TechStyle Fashion Group, a global fashion retailer that operates membership-based direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands—including ShoeDazzle, JustFab, Kate Hudson’s Fabletics and Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty—has become one of the fast-growing retailers with more than 5.5 million active members worldwide since it launched a decade ago.

eMarketer was pleased to moderate a Tech-Talk Webinar featuring GlobalWebIndex’s Virna Sekuj, senior insights analyst, and Katie Gilsenan, consumer insights manager. They shared insights from GWI’s latest wave of research, conducted across 17 countries, including the US and UK, to help prepare marketers for the long road to normalcy.

Roughly a third of US parents said working from home, while taking care of their kids at the same time, has been one of the biggest ordeals they’ve had to deal with during the pandemic.

eMarketer forecasting analyst Eric Haggstrom and principal analyst Nicole Perrin at Insider Intelligence discuss how advertisers are navigating placing ads next to coronavirus coverage and how they feel the advertising industry is shaping up this year. They then talk about theSkimm launching a digital membership model, The New York Times halting third-party ads data and why winning top of search might not matter.

COVID-19 has altered the relationship between TV viewership supply and advertising demand.

Linda Yaccarino, chairman of advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, joins eMarketer vice president of business development Marissa Coslov to discuss how the network is responding to the disruptions it faces from the coronavirus pandemic, including the rollout of its Peacock streaming service and the postponement of the Summer Olympics. Yaccarino said, “This structural change has given us permission to fix everything we already knew needed to be fixed.” Made possible by Salesforce.

Walmart's US ecommerce sales are expected to rise 44.2% to $41.01 billion this year, a significant bump from 2019’s stellar 36.8% growth—and an increase from our January 2020 estimate of 27.0%.

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brand Cuts Clothing has grown a lot since it first launched in 2016 on Kickstarter. “Since day one, we have been focused on making premium minimalist shirts for the modern man,” said Steven Borrelli, CEO and co-founder of Cuts.

Insider Intelligence research analyst Daniel Keyes, principal analyst Andrew Lipsman and senior forecasting analyst Cindy Liu discuss how the coronavirus changed retail and ecommerce. What are our base, best and worst cases scenarios? They then talk about who frictionless retail is for and what Americans' online grocery experience really looks like.

US bank branches are still shuttered amid the pandemic, but consumers are more likely to conduct their banking online, according to recent research.

COVID-19 has dampened 2020 TV advertising—however, data-driven linear (DDL) and addressable TV stand ready to scale as economic conditions eventually return to normal.

How is the coronavirus changing media spending? eMarketer co-founder and Insider Intelligence chief evangelist Geoffrey Ramsey discusses this with Brian Wieser, global president of business intelligence at GroupM, during the inaugural episode of "The Executive Roundtable." This new "Behind the Numbers" show brings you inside the mind of some of the industry's most influential voices.

Consumers may not be able to travel at the moment, but that doesn’t mean they’re not thinking about what their next vacation looks like.

eMarketer principal analyst Debra Aho Williamson and junior analyst Blake Droesch discuss how brands are changing their approach to influencer marketing, the main challenges influencers are struggling with and what influencer marketing might look like going forward. They then talk about TikTok's call-to-action button, how platforms are dealing with misinformation and Twitter's purchase of a mobile-focused demand-side platform.

As stay-at-home orders remain in effect due to COVID-19, TV viewership and time spent is getting an unexpected bump. But once the pandemic is over, we expect both to decline again, according to eMarketer’s latest forecast on US time spent with media.

The coronavirus pandemic has upended countless industries across Latin America, digital advertising included. This report looks at the impact the coronavirus will have on digital ad spending and how advertisers are responding to the pandemic in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

Wendy Olson Killion, global vice president of business development for Expedia Group Media Solutions, joins eMarketer vice president of business development Marissa Coslov to discuss how the online travel company is adjusting to disruption in the industry. Made possible by Salesforce.

Even with a partial lifting of lockdown measures, the coronavirus continues to limit movement of people—and this has hit the UK high street hard. From retailers with a high dependency on physical stores to restaurants and coffee shops without delivery facilities, the obstacles have proven insurmountable for some. For others, the longer-term question is, "Will the UK high street be able to recover when (and if) normalcy returns?"

Mosaic Foods has had to acclimate to a new normal in the past few months, and as a relatively new brand, that hasn’t always been easy. Before the pandemic, employees of the meal delivery company were able to test out new recipes and offer feedback right then and there. But today, meals are shipped to co-workers who do video taste tests and offer notes.

The actions of brands during a crisis can make or break long-term relationships with consumers, according to the “2020 Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report: Trust and the Coronavirus.”