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| Mar 13, 2022
Source: MediaPost Communications; iSpot.tv
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Source: MediaPost Communications; iSpot.tv
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| Nov 4, 2021
Source: MediaPost Communications; iSpot.tv
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| Apr 27, 2022
Source: Morning Consult
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| Mar 17, 2022
Source: Pew Research Center
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| Mar 17, 2022
Source: Pew Research Center
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| Mar 17, 2022
Source: Pew Research Center
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| Dec 27, 2021
Source: SurveyMonkey; Momentive
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| Jan 24, 2023
Source: Majesco
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| Jan 20, 2023
Source: Medscape
Overall US retail sales (excluding automotive) grew 2.5% YoY on Black Friday, with in-store sales increasing just 1.1% YoY and ecommerce sales rising 8.5% YoY, per Mastercard SpendingPulse. Adobe Analytics reported an online sales gain of 7.8% YoY over the Cyber Five, and 7.3% YoY from November 1-27. Growth stemmed from volume gains, not inflation.
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| Nov 29, 2023
Auto-GPT—a simple open-source interface—lets people create tasks that OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 can complete, going from one to another autonomously in a multistep process. It is mostly a concept test, but it previews task-oriented interfaces that will configure and execute steps to achieve a task, effectively being an “agent” for you.
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| Jul 20, 2023
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| Jan 23, 2024
Source: EMARKETER Forecast
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| Jan 23, 2024
Source: EMARKETER Forecast
Growth has slowed, but bright spots remain in key categories.
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| Mar 20, 2024
The numbers: US retail sales (excluding automotive) grew 2.5% year-over-year (YoY) on Black Friday, with in-store sales increasing just 1.1% YoY and ecommerce sales rising 8.5% YoY, per Mastercard SpendingPulse. Those online sales results are roughly in line with the 7.5% YoY jump reported by Adobe Analytics and the 9.0% YoY increase reported by Salesforce.
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| Nov 25, 2023
Inflation and rising interest rates brought a swift end to the used car boom. Carvana has since shifted away from a focus on growth and toward cutting costs and improving the customer experience. But Carvana has proved there is room for a car dealer in the top ecommerce companies. Carvana’s fate lies in its ability to control costs and maintain sales amid a chaotic period for the auto industry.
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| Mar 28, 2023
For search ads to be effective, you need a catalyst—a broken-down car, a mole-infested lawn, or a clogged drain. Your brand can be more proactive than that. How does it work? Retail media sites can segment their audiences by using dozens of first-party data traits such as habits, behaviors, basket size, and geography.
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| Nov 27, 2023
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| Nov 8, 2023
Source: Insider Intelligence | eMarketer
It's just become so difficult to afford to buy a car and to buy a house. That's a bad feeling when you just feel as though you can't get a new car, you can't buy a house, and that's unlikely to change this year even as the Fed is likely to cut interest rates. Sara Lebow:. Yeah. Zak, you also mentioned to me that restaurant spend is outpacing inflation.
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| Jan 10, 2024
On today's podcast episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss how buying alcohol online is different, what Uber’s shutdown of Drizly means for its retail media business, and how consumption habits are changing. Then for "Red-Hot Retail," our analysts give us four spicy predictions about the future of alcohol. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analyst Blake Droesch and director of Briefings Jeremy Goldman.
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| Feb 14, 2024
Video ads are perhaps more necessary for promoting movies, selling cars, or enticing travel than they are for marketing the average CPG product, but the industry is still growing its video ad spending more quickly than anything else. By 2025, a third of industry spending will be going to video. Among devices, CPG favors mobile more than most other industries do.
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| Sep 27, 2023
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| Sep 7, 2023
Source: Gartner
Outside of food and beverage, the only other maturing ecommerce category where Amazon is missing out is auto and parts. However, that won’t help Amazon’s big-box competitors since they don’t sell cars either. Prime membership will be a suit of armor for Amazon’s ecommerce business.
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| Mar 24, 2023
The Vision Pro is a “concept car” version of what’s to come. The current headset’s primary function is as a developer tool that can tap into the vast pool of 34 million registered iOS developers around the world, according to entertainment industry executive Joanna Popper, greatly expanding the resources for XR development.
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| Mar 26, 2024