| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.11.2025 | 68% of Holiday Shoppers Using AI Will Buy Directly Through It | First Insight, the company that leverages AI to transform consumer feedback into profitable retail strategies, has released findings from its 2025 Holiday Shopping Report. The new report reveals that a majority of holiday shoppers plan to u... |
| 20.05.2025 | First Insight Unveils AI Plan to Maximize Retail Efficiency | First Insight, the company that leverages agentic AI to transform consumer feedback into profitable retail growth strategies, has rolled out a new approach to predicting pricing and demand to protect retailers’ margins amid tariff uncertain... |
| 24.03.2025 | The Generations Fuelling the Plant-Based Market | Consumer habits are changing fast, with Millennials and Gen Z making a significant impact. These generations are increasingly conscious of their food choices and are shaping the future of the food industry through their purchasing power, di... |
| 15.01.2025 | Recession Fears, Trade Anxiety Fuel Price Focus; AI Shines in 2025 | As economic uncertainty looms and AI technology transforms industries, a new study from First Insight, a global leader in AI-powered decision-making, reveals key trends reshaping consumer behavior in 2025. The survey of 1,131 U.S. consumers... |
| 04.10.2024 | First Insight announced the launch of “InsightIQ Sentiment” | First Insight, Inc., a global leader in Voice of the Customer (VoC) retail solutions, announced the launch of “InsightIQ Sentiment“, a cutting-edge Generative AI-powered solution designed to transform how retailers, brands, and manufacturer... |
| 27.08.2024 | First Insight in Gartner’s 2024 Guide for Retail Assortment Solutions | First Insight, Inc., a global leader in Voice of the Customer (VoC) retail solutions, announced today that it has been identified as a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s 2024 Market Guide for Retail Assortment Management Applications: Short... |
| 29.05.2024 | Germany’s Faircado bags €3M to help find the best pre-owned items using AI; here’s how | Read this article in:
Berlin-based Faircado, an AI-powered second-hand shopping assistant company, announced that it has secured €3M in a pre-seed round of funding.
The investment was led by the World Fund, a European climate VC. The round ... |
| 06.03.2024 | First Insight reveals new study findings | First Insight’s recent study uncovers a surprising divide within the retail sector: CEOs are half as likely to see AI’s predictive analytics as a top 3 promising application compared to their management teams. The report, “AI Perception Gap... |
| 12.01.2024 | First Insight Acquires SnapRetail | First Insight, a Pittsburgh, PA-based global leader in Voice of the Customer (VoC) retail solutions, acquired SnapRetail, a Pittsburgh, PA-based provider of a digital marketing platform.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The acquisi... |
| 26.08.2023 | Endless Varieties Of The S&P 500, Based On People’s Beliefs | Say you’re a regular investor who likes ETFs, but you want your investments to have a positive impact. What to do? |
| 26.07.2023 | Busting The Sustainability Value-Action Gap | Do consumers say one thing but do another?getty |
| 29.11.2022 | New retail real estate data from HyperIn shows how shopping mall tenants are increasingly wooing customers with green ads | New retail real estate data from HyperIn shows how shopping mall tenants are increasingly wooing customers with green ads
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Shopping mall customer data indicates an increasing share of ads for g... |
| 07.10.2022 | Retail Inventory Glut Is About To Get Ugly | Retail Inventory Glut Is About To Get Uglygetty |
| 30.09.2022 | Retail Outlook for Holiday 2022: The Strong Get Stronger | Retail Outlook for Holiday 2022: The Strong Get Strongergetty |
| 09.09.2022 | Debut Launches its Bio2Consumer™ Platform to Become the Leader in Vertically Integrated Synthetic Biology | "For synthetic biology to have a true impact on humanity, it needs to be commercialized, integrated into global supply chains, and ultimately embraced by consumers." - Debut CEO Joshua Britton
SAN DIEGO (PRWEB) September 09, 2022
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| 17.06.2022 | Inflation may dampen the growth of organic and sustainable products | The trend: Consumers want to buy sustainable products, such as Patagonia’s merchandise made from recycled materials and organic foods. And they’re willing to spend an additional 10% (or more) on those items, per a survey conducted by First ... |
| 19.05.2022 | FloorFound grabs more capital to grow its oversized recommerce business | While we had the chance to be at home more over the past few years, you may have spruced up a home office or replaced a couch. However, once the new item was in your home, you may have had some buyer’s remorse or the item didn’t live up to ... |
| 12.05.2022 | The Plant Revolution: Clean Label Food Needs to Be The Norm, Not the Exception | Priyanka “Pri” Srinivas, founder and CEO of The Live Green Co, here writes a special guest article for vegconomist, putting forth her thoughts on why companies in the health food industry need to get on board with clean label products.
