Sustainable direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands are moving center stage. Digitally native D2C brands Warby Parker and Allbirds, which have built their brands on sustainability and corporate responsibility, are now under a bigger spotlight as recently publicly listed companies.

As noted above, 46% of the same professionals thought D2C would be big in the following 12 months. But several obstacles are looming. D2C in its original form may be running out of road.

But tech companies, particularly direct-to-consumer services, feature heavily among the top podcast advertisers, according to Magellan AI data cited by Inside Radio. Does More Inventory Benefit Publishers? With listenership and advertiser demand increasing, podcast publishers and advertisers are seeking more inventory.

How do direct-to-consumer fintechs and embedded finance change banking industry dynamics? How do open banking and banking as a service (BaaS) technologies facilitate fintechs and consumer brands? How can financial institutions compete, partner, and thrive? WHAT’S IN THIS REPORT?

Article: How D2C brands are diversifying consumer experience to disrupt the retail industry.

Commenting on Fox Corp.’s direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming portfolio, CFO Steve Tomsic told investors in March 2021: “Over time, this is a billion-dollar revenue platform for us in the next few years, and you’ll see the curves cross, where the advertising revenue that we earn on Tubi will exceed the advertising revenue that we generate on the broadcast and entertainment network.”.

As low barriers to entry foster intensifying competition from other D2Cs, once-effective social media marketing strategies get harder to play. Now they’re facing larger and better-known competition for the same eyeballs as established brands go direct to consumers.

The news: Direct-to-consumer (D2C) telehealth company Hims & Hers partnered with ride-hailing giant Uber to deliver health and wellness products to 12 new markets across the US via the UberEats apps. Uber’s healthcare push: Uber has been teaming up with digital health startups to simplify medication delivery and reduce transportation barriers to healthcare.

In another example, Teladoc ranked first in consumer satisfaction and number one among D2C telehealth providers per JD Power’s 2021 Telehealth study. This is likely because Teladoc takes on whole-person care well, integrating every step of a patient’s health journey and the quick and easy access consumers have to Teladoc’s providers.

Recent coverage includes retail media networks, direct-to-consumer brands, social commerce, mobile retail apps, holiday shopping, and Amazon Prime Day. Blake Droesch is an eMarketer analyst at Insider Intelligence, covering retail and ecommerce with a focus on digital grocery and the intersection of ecommerce and digital media.

Grounded in physical stores, these retailers have been investing in innovation to stay ahead of the competition on all fronts—whether it be Amazon, direct-to-consumer brands, or big-box retailers. Now they’re reaping the dividends. Amazon’s score of 57 placed it roughly in the middle of the pack, despite not yet having any physical stores for apparel.

This report focuses on direct-to-consumer health management apps, analyzing those that help manage diabetes, mental and behavioral health, and heart disease. What’s Driving Disease Management App Growth?

If you think about the evolution of direct-to-consumer brands like Glossier and Harry's, they feel much more individual and personalized. The ability to make and create is powerful for the consumer. Everyone to a certain degree can be a creator, which is taking hold in the younger generation.

Episodes from our Spotlight on D2C series:. SmileDirectClub’s John Sheldon. Clorox’s Jackson Jeyanayagam. Episodes from our Spotlight on Financial Services series:. M&T Bank’s Francesco Lagutaine. Visa’s Frederique Covington Corbett. TD Bank's Lee Lai. Toggle, a Farmers’ Insurance Company's Josh LaRoche. Episodes from our Spotlight on Holiday Preparedness series:. Boston Red Sox's Adam Grossman.

Episodes from our Spotlight on D2C series:. Clorox’s Jackson Jeyanayagam. Episodes from our Spotlight on CPG series (November 2021):. Cafe Spice’s Sameer Malhotra. White Castle's Lynn Blashford. The Vitamin Shoppe’s Nadina Guglielmetti. Episodes from our Spotlight on Holiday Preparedness series:. Boston Red Sox's Adam Grossman. Norwegian Cruise Line’s Isis Ruiz. Banana Republic’s Jen Mullen.

“Some of these D2C brands that hadn't planned to use the channel initially because of either a cost point or they weren't ready for it, saw that there was an opportunity to jump in at a lower price point and took advantage of that,” said Brian Rappaport, founder and CEO of OOH ad agency Quan Media Group.

For example, popular direct-to-consumer mental health apps like Talkspace and BetterHelp are not covered under Medicaid, and the costs can quickly rack up. BetterHelp therapy costs $90 a week, for instance. For context, nearly 12% of Medicaid beneficiaries 18+ suffer from substance use disorder, per gov’t data.

Over the last few years in particular, she has focused on building and scaling direct-to-consumer businesses and ensuring they deliver business value, both from direct revenue and from leveraging first-party data.

Consumer interest in ecommerce is inspiring more direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands and digital retailers to enter the market. Nykaa, the largest Indian ecommerce player in the beauty and personal care category, saw its shares rise nearly 90% when it debuted on the market last Wednesday. Ecommerce aggregators, which acquire brands and optimize them, are also on the rise.

It made an investment in and struck a multiyear partnership with Yotpo, a marketing service that handles direct-to-consumer (D2C) marketing like SMS, referrals, emails, and more for digital brands. Yotpo said it will focus on accelerating product development and growth following the Shopify deals.

., direct-to-consumer brands)—were more likely to do DR advertising on Facebook, while consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands tended to have branding goals, according to a November 2020 Pivotal Research Group survey of US brand and agency marketers. Facebook is likely a dominant source of purchase conversions for retail advertisers.

The survey was conducted between October 21-23 among a sample of 2,201 US adults. 72% of US telehealth users accessed virtual care through their provider or health plan—and low by comparison, just 17% went through a direct-to-consumer (D2C) telehealth platform. 53% of all respondents (including those who’ve never tried telehealth) prefer in-person care over telehealth.

You’re the chief experience officer at Elevate Home, a digitally native direct-to-consumer (D2C) brand that sells inspirational decor. You send out a customer satisfaction (CSAT) survey whenever you close a case, and you receive 2,500 responses. Of those responses, 1,500 customers scored their experiences at 4 or 5 out of 10.