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.
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| Jan 9, 2023
On today's podcast episode, we discuss why Amazon is pulling back from "Just Walk Out" technology, how the Atlantic magazine turned things around, what will ignite TV shopping, whether LinkedIn testing TikTok-like videos is a good move, what science says about how to be happy, and more. Tune into the discussion with vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian, analyst Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf, and vice president of Briefings Stephanie Taglianetti.
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| Apr 19, 2024
On today's podcast episode, we discuss whether Amazon's online sales business glass is half full (or half empty), if you should advertise on Amazon without selling there, and how much offering primary care to Prime members can move the needle. "In Other News," we talk about Bed Bath & Beyond's marketing, its comeback, and why Pinterest beat everyone's expectations. Tune in to the discussion with our director of Briefings Jeremy Goldman and analyst Zak Stambor.
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| Nov 14, 2023
On today's podcast episode, we discuss why shopping on Amazon is changing, the proposal of ad-free TikTok and Instagram subscriptions, how much Amazon's AI chatbot shopping assistant can move the needle for customers, whether Toys-R-Us can make a successful comeback, the share of women in leadership roles and more. Tune in to the discussion with our vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian and analysts Blake Droesch and Paul Verna.
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| Oct 12, 2023
The ad went viral because it ran when the skies were choked with smoke from the fires in Canada. OOH formats are in a new normal. Although down from its peak, billboards’ share of total OOH in Q1 2023 was still nearly 9 percentage points greater than it was in Q1 2020.
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| Aug 3, 2023
There's been fires in Canada, smoke coming down, hitting vast parts of the US not to mention what they're doing in their kind of origin country of Canada, and tornadoes in the whole right half of the country have caused all kinds of delays. The Bureau of Transportation statistics saying that just over 19% of flights were delayed last year. And that's up a bit from 2018.
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| Jul 25, 2023
Canada: 28.5%. Brazil: 27.9%. Argentina: 26.9%. UK: 25.0%. Italy: 24.3%. Spain: 24.0%. France: 23.1%. Germany: 20.2%. Japan: 18.6%. How Social Commerce Stacks Up Across the Social Platforms. “Social commerce” is an umbrella term for a variety of different shopping experiences on social media.
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| Sep 12, 2022
And we're going to start in Canada, Paul, where it's against the law to play too many non-Canadian artists on the radio. Did you know that one? Paul Briggs:. Right. It's part of the CanCon rules, which is Canadian Content, which is really a policy that goes back decades to really protect local artists so that they get their fair share of airtime, if you will, on the radio and on television.
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| Mar 28, 2024
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. So I think to Marcus's point, it is one of the only big advantages that the long tail of retail media players have over Amazon, so it's definitely worthy of a focus to try and grow the pie in the favor of Amazon's competitors. Max Willens:.
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| Aug 11, 2023
For comparison, Canada has 10, UK 20. Most of mainland European countries have 20 to 25. Then finally, a couple of stats on paid time off Americans end up taking. So one, in 2018, Americans used an average of 17 days PTO, paid time off according to the US Travel Association. That's down, interestingly, from 20 days, so from 20 to 17 over the last three decades.
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| Jun 22, 2023
Tinuiti is the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV and the Triopoly of Google, Meta, Amazon, with over 1,200 employees and $3 billion in digital media under management. Tinuiti has industry-leading expertise in search, social, Amazon and marketplaces, addressable TV and mobile apps, Lifecycle Marketing, and more. Episode Transcript:. Bill Fisher:. Hello, everyone.
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| Feb 24, 2023
Even Amazon will charge you a dollar for dropping off packages at a UPS store instead of an owned property like Whole Foods or Amazon Fresh. Ms. Mull points to a 2022 analysis of 200 retailers' return policies by Narvar, who found 41% charged some kind of return shipping fee, up from 33% in 2021. So from 33 to 41. Amit Sharma, Narvar's CEO, says it's probably closer to 44% today.
