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And when I think about Gen Z and their propensity towards experiences, I think about some of the success that some marketers have had with specifically travel-focused or travel-oriented credit cards, and you highlight the features of the card. And look, on the surface a credit card is no different than any other card. It's a short-term, unsecured loan with some kind of interest rate attached to it.

Just about everything consumers do online has an app, whether it’s shopping, reading the news, exercising, checking the weather, banking, or making travel reservations. They may not rely on designated apps, but it’s clear how reliant they are on phones for these activities. Of the 49.5 minutes per day adults will spend on these activities in 2023, 35.6 minutes will be on mobile devices.

Credit cards have long been a key lending method for SMBs, but there’s opportunity for better perks, especially surrounding travel. Products like Square and Amex’s new SMB credit card, which integrates directly into Square’s ecosystem, might help fintechs grab share from banks, which currently receive nearly three-quarters of financing applications, according to the Fed.

The number one activity was dining out, so expect potential restaurants to take a hit once the payments resume, followed by buying clothing, entertainment, nebulous entertainment, and travel. The activities and purchases that student loan payments are least likely to impact are buying gas, buying personal care items, and streaming services and subscriptions.

The direction of travel will mirror the wider region—display gaining share and search losing it—but search will remain the majority format for spend in both countries. To see the full forecast, click here. The duopoly has a firmer hold in France and Germany, but its dominance is slipping.

If you're not a rewards member, you can join right at the machine and you can claim a free travel size beauty product every week, which I think is really interesting. So that's a great incentive to keep coming back to get new things. They're constantly refreshing the assortment, and again, you get a little travel size and you like it, you're going to buy the full size.

Only pharma, tech, and travel spent a greater share of their open-market programmatic budgets on cookie-free inventory in Q1 2023 than they did in Q4 2022, according to 33Across data. Different industries’ adoption of new methods will occur at different paces.

58% of brands and 51% of agencies would like to see retail media-like offerings from verticals beyond retail, according to Q4 2023 data from Criteo.

So ads served, Sara says, in a sports bar during a Detroit Lions football game might feature great Lakes tourism, where a local car dealership's ads served in a gas station pump on summer nights might feature a cold energy drink on sale in the convenience store bars. And venues also can run their own TV commercials on this format as well, so a lot of potential there. (09:41):.

That's where I wanted to travel when I was an adult, I used to say. So really cool stuff. Marcus Johnson:. The shortest time it would take to travel to Venus is three and a half months. Who's volunteering for that trip? Rahul Chadha:. It's not that bad, actually. Oscar Orozco:. Venus is also-. Marcus Johnson:. No that bad? Oscar Orozco:. I feel like it rains sulfuric acid on Venus too.

But these are broad sectors that overlap with many other industries, including travel, health, entertainment, food/drink, and art. B2B and sports are two fast-growing areas for creators. A new policy now allows college athletes to be compensated for their name, image, and likeness (NIL).

I think that Starbucks is trying to capitalize on the travel craze in China. The partnership will help, but I think Starbucks, its revenue is going to continue to grow, but I believe the market share will continue to slide by virtue of just being there a lot more competition right now, naming a few domestic players like Luckin Coffee and Cotti Coffee, and then also the smaller chain.

A Travel and Leisure article by Stacey Leasca notes that many buildings in New York City will call that floor 12B or 14A. A survey by CityRealty found that out of over 600 condo buildings listed with 13 or more floors, only 55 of the 600 labeled the 13th floor as the 13th floor, that means over 90% of buildings with a 13th floor renamed it in hopes of attracting would-be buyers and renters.

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Douyin in China has really been pushing into local services, like food delivery and travel and hotels and tourism bookings where those are also categories that lend themselves very well to the video formats and livestreaming. Sara Lebow:. Yeah. If I were an American tech company, I would definitely be looking to what Douyin is doing as a crystal ball for what TikTok might explore in the US.

These events do bring with it a nice boost to the local economy, and given all the cost of living crisis in the UK, it's, I think, a nice welcome reprieve to a little economic boost from the tourism. Bill Fisher:. Right. I'm going to kick things off today with our three in three segment.

That was then as of 2022, though, because of travel restrictions and people still not traveling as much as they used to.

I think people are spending more in other areas including travel, which with so much summer travel, actually people have more reason to buy other items. So there is enough demand to support a healthy growth rate, but it's not going to be eye-popping. Now that said it, we were expecting about 13 and a half billion in industry-wide sales over the two-day event, e-commerce sales.

Rethinking the customer experience within the branch: Financial institutions can learn a lot from other verticals that maintain both an online and brick-and-mortar presence.

Slowing but persistent inflation continues to strain US consumers’ buying power: Real wages fell in February as prices for groceries, recreation, and airfare continued to rise.

Whenever they travel there, he agrees to go only if they stop in Las Vegas for a few days as well as part of the trip. So that happens every time they travel west from New York. So I guess people love it. I don't know. Marcus Johnson:. Wait, he said anytime we travel west from New York, even if we're going to go to Florida? Oscar Orozco:. No, it would be going to California [inaudible 00:39:14].

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