We now forecast 5.9% growth in search ad spending this year. But the changes are farther-reaching than that. As the pandemic is permanently shifting more retail sales to digital channels, it’s also driving more search advertising by digital merchants. The overall level of economic disruption ...
Speaking of genres, Alex Hawkins, of the prominent porn tube site xHamster, notes that viewers have not been searching for usually popular content like MILF and incest roleplay porn over the last few months. He suspects this is a response to the fact that many people are spending more time...
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, and other pandemic spending bills funded free meals for all children regardless of income. But that fundingended last yeardespite calls from anti-hunger advocates to continue the program. "We are really concerned...
The proposed funding for public health services, however, was hugely dwarfed by the amount requested for military and defense spending which totals over 813 billion dollars. Biden pitched it as "one of the largest investments in our national security in history." American journalist and author Jill...
Moreover, it has been suggested that digitally mediated social interactions are not the same as face-to-face experiences, as spending more virtual time with friends during the pandemic has been associated with higher levels of depression among adolescents [31]. At the beginning of the pandemic, ...
Cuba’s economy has been strongly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic for more than one year which has reduced foreign trade, tourism and other major sources of revenues. Last year, the economy shrank by 11 percent, with direct consequences for local businesses and the people’s ...
Real consumer spending on new motor vehicles was hobbled initially in 2020 by plant and dealership closures. But it put the pedal to the metal in the third quarter of that year and was pushed into turbo mode by an infusion of stimulus checks. As a result, our latest forecast looks for ...
COVID-19 fundamentally changed people’s purchasing and spending behaviors, as many of the restaurants, stores, and non-essential businesses were closed to in-person shopping82. Spending on food delivery and groceries also increased significantly during the pandemic, with more people eating at home ...
The report called governments to allocate more resources to help health systems deliver care, improve disease surveillance, and respond to future pandemics, noting that economic growth could rise by 1.5 percentage points if health spending in the region reaches about 5 percent of GDP. ...
China's new year holiday spending last week surged past pre-pandemic levels, official figures showed, a rare bright spot for an economy struggling with sluggish consumption and deflation. Domestic spending on entertainment, dining and travel soared during this year's "Golden Week", which officially...