61% of Gen Zers feel more financial pressure from the number of payments they manage than from the total amount they owe, compared with 32% of baby boomers, according to a June survey from Spinwheel.
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Most retail audience marketing "starts with false assumptions" about who consumers are and what they want, Black argued. He built that case on an analysis of 5 billion monthly video streams across 10,000 publishers.
On today’s podcast episode, we present our “Unofficial Monthly Retailer Awards” (UMRAs) for September. The awards include “Most Impactful Campaign,” “Best IRL Initiative,” and “Greatest Under-the-Radar Move.” Listen to the discussion with Vice President of Content and host Suzy Davidkhanian; Senior Analysts Arielle Feger and Rachel Wolff; and Senior Director of Content Becky Schilling.
Our survey data highlights how high-income earners (making $150,000 or more) shop across channels and categories.
Marketers are no longer debating whether to use AI in content production; they're refining how.
Low price makes up 21% of a TV or streaming service's perceived value among US TV viewers, up from 12% in 2025 and well ahead of live sports at 13%, according to a July report from Hub Research.
Spotify keeps adding millions of ad-supported users, but its advertising revenue has stayed stubbornly flat. That disconnect, visible again in its latest earnings, puts the streaming giant's chances of becoming a major player in digital advertising in doubt.
Spotify keeps adding millions of ad-supported users, but its advertising revenue has stayed stubbornly flat. That disconnect, visible again in its latest earnings, puts the streaming giant's chances of becoming a major player in digital advertising in doubt. "Over the last five quarters, Spotify has grown its ad-supported user base from 420 million to 490 million users. Yet over that same period, ad-supported revenue has declined year-over-year in four of the five quarters and grew just 1% in the most recent one," said our analyst Marcus Johnson on a recent episode of "Behind the Numbers." The company's Q2 2024 results showed total revenue growth of 14%, but that performance was driven almost entirely by premium subscriptions, which account for 90% of Spotify's business.
Devalued open web inventory means marketers will spend more on walled gardens.