Roderick Morris co-founded Lovevery to provide parents with a subscription-based model of toys that evolve with children as they develop. He spoke with Insider Intelligence about expanding the subscription business internationally, providing parents with proper data to make purchasing decisions for their children, and more.

JPMorgan’s digital-only bank plays in a market with strong neobanks and support for open banking. That could spur globally applicable innovation and best practices for its parent.

On today's episode, we discuss how Americans' attention shifted in 2021 (and what that means for the year ahead), the promise of ultra-fast delivery, the ideal amount of ads you should show viewers, whether gaming is more popular than TV for Gen Z, Facebook testing giving more control of the newsfeed to users, the office of the future, how far away the average American adult lives from their mother, and more. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer analyst Blake Droesch and principal analysts at Insider Intelligence Suzy Davidkhanian and Paul Verna.

Shopify’s cross-border features show it’s shifting away from smaller sellers: The platform rose to popularity in part due to supporting mom-and-pops, but its newest international-focused features show it’s going all in on its biggest clients.

More on this: The opening of a physical store represents the Facebook parent company’s latest effort to sell people on its vision of the metaverse—the immersive digital world for working, socializing and gaming—that’s accessible via headsets.

About a third of K-12 students have already returned to class amid a fourth COVID-19 wave. While, earlier this year, analysts had predicted a very optimistic back-to-school (BTS) season for retailers and brands, not all is lost: Many parents still want to make school-related firsts and rites of passage as “normal” as possible for their children.

Google parent Alphabet reported slower Q1 sales growth this week, particularly at YouTube. Focus on Gen Z: With TikTok continuing to outperform Meta properties at winning over younger users, the Facebook and Instagram parent has been inspired to diversify its revenue streams—but those attempts, thus far, haven’t been all that inspiring.

The banks are working on the service through Zelle parent Early Warning Services, which they own. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Capital One, U.S. Bank, PNC, and Truist make up the group. DocuSign is the service’s first participating company.

These groups aim to “bundle up” a number of related chat threads related to the same topic—for parents of elementary schoolers or other affinity-based groups, for example. The new function will first be tested in a small number of communities to gather input before rollout to the general public.

AVOD service Tubi and parent Fox released a report in February speculating that AVOD will close a 5% gap with subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) and surpass it as the preferred streaming option for most consumers. Warner Bros. Discovery has said that its streaming service will offer an ad-supported tier, and there’s speculation as to when Netflix and Disney+ could follow suit.

And while 71% of parents with children under 12 are concerned about their kids spending too much time in front of screens, per a March 2020 Pew Research Center survey, smartphone penetration is not slowing down. Looking ahead: By 2026, 99.6% of Gen Zers will be regular internet users.

Legacy banks have realized that what Gen Z and millenials want is very different from what their parents’ generation wants—and they are adapting accordingly.

The opening of a physical store represents the Facebook parent company’s latest effort to sell people on its vision of the metaverse—the immersive digital world for working, socializing, and gaming—that’s accessible via headsets. Meta’s metaverse bet will only pay off if it can demonstrate the value of investing in hardware to experience the virtual world.

The parent of Facebook and Instagram has said Apple’s data protection moves could cost it $10 billion in 2022 as it loses the chance to sell pricier ads. Ecommerce could help the company make up some lost revenue. Twitter has debuted several subscription options including Twitter Blue, which gives users access to features like an undo button and an ad-free reader mode for partnering news publications.

First, Gen Zers are more likely to have a college-educated parent than previous generations. In 2019, 44% of Gen Zers ages 7 to 17 were living with a parent who had a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared with 33% of millennials at the same age. College-educated parents are more likely to encourage their offspring to achieve the same or higher levels of education.

This report examines pain points of modern-day parenthood—from work/life balance to screen time to division of household labor—which were plentiful before the coronavirus pandemic (though aggravated by it) and will persist beyond it.

WhatsApp's market share has plummeted from 48% to 32% as prosecutors sought to label its parent Meta as an “extremist organization.” It’s not the first time Telegram has grown because of missteps by WhatsApp. Russian authorities have actively promoted Telegram as they have banned other foreign platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

More on this: Fred Sainz, Apple's senior director of corporate communications, recently encouraged Fortune 500 CEOs to condemn a Texas governor's order calling for child abuse investigations of parents who provide transgender children with gender-affirming care.

JSP: For us, TikTok is a generational thing because early TikTokers have now grown into Zillennials–so they've brought along their younger brothers and sisters and at the same time pulled in their older siblings or parents. We are selling generationally on TikTok. We do our ad campaigns specific to generations, but we also think about how this consumer is growing older with us.

David Sykes: A lot of these consumers grew up during the [Great Recession] and saw their parents and family members getting in over their heads. The younger generation may be a little more risk-averse about 30% APRs. As a result, there were some regulatory changes like no longer being allowed to promote credit cards on campuses, which makes it harder for a younger consumer to get a credit card.

., Asia's largest retailer and parent of Uniqlo, would continue to operate in Russia, with CEO Tadashi Yanai arguing that clothing is a necessity. It should be noted that Russians already own clothes. While Yanai says he opposes the conflict, all 50 Uniqlo stores in Russia will remain open. Read further analysis on Uniqlo’s decision from our Retail & Ecommerce Briefing.

Why it matters: There’s been a spike in pediatric ADHD diagnoses since the pandemic, making a DTx like Akili’s all the more attractive to parents and providers looking for non-drug supplement to ADHD treatment. Around 10% of children have been diagnosed with ADHD in the US alone.