Total holiday ecommerce sales for those six retailers surpassed $100 billion last year due to a pandemic-driven surge in online shopping. Their ecommerce sales will grow stronger than overall holiday ecommerce this year (17.5%) to reach $133.24 billion.

He was only able to recall one example of a challenger doing so, which could help Current stand out from other challengers, he noted. The opportunity: Hybrid finance could help shore up Current’s competitive standing with younger consumers. It started out as a teen-focused neobank before branching out, and says its average customer age is 27.

Walmart is also embracing frictionless technology, with plans announced in October 2020 to turn four stores into digital laboratories. Each will experiment with digital integrations designed to streamline checkout, speed up ecommerce fulfillment, empower store associates, and enhance store signage.

At Facebook, the renewed activity has led the company to launch new live streaming features for not only individual users but also businesses, publishers and influencers.

The retail industry is transforming at both physical stores and in digital. This report examines 10 trends that will most shape retail in the year ahead.

Display advertising itself is also experiencing double-digital increases—more than 14% in both 2019 and 2020—but growth is beginning to slow here, too. Automated digital buys are the rule rather than the exception, and as such, overall spend is beginning to plateau.

More on this: Amazon has completely transformed consumers’ expectations for delivery: Not only do shoppers now expect free delivery, they also want it to be fast—an issue many retailers have struggled with, particularly in less densely populated areas. When it comes to last-mile fulfillment, retailers can:. Use dedicated logistics companies such as FedEx or UPS.

The only change in the ranking this year will be computing products inching ahead of financial services into third place. In pure monetary terms, digital ad spending in the retail industry leads by a wide margin. This year, total spend will come in at £3.98 billion ($5.10 billion), ahead of second place CPG, at £2.79 billion ($3.58 billion).

Only 18% chose Stories. And on Facebook, 68% also said they considered browsing the feed their primary activity, compared with 13% selecting Stories. Story usage likely trends higher among younger generations, however.

Why it’s a smart move: There’s a ton of untapped opportunity in areas like digital hearing loss and posture improvement—areas where Apple could make an easy name for itself given its reach with its devices. About 28 million US residents experience hearing loss, but only 5% of these individuals actually use devices to improve their hearing, per WSJ.

Marketers also use location data to link online advertising with offline purchases, and to segment their audience or build cohorts based on patterns of real-world behaviors. But the biggest growth is happening in other industries:.

The shortage of quality inventory is especially acute in Quebec, where only a handful of publishers are producing monetizable video content in French for programmatic transacting.

Digital audio is another area that should push the development of wearables. We estimate that the average adult in the US will spend 1:16 per day listening to digital audio on their mobile devices in 2020, compared with 51 minutes spent on social networks and 42 minutes spent watching video.

Worldwide ad spend soars: Total media ad spending will grow faster than anticipated this year, spurred by strong growth in digital and the rapid economic recoveries seen in countries with vaccine access.

How Amazon Care works: First launched around two years ago, Amazon Care piloted its virtual care service to its employees only—but in March, it launched its nationwide expansion to employer customers. Users get access to a mobile app that connects them with virtual doctor’s visits, house visits, and prescriptions. It sources its clinical staff through the clinical provider network Care Medical.

Increased spending on technology and talent could help stave off digital challengers. With the coronavirus pandemic accelerating a shift to digital, incumbents have been allocating more resources to technology—multiple bank executives indicated in 2021 that the spending increases would continue.

After a challenging 2020, which saw big shifts in how digital media was consumed and how marketing adapted, we anticipate five developments will have a lasting impact on Canada’s digital economy.

While only Novo explicitly named lending as a near-term priority, Brex could jump in if it so chooses. This could include giving companies access to term loans—both secured and unsecured—along with lines of credit. Qonto already has a lending presence with three choices: a state-guaranteed loan, a private one, and cashflow factoring.

CBS’s TV-only audiences declined 9% to 90.7 million from Fox’s 99.9 million viewers. One bright spot, however, was CBS’s streaming audience—there was a record-setting 5.7 million viewers, a 65% increase from last year, though that’s still a fairly small portion of the Super Bowl’s total audience.

Click and collect has been a growing trend for some time now as US consumers found they enjoyed the convenience and cost-savings of purchasing online and picking up their order on the way home from work or while running errands.

And it appears healthcare execs’ interest in SDOH is only climbing: About 59% of leaders are already incorporating SDOH in their care management work, and nearly 20% are planning to do so this year, according to HCI Innovation’s recent survey of 100 senior patient care organizations. What’s next?

This reshuffling calls for a rethink not only of recruitment practices but ways of working as well. More than 70% of respondents say that their social advertising creation and delivery still involve manual processes. This type of tedious work is likely to grow more cumbersome as brands adopt their new multiplatform and multiformat strategies.

Content editing isn’t the only way Disney+ is preserving its family-friendly brand image. Disney has also said it will not allow any political ads or substance-related ads, on top of its already-tough rules about advertising targeting younger users.

The API brokerage platform is easing Chilean retail investors’ access to US stocks as it seeks to expand in the region. LATAM presents a huge user growth opportunity for foreign digital brokers.