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On today's episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss why US home improvement company Lowe's didn't work out in Canada, why Canadian athletic apparel retailer lululemon athletica succeeded in the US, and which Canadian brands would prosper in the US if they chose to fly south. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analyst Paul Briggs and vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian.

In July, Meta announced new smart glasses coming later this year, alongside plans to integrate its AI assistant into its Quest headsets in the US and Canada starting in August. These moves signal Meta’s push to offer consumers more opportunities to interact with genAI across its products and platforms. What does this mean for marketers?

So I think it is happening, but it's just the format and environment it's best suited for at present is not really what Amazon had imagined.

Essentially, it's Amazon, but you can click and collect, which you can kind of do already, but they could own it. Marcus Johnson:.

Meta, Apple CEO Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google, and Amazon have each contributed $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund. From this group, only Amazon and Google made $200,000 contributions to Biden’s inaugural fund four years ago.

One other thing I'll quickly mention is that Amazon coming into the market will force Netflix to charge less for ads. Amazon is coming in with CPMs in the $30 range.

The top 10 countries for digital spending in 2023 will mirror the rankings from 2022, except Canada will move up a spot. We do not forecast any further changes to the relative positioning of the top-spending countries over the next several years. Revenue Review: Peak Duopoly Has Come and Gone. It’s no secret that Meta had a very bad 2022.

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.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss whether Amazon's online sales business glass is half full (or half empty), if you should advertise on Amazon without selling there, and how much offering primary care to Prime members can move the needle. "In Other News," we talk about Bed Bath & Beyond's marketing, its comeback, and why Pinterest beat everyone's expectations. Tune in to the discussion with our director of Briefings Jeremy Goldman and analyst Zak Stambor.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss why shopping on Amazon is changing, the proposal of ad-free TikTok and Instagram subscriptions, how much Amazon's AI chatbot shopping assistant can move the needle for customers, whether Toys-R-Us can make a successful comeback, the share of women in leadership roles and more. Tune in to the discussion with our vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian and analysts Blake Droesch and Paul Verna.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss why Amazon is pulling back from "Just Walk Out" technology, how the Atlantic magazine turned things around, what will ignite TV shopping, whether LinkedIn testing TikTok-like videos is a good move, what science says about how to be happy, and more. Tune into the discussion with vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian, analyst Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf, and vice president of Briefings Stephanie Taglianetti.

There's been fires in Canada, smoke coming down, hitting vast parts of the US not to mention what they're doing in their kind of origin country of Canada, and tornadoes in the whole right half of the country have caused all kinds of delays. The Bureau of Transportation statistics saying that just over 19% of flights were delayed last year. And that's up a bit from 2018.

Amazon has shown it can compete with Netflix anywhere. We believe that Netflix still has a sizable viewership lead on Amazon overall, but the gap is likely shrinking. In the eight countries for which we have estimates on both services, viewership is broadly comparable. And Amazon already has more viewers than Netflix in India, Germany, and Japan.

I wonder if that's because of the sheer magnitude of Amazon. If we took Amazon out of the equation, I bet in-store would be pretty significant. So I think to Marcus's point, it is one of the only big advantages that the long tail of retail media players have over Amazon, so it's definitely worthy of a focus to try and grow the pie in the favor of Amazon's competitors. Max Willens:.

And we're going to start in Canada, Paul, where it's against the law to play too many non-Canadian artists on the radio. Did you know that one? Paul Briggs:. Right. It's part of the CanCon rules, which is Canadian Content, which is really a policy that goes back decades to really protect local artists so that they get their fair share of airtime, if you will, on the radio and on television.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss why a surprising amount of people think Meta's Orion smart glasses are the future of computing, whether people will turn to Amazon for live news, what's happening to the middle of the market, why screensaver ads can have a significant impact, who was the richest American in history, and more. Tune in to the discussion with host Marcus Johnson, director of reports editing Rahul Chadha, and analysts Bill Fisher and Max Willens.

The ad went viral because it ran when the skies were choked with smoke from the fires in Canada. OOH formats are in a new normal. Although down from its peak, billboards’ share of total OOH in Q1 2023 was still nearly 9 percentage points greater than it was in Q1 2020.

For comparison, Canada has 10, UK 20. Most of mainland European countries have 20 to 25. Then finally, a couple of stats on paid time off Americans end up taking. So one, in 2018, Americans used an average of 17 days PTO, paid time off according to the US Travel Association. That's down, interestingly, from 20 days, so from 20 to 17 over the last three decades.

Tinuiti is the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV and the Triopoly of Google, Meta, Amazon, with over 1,200 employees and $3 billion in digital media under management. Tinuiti has industry-leading expertise in search, social, Amazon and marketplaces, addressable TV and mobile apps, Lifecycle Marketing, and more. Episode Transcript:. Bill Fisher:. Hello, everyone.

Even Amazon will charge you a dollar for dropping off packages at a UPS store instead of an owned property like Whole Foods or Amazon Fresh. Ms. Mull points to a 2022 analysis of 200 retailers' return policies by Narvar, who found 41% charged some kind of return shipping fee, up from 33% in 2021. So from 33 to 41. Amit Sharma, Narvar's CEO, says it's probably closer to 44% today.

Despite having 32.6 million fewer paying members than regions like the US and Canada in 2022, average revenues per Netflix membership (ARM) grew fastest in Latin America, at 9.7% YoY, according to the company. Though, it’s important to note that Latin America’s ARM in 2022 was roughly half that of the US and Canada, at $8.48. Pay TV will give way to streaming as cord-cutting accelerates.

Number one, Amazon, which announced a spring sale Prime Day type event. That's something that we predicted on this podcast last year. So, pretty excited that that prediction came true. Amazon also has a new feature that uses AI to generate product listings from existing URLs. You just put a URL for a product in and it makes a listing on Amazon.

Buggy is Canada and Southern US. We'll have to ask Susie if they use buggy in Canada, but Southern US I've heard that before. Okay, this next one I'm not sure about. Carriage. Blake Droesch:. Norway. Sara Lebow:. The internet said that they use carriage in New England. I lived in New England for 18 years and have never used that term, so I'm not positive about that one. Let's do our last one.

US and Canada growth struggling, a 6% growth was the low point for Netflix back in Q1 2022. This quarters 2% makes that 6% look pretty amazing. So yeah, particularly concerning in the US and Canada just 2% and supposed to be one of its more lucrative markets.

For example, you just talked about electronics, probably their competitor for that is Best Buy, maybe an Amazon. So I don't have a great answer in terms of the one and only competitor, although probably we could say Amazon and Walmart closest in line.