Stronger Spring Festival spending and a surge in holiday travel hint at renewed consumer momentum in China. Spending on technology, sustainability categories, and travel is offering some retailers cause for optimism.
LongHorn underprices supermarkets, drawing wary home cooks and lifting companywide sales.
The foundational model can help predict future transactions from anonymized payments data.
NRF’s bullish 4.4% forecast contrasts with our softer outlook amid geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty.
Its New York flagship blends café vibes and demos to build halo beyond in-store sales.
Klarna’s rapid growth signals serious threat for Affirm on its home turf.
The bank makes a bet that a seamless, separate app beats out a multi-use banking app.
Cost-cutting measures even include rationing meds—pharma firms must pair affordability tools with safety education.
Tech and AI players must prove accuracy, privacy, and real clinical value if they want users to trust them with their medical record data.
Providers need to reconcile the tension between nutrition and traditional medicine for patients who view them as competing forces.
Maven Clinic’s agentic AI service meets rising demand by women for more personalized tools and raises the bar for brands in AI-assisted healthcare.
Understanding generative AI's use cases, opportunities, and risks is the top AI investment priority for media CMOs worldwide, cited by 34% of respondents, according to a January report from Dentsu.
Meta will trim third-party reviewers, betting AI can cut scams and errors. But the change may risk opaque, uneven calls.
Meta keeps Horizon alive, but marketers are moving on to genAI, CTV, and TikTok formats that deliver scale and ROI
AI scales flawed data, worsening results from broken, privacy-hit systems.
Inclusive design drives cultural impact and offers an opportunity to reach 1.3 billion consumers
US retailers and wholesalers grew total media ad spending 13.9% in H1 2025, but growth slowed to 6.9% in H2 2025, according to a January report from MediaRadar.
17.9M tuned in to the Oscars ceremony, down 9% YoY, as social clips and second screens siphon live TV’s once-captive crowd.
Combative ads cut through feeds, but risk boosting competition or backlash that can outweigh the buzz.
With budgets in the low millions, B2B tech firms are prioritizing video to reach Gen Z and maximize effectiveness.