Ä¢¹½AV

Visa brought its BNPL solution to more Canadian retailers and expanded Visa Direct through a partnership with Thunes.

A significant contributor to mobile time in the Philippines is the use of social media and messaging services—here, too, the country leads all others GWI tracks in time spent, at 3:47 daily. Penetration of social media is also extremely high, at 99.8% in H1 2022. South Korea Insights.

On today's episode, we discuss the effect TikTok has had on social media, what time spent on the platform looks like, and the impact of its new screen time limit for children and teens. "In Other News," we talk about whether social apps are taking up a bigger or smaller share of Americans' time spent online and what Meta's AR and VR hardware road map looks like. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Debra Aho Williamson.

It will cost $6.99 a month for Basic with Ads and become available to US customers on November 3; soon thereafter, the plan will be launched in markets like the UK, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, and Japan.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss how news on social media is different, if the movies are dead yet, the promise of new digital price tags, IKEA paying virtual employees in its virtual Roblox store, the most visited places in the world, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian and analysts Blake Droesch and Sarah Marzano.

Startups find investors on Twitter: We attend TechCrunch’s Disrupt 2022, where throngs of startups pitched to investors, judges, and potential new hires. Major trend: Founders are adapting to leaner economic conditions post-pandemic through social media—read on for more takeaways.

The US and Canada have very high rates of internet penetration and smartphone adoption, and gaming is objectively popular. Other regions seem less engaged with digital gaming by comparison, but it’s partly an illusion. Among internet users, the range between the most and least penetrated regions will be just 12.8 percentage points.

On today's episode, we discuss Snapchat's first quarterly revenue decline since going public in 2017, what to make of the social platform's My AI chatbot, and how concerned we should be by Snapchat's inability to innovate (without being copied). "In Other News," we talk about TikTok ads bringing viewers back to bigger screens and what people are doing on different social media platforms. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Jasmine Enberg.

I think that pennies at the minimum should be taken of commission at this point in countries like Canada, New Zealand and Australia have already done that. So there are no more pennies in their currency. And it's also due to the fact that the US Mint spends over $700 million making coins every year, which is just such a waste.

There's still some sense that we don't quite know where some of these social media companies will land in terms of... I mean, I mentioned what's happening at Twitter, but if you look at TikTok and the potential regulations on the horizon for them, there's just so much influx in the market that things could tip one way or the other quite easily.

You might be discovering the brand on social media, but you're still buying it in the store. I do think the discovery is different from actually making the purchase. And just because discovering on social media doesn't mean that that's where you're buying the product. Blake Droesch:. Yeah. And I should caveat that our research totally says the same thing.

On today's episode, we discuss what more job cuts at Amazon could mean for the company, Utah's proposed ban on social media companies serving ads to minors, the Academy Awards' viewership in the age of streaming, Uber's next advertising venture, how to keep a 70-year-old brand (like Clue) alive, how humanoid robots are already here, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our director of reports editing Rahul Chadha, director of forecasting Oscar Orozco, and analyst Max Willens.

The US and Canada, a now very mature market, added nearly three million subscribers in Q4, same number as they got during the tailwinds from the pandemic in Q2 2020 and overall a good year. If you don't look at Q4 but zoom out and look at the full year, they added 30 million new subscribers in 2023 versus less than 10 million additions the year before that.

They had to flee Holland or flee the Netherlands, sorry, and they had to seek refuge in Canada. But if the princess was born in Canada, she wouldn't be able to be princess. And so Canada said to the Netherlands, we'll give you, was it the Ottawa Civic Hospital? We'll give you this area and it can be Dutch for when she's born.

To recap, Bud Light enlisted social media star Dylan Mulvaney to help generate some PR during the annual March Madness college basketball tourney. The move was criticized by politicians, customers, and celebs who called for a boycott of the brands. Harris Diamond, former chief executive of ad giant McCann Worldgroup says, "Boardrooms are likely going to be asking is it really worth the risk?"

On today's episode, we discuss why advertisers aren't returning to Twitter, what the impact of the new blue check mark will be, and whether folks actually want to pay for social media. "In Other News," we talk about the potential of TikTok's sister app Lemon8 and what to make of TikTok's new "Series" feature. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Jasmine Enberg.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss whether Humane's new AI pin is about to become as ubiquitous as the smartphone, just how much ground brick-and-mortar retail will give to online shopping, the next big social media app, if folks will start shopping on Amazon right from their Facebook and Instagram feeds, how news consumption on social media is changing, which airlines carry the most passengers, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian and analysts Max Willens and Yory Wurmser.

So Canadian grocer Loblaw is adding digital screens to over 500 stores so brands can target shoppers. Vibenomics and Stingray Advertising are combining their networks to offer in-store audio ads across 25,000 grocery, convenience, home improvement, and drugstores.

The report surveyed 800 C-suite and senior compliance decision-makers in the US, Canada, UK, French, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia.

The UK currently has 365 banks, and Canada has 83. Why does the US have so many banks, and is this staggering number a good or bad thing? A brief history lesson: Two schools of thought emerged when the US was founded regarding the construction of its banking system. Alexander Hamilton called for one dominant national bank while Thomas Jefferson advocated for a decentralized, state-centered system.

The top 10 countries for digital spending in 2023 will mirror the rankings from 2022, except Canada will move up a spot. We do not forecast any further changes to the relative positioning of the top-spending countries over the next several years. Revenue Review: Peak Duopoly Has Come and Gone. It’s no secret that Meta had a very bad 2022.

That would mean it would stretch from Miami in the bottom right corner of the country of America through the entire US to the top left corner near Seattle, and then it would keep going through Canada to nearly reach Alaska. That's how long it is. In addition to Egypt, the Nile runs through or along the border of 10 other African countries. So that's where you can find it.

So the reason we bring this up, because Vee the other day correctly guessed, I thought it was going to be national animal of Canada, and she said, "No, I think it's Alaska." But also, get this, the moose is also the official state animal of Maine as well. Yeah. Paul Verna:. That doesn't surprise me. Marcus:.