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What it means for 2025: Not only did more retailers join the RMN bandwagon in 2024, but so did those in industries like travel and financial services. Advertisers will continue having a wealth of media network options, but standardization and measurement challenges will continue, forcing RMNs to prove their worth.

It鈥檚 reportedly in talks with travel, retail, real estate, and food websites to integrate a ChatGPT-like conversational search tool called NLWeb, or Natural Language Web. While it could take months or even years for OpenAI to create a comparable web browser, it鈥檚 already making huge strides, including by hiring key Google Chrome developers this year.

Retail media isn鈥檛 the only growing sector鈥攆inancial and travel media networks are also emerging as they seek ways to monetize their first-party data. Travel media network ad spend in the US will reach $2.53 billion next year, an 18.9% increase, according to our forecast. Though US financial media network ad spend is a smaller figure ($710 million), it will grow much faster at 103.1%.

It has digital real estate鈥攍ike its travel hub鈥攚ell primed for ads and could leverage data from its mortgage and investment products. Weaknesses. Chase does not have access to brand- or SKU-level data, meaning less precise targeting versus its peers in the payments space.

And younger consumers love live entertainment: 65% of Gen Z and 58% of millennials traveled in the past year or plan to travel more than 50 miles for in-person events like concerts, per data from AAP and Bread Financial. And they鈥檙e willing to spend big on these events: 37% of Gen Z and 39% of millennials have spent more than $500 on tickets for destination live events.

The news: PayPal rolled out a feature called Pool Money to help customers manage shared expenses like group gifts and travel, per a press release. Users can set up a pool in the PayPal app or online with a description, target date, and goal amount and then share the pool link with friends and family via text, email, or other messaging services.

No, I guess if I could start any business tomorrow, I think I would probably start a destination travel business and have it be just pure fun and get to sort of roam the world and have great vacations. Marcus:. Very nice. It sounds like you're just going off on a trip around the world by yourself. Is this a real business idea or do you just want to go traveling? That's what I'm hearing. Aron North:.

The company performed well during the post-pandemic travel boom and is now playing a longer game to maintain that position in consumers鈥� minds. Holiday travel demand is still strong, and United鈥檚 campaign is launching just as many Americans are likely considering holiday travel plans.