stores.
DoorDash leans on subscriber revenues as the delivery market cools: The platform’s focus on building loyalty could help it outlast competitors like Gorillas.
We expect relatively strong performance on Prime Day despite a slow start to the year for Amazon and other etailers.
On today's episode, we discuss how inflation is changing consumer behavior, whether 15-minute delivery is too good to be true, the potential of Apple's realityOS, how much of the information shoppers give retailers is false, the ceiling to spending time on TikTok, an unpopular opinion about buying things from TV ads, pets' roles in Americans' lives, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our senior director of Briefings Stephanie Taglianetti, director of reports editing Rahul Chadha, and director of forecasting Oscar Orozco.