eMarketer principal analyst Mark Dolliver, junior analyst Blake Droesch, and vice president of content studio at Insider Intelligence Paul Verna discuss the we-used-to-share-things economy, Amazon's new online pharmacy, Twitter keeping some election tactics, the sudden surge in disappearing messages, the share of Facebook content that's political, why movie previews are called "trailers," and more.
Almost 600 million people in China will send and receive money via a mobile app this year, a habit driven in large part by WeChat's 2014 introduction of virtual "red packets."
Facebook finally rolled out its long-awaited Live Shopping feature, its latest foray into livestream shopping as the format explodes in China amid the pandemic.
Today marks a big milestone at Insider Intelligence: We launched our new platform, unifying our two brands (eMarketer and Business Insider Intelligence) into a single online experience and expanded our Financial Services coverage. We also just published a report that’s been long in the making--and it happens to be our very first under the new brand.
One out of every four social network users in Russia will be social buyers this year, as the country's VK app drives growth.
Though several of the largest smart speaker developers—including Amazon, Google, and Apple—and other retailers hope to entice more shopping and buying via voice, consumers are not nearly as enthusiastic. As a result, we have downgraded our forecasts for smart speaker shoppers and buyers from previous years.
Instagram is centralizing Reels and Shop on its app homepage as Facebook tries to more aggressively push its TikTok clone and become a bigger social commerce player.
Publisher Group Nine has launched its new online marketplace Swipe.Shop specifically for mobile, yet another publisher jumping on commerce.
With businesses closed during lockdowns, the growth of online shopping accelerated so quickly that sales numbers have reached heights that we didn’t anticipate until 2022. Among those who already shop online, the pandemic has also sped up the adoption of alternative shopping behaviors, such as social commerce.
Business Insider Intelligence research analyst Daniel Keyes, eMarketer principal analyst Andrew Lipsman, and senior forecasting analyst at Insider Intelligence Cindy Liu discuss the overachieving retailers of Q3—Peloton, Etsy, and Wayfair. They then talk about the EU's antitrust charges filed against Amazon, VF Corp.'s acquisition of Supreme, and Verishop launching a social network within its app.
FreshDirect, like nearly all brands, has had to listen, test, learn, and pivot amid the pandemic.