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On today's podcast episode, we discuss how the election influenced consumers' shopping habits, why returns spiked, and some way too early predictions for the 2025 holiday season. Listen to the conversation with our Senior Analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts Senior Analyst Zak Stambor and Analyst Rachel Wolff.

Linear losses: Radio and linear TV news are on the decline for both news consumption and general viewership as audiences switch to on-demand streaming and podcasts.

In today鈥檚 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.

We're seeing them break more into streaming and their content is showing up on streaming services. YouTube is obviously a big part of that as well, with CTV being such a growing and popular element of its own growth. So yeah, like I said, a lot of moving parts, and Jasmine definitely has been on this trend for quite some time, and she can probably add even more to what I've said.

From music streaming to immersive experiences: Infinite Reality wants to build virtual music venues where fans can get together and watch shows, chat with artists, and even purchase physical merchandise and NFTs.

Despite this, over half of Substack鈥檚 250 top-earning creators published video and audio posts in April 2024鈥攁nd this increased to 82% by February 2025. Zooming out: Substack is continuing its push to broaden its offerings and gain more traffic by recruiting YouTube and TikTok creators with dedicated audiences.

Digital audio, flat, but time spent watching CTV is really one of the only digital activities that is growing, users adding an extra 10 minutes of CTV time to each day in 2025. The other part of this as well, Paul Werner wrote Our Future of Digital 2025 report, linked in the show notes he was writing about this.

Gen Z leads in digital usage by most proportional measures. However, social network use cuts across categories, influencing video viewing and digital buying.

South and Southeast Asia led all regions for music/audio adoption. At 83% penetration, it was 33 percentage points ahead of radio, where the region was second to last globally. Four of the top eight countries for music/audio usage globally (India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam) were in this region. Readership of newspapers and magazines in the region were both No. 1 globally.