It should be no surprise that the home of Buckingham Palace and the Crown Jewels is no stranger to luxury sales. But what are luxury trends like across different countries in the UK, and which price points are most appealing to UK shoppers? In today’s Insight Flash, we dig into these questions using our new UK Cohort dashboards to track luxury sales by country, average price point by country for US-based brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren, and how Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren sales are distributed across ticket buckets.
Monthly active users of the top personal financial tracking and budgeting apps in the United States have hit an all-time high in February 2022. People are trying to get their shit together in 2022, and it could partially be due to TikTok. We're looking at apps like Mint, Truebill and EveryDollar. These apps help people organize and manage their personal finances. I think the combination of the r/wallstreetbets storyline last year, the rise of crypto in popular culture, and "finfluencers" on social media, has created more interest and more savvy in the personal finance space.
data.ai’s State of Mobile 2022 report contains the top 10 keywords across 11 app categories and 15 countries. Want to peer into the collective mind of the world's mobile users? There's only one place to look – the App Store search box. Whatever the public is interested in, it's all The Quick ASO Checklist to Increase App Downloads there in the keywords they enter every day. And this makes the search box of great interest to mobile marketers.
If there’s one thing consumers have a ton of, it’s options. From department stores bespoke boutiques to online hype hubs, there seems to always be a new must-have brand on the rise. As the number of consumers continues to grow, so is the popularity of one-stop online marketplaces that offer everything from beauty and personal care, consumer electronics, food, apparel, and more. Different marketplaces have specific requirements, product categories, audiences, and listing fees.
Our latest white paper features seven brands from a range of sectors, from furniture to apparel to entertainment, that have been largely written off by leading retail or Wall Street analysts – but their foot traffic data indicates serious comeback potential. Below is a taste of our findings. One retailer to keep a close eye on is Macy’s. The reasons for concern are also fairly evident – Yo2Y visits down every month since January 2021. But the data offers a major glimmer of hope.
Are you wondering where CBS All Access went? It didn’t go anywhere—it just became Paramount+. On March 4, 2021, ViacomCBS launched Paramount+, the rebranded version of CBS All Access. With the rebrand, Paramount+ began its uphill battle to attract both consumers and brands. But was it too little too late, especially for a streaming service on its second life? Maybe not. With 32.8 million subscribers at the end 2021 and $55 million in ad buys, Paramount+ might be onto something.
In its second public analysis since the outbreak of war, ForwardKeys compared flight bookings in the week following the invasion, 24th Feb – 2nd Mar, to the previous seven days. Excluding Ukraine and Moldova, which closed their air space, and Russia and Belarus, which were subjected to flight bans and safety warnings, the destinations worst affected were generally those closest to the conflict. Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia all saw a 30% – 50% collapse in bookings.
Talk to any Gen Zer and ask them about the last commercial they saw. Chances are they don’t even watch cable. Gone are the days when you were forced to watch “whatever’s on”. Now, we live in the golden age of video content with endless options of digital entertainment available to watch whenever, however, and wherever we want. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and museums, malls, and other outlets shut down, the need for entertainment at your fingertips boomed, and with it, the number of digital streaming options to choose from.
The pizza industry has been busy in the first quarter of 2022. In recent weeks, Little Caesars raised the price of its Hot-N-Ready pizza for the first time ever, Domino’s CEO announced his upcoming retirement, and Papa John’s CEO described 2021 as the biggest year in the company’s history. Consumer spending data reveals that Domino’s (NYSE: DPZ) is still the big cheese when it comes to national pizza chain market share, but Papa John’s (NASDAQ: PZZA) has experienced the most sales growth among major pizza companies since 2019.
Move aside millennials, there is a new generation of Americans that will be blamed for everything that is wrong with the economy. As the great resignation is going full steam ahead, recent articles in Time, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal all focused on this younger generation of workers and the ways they are redefining work culture. So this week we decided to break down who contributes the most to the Great Resignation: older folks who are looking for early retirement, or millennials and generation Z who are looking for higher wages and better working conditions?
TJX, which operates off-price chains in categories ranging from apparel (T.J. Maxx and Marshalls) to recreation gear (Sierra) to home furnishings (HomeGoods), is a retail powerhouse. Foot traffic to the company’s portfolio brands was strong in 2021, and early 2022 data indicates that this year will be just as robust. We dove into foot traffic trends and consumer demographic information to better understand the secret to this heavy hitter’s success.
Today we bring you our latest market report, Travel Trendlines. It features data stories on 2021’s top Travel apps*, including which are the fastest-growing and why. The insights come from U.S. performance data for travel apps in the following categories: OTA (Online Travel Agencies), Hotels, Airlines, Vaccine Passports, Car Rental and Cruise Line apps. Highlights include Hopper overtaking Airbnb to lead market share among OTAs by monthly active users (MAUs).
The top 10 quick-service restaurant apps in the U.S. in February were downloaded 7.8 million times, 21.7 percent less than those the month prior. This is a big drop, but it’s a seasonal one. December, and Q4 in general, tend to be the strongest time for QSR app activity. Adjusting for seasonality and looking at year-over-year data, downloads for top QSR apps in February are up 13% as customers become more mobile savvy and brands invest more heavily in digital real estate.
The beauty sector saw a surge in visits in recent months as consumers stocked up on makeup and skincare products to celebrate their return to school, work, and social engagements. We checked in with sector visit leaders Ulta, Bath & Body Works, and Sephora to find out how these brands are performing and what lies ahead for the beauty category. Ulta Beauty, one of the largest beauty retailers in the United States, has seen a clear visit boost since the easing of pandemic-related restrictions last summer.
The Dodge Momentum Index increased 4% in February to 158.2 (2000=100), from the revised January reading of 151.9. The Momentum Index, issued by Dodge Construction Network, is a monthly measure of the initial report for nonresidential building projects in planning, which have been shown to lead construction spending for nonresidential buildings by a full year. In February, institutional planning rose 9%, and commercial planning moved 1% higher. The Dodge Momentum Index rebounded from three consecutive monthly declines that followed a 14-year high in October 2021
The nation’s overall delinquency rate was 3.4% in December. All stages of delinquencies showed year-over-year decreases in December. In December 2021, 3.4% of home mortgages were in some stage of delinquency (30 days or more past due, including those in foreclosure) , which was a 2.4-percentage point decrease from December 2020 according to the latest CoreLogic Loan Performance Insights Report. This is the lowest recorded overall delinquency rate in the U.S. since at least January 1999.
As Home Improvement spend growth slows in the UK, which home improvement brands have the strongest foundation? In today’s Insight Flash, we examine consumer DIY trends for Kingfisher’s B&Q and Screwfix as well as The Range and Homebase using our new UK Cohort dashboards to see spend trends versus the industry and subindustry, where cross-shop is strongest, and what an analysis of B&Q ticket buckets implies about the shopping basket.
Global commercial property market liquidity continued to grow at the end of 2021, as buyers returned to the market in numbers after almost two years of a pandemic that had stymied investment activity. Liquidity was up year-over-year in 94 of 155 markets and up on a quarterly basis in 77 of 155, the latest _RCA Capital Liquidity Scores_ report shows. For 17 markets, liquidity was at a record high at the close of last year.
While the current situation with Peloton may seem like an obvious result of the brand’s meteoric rise over the pandemic, just over a year ago it was considered fair to ponder whether physical gyms were on the path to extinction. The idea that the convenience of an at-home Peloton experience could fully replace a group workout class was without question. Yet, those of us that were slightly more bullish on the potential of brick and mortar fitness chains recognized that while connected fitness could become a bigger piece of the puzzle – omnichannel lessons from elsewhere pointed to a larger overall pie, as opposed to a zero-sum game.
t’s been one week since the C.D.C. loosened its mask guidelines. Kinsa’s data shows that national respiratory illness activity is slightly decreasing, and remains below normal seasonal illness levels. Our data also shows that national respiratory illness activity among children 0-12 (which was increasing last week) has started to decrease, likely driving national illness levels down overall. As mask mandates are lifted in schools across the country, we’re closely monitoring illness activity in school-aged kids.
