Marketers are increasingly using AI to produce video, audio, images, and social content, according to Hubspot. Google’s expanding AI skillset aims to meet that demand on several fronts. Project Astra, Google's real-time, vision-enabled AI assistant, signals a move toward responsive content creation for text, images, audio, and video.
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| May 19, 2025
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.
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Source: Gallup
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On today's podcast episode, we discuss how shopping will get even more social, how brands will be fighting their way into your messaging apps, and more. Tune in to the conversation with Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Vice President and Principal Analyst Jasmine Enberg and Senior Analyst Minda Smiley. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.
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| Jan 13, 2025
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The next one is real time pay by bank payments will land at online checkout and we're predicting both Walmart and Amazon are going to pilot pay by bank checkout in 2025. The third is that banks are going to push forward with personalization despite open banking regulatory tensions.
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| Jan 14, 2025
Methodology: Data is from the March 2025 Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) article titled "94% of Advertisers Concerned ĢAV Tariff Impact on Ad Budgets." 100 US buy-side advertising decision-makers who manage or oversee ad budgets of at least $250K annually were surveyed online during February 13–28, 2025.
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Source: Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB); Advertiser Perceptions; Guideline
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| Apr 30, 2025
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On today’s podcast, we discuss the ĢAV report, 9 Pivotal Shifts in AI, Regulation, and Advertising That Will Change the Business Landscape. Our analysts will compete in the Great Behind The Numbers Take Off – Top Trends edition, borrowing from the television show, The Great British Bake Off. In the Take Off, we will talk in-depth about how retail media, social and AI will undercut traditional search and will governments protect children from digital ad giants. Listen to the conversation with Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Senior Analyst Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf, and Analyst Bill Fisher. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.
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| Jan 6, 2025
On today's podcast episode, we discuss how retailers are giving customers more bang for their buck with discounts and freebies, how gamified loyalty programs are becoming more sophisticated, and more. Listen to the conversation with our Senior Analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts Vice President Suzy Davidkhanian and Senior Analyst Blake Droesch.
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Source: PwC; Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)
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Infinite Reality’s $207 million buy revives Napster as a virtual concert hub where fans can watch shows, chat with artists, and buy merch—all inside immersive 3D spaces.
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