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Influencer marketing is on the rise, with 59% of all marketers—and 69% of U.S. marketers—planning to partner with more influencers this year, according to a new report from Sprout Social.

Marketers are wooing Gen Z as assiduously as they did millennials, Gen X and baby boomers before them. But not all the methods of courting previous generations of consumers work with Gen Z.

E.l.f. takes a casual tone to its Instagram announcement of its tariff-driven price increases, which start Aug. 1.   Cosmetic brand E.l.f. announced on its Instagram channel that it is raising its prices by $1 on all of its products starting Aug. 1 due to tariffs.   The brand made the announcement using a casual […]

A new study finds that shoppers report making fewer purchases recently, or have switched brands because of higher prices. While shoppers may be struggling to keep up with the on-and-off again tariff headlines, they are noticing the result: higher prices.   According to a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults in April conducted by ecommerce platform Vtex […]

The flagship store has increased local sales 15% higher than Wayfair’s national average and more than half of store shoppers are new to the brand.   Wayfair’s inaugural large-format store in Wilmette, Illinois, is driving new customers to its brand and boosting sales. In fact, sales in Illinois are 15% higher than Wayfair’s national average […]

Google launched “AI Mode,” a chatbot-style interface embedded into its apps, at its annual developers conference this week. The new feature stands to alter the search landscape even further, requiring brands to shift from optimizing for search to optimizing for audiences.

According to Gartner’s 2025 CMO Spend Survey, marketing budgets as share of company revenue remain flat, and 39% of plan to reduce labor costs and cut agency allocations.

A new survey finds that most U.S. ecommerce companies rate their artificial intelligence ROI as good, even if the impact today is minimal.   About a quarter of U.S. ecommerce companies that have invested in artificial intelligence say it has made a “slight improvement” to their customers’ digital experience. Yet, 97% say that this ROI is […]

The Chicago Sun Times and Philadelphia Inquirer did not help boost any new media trust when caught in an AI content controversy.

This week at Google I/O, the annual Google developers’ conference, the tech giant made a bold statement: AI is no longer an experiment in search—it IS search.