AI-driven digital growth supports profitability and efficient scaling in a constrained environment.
Its shift to full-service banking aims to deepen customer relationships.
It aims to become a credit card–only bank for credit-marginalized consumers.
By cutting unprofitable members to restore margins and investing in AI to boost efficiency, UnitedHealth’s strategy offers insurers a 2026 survival guide.
Many self-diagnosers skip seeing a provider—raising the stakes for pharma brands to better connect patients with doctors.
Its Kelonia acquisition, alongside neurology and immunology moves, makes a more sustainable drug pipeline beyond its blockbuster GLP-1s.
Meta cuts staff as AI automates ads: A 10% reduction tied to AI tools pushes marketers to prioritize outcomes over targeting.
OpenAI courts DSPs for ChatGPT ads: A leaked StackAdapt deck shows high CPM pilots as OpenAI leans on adtech partners to prove value.
Adobe stakes its claim on orchestration: CX Enterprise blends rival AI tools into a single brand workflow.
MMM’s promises stall in execution: Firms adopt marketing mix modeling for ROI clarity, but silos and slow processes leave insights stranded in analytics decks.
Personalization at scale tops the data activation investment list at 38%, followed closely by real-time campaign optimization (35%) and audience segmentation (32%), according to a December 2025 survey from Supermetrics.
Iran war rattles ad market: A prolonged conflict could erase $50 billion in global 2026 revenues and upend 2030 forecasts.
Auto lending holds up despite cost pressure on consumers.
Many retail media networks operate independently from core business functions, but staying disconnected may limit how far they can grow. "Most retail media networks essentially were launched as startups within large legacy organizations, and they are tasked to grow and scale quickly in an industry that the rest of the retailer is not familiar with, which is media," said Molly Hjelm, head of retail media for Ace Hardware's RedVest Media network, during IAB’s Connected Commerce event last week.
The lack of a standard definition for agentic commerce reveals a fundamental split in how the industry is preparing for AI’s role in shopping
Backroom inventory test could accelerate higher-margin ecommerce mix shift.
The fourth annual Summer Beauty Sale is set to strengthen its category influence.
Jersey Mike’s and others test investor appetite despite softer discretionary demand.
As the cost of living goes up, legacy players can’t rely on brand loyalty alone—competitive perks win.
Brands can access the retailer’s influencer program and expert video reviews to build credibility and drive sales.