Both companies delivered impressive Q2 results and may try to expand their core money businesses and move into high-growth sectors like cryptocurrencies.
Instacart hires key Facebook ad executives: Carolyn Everson joins the company as its new president—weeks after hiring Facebook alum Fidji Simo as CEO.
On today's episode, we discuss what brands are doing at the Olympics, when time spent on digital video might equal linear, Google's new privacy timeline, the significance of Square buying Afterpay, why marketers must start thinking in 3D, how to individually achieve “perfect productivity,” and more. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer director of reports editing Rahul Chadha, analyst Blake Droesch, and principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Paul Verna.
The Spot card’s vast acceptance network could make Citi a formidable player in the BNPL space and threaten business for incumbent players like Afterpay and Klarna.
Amazon trashes wasteful measures in UK: The company's announcement comes just six weeks after public outcry about how it was destroying millions of unsold items per year at a single warehouse.
See where retail foot traffic tripled in Q2
Publicis announces partnership with TikTok: The deal is TikTok’s first strategic agency partnership, and marketers should expect more of those in the months ahead.
Credit or debit? US credit card owners are torn
During the pandemic-induced lockdowns in 2020, many UK-based shoppers confined to their homes saw little need to shop for apparel, and even now, as restrictions ease, apparel will still not be a consumer focus.
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.
Square makes history: The payment giant will acquire buy now, pay later startup Afterpay for $29 billion to make inroads with younger consumers.