What to watch: Extending its disbursements business could cultivate significant volume for Fiserv—especially since State Farm is the largest US auto and home insurer—as customers increasingly eschew cash and checks in favor of digital payment methods, bolstering revenues from Fiserv’s payments and network sector.

Along with its main platform, which connects brokers to customers, wefox offers coverage in household, auto, and other areas through direct-to-consumer insurance products. As a licensed carrier in Liechtenstein, wefox can take advantage of passporting rights across the European Union and looks to build up its presence in five markets.

“For example, there’s a growing trend in the industry to figure out how to price auto insurance on the basis of driver scoring.”. However, as more companies stake their claim on automotive data, it is leading to bigger questions about who it belongs to, who has rights to use it and what that will mean for customers.

Other ad categories are filling the gaps created by adverse macroeconomic issues hampering auto, retail, and CPG, according to Adam Monaco, executive vice president of sales at Disney Advertising. Insurance, finance, and healthcare advertisers are buying more TV ads, while employment services, crypto, and online gambling companies are beginning to invest heavily in TV.

PolicyBazaar has a stronghold on the Indian insurance digital distribution market, controlling some 90% of the market. Its growth shows no signs of waning: Its revenue increased by 66% in 2020 and it’s targeting 2021 for profitability.

“We definitely slowed down during Q2, but we do have many clients that have bounced back, especially within auto, financial, and insurance,” said Margaret Firalio, senior vice president at direct-response media agency Eicoff.

The bank relies a lot on its auto finance segment—its roots go back to 1919 when it was founded for this purpose as a unit of General Motors. Overall, auto finance made up almost 91% of its Q3 2021 pre-tax income from continuing operations. Meanwhile, Ally’s other revenue sources are mortgage finance, corporate finance, and insurance.

It anticipated that in 2022, automotive will be the largest category (15.2% of the total), followed by general services (14.5%), restaurants (9.3%), retail (8.0%), health (7.8%), and finance and insurance (6.8%). Cross Screen Media and AdImpact forecast that CTV would account for 17% of total TV and digital video political ad spending in the 2022 election cycle.

After a complicated 2020, most industries in Germany will accelerate their digital ad spending growth in 2021. The rebound for travel and auto will underwhelm, but retail spend will soar.

Digital MSK vendors like Kaia Health and Limber Health have already hopped on the hybrid car train—which means it won’t be long before other digital therapy competitors implement a similar strategy to retain customers.

Digital ad spending across several industries in the UK has been up-and-down the past two years. There will be across-the-board growth this year, but at uneven rates, ranging from 33.0% for travel to 7.8% for automotive.

He works with enterprise brands across industries—including health, finance, automotive, entertainment, and retail—to define and run people-centric experiences that have a measurable impact for their business and customers through technology and data. Michael Klein is global director, industry strategy and marketing for retail, travel, and consumer goods at Adobe.

Automotive: Includes all automotive-related categories such as the sale/purchase of vehicles, as well as their parts and maintenance, including but not limited to the following categories and segments: new cars, used cars, service, parts, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), dealer associations, franchise dealers, co-op programs, independent dealers, aftermarket service, aftermarket parts, auto finance

“There are products that have a great ROI on social, but for something like insurance or convenience stores or cars, you're playing a longer game,” Leake of RPA said. “Nobody's going to swipe up from an ad that they see on Instagram, start building a car and buy a car. It's how all of it builds together.”. Instagram’s Tools for Businesses and Creators.

Advanced Fraud Protection changes the CVV tied to the card each time it's viewed in the Wallet app or after it's auto-filled from Safari, per MacRumors. This makes it so that each transaction carries a unique CVV code, adding an extra layer of security.

Tech companies and marketers in a range of industries, including consumer packaged goods and insurance, are positioned to benefit from greater adoption of smart home devices if they can correctly interpret consumer needs. Tech Companies. The steady increase in smart home device users through 2025 will present new sales and after-sales opportunities.

These AI technologies are also making their way into cars as the number of connected vehicles on the road continues to grow. For example, Toyota and Lexus recently partnered with Cerence to deploy its Browse voice search engine in their cars. Healthcare and eldercare. As telehealth services enter the mainstream, providers will implement more voice tools in patient care.

In a difficult year for advertising worldwide, digital ad spending in Germany will see only 0.8% growth. Most of the industries we break out will decelerate their digital ad spend to some degree, while travel and auto will reduce theirs dramatically.

The reports in this collection look at ad spending in the retail, financial services, computing products and consumer electronics, automotive, telecom, travel, health and pharma, media and entertainment, and CPG industries. Countries covered in this report series include the US, UK, and Germany.

Prior to the pandemic, Edison Research estimated one-third of all audio was listened to in the car. In Q2 2020, with commuters stuck at home, just 20% was consumed in the car. That share bounced back in October 2020, when in-car listening accounted for 28% of all audio listening, slightly down from its pre-pandemic levels.

Automotive: Includes all automotive-related categories, such as the sale/purchase of vehicles, as well as parts and maintenance (Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 service providers).