Suzy Davidkhanian is an eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence, covering retail and ecommerce. Suzy has nearly 15 years experience in retail from store level to buying and planning, and marketing, where most recently she led the consumer insights and market trends team at Macy’s.

The declines reflect the wider economic picture, with retail tech and digital health firms experiencing similar funding drops. What fintechs can do: Overall funding for fintechs is slowing, continuing the Q2 trend and likely to drop lower before the year is out. The gloomy market outlook has led venture investors to practice stronger due diligence, aiming to be more prudent and keep costs lower.

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The trend: Private label products sales grew 11.3% in 2022, resulting in a record $228.6 billion in revenues across all US retailing channels, and a 0.7 point increase in private label’s dollar share to 18.9%, per a Supermarket News report based on the Private Label Manufacturers Association’s annual report. Store brands accounted for a 20.5% share of total industry sales.

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The trend: Customers say in surveys that they want to improve their financial wellness—but when banks and credit unions give financial tips in social media posts, newsletters, or online courses, customers often don’t take them up on it. Do customers really want what they say they want?

This month’s ad platforms update is all about analytics, with Google, TikTok, and Microsoft announcing improved reporting tools. Plus, Amazon announced on-site and off-site retail media innovations. And we saw some interesting ad network updates from Lyft and Intuit. Here’s a breakdown of what’s new.

“We used to talk about ‘omnichannel’ and we should just be talking about ‘commerce.’” That’s according to our analyst Suzy Davidkhanian, speaking on our “Behind the Numbers: Reimagining Retail” podcast.

Methodology: Estimates are based on the analysis of survey and traffic data from other research firms, historical consumer adoption trends, company releases and demographic adoption trends.

Douyin is also a retail powerhouse in China, but TikTok users in the US have been slower to adopt social commerce. If their parent company, ByteDance, can get US users to buy into social commerce as those in China have, its retail footprint would be massive. More like this:. TikTok expands DM options. TikTok goes on Capitol Hill offensive. College TikTok bans get pushback from students, educators.

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Following this trend, adoption of the metaverse—which is “a new phase of interconnected virtual experiences using technologies like virtual and augmented reality,” per Facebook Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg—will come with similar consumer expectations for access to financial services. What would fintech solutions look like in the metaverse?

Three sectors have the largest addressable market: retail, restaurants, and the service industry; said Dan Bjerke, global head of Clover. Healthcare should be another major player as demand for unified platforms grows.

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The company has hired more than 400 staff in Toronto, established more retail partnerships, and developed its retail ad network. Instacart’s services can now reach 90% of households in Canada, via 40 retailer partnerships representing 2,400 partner store locations. For grocery and CPG brands, Instacart’s retail media network is increasingly important as audiences grow.

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Retail investors also continue to flock to crypto platforms, pushing traditional financial institutions (FIs) toward offering their own services. This trend is driving up demand for B2B crypto startups and infrastructure providers—and igniting an even bigger explosion in crypto investments, per an Insider Intelligence interview with Augmentum Fintech.

After an inconsistent year for digital ad spending in 2020, every industry in the US will increase their outlays in 2021. The retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and entertainment industries will provide the biggest boosts, driving up overall digital ad spending by 25.5%.

Location data can also improve retail operations and customer experience (CX). Beyond using location data to provide directions to stores or identify nearby inventory, retailers can also use it to alert workers when customers arrive for curbside pickup, or to allocate workers in anticipation of a surge of shoppers.