On today's podcast episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss how the 2023 holiday shopping season really went, whether we've shaken the feeling that we're in a recession, and what this means for the start of this year. Then for "Red-Hot Retail," our analysts give us two spicy predictions about the 2024 holiday season and two about what they would like to see from retailers. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts director of Briefings Jeremy Goldman and analyst Zak Stambor.

In January, we made a slew of marketing and advertising predictions, from streaming to ad measurement. We already know the elephant in the room—we didn’t even mention generative AI. But the predictions we did make were a mixed bag in terms of accuracy. Here’s a look at how we did.

Growth of total media ad spend in Southeast Asia will remain elevated from its pre-pandemic levels, but digital ad spending will finally say farewell to double-digit growth this year. Meanwhile, India will top the worldwide ranking in both total media and digital ad spending growth.

On today’s episode, host Bill Fisher is joined by our analysts Paul Briggs, Carina Perkins, and Man-Chung Cheung to talk about the biggest retail, advertising, and social media trends they expect to see in their regions in 2023.

On today's episode, we discuss the most significant trends to watch in 2023, TV advertising beginning its walk into the sunset, what to know when interacting with Gen Alpha, what would happen if we gave technology a face, the concept of the meta-commercial, where New Year's resolutions come from, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our director of reports editing Rahul Chadha and analysts Suzy Davidkhanian and Max Willens.

On today's episode, we discuss the most important digital trends we're watching in 2023: why we downgraded our digital ad spending numbers (and by how much), why Big Tech will actually solve the content moderation problem, a retail media joint venture to rival Amazon, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Evelyn Mitchell.

The ad industry will never be the same after 2022: Between the ad downturn, regulation, and new channels, the ad industry entered a new era.

From streaming to ad measurement and privacy, 2023 will be a year of transformation. Here are four changes we expect in the new year.

On today's episode, we discuss the most important retail trends we're watching in 2023: how frugality and value are hollowing out the middle, why click and collect is so popular, why return policies will make or break retail loyalty, and more. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analysts Suzy Davidkhanian and Carina Perkins.

We cut $5.51 billion from our US digital ad spending forecast for 2023, due to the fallout from Apple’s privacy changes, Google’s deprecation of third-party cookies, and a stricter regulatory environment. Along with inflation and a potential recession, these challenges will depress spending until 2025, when it should return to previously projected levels.

On today's episode, we discuss the most interesting takeaways from Twitter's Q3 earnings, why the social media company was able to weather Apple's iOS privacy changes, and what Twitter hopes to become by 2023. We then talk about the share of tweets that come from young people and the appeal of Twitter Blue now that it includes ad blocking service Scroll. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer senior analyst at Insider Intelligence Jasmine Enberg.