Consolidation could be the next chapter for primary care startups to drive home their relevance and impact in US healthcare. The primary care market has seen a flurry of activity from startups lately.

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The Biden administration is gearing to implement antitrust laws to regulate consolidation in the healthcare industry—and UnitedHealth’s acquisition of Change Healthcare is already facing scrutiny. After the American Hospital Association lobbied US regulators to examine the deal, citing that it threatened healthy competition in the market, the DOJ began a probe into the transaction earlier this year.

If TD does decide on an acquisition, it’ll fit neatly within the ongoing trend of consolidation among regional US banks to compete on a larger scale. Such mergers have become increasingly popular as smaller banks seek to drive cost synergies and scale to invest more significantly in technology.

One place where those efforts could eventually yield savings for the organization is its branch footprint: Truist is working on a consolidation that will see a cumulative total of 800 branch closures by Q1 2022. So far, 374 of those closures have been completed, bringing Truist’s overall footprint to 2,556 branches as of the end of Q1.

Amazon represents just one instance of the massive amount of consolidation happening among healthcare incumbents and entrants alike:. In just the past couple of years, Amazon went from dabbling with online pharmacy services to holding multiple pieces of the healthcare pie.

Executives at Revolut and Bunq have even acknowledged that the industry could be ripe for consolidation. Historically, incumbents have kept their distance due to sky-high valuations, but lower price tags on smaller neobanks that have lost ground to leading competitors like Starling could make them prime acquisition candidates.

Digital Ad Market Consolidation Continues as Players Shuffle. For several years, we’ve reported on consolidation in the US digital ad market, including on the Facebook-Google “duopoly” and the addition of Amazon into a “triopoly” of digital advertising. As discussed above, Google is losing some share to Amazon.

The birth of this new, integrated telehealth giant should incite further consolidation in digital health. The $2 billion-plus merger will heat up competition among other telemedicine giants like Teladoc and MDLive—both of which have been involved in M&As of their own in the last year.

What are the biggest trends reshaping the stock trading space (consolidation, fee-slashing, etc.)? What can incumbents in this space do to future-proof themselves against further digital innovations by upstarts like Robinhood et al? As incumbents consolidate, innovate, and cut prices, what strategies can stock trading startups adopt to fight back and make their business models sustainable?

eMarketer principal analyst Nicole Perrin hosts a new “Behind the Numbers” show called “The Ad Platform,” a platform to discuss all things advertising. In the first episode, Perrin sits with vice president of forecasting Monica Peart and forecasting analyst Eric Haggstrom to discuss US digital advertisers’ budgets. Consolidation is the name of the game as publishers continue to devote dollars to the duopoly and the new behemoth in town.

The ad tech world may feel targeted (pun intended) by privacy-related scrutiny in the press, but the fees earned by the ecosystem of partners that facilitate programmatic display transactions in the US were up almost 20% this year.

“There’s also going to be more consolidation of partnerships between different entities in the cycle of the campaign execution: DCO, CDP, media agency, strategy—every stakeholder will learn how to work better together to make the overall process more seamless and efficient.”. Parr of Octane AI believes we should expect a greater convergence of the retail and ecommerce experience in 2021.

Consolidation in the ad industry and straightforward labels could make data-driven advertising easier to comprehend and navigate.

eMarketer principal analyst Lauren Fisher joins fellow principal analyst Nicole Perrin to talk about recent coverage from The Wall Street Journal about how Google came to have the biggest digital ad business. Then they discuss ad tech consolidation and a handful of recent video-focused deals, including Roku’s acquisition of DSP dataxu and Xandr’s purchase of SSP Clypd.

The glut of big tech deals and consolidation is, in some ways, reflective of what’s going on in the broader economy. According to Dealogic, global M&A deals are on pace to reach $4.8 trillion this year, which would set a record.

We started fulfillment operations in Guadalajara [Mexico], Santiago [Chile], Bahia [Brazil], and Colombia—and launched a new warehouse in São Paulo [Brazil] and other distribution centers for cargo consolidation and deconsolidation throughout all of Mexico and Brazil. What is Mercado Envíos' commitment to sustainability in Latin America?

Digital ad market consolidation has been a major topic of conversation in the US for several years. Most of the focus has been on the Facebook-Google duopoly, but Amazon’s rise has made the triopoly more relevant. We estimate that the top three digital ad sellers in the US netted 62% of digital ad outlays last year.

The mass consolidation of media companies in recent years, on top of the rollout of streaming platforms and other digital properties, has made it easier for media and entertainment advertisers to reach larger audiences on digital without having to spend as much as their counterparts in other industries.