Global retail ecommerce sales will decelerate to a 16.5% growth rate in 2020. Even as consumers transitioned en masse to ecommerce during the pandemic, the drag caused by multiple recessions internationally has reduced the overall outlook.

In a tumultuous year for advertising, every market we cover except China will experience a decline in ad spending, and Google will see its first ever contraction in digital ad revenues.

Andreas Cohen, founder and chairman of I-COM Global, a forum for digital leaders, joins eMarketer co-founder and Insider Intelligence chief evangelist Geoff Ramsey to discuss community building in a post-pandemic world, how attribution is evolving and AI's role in digital marketing.