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| 13.04.2022 | Exclusive: 1stDibs CFO joins $4B NFT fantasy sports startup Sorare | This is the web version of CFO Daily, a newsletter on the trends and individuals shaping corporate finance. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 18.03.2022 | Marrying Consumer Expectations With Values | Key Themes from the Wharton CEO Conference |
| 11.02.2022 | Sustainable Movement Closes In On Clueless Fashion Industry | T-shirt made of 100% and hundred percent organic materials. Customer with responsible and nature and ... [+] eco friendly values. getty |
| 15.10.2021 | Supply Chain Blues: Demand Outpacing Supply Means It’s Time To Look At Pricing | A 5-Minute Read to One Fix |
| 16.09.2021 | Virtual Dressing Rooms: A Guide For Fashion Retailers | Chief Product Officer at Vue.ai, a company that builds AI products for Retail in the areas of Process Automation and Personalization. |
| 17.06.2021 | United Overseas Bank : UOB charges ahead on its ambition to serve the next generation of consumers in ASEAN | 17 June 2021
The UOB EVOL Card (formerly known as UOB YOLO) aims to serve one in two Gen Z consumers in Singapore over the next three years
In anticipation of the increased spending power of Generation Z consumers (Gen Zs)1 as they enter th... |
| 28.05.2021 | Revenge Shopping: What’s In Store For The U.S.? | Woman taking her shopping bags from the saleswoman in a clothing store.getty |
| 30.04.2021 | Gen Z Is Emerging As The Sustainability Generation | Teenager shopping at a flea marketgetty |
| 26.02.2021 | Online First Retail - Everyone Is Doing It | Young woman sitting on the couch shopping online.getty |
| 17.02.2021 | There’s A Quiet Revolution Underway With Recommerce | Brands need to pay attention to the unprecedented growth in the recommerce market that’s being propelled by consumer demand for sustainability as well as e-commerce and massively scalable traceability technology. |
| 12.02.2021 | COVID Vaccines Won’t Cure Retail Woes | Row Covid-19 or Coronavirus vaccine flasks on white backgroundgetty |
| 27.01.2021 | Americans won’t be rushing to retail stores to shop after getting Covid vaccine, survey finds | Forty percent of consumers say they plan to shop for apparel in stores either the same amount or less after being vaccinated, according to a study by First Insight.
“It’s going to take a long time for people to get really comfortable and re... |
| 13.01.2021 | Actionable Data From Customer Experience Analytics Helping Retailers To Get Better | The British retailer is one of many now using predictive analytics to run their stores better. ... [+] (Photo by Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images |
| 20.12.2020 | Top Predictions For Retail 2021 | getty |
| 30.10.2020 | The Zoom Effect: Revlon Vs. Crocs | UK, Essex, Harlow, elevated view of a woman working from home in her garden using a laptop computergetty |
| 23.07.2020 | In The Race To Profitable E-Commerce, Walmart Will Win | FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013, file photo, two Wal-Mart employees walk past a sign in the ... [+] lobby at the Walmart.com office in San Bruno, Calif. Wal-Mart’s acquisition of Jet.com is accelerating its progress in e-commerce a... |
| 17.01.2020 | Could Shipping War With Walmart Force Amazon To Bid For FedEx? | FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - AUGUST 07: A FedEx delivery truck is seen on August 07, 2019 in Fort ... [+] Lauderdale, Florida. The FedEx company announced today it will stop delivering ground shipments for the Amazon company. (Photo by Joe Ra... |
| 27.10.2018 | Why Android Nearby, iBeacons, and Eddystone failed to gain traction | Apple, Google, and other tech titans once trumpeted beacons — tiny transmitters that interact with smartphones, wearables, and other nearby gadgets — as the future of retail. The consensus roughly five years ago was that radios in restauran... |
| 04.01.2018 | First Insight Unveils Price Elasticity Prediction Tool | First Insight has debuted its price elasticity prediction tool, ElastiCast. The platform aims to enable users to determine the most optimal product pricing and in turn, increase margins.
“ElastiCast takes the guesswork out of pricing decisi... |
| 06.12.2017 | Fashion Institute of Technology, First Insight Partner for Data-Focused Course | The Fashion Institute of Technology and First Insight, a leading solutions provider have partnered to offer a certification course centered on optimizing predictive analytics to inform design and merchandising decisions.
“Our students are t... |
| 25.10.2017 | Greg Petro of First Insight on Price Elasticity, Maximizing Product Costs | During his presentation, Greg Petro, chief executive officer and founder of First Insight, addressed the role of pricing within the fashion apparel and accessory categories — and how retailers and brands can optimize their strategies to mai... |
| 24.10.2017 | Risk Versus Reward: First Insight Examines Fashion’s Current Price Elasticