Forecasts
| Jan 16, 2025
Source: Ģą˝AV Forecast
Consumers have unfavorable views of drugmakers and health insurers: But these companies are simultaneously getting higher brand equity. Their growth is predicated on revenue-driving actions that consumers believe lead to high healthcare prices.
Article
| May 9, 2025
The new TV looks like YouTube: Forget old-school programming—YouTube’s Shorts, podcasts, and second-screen features are reshaping television into an interactive, on-demand experience powered by creators.
Article
| Feb 11, 2025
The future of Super Bowl advertising is multi-platform: Brands are investing in second-screen engagement and digital-first campaigns to maximize impact beyond the game.
Article
| Feb 10, 2025
Fubo pioneers interactive TV ads: New formats aim to move commerce from second screens to big screens with seamless shopping experiences.
Article
| Dec 22, 2024
Real-time payments allow individuals and businesses to send and receive payments between bank accounts simultaneously. The process described below occurs instantaneously upon initiation.
Article
| Oct 28, 2024
This makes it a prime candidate for second-screen engagement, whether alongside gaming, streaming, or fandom-driven interaction. Protecting the community: Safety remains a top concern, especially amid public scrutiny.
Article
| May 6, 2025
Complicating the battle for attention, a significant portion of time spent with media occurs during multiscreen multitasking. Most adults will not actually spend over 12 hours of their day consuming media. Rather, the subset of time when they’re consuming two (or even three) types of media simultaneously adds up quickly under our methodology.
Report
| Feb 27, 2025
Simultaneously develop comprehensive and ongoing training programs to teach employees to effectively leverage these tools—especially advanced technologies like AI and data analytics. Establish KPIs for the employee digital experience. Regularly solicit feedback, analyze usage data of internal digital tools, and identify pain points.
Article
| Jun 6, 2025
And the FIs that ensure their offerings have the best possible experience will simultaneously be gaining their primary customers’ loyalty.
Article
| May 30, 2025
The simultaneous approval process of the PayPal Credit physical card and the PayPal Credit digital line will likely be disorienting for consumers. It’s also unclear what differentiates this product from PayPal’s other credit products—unlike the cash-back card, it offers no rewards.
Article
| Jun 3, 2025
But consumers using BNPL may overextend themselves on purchases, take out simultaneous installment plans from multiple providers, and incur hefty fees and penalties for missed payments. Nearly half (48%) of all BNPL users had four or more indicators of financial constraint—versus 82% of non-users who had three or fewer.
Article
| May 30, 2025
Companies that experiment with both internal and customer-facing applications simultaneously will gain significant competitive advantages as these technologies reshape commerce. AI agents move beyond traditional automation. AI agents represent a significant evolution in digital automation.
Report
| Apr 4, 2025
Trifold phones create a hybrid space between smartphones and tablets—which is prime real estate for immersive, multi-screen experiences that app developers and advertisers can benefit from.
Article
| May 9, 2025
This feature seems to address a number of pain points simultaneously. According to an Ģą˝AV/Spotter study, 33.1% of marketers believe strong contextual alignment to brands is critical, and 36% of marketers believe data and analytics represent the largest lost opportunity in creator marketing.
Article
| Jun 18, 2025
The news: Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks—which overwhelm a server or network with simultaneous traffic from multiple sources—rose 358% in volume YoY and 198% QoQ, nearly matching 2024’s full-year total in just three months. Cloudflare, a content delivery network (CDN) serving over 20% of global web traffic and 35% of the Fortune 500, blocked 20.5 million DDoS attacks in Q1 2025.
Article
| May 6, 2025
Stripe's multicurrency feature lets these firms hold multiple currency balances simultaneously—helping dodge costly FX fees. Big-time tie-ups: Nvidia transferred its cloud gaming service subscribers to Stripe’s platform in a record six weeks. PepsiCo is similarly shifting paper check payments between store managers and delivery drivers to Stripe.
Article
| May 8, 2025
Yes, but: Burnout, unpredictable income, and increasing competition are simultaneously prompting many creators to seek more traditional jobs. (We predicted this in our Creator Economy Trends to Watch 2025 report). Agencies like Razorfish and Buttermilk have brought independent creators in-house as strategists, talent managers or content producers.
Article
| May 6, 2025
Retailers get access to a younger demographic they’ve historically found difficult to reach and shoppers can fulfill multiple Fizz and Instacart orders simultaneously—often more efficiently since the orders go to the same location. Meanwhile, advertisers can leverage Instacart’s ad platform without starting from scratch.
Article
| May 14, 2025
That means financial institutions (FIs) that use genAI to supercharge their marketing might be creating content that better resonates with their target audience, while simultaneously improving the team’s efficiency and costs. But don’t forget to create a genAI roadmap before using this strategy.
Article
| Apr 24, 2025
The ability to make simultaneous bill payments, which neobank users say they love to do. The option to transfer from a chatbot to a live agent, which could signal chatbot fatigue. Click here to view our full forecast for Canada smartphone banking users.
Report
| Jan 21, 2025
The company is already looking to compete with other AI leaders by hinting at ads while Google simultaneously started testing ads in AI Mode. A dedicated platform would offer a direct user feedback loop, giving OpenAI immediate and authentic reactions to their AI outputs, which would help refine models more effectively.
Article
| Apr 16, 2025
Our take: Celeste AI stands out for how it purports to solve many commerce media problems simultaneously. While most GenAI tools focus on a single function like content creation or workflow automation, Celeste combines cross-channel intelligence, reporting automation, and optimization insights into one agent. Skai’s Celeste is part of a larger movement towards AI agents in business environments.
Article
| Apr 2, 2025
It’s also likely that these activities are happening simultaneously: 89.1% are second-screen users compared with 77.8% of the total population, per our forecast. Gen Zers are more likely than older generations to gravitate toward user-generated video content.
Report
| Jun 2, 2025
AppLovin was simultaneously in negotiations to acquire TikTok, with the Trump administration reportedly “fully aware” of AppLovin’s interest. Many others have been floated as contenders for a TikTok deal, with Oracle long considered the likeliest buyer and Microsoft appearing to show interest. Other names include MrBeast, Jesse Tinsley, and Tim Stokely.
Article
| Apr 4, 2025