EV sales set a volume record in Q4: While sales jumped 15.2% YoY, momentum may slow this year if Republicans keep their pledge to repeal or scale back incentives.
Solid December sales cap a year of healthy retail growth: But 2025 could be a different story, as tariff concerns keep all but the wealthiest consumers from spending freely.
Best Buy takes another stab at an online marketplace: The consumer electronics giant, which operated a marketplace from 2011 to 2016, aims to align the marketplace’s SKUs with its product mix.
Physical stores matter most for driving awareness. But online, social media platforms outrank multibrand retailers’ digital channels in driving product discovery, with the most pronounced impact among Gen Z shoppers.
The battle between Walgreens and Cooler Screens underscores in-store retail media challenges: Glitchy technology, measurement challenges, and outdated store infrastructure doomed the partnership.
DoorDash aims to transform how brands connect with customers through two new partnerships intended to make ads more relevant and shopping more personalized.
This year, as the digital ad spend outpaces the time consumers are spending on the medium, media companies are leaning into revenue drivers like commerce media while also investing in content that builds community.
On today's podcast episode, we discuss how the election influenced consumers' shopping habits, why returns spiked, and some way too early predictions for the 2025 holiday season. Listen to the conversation with our Senior Analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts Senior Analyst Zak Stambor and Analyst Rachel Wolff.
Remittances represent a large share of global payments and will keep growing—although at a flat rate. Traditional money transfer organizations have to fight harder for a share of the prize as digital-only entrants have stepped up the competition.
TikTok Shop’s demise could benefit Amazon, Etsy, and Temu: All three retailers are poised to scoop up spending in the event of a TikTok ban.
FDA flexes its muscles: It banned Red No. 3 and proposed requiring manufacturers to put new labels on the front of food packages.
The economy is trending in a positive direction: US consumer prices rose in December by less than forecast. We expect the Fed will stick with a wait-and-see approach.
Currys expands retail media network into stores: The electronics retailer is betting that its unique access to 80% of UK households and extensive network of digital screens will appeal to advertisers.
In today’s episode of The Banking & Payments Show podcast, we talk about who the BaaS compliance crackdown will hit the most, why Walmart and Amazon will pilot pay-by-bank at checkout in 2025, and how consumer privacy will change under a second Trump administration. Join the discussion with host and Head of Business Development, Rob Rubin, and Principal Analysts Tiffani Montez and David Morris.
Department stores are the most popular destination for personal luxury goods purchases, with 44.5% of US adults shopping in-person and 33.2% shopping on department store websites or apps, according to “The EMARKETER Luxury Survey” conducted by Bizrate Insights in August 2024.
BNPL providers approved 79% of applications in 2022 thanks to counteroffers for subprime borrowers
The tie-up brings Klarna to more merchants' checkout pages without the need for individual merchant partnerships, helping it save time and money and more quickly ramp up its payments volume
The launch will bring a needed boost to the industry, which has struggled to win over consumers and merchants
The incoming Trump administration aims to square a circle: Members of the economic team consider how they can implement tariffs without sparking inflation.
Temu tests search ads in latest attempt to chip away at Amazon’s dominance: The lucrative revenue opportunity could offset rising costs related to de minimis crackdowns and tariffs.