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
The company plans to add 100 new Whole Foods locations at a pace of 30 new store openings per year. At the same time, it halted the opening of several Amazon Fresh stores in favor of reformatting existing stores. Amazon Fresh is the most viable model for Amazon to achieve grocery success.
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| Aug 14, 2023
Private jets account for 16% of US flights, 16% of US flights, but pay only 2% of the taxes according to the Institute for Policy Studies and Patriotic Millionaires. So for context, Farhad Manjoo of New York Times writes that per the analysis, "The median net worth of a private jet owner is nearly $200 million.
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| Sep 18, 2023
How Our Forecasts Account for Multitasking. An important note on how we account for multitasking in our estimates of time spent with media: If someone spends an hour watching TV, for example, and uses a smartphone to surf the web during the same hour, we count this as an hour of usage for each medium, and hence as 2 hours of total media time.
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| Jul 17, 2023
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| Mar 24, 2023
ճ’r opening owned and operated physical retail locations. DNVBs like Warby Parker, Allbirds, and Brooklinen are taking this path. Significant capital expenditure and store overhead make this model prohibitive for most DNVBs, but for some, it’s a viable path for growing brand awareness and sales. ճ’r selling wholesale through brick-and-mortar channels.
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| May 5, 2023
And that in turn is kind of closing off the openness of it and opening up opportunities for people to charge for stuff.
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| Mar 30, 2023
So I saw that political CTV ads account for about half of all digital political spend, so they account for quite a lot. But you're right, there are a lot of different media types and so this is, okay, TV versus the field. Jeremy, what do you think? Jeremy Goldman (04:26):. I think it's a really interesting one.
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| Jul 9, 2024
The FTC thinks that Prime membership fees account for $25 billion of companies annual revenue. So they might just see us as the cost of doing business, to be honest.
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| Jun 29, 2023
And I wonder though, Max, to your point about the percentage of ad dollars, retail media ad dollars, that in-store will account for being so low. I wonder if that's because of the sheer magnitude of Amazon. If we took Amazon out of the equation, I bet in-store would be pretty significant.
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| Aug 11, 2023
Because there's already, I would argue something like Tumblr or even just meme accounts on Instagram for that, and so it just becomes a platform in search of a niche.
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| Jul 21, 2023