Consumers are waiting for discounts in Q4 and new customers are more expensive to acquire (thanks in part to the election). Kim Davis on May 29, 2024 Audience at Salesforce Connections, Chicago. The latest Salesforce Shopping Index data suggests that shoppers are holding onto their purse strings until later in the year — … Continue reading Salesforce: Shoppers are saving their big moments for later in 2024
Sitemaps ping endpoint is going away Google, Monday, June 26, 2023 The Sitemaps Protocol was introduced in 2005 to help search engines with the discovery of new URLs, and also to help with scheduling new crawls of already discovered URLs. It’s a wildly popular protocol that hasn’t changed for over 15 years. While the general … Continue reading Google To Deprecate Sitemaps ‘Ping’ Endpoint Later This Year
By Chris Stokel-Walker March 28, 2023 Apple will now offer a buy now, pay later (BNPL) option for customers shopping with a retailer that accepts Apple Pay. Under the new arrangement, which was announced Tuesday, iPhone and iPad users can take out short-term loans with Apple of between $50 and $1,000, which must … Continue reading Experts say Apple’s move into buy now, pay later is likely to catch on with customers—and bring out the regulators
‘Pong’ is now half a century old Igor Bonifacic @igorbonifacic Exactly 50 years ago today, Atari released Pong. It wasn’t the first video game ever created, nor the original take on virtual table tennis – a fact that would eventually lead to two decades of lawsuits. But in Pong, the early video … Continue reading Pong’s influence on video games endures 50 years later
An NFT from Signal’s founder will look like a poop emoji when someone owns it Know what you’re getting into when you bid on an NFT. K. Holt @krisholt TBA via Getty Images Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Signal, has created an NFT (non-fungible token) that mocks the entire concept of NFTs. “At my … Continue reading Great, there’s a buy now, pay later service for NFTs
Local TV Projected For A 9% Advertising Increase, National TV Could Take Hit Later This Year by Wayne Friedman , May 26, 2022 Local TV stations could see a 9% increase in advertising revenues this year to $23.4 billion, but national TV networks — broadcast and cable — will drift lower, according to the latest … Continue reading Local TV Projected For A 9% Advertising Increase, National TV Could Take Hit Later This Year
By David Landsel May 06, 2022 Picture it—you on the perfect beach, soaking up the sun, far from home, and without a care in the world. Maybe you’re staying in a stylish Airbnb just steps away, maybe you even splurged and flew here in business class, and you’ll do the same thing when … Continue reading How Buy Now, Pay Later is changing how consumers think about travel
L’Oreal USA Leads Pinterest Creator Fund, Others To Roll Out Later This Year by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, April 8, 2022 Pinterest has expanded its Creator Fund program to offer more creators the opportunity to grow, connect and succeed on the platform. Through cash grants, ad credits and equipment, Pinterest will more than double its investment into the Fund … Continue reading L’Oreal USA Leads Pinterest Creator Fund, Others To Roll Out Later This Year
By Daniel Pink February 18, 2022 For a guy whom antiquity scholars say might never have existed, Aesop has enjoyed a pretty good run as an author. The fables that bear his name (but are likely the product of many creators over many years) date to five centuries before the Common Era. They’ve been … Continue reading Daniel Pink: Foundational regrets are the reason for dissatisfaction later in life
Data Privacy Shifts: Plan Now to Stay Ahead Later by Phil Case , August 23, 2021 Your brand is being forced to grapple with the dramatic changes to consumer privacy we’re all familiar with. Some, like Apple’s IDFA, are here now, and more — like Google’s departure from the cookie — are coming. So, how … Continue reading Data Privacy Shifts: Plan Now to Stay Ahead Later
