Methodology: Data is from the January 2024 IBM, "2024 Consumer Study: Revolutionize retail with AI everywhere." 20,000 adults ages 18+ worldwide were surveyed online during September-October 2023.

The bank laid off 5,000 employees in 2023 and plans to eliminate 20,000 more by 2026. That resulted in a $780 million severance charge. PNC plans to eliminate 4% of its staff, and had $150 million in “workforce reduction” charges. International exposures: Citibank experienced an especially tough year because of its exposure to unstable countries.

Sadly, there are only about 10 to 20,000 left in the ocean. For the oceans. Not one specific ocean. There are a lot more, but early 1900s to 1960, I think a lot of them were hunted and killed. 10 to 20,000 left. Anyway, some facts on the blue whale. Fascinating. I'm still not going in the ocean. Too big. Today's real topic, Disney's next moves.

FIs added 20,000 jobs in Q2 2023, per data from the US Labor Department. As a result, digital ad spending will jump next year. After two years of low-single-digit growth, digital ad spending across the industry will spike to 10.6% in 2024. View our full forecast for digital ad spending by industry. Insurers must find efficiencies as their ad spend growth hits a wall.

Amazon continued to dominate ecommerce in 2022: But advertising, not retail, was the company’s biggest success story this year—although not enough to prevent the layoffs of 20,000 employees.

In less than 14 years, US FIs have closed over 20,000 brick-and-mortar branches. In response to this trend, UK legislators aim to guarantee that no person or business will be more than three miles from withdrawal/deposit facilities with new legislation. Some FIs view these closures as a chance to differentiate themselves from competitors.

Grocery TV has grown its footprint 26% YoY, operating 20,000 marketing displays across 4,000 grocery stores. The ​​in-store digital advertising company has worked with brands such as AT&T, The Hershey Co., PepsiCo, and JPMorgan Chase, and developed partnerships with grocers like Schnucks, Smart & Final, and Coborn’s.

So long story short, they analyzed the driving behavior of 20,000 drivers. It was about 13 million kilometers of driving, and they found that Android users outperform iPhone carrying counterparts on the road. They achieve higher safety driving scores than iPhone users in every single category, that's safe driving, speeding, distraction, turning, and braking, and accelerating.

WHP opened a 20,000-square-foot flagship store at American Dream mall in New Jersey in 2021. It then rolled out 452 shops-within-shops inside Macy’s stores across the United States. It has also aggressively spread its reach abroad; it now operates over 1,400 stores and ecommerce sites across 31 countries.

This year, it set a goal of hitting 20,000 followers. Next year, it plans to expand its efforts to TikTok and Instagram. Most-engaged-with posts contain community content, such as those about donations to local charities. Our take: All financial institutions offer similar products, edging them close to commodity status.

Let's pretend that the low end had 20,000 followers each times 50. That's a million people right there, which you are able to influence. I also thought it was so sobering and just heartbreaking that you highlighted researchers said about one third of the 1.1 million COVID-19 related deaths in the U.S. as of January 2023 were considered preventable.

Walmart said it would give away up to 20,000 free one-year Walmart+ memberships as part of its Mother’s Day campaign. With Walmart+ Assist, consumers on government assistance can sign up for Walmart+ at half the price. Walmart has launched Walmart+ Travel, a partnership with Expedia Group that offers travel benefits to members.

The company says it has a 99% success rate working with more than 20,000 medical offices. Here’s the catch: To activate the free version of this service, consumers must share their de-identified medical data for disease research purposes. For those not participating in research, the fee is $299 for initial data retrieval and $39 per month for continued collection as records get updated.

Over 100 linear channels and more than 20,000 hours of content will be available at launch. Corus’ sales teams will sell ads for Pluto TV’s AVOD offerings in the Canadian market. The Roku Channel launched in Canada in 2018 with a variety of ad-supported channels.

Rather than betting on big names, marketers are turning to micro (5,000 to 20,000 followers) and mid-tier (20,000 to 100,000 followers) influencers. These influencers will account for over half of total influencer spend for the next two years while macro (100,000 to a million followers) and mega (a million plus) influencer spend is trending down.

Walmart Inc. added about 20,000 new sellers to its marketplace in 2021, part of the company’s push to compete with Amazon on its own turf. While the earnings release primarily focused on the company’s retail business, its advertising arm, Walmart Connect, grew to $2.1 billion as marketers continued to flock to retail media networks.

Turning away from celebrities with massive followings, marketers are finding success with micro- (5,000 to 20,000 followers) and mid-tier (20,000 to 100,000 followers) influencers, which will account for over half of all influencer marketing share this year. Why it matters: Social commerce adoption is on the rise, but it may not be in its final form yet.

Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto have found over 20,000 inaccuracies in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Broadband Coverage Map. What’s next? A bipartisan group of 26 senators is pushing the FCC to fix broadband mapping. The FCC is ordering carriers to submit estimates of their coverage backed by engineering data.

The study of 81 companies included nearly 20,000 marketers who are US-based members of the ANA. However: Despite this progress, there are causes for concern. ANA’s study noted that the percentage of Blacks and Hispanics in the industry is still significantly lower than their share of the US population.

In hopes of avoiding any staffing issues, Party City is hiring 20,000 workers ahead of Halloween, exceeding the 17,000 it hired last year, according to CNN. In July, Michele Buck, CEO of The Hershey Co., warned that the company will not be able to meet consumer demand for Halloween and the holiday season due to capacity constraints.

There are up to 20,000 mental health apps available for smartphones. Why this matters: Many consumers are concerned about their data privacy on healthcare apps. 32% of adults are “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” (32%) about the privacy of their healthcare information on healthcare apps, according to a September 2021 Morning Consult poll of over 2,000 US adults.

The chipmaker said that it would produce 20,000 wafers monthly at the Arizona facility and that Apple will use about a third of the output. Nvidia and AMD will likely increase orders. What this means for the Biden administration: The news is a big win for proponents of the Chips and Science Act and could entice more manufacturers to participate in incentives, while they last.

Sono has received 20,000 reservations for its Sion solar EV, a plug-in EV that has a 190-mile range. Car subscription platform FINN has bought into the concept, reserving 12,600 units. The first 100 EVs are expected to reach Finn in 2024. Aside from passenger SUVs, Sono is using its technology to power solar buses for public transportation.

In Amazon’s case, it projected layoffs to reach up to 20,000 in December. The 18,000 employees represent 1% of its workforce, and the cuts center on HR and retail workers. Amazon is the second-largest US employer behind Walmart, with more than 1.5 million employees as of September.

For instance, it recently rolled out a new store format that is roughly 150,000 square feet (about 20,000 square feet larger than the chain average), and features backroom fulfillment space five times larger than at previous stores.