TikTok Has a Massive Moment in 2022

| Mike O'Brien

TikTok, the hugely popular short-form video site owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, had quite a year in 2022, surpassing 1 billion users globally and making itself a force to be reckoned with in advertising, ecommerce and fulfillment, becoming the latest competitor to Amazon’s dominance. But government bans are applying heat.

Amazon Inspire Treads in TikTok Territory

| Mike O'Brien

Amazon is launching a TikTok-like feature called Inspire that lets users scroll through short-form videos and hopefully buy stuff from brands, but industry observers don’t seem too inspired by the company’s latest venture into social commerce, an area that hasn’t really exploded. It’s the latest in a decade of social commerce experiments.

Venturing Across the Metaverse

| Immanual J. Kingsley

Metaverse solutions cut across verticals, from healthcare to fashion to manufacturing, but it’s still in its infancy. Think of it like the internet of 1994, when you used Netscape and a dial-up handshake to navigate the web.  As businesses step into the metaverse, this is the right time to experiment with using it as a service.   

Hits of the Week 12-16-22

| David Hurwitz

This week, a Pitney Bowes investor called for the ouster of the CEO and chairman, and a board makeover, while e-grocery sales continued to retreat from pandemic levels. And we're … Continue Reading →