Tinder’s ‘glanceable UI’ model hits mobile shopping
With Tinder’s swipe-through format proving a massive hit—per Mary Meeker’s Internet-trends report, Tinder users are swiping some 800 million times a day—services in categories beyond matchmaking are...
View ArticleVogue’s shoppable Instagram
As we outline in Everything Is Retail, one of our 10 Trends for 2013 and Beyond, shopping is shifting from an activity that takes place in physical stores or online to a value exchange that can play...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Butter’s comeback, the new American man and the rise of Gen Z
Read our roundups in magazine form on Flipboard, via the iOS and Android app or online; click here to find our magazine collection. -The Wall Street Journal highlights four takeaways from the Cannes...
View ArticleMobile commerce going mainstream
Mobile shopping is becoming an increasingly mainstream habit. In the U.S., smartphones now account for a quarter of visits to e-commerce sites, up from 18% in 2013, Business Insider reports. In the...
View ArticleAmericans spend more time on mobile than on desktops—and more digital time...
Over the past year, Americans on average started spending more time with mobile devices than desktop computers—significantly more time, as this chart from comScore shows. But according to comScore’s...
View ArticleData Point: As ever more global consumers shop online, m-commerce gains ground
Worldwide e-commerce sales are expected to rise almost 20 percent over last year, thanks to growth from emerging markets, according to an eMarketer forecast. In the U.S., e-commerce growth is “far...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Digital humans, social clubs and 3D food printing
Read our roundups in magazine form on Flipboard, via the iOS and Android app or online; click here to find our magazine collection. -Based on Advertising Week discussions, Mashable outlines five big...
View ArticleThe biggest retail story of 2014? Mobile adoption
E-commerce is fast reaching a tipping point into mobile commerce. “Mobile commerce adoption is far ahead of expectations,” reads a report out today from Criteo, a performance marketing technology...
View ArticleIntroducing The Future 100
As we race to the finish line of 2014, we’re also starting to look to what’s next. At JWTIntelligence, our 10 Trends and later 100 Things to Watch have traditionally marked this transition. This year,...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Hispanic Gen Z, pretty people, and the rise of the female...
-2015 is the year of positivity (at least in ads), per Adweek. -“Beware the pretty people,” says TechCrunch in an exploration of tech’s changing landscape. -MediaPost spotlights Hispanic Gen Zers and...
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