This collaboration led to the launch of the Shein India Fast Fashion app, available on both Google Play Store and Apple App Store. While Chinese players have successfully enticed consumers in Asia-Pacific with unbeatable prices, their advances have not been without road bumps.
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| Apr 1, 2025
Our take: SiriusXM is leaning into advantages that distinguish it from the glut of music streaming offerings, which could allow it to explore unique opportunities for subscriptions and advertising. This article is part of ĢAV’s client-only subscription Briefings—daily newsletters authored by industry analysts who are experts in marketing, advertising, media, and tech trends.
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| Dec 10, 2024
Brands benefit from ad-supported CTV inventory powered by retail media networks like Amazon Ads and Walmart Connect. Knowing how to efficiently reach the right shoppers with these high-impact ads—and subsequently retarget them with digital ads—can produce outsize gains in holiday conversions. Expand buy now, pay later (BNPL) to physical stores.
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| Feb 28, 2023
This is a result of early ecommerce innovation from the likes of Dell and Apple that still persists today. Apparel and accessories has 27.9% penetration, ranking second. Fashion brands—including Canada Goose, lululemon athletica, and Aritzia in Canada—have turned ecommerce into a critical and differentiating channel.
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| Jul 28, 2023
Brands need to consider paid search advertising on both search engines and retailer websites, especially because the searches on those retailer websites tend to be from people with intent to purchase. 4. More people start their shopping searches on Amazon than on search engines.
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| Jul 17, 2024
They think the legislation is aimed more at advertisers, and therefore because they mainly sell goods, not advertising, they shouldn't come under it. Again, with Amazon, a fair amount of its business is also advertising. So it's an interesting one to see how it'll all play out. Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf:. Yeah, absolutely.
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| Mar 28, 2024
It’s not just music platforms like Apple Music or YouTube Music with their own versions: Gaming platform Steam, grocery service Instacart, and many other apps across industries also roll out end-of-year personalized campaigns.
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| Dec 4, 2024
RTO mandates at Microsoft, Apple, and SpaceX drove a significant number of senior employees to leave their jobs, according to a study by researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Chicago.
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| Dec 20, 2024
On today’s podcast episode, we discuss when and where we will start to see ads alongside ChatGPT, how other AI startups are rolling them out, and what kinds of GenAI ads will be most impactful. Tune in to the discussion with Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, and Analysts Jacob Bourne and Daniel Konstantinovic.
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| Dec 12, 2024
So in some ways I think yes, it will impact advertisers, but maybe in a less immediate and less shocking way than when Apple did what it did a few years ago, which was very sudden and nobody had any preparation for that. Marcus Johnson (10:07):. Mm-hmm. It does seem as though most...
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| Jul 26, 2024
On today's episode, we discuss the implications of Twitter's new CEO choice, what Tucker Carlson moving his show to the platform means for advertisers, and what to make of Twitter alternative Bluesky. "In Other News," we talk about the effect AI will have on social media and what to expect from TikTok's US shopping platform. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Jasmine Enberg.
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| May 17, 2023
Apple Pay’s open banking integration could shake up consumer banking habits. Gen Z will be opening up a lot of new bank accounts, but banks will have to win their business. Banking prospects want to test mobile apps before downloading. 10 industries ranked by digital ad spend share.
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| Dec 1, 2023
Companies like Apple and Dell, as well as various automakers, could face tough decisions on pricing and profit margins. To mitigate tariff impacts, tech companies may accelerate plans to diversify manufacturing hubs. Moving operations from China to Southeast Asia, the US, or other countries could improve resilience but raise costs in the short term.
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| Nov 26, 2024
Apple has already implemented ways to anonymize email addresses and block tracking pixels. Email could be targeted from a regulatory perspective, as consumers can’t opt in and out from giving their email addresses to platforms that require them for login. Watch the full webinar, Building a Resilient Data Strategy in a Privacy-First World. This was originally featured in the ĢAV Daily newsletter.
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| Feb 24, 2023
Google’s Gemini and Apple Intelligence are built into Android and iOS smartphones with no additional fees or extraneous apps. Only 6% of US adults are willing to pay for AI features on their phones, per CNET. X is testing a limited free version of Grok in select regions that allows 10 queries every two hours and two image generations per day.
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| Dec 2, 2024
Now that Apple is opening up its NFC tech to third parties, EWS could also push Paze in-store. iPhone users will be able to change their default digital wallet, giving Paze and other wallets a chance to become their go-to option. Our take: As banks roll out the wallet, we expect Paze will take off.
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| Sep 13, 2024
Amazon’s addition of ads to Prime Video could add up to $5 billion in annual revenues, with around $3 billion from video ads and $1.8 billion from Prime subscribers paying extra to avoid ads, per Bank of America analysis.
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| Jan 4, 2024
Apple could change that. “I think [Apple] has the best shot of creating the first super app to take off in the US,” said Canaves. “That’s really thanks to the hold of the iPhone on US teens and integration of payment services.”. Gen Z expects this sort of seamless integration in ecommerce.
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| Apr 6, 2023
On today's episode, we discuss Apple’s dominance in the digital wallet arena. In our “Headlines” segment, we look at the ramifications of The Kroger Co.’s about-face on Apple Pay and how the EU is scrutinizing Apple Pay in its antitrust investigation. In “Story by Numbers,” we examine how Gen Z’s use of iPhones will keep Apple competitive in the digital wallet space and the success of Apple’s new savings account. And in our new segment, “What If,” host Rob Rubin presents a few hypotheticals and discusses what things would look like if they were true. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst David Morris.
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| May 30, 2023
First off, obviously focusing on the search business rather than the ad tech business, but I think one of the facets that's probably most fascinating within that is the idea of the ending the exclusive agreements with Apple or Samsung or what kind of vetting future exclusive agreements have to go through.
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| Oct 18, 2024
Unlike video- and music-streaming services, OpenAI has no existing ad-supported model—tacking ads onto the ChatGPT Plus experience could be seen as hostile to users. It’s also not a particularly unique service—genAI services abound and lack platform-exclusive content like streamers have.
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| Sep 30, 2024
Apple. Why: The release of Apple Vision Pro this month was met with fanfare, selling out almost immediately after preorders opened. Its limited release, solely in the US, is sparking international resales upward of $5,000, as reported by Bloomberg—much more than its original $3,500 price tag. What’s interesting:.
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| Mar 1, 2024
If you're measuring the success of your ad dollar, it should be regardless of the type of channel or platform you use so that you can measure apples to apples. Max Willens (11:10):. I see. There's no way that happens. Paul Verna (11:15):. It's not happening in any one of these spaces. Yeah,. Suzy Davidkhanian (11:18):. That's what I'm saying. That was your prediction.
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| Jun 18, 2024
Apple and Android versions may have slight differences, potentially requiring multiple versions of the demo. To get a sense of where FIs may need to perform some mobile app review damage control, they need to perform a search across the internet and create content that’s more recent than third-party reviews.
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| Oct 20, 2023