New martech product releases were down from Q2, but up year over year, according to CabinetM’s Q3 2024 MarTech Innovation Report. Allyson Delaney on October 23, 2024 The number of new product releases in the martech sector slowed in Q3 2024, while investment shrunk and M&A activity increased. That’s according to CabinetM’ Q3 2024 MarTech … Continue reading M&A activity increases in martech sector, while investment, new products slow down
Storms in Southeast impact U.S. traffic and sales for two-day October event. Value-added services and pricing remain key holiday strategies. Chris Wood on October 10, 2024 Holiday promotions got off to a slow start this week as consumers in Florida braced for the second of two big storms in as many weeks. Amazon’s Prime … Continue reading Prime Big Deal Days kicks off holidays with slow start
August 08, 2024 Why Visa, Burberry, and McDonald’s are all seeing a slow down in profits Post-pandemic splurging is over. BY Reuters Investors in large consumer-goods companies are having to up their stock-picking game, as a post-pandemic spending splurge dries up and increasingly price-sensitive shoppers start to erode corporate pricing power. Profit warnings in sectors ranging … Continue reading Why Visa, Burberry, and McDonald’s are all seeing a slow down in profits
The martech industry has reached saturation. Explore the challenges vendors face and strategies to adapt in an era of declining net-new deals. Gene De Libero on July 3, 2024 Based on my conversations across the marketing technology landscape, we’re at saturation. Net new deals are dwindling, with the market resembling a stagnating pond instead … Continue reading How martech vendors can navigate the slow death of net-new deals
May 22, 2024 Why more and more organizations are adopting the slow work movement Productivity isn’t always about getting things done as quickly as possible BY Rachel Karl We live in a world that reveres speed and worships breadth over depth. But a quiet revolution is brewing, and it’s called the slow movement (or specifically, the … Continue reading Why more and more organizations are adopting the slow work movement
The latest Shopping Index from Salesforce shows very small growth YoY. Are shoppers holding back? Kim Davis on May 2, 2024 Growth in digital commerce was vanishingly small in the first quarter of 2024 according to the latest Shopping Index report from Salesforce. Recall that online shopping broke records in Q4, 2023. Digital traffic … Continue reading Digital commerce gets off to a slow start in Q1
Under 15% of noncompliant companies implemented automated or manual CCPA/CPRA compliance methods in the last year, a study found. Chris Wood on August 4, 2023 Businesses are dragging their feet to get compliant with CCPA and CPRA regulations, a study by data privacy compliance company CYTRIO found. Only 14.67% of the 600 mid-to-large companies included … Continue reading The march to CCPA compliance is a slow one
By Max Ufberg March 10, 2023 It’s been four months since OpenAI debuted its chatbot, ChatGPT, and so far the hype train shows no sign of slowing down. These days everyone from teachers to journalists to HR departments are experimenting with generative AI. But there’s also been a wave of criticism over the … Continue reading OpenAI president: ‘Our mistake was definitely just being slow to respond’
By Alan Jenn April 09, 2022 Around the world, revolutionary changes are under way in transportation. More electric vehicles are on the road, people are taking advantage of sharing mobility services, such as Uber and Lyft, and the rise in telework during the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the way people think about commuting. … Continue reading Revolutionary changes in transportation could slow global warming—if they’re done right, IPCC says
David DeCorte January 10, 2022 The words we used to describe something tend to reflect the way we think about the subject. For example, let’s say I’m walking down the street, and I see a rock lying on the sidewalk. If I describe that rock as a “loose chunk of gravel,” what image comes to … Continue reading What Slow Acceptance of Changing Terminology Suggests About Merchants’ Risk Management Response