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| May 18, 2023
Despite having 32.6 million fewer paying members than regions like the US and Canada in 2022, average revenues per Netflix membership (ARM) grew fastest in Latin America, at 9.7% YoY, according to the company. Though, it’s important to note that Latin America’s ARM in 2022 was roughly half that of the US and Canada, at $8.48. Pay TV will give way to streaming as cord-cutting accelerates.
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| Mar 30, 2023
Number one, Amazon, which announced a spring sale Prime Day type event. That's something that we predicted on this podcast last year. So, pretty excited that that prediction came true. Amazon also has a new feature that uses AI to generate product listings from existing URLs. You just put a URL for a product in and it makes a listing on Amazon.
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| Mar 26, 2024
Buggy is Canada and Southern US. We'll have to ask Susie if they use buggy in Canada, but Southern US I've heard that before. Okay, this next one I'm not sure about. Carriage. Blake Droesch:. Norway. Sara Lebow:. The internet said that they use carriage in New England. I lived in New England for 18 years and have never used that term, so I'm not positive about that one. Let's do our last one.
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| Nov 15, 2023
It’s the largest ecommerce company in the world, but it hasn’t learned to leverage the retail media ad opportunity as well as Amazon has. Alibaba fell behind Amazon in ad revenues in 2022 and is set to fall behind ByteDance by 2025. Google and Meta are the only $100 billion ad companies, and that will remain the case for a long time.
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| May 11, 2023
US and Canada growth struggling, a 6% growth was the low point for Netflix back in Q1 2022. This quarters 2% makes that 6% look pretty amazing. So yeah, particularly concerning in the US and Canada just 2% and supposed to be one of its more lucrative markets.
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| Aug 1, 2023
For example, you just talked about electronics, probably their competitor for that is Best Buy, maybe an Amazon. So I don't have a great answer in terms of the one and only competitor, although probably we could say Amazon and Walmart closest in line.
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| Oct 18, 2023
So pretty impressive and same for the US and Canada. Actually best numbers since that quarter Q2 2020. This Q3, they added 2 million new folks in the US and Canada. And Danny through three quarters, Netflix this year, through Q1, Q2, Q3, Netflix has added twice as many new subscribers as they did the entirety of last year and they still got Q4 to go as well.
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| Oct 26, 2023
On today's podcast episode, we discuss what social networks can't stop getting wrong, whether Amazon can make its app fun, if enough people care about voice assistants, whether Uber's "Return a Package" feature will take off, how AI may change entrepreneurship, which music format has made the most money for the music industry in the past 50 years, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian, vice president of Briefings Stephanie Taglianetti, and analyst Max Willens.
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| Oct 27, 2023
And I think that in that same vein, you could say that, well, maybe Amazon would make more sense, but Amazon is under an immense amount of scrutiny at the moment here and in a way that would probably make this the sort of thing that would attract the kind of attention that they do not want at the moment but Walmart is not facing similar scrutiny, and so they might be kind of a plausible or intriguing proposition
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| Mar 26, 2024
On today's podcast episode, we discuss how affiliate is helping marketers take back control of their ad spend. "In Other News," we talk about Amazon unveiling a smarter, more conversational, Alexa and TikTok Shop hitting the US. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Max Willens and Alexandra Forsch, president of Awin Americas.
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| Sep 26, 2023
And then also AI consultants James Benoit, who was a postdoctoral fellow in nursing at the University of Alberta, Canada, published a study in February reporting that ChatGPT significantly outperformed online symptom checkers in evaluating a set of medical scenarios. Rajiv Leventhal (15:12):. I was just going to say, this is timely, I think for our listeners.
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| Sep 19, 2023
I tried to buy next day delivery on Amazon.
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| Mar 29, 2024
Well, I think there's an obvious opportunity for competitors and I don't think that it's necessarily that the opportunity is only for e-commerce competitors like Amazon.
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| Jul 5, 2023