B2B ad spending sees a strong rebound: LinkedIn leads, with finance and retail sectors boosting growth.

The startup’s platform helps retailers predict and adjust to disruptions, reflecting a growing reliance on AI tools to prevent costly breakdowns.

Spending in the US affiliate marketing ecosystem will exceed $10 billion for the first time in 2024. But content distribution changes, advertiser focus on first-party data, and shifting consumer behavior will push the channel into a new phase.

Google will fall below a 50% share of the US search advertising market next year for the first time since we started tracking it in 2008, per our forecast. It’s a pivotal time for paid search, with Google’s ad dominance threatened by generative AI, social media, retail media, and lawsuits. Meanwhile, ad-averse consumers are becoming hesitant to click search ads. Here are four trends our exclusive KPI data reveal about Google, retail media, and the future of paid search.

American Eagle sues Amazon for trademark infringement in fight against product dupes, knockoffs: The retailer accused the ecommerce giant of unauthorized use of its “Aerie” trademarks, which it said helped drive traffic and sales on the marketplace at American Eagle’s expense.

This is the first installment of our “Retail and Ecommerce Sales Benchmarks” series, which helps retailers calibrate their sales mix against the market.

This is the first installment of our “Retail and Ecommerce Sales Benchmarks” series, which helps retailers calibrate their sales mix against the market.

This is the first installment of our “Retail and Ecommerce Sales Benchmarks” series, which helps retailers calibrate their sales mix against the market.

This is the first installment of our “Retail and Ecommerce Sales Benchmarks” series, which helps retailers calibrate their sales mix against the market.

This is the first installment of our “Retail and Ecommerce Sales Benchmarks” series, which helps retailers calibrate their sales mix against the market.

This is the first installment of our “Retail and Ecommerce Sales Benchmarks” series, which helps retailers calibrate their sales mix against the market.

This is the first installment of our “Retail and Ecommerce Sales Benchmarks” series, which helps retailers calibrate their sales mix against the market.

This is the first installment of our “Retail and Ecommerce Sales Benchmarks” series, which helps retailers calibrate their sales mix against the market.

Amazon’s $1.8 billion ad milestone solidifies a streaming leader: The launch of ads on Prime Video and Thursday Night Football are responsible for a meteoric rise.

Theaters need Big Tech more than ever: Chains like AMC are implementing costly upgrades even as players like Apple pair down their box office strategies.

September was style month, with Walmart hitting New York Fashion Week, Levi’s launching an app for stylist recommendations, Old Navy going vintage, and more. See who else made our September unofficial most interesting retailers List.

Temu is eating away at dollar stores’ market share: Dollar General and Dollar Tree face significant headwinds as their core customer base reduces spending and competition mounts.

Retailers turn to genAI to help with product listings: Puma, Walmart, and Amazon are among the companies that see the tech as an opportunity to deliver a more personalized, relevant experience to shoppers while improving productivity.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss the unofficial list of the most interesting retailers for the month of September. Each month, our analysts Arielle Feger, Becky Schilling, and Sara Lebow (aka The Committee) put together a very unofficial list of the top eight retailers they're watching based on which are making the most interesting moves: Who's launching new initiatives? Which partnerships are moving the needle? Which standout marketing campaigns are being created? In this month's episode, Committee members Arielle Feger and Sara Lebow will defend their list against analysts Zak Stambor and Rachel Wolff, who will dispute the power rankings by attempting to move retailers up, down, on, or off the list.

Our expanded Latin America retail and ecommerce coverage now includes breakouts for 16 markets across Mexico, Central America, and South America. Brazil and Mexico will drive the bulk of net new ecommerce sales this year with a combined regional market share of 75.2%.