Retail: Includes mail order/catalog; restaurants/fast food; drugstores; retail stores; cosmetics stores; and merchants of apparel, home furnishings/textiles, toys, pet food/supplies, appliances, jewelry, and general merchandise. Travel: Includes airlines, car rental agencies, hotels and resorts, cruise lines, destination marketing organizations; includes both leisure and business travel.
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| Oct 21, 2024
Pharma includes drug manufacturers and researchers, vitamins and supplements, prescriptions, pet flea and tick drugs, cold/cough medicine, over-the-counter allergy medicine, birth control, biotech companies, and animal pharmaceutical companies. Healthcare and pharma media ad spending will continue shifting to digital channels.
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| Oct 25, 2024
The difficulties for them are the vast array of home layouts and obstacles that could get in robots’ way, like clutter and pets, per TechCrunch. Another potential obstacle? The price tag. Adcock said he believes the startup can get the price tag below $20,000, per TechCrunch.
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| Feb 28, 2025
Retail: Includes mail order/catalog, restaurants/fast food, drugstores, retail stores, cosmetics stores and apparel merchants, home furnishings/textiles, toys, pet food/supplies, appliances, jewelry, and general merchandise. Travel: Includes airlines, car rental agencies, hotels and resorts, cruise lines, and destination marketing organizations for both leisure and business travel.
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| Oct 8, 2024
But how do you incorporate brands that are outside of the pet industry into your content? Bryan Reisberg (13:23):. That's what we focus on most now is working with non-pet-endemic brands. We had a really long relationship with Dell. It was about an 18-month-long relationship, which I know seems very non-traditional. It was a leap for them, so good on them.
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| Feb 15, 2025
These brands, spanning various verticals such as beauty, household, pets, and accessories, have seen success with paid social advertising on platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Pinterest. The company’s ecommerce gains during the 2024 holiday season shows the effectiveness of its AI-driven ad platform in sectors beyond gaming, including fintech and retail.
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| Feb 19, 2025
Retail: Includes mail order/catalog, restaurants/fast food, drugstores, retail stores, cosmetics stores and apparel merchants, home furnishings/textiles, toys, pet food/supplies, appliances, jewelry, and general merchandise. Travel: Includes airlines, car rental agencies, hotels and resorts, cruise lines, and destination marketing organizations for both leisure and business travel.
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| Sep 19, 2024
In 2024, 21% of cat owners hosted holiday/birthday parties for their cats, up 250% from 2018, according to the American Pet Products Association (APPA). JUNE 30, 2025. What percentage of consumers have made a purchase as a result of an influencer endorsement of a product or service? A) 38% B) 48% C) 58% D) 68%.
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| Jul 3, 2025
Retail includes mail orders/catalogs, restaurants/fast food, drugstores, retail stores, cosmetics stores, and merchants of apparel, home furnishings/textiles, toys, pet food/supplies, appliances, jewelry, and general merchandise.
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Source: ĢAV; Bizrate Insights
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Source: ĢAV; Bizrate Insights
I have this pet theory about the cost of living crisis weighing on consumers and their inability to afford a car and a house. Being a factor in terms of the vibes during the Biden administration and that carrying over now, and then you add in the tariffs and it just creates this very challenging environment. Joanne Hsu:.
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| Apr 9, 2025
Zooming in: Three essential goods categories—medication (+6.3%), groceries (+5.5%), and pet supplies (+5.4%)—posted the largest YoY sales increases, while more discretionary categories like shoes (+0.8%) and clothing (+0.1%) saw modest gains. Electronics and telecommunications sales declined by -2.4%. Those results may reflect consumers’ growing confidence shopping online.
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| Jan 23, 2025
The data: The average parent is responsible for five loved ones (including children, aging parents, and pets), per Care.com’s 2025 Cost of Care report. DKC Analytics surveyed 3,000 US adults on behalf of Care.com in November 2024. All respondents are parents of children 14 years or younger. Digging into the data: Despite this responsibility, nearly half (48%) say that they don’t have enough help.
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Instead, Google has decided to invest in PETs that make data collection safer. But so far, Google has provided few specifics about how these PETs will protect user privacy. “Google has been very vague about where PETs will be employed as it processes consumer data. Whether advertisers themselves will need to change anything about their data collection practices remains to be seen,” said Mitchell-Wolf.
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| Jan 9, 2025
The fastest-growing categories in unit sales were beverages (3.5%), pet care (3.5%) and home care (3.3%). Zooming out: Store brands have been eating into national brands’ share in recent years; private label unit sales are up 2.3% since 2021, while national brand sales fell 6.8%.
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| Jan 17, 2025
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Source: NielsenIQ
The strategy: The savings pots are designed as digital pets—starting as an egg, and growing into a mature character once the customer reaches their savings goal. This could scratch millennials’ nostalgic itch, as Tamagotchis—which offer a similar concept—made a huge global sales comeback since their debut three decades ago, per BBC.
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Source: The Harris Poll; NerdWallet
Of the 12 categories in our survey, only pet and automotive products have lower conversion rates than financial services. Millennials and higher-income users are slightly better prospects for conversion. ĢAV 18% of millennial social media users have purchased a financial product or service after seeing content about it. That’s nearly double the rate among Gen Zers.
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| Jun 3, 2024
AI companies are bullish on privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). For example, companies can use differential privacy—adding statistical noise to anonymized data sets to prevent reidentification—to reduce the risks associated with training AI models on sensitive data. It’s best to use multiple PETs to strengthen privacy protections, but they still won’t solve the data removal problem.
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Pet care: The Queva dog collar can tell owners about their dog’s daily activities and monitor the animal’s health. The electrified and autonomous future: General Motors may have given up on its autonomous Cruise vehicles too early. Numerous companies have pushed into the space with standard vehicles equipped with sensors and people movers that look like mini buses sans drivers.
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| Jan 10, 2025