32% of working-age Americans with private insurance carry medical debt, with harmful financial and health consequences.
While 70% plan to job hunt in the next year, clear advancement and education opportunities could help keep them.
Higher ad prices make in-game spots harder to justify, giving second-screen and ancillary media more appeal.
In today’s podcast episode, we discuss what would convince us that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has actually arrived, whether OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is truly a “generational leap,” and what ordinary Americans might do with AGI. Join Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, along with Analyst Jacob Bourne and Principal Analyst Yory Wurmser. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube or Spotify.
As AI becomes standard across marketing, simply having the technology won’t set brands apart. The advantage may come from better signals that show how consumer interests and intent are changing in real time.
Despite broad adoption, limited training and creative concerns make human skills as important as AI fluency.
Publishers get more auction data and interoperability with rivals, but Google keeps ownership and its scale advantage.
Marketers can use the standards to vet partners, but voluntary compliance could limit their reach.
Easier access could attract more brands, but better measurement should come before bigger budgets.
72% of US B2B professionals use AI tools to research topics or trends, ahead of writing or editing content (63%) and data analysis or summarization (60%), according to an April report from Semrush.
Cyber Week keeps its retail grip because consumers are cost-conscious, not despite it. But winning their business requires that retailers influence shoppers earlier in the research process, tailor messaging to different buying journeys, and make the value of their deals easy to trust.
Quick commerce is expanding in Indonesia as ecommerce platforms, super apps, and convenience store chains expand rapid delivery. Existing stores and logistics networks are making these services easier to scale as consumer adoption grows.
Almost half of Gen Zers said they’d switch to a bank if it offered to cover their recurring subscription expenses.
European retailers lose a prominent route to product discovery, making feeds, marketplaces, and owned channels more important.
New tools reflect rising holiday demand for AI-assisted research, while purchases still flow to retailer sites.
The warehouse club expands its third-party delivery partners and tests tools that make it easier to shop.
The broader shift in eating habits remains, but oral medications appear less disruptive than injections.
Alternative underwriting can unlock more purchases but makes safeguards for overextended users more important.
160 holiday stores and experiential formats aim to bring discovery, expertise, and play back to toy shopping.
Dedicated GLP-1 shelf space for digestive and pain relief products helped lift Haleon sales 24%, giving health and CPG brands with GLP-1-adjacent items a case to follow.