Some even go as far as conducting “liveness” checks, cross-referencing with a person’s social media to verify they are a real person. Multilayered identity verification involves combining verification techniques that are difficult to bypass to confirm a consumer’s identity.
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| Apr 24, 2023
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| Apr 11, 2024
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| Dec 13, 2024
By contrast, Latin America—a region close in economic size—contributes 4.3% of global GDP and 3.7% of total media ad spending worldwide. But there is plenty of room for growth in Southeast Asia’s ad market—and that growth will be led by digital. The young population in Southeast Asia will fuel digital ad spending.
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| May 9, 2023
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| Jan 17, 2025
You could have it write your social media posts. you could ask it to create a sales page and Facebook ad, Google ad. It could even refine your buyer persona. But the issue with that, though, is would readers realize that they might be looking for a trusted, original or more compelling information, right? Marcus Johnson:. Mm-hmm. Gadjo Sevilla:.
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| Apr 17, 2023
And also, competition from other video services and tech companies and social media companies. But selling YouTube is just not going to put either company in a better position to compete. And then with content moderation, the article makes the argument that YouTube might do a better job of it on its own. I disagree with that as well.
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| Mar 2, 2023
On today's episode, we discuss Snapchat's first quarterly revenue decline since going public in 2017, what to make of the social platform's My AI chatbot, and how concerned we should be by Snapchat's inability to innovate (without being copied). "In Other News," we talk about TikTok ads bringing viewers back to bigger screens and what people are doing on different social media platforms. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Jasmine Enberg.
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| May 12, 2023
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| Feb 7, 2025
The Indonesian government’s decision in September 2023 to ban ecommerce from social media platforms—fearing its devastating effect on local small and medium-sized businesses—has ravaged the short-video platform. TikTok’s ascendant social commerce business in Indonesia, its biggest Southeast Asia market and third-biggest globally, ground to a halt overnight. The region is getting trickier for TikTok.
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| Dec 5, 2023
And finally, we have one of our principal analysts who covers everything, social media, of course, she's with them in the south of France. It's Jasmine Enberg. Jasmine Enberg:. Hey, Marcus. Hey everybody. Marcus Johnson:. Hello. Hello. You might have noticed listeners. I'm the only one who is not in France, unfortunately. It's fine, I'm fine about it. Jasmine Enberg:.
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| Jun 21, 2023
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| Mar 29, 2024
TikTok aims to generate $20 billion in sales via TikTok Shop, and is expected to launch its own US ecommerce store soon. The platform is also leveraging new search features to become a hub for retail ecommerce. TikTok is also pushing new AI ad tools, and getting involved in a host of new media ventures. Here’s what the platform has been up to over the past month.
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| Jul 7, 2023
Megan Ewan, one of our content managers, was writing that in 2023, over half, 51% of Gen Zers worldwide used social media as their primary platform to search more information about brands, products, and services, versus 45% who use search engines, so a six point gap in favor of social media use according to GWI. (15:54):.
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| Jul 2, 2024
I mean, they are not as reliant on ad revenues as a social media platform, for example. It's mostly subscriptions, but throughout the year as a lot of these companies really struggled even with subscriptions or throughout 2022, we saw a lot of subscription services lose subscribers. We're still seeing that kind of happen with Disney. That never really happened with Spotify.
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| Feb 17, 2023
Its business model combines machine learning to scour trends across the internet with tight links to China’s vast manufacturing base and discount-driven social media and influencer marketing. Shein churns out vast quantities of ultracheap apparel that appeals to Gen Zers’ fashion sensibilities—and their relatively limited spending power.
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| May 19, 2023
In today’s episode, host Bill Fisher is joined by analysts Paul Briggs, Paola Florez-Marquez, and Minda Smiley to discuss the role that social media platforms are being asked to play in protecting children online. Is regulation, and subsequent heavy fines, about to force them to get more serious about this?
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| May 28, 2024
To recap, Bud Light enlisted social media star Dylan Mulvaney to help generate some PR during the annual March Madness college basketball tourney. The move was criticized by politicians, customers, and celebs who called for a boycott of the brands. Harris Diamond, former chief executive of ad giant McCann Worldgroup says, "Boardrooms are likely going to be asking is it really worth the risk?"
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| Jun 22, 2023
On today’s podcast episode, host Bill Fisher is joined by our analysts Paul Briggs, Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf, and Carina Perkins to discuss the implications of new digital legislations that recently came into force in the EU. Could they be a template for tighter digital laws elsewhere in the world?
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| Mar 28, 2024
The majority of US Hispanics use social media. Our forecast shows that in 2023 over 70% of the Hispanic population will use social media on a monthly basis—compared with 66.5% of the general population. Instagram use is growing faster than Facebook use.
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| Apr 6, 2023
It's so linked to broader social media too that I think there's always going to be a pretty strong appetite for it. They also have a really good onboarding process. They have a student subscription that's a lot cheaper than a standard plan that gets people, young users, into the service early and gets them to stay typically.
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| Aug 14, 2023
And social media is one of their primary uses, and that's according to Adobe and a Gen Z-focused research firm called Knit. Gen Z uses social media platforms in different ways. So for example, YouTube allows Gen Zers to keep up with their favorite content creators, watch music videos. TikTok surfaces funny or entertaining videos. Gen Zs use Instagram to stay up to date on fashion trends.
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| Jun 12, 2023
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| Feb 27, 2024
On today's podcast episode, we discuss whether Snapchat's “Less social media. More Snapchat” is working, how concerned folks should be about its slowing user growth, and what to make of its revenue turnaround. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Minda Smiley.
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| May 13, 2024
Final point on this part of the lead from me is yeah, young people searching for products on social media, GWI data showing that among us age groups, Gen Z unsurprisingly leads the way. But the difference between the younger people and the older people is astonishing. 43% of Gen Zs using TikTok to search for products online. That's versus 2% of baby boomers. So a massive demographic difference there.
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| Apr 19, 2023