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The payments provider maintained impressive POS growth given heightened competition in the space

Its Old Navy label gained share with lower-income shoppers in Q4, while Gap won over middle- and high-income consumers.

Read the full report, Worldwide Retail Ecommerce Forecast 2024 Midyear Update.

US restaurant sales rose just 1.5% YoY in February: That鈥檚 one of the troubling signs in February鈥檚 weaker-than-expected retail sales numbers.

Record holiday sales helped retailers, but purchasing patterns across income groups diverged starkly. Middle- and lower-income consumers grew more selective, carefully weighing where and when to spend amid economic uncertainty. Meanwhile, higher-income shoppers continued to spend freely.

Holiday spend, international transactions, and non-card payments boosted growth

YouTube鈥檚 hiring of ESPN veteran Justin Connolly triggers a Disney lawsuit: The clash underscores rising tensions over live sports streaming supremacy.

The explosion of softPOS is reshaping the POS landscape and forcing hardware and software providers to pivot

The news: At Cannes Lions 2025, Netflix announced it has added Yahoo鈥檚 DSP to its growing list of programmatic partners, joining Google, The Trade Desk, and Microsoft. The expansion boosts flexibility for advertisers targeting Netflix鈥檚 94 million monthly ad-tier users across 12 countries, with new capabilities for first-party data and interest-based buying. Our take: With its Ads Suite now live globally, Netflix is done crawling鈥攊t鈥檚 competing directly with YouTube and social platforms for CTV budgets. As its per-user ad revenues rebound and its content ecosystem broadens, Netflix is evolving into a full-funnel marketing platform poised to reshape premium video monetization.

After making various tie-ups and investments in Southeast Asia, the company is now focused on Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Our take: Adding diversified payment methods should also help Adyen鈥檚 terminal gain traction.

A nearly $1 trillion loss in a day signals market panic. Apple leads the fall, with ripple effects threatening AI growth, ad revenue, and cloud service pricing.

Navigating US sanctions and a Chinese antitrust investigation could derail Nvidia鈥檚 supply chain, delay cutting-edge hardware, and challenge its dominance in a global market.

Latin America traditional media spending bounces back: Recovering out-of-home advertising will help lift outlays to prepandemic levels.

A $750 billion drop in market value reveals investor unease, with tariffs and recession worries putting pressure on consumer spending, marketing budgets, and tech margins.

The cost of everything from Pandora jewelry to Adidas sneakers is rising: The trend is poised to accelerate as tariff-hit goods arrive at US ports鈥攁nd shoppers have taken note.

Companies like Mercado Libre in Latin America and Alibaba, JC.com, and Meituan in China will account for a lot of retail media business internationally. Use this chart:. Demonstrate the growth of retail media advertising. Assess retail media鈥檚 role in digital advertising. More like this:. 5 recent charts forecasting how ad spend is changing, from retail media to programmatic.

TikTok has invested heavily in Indonesian-owned local shopping site Tokopedia as part of efforts to boost its ecommerce presence in the country. It has also committed significant resources to local creator communities and businesses to boost engagement. The Philippines will overtake Indonesia in TikTok user growth by 2026.

Amazon dominates in the US, but Mercado Libre is a major player in Latin America, and in China, Alibaba, JD.com, and Meituan contribute to ad inventory, our Worldwide Retail Media Ad Spending Forecast 2024 report noted. 5. Retail media will make up more than half of US search ad spend growth. Retail media will drive US search ad spend growth in the US in 2024 and beyond.

Banks must help customers navigate growing economic uncertainty.

I think the UK is quite interesting because the UK's actually a very mature e-commerce market and in terms of penetration, e-commerce as a percentage of total retail sales, it's actually ahead of the US. But I think as Paul mentioned, it perhaps comes down to scale.

In 2024, revenue growth will increase by single digits in Europe and North America and double digits in Latin America and Asia, according to Skift鈥檚 鈥淕lobal Travel Outlook 2024鈥� report. The airline industry is charting the course for a 12% revenue climb in 2024, with cruises buoying up by 11%. Leisure and business digital travel sales show sizable growth.

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US consumers overwhelmed by marketing content: 40% unsubscribe weekly, driven by frequent messaging and privacy concerns, raising questions about responsible data practices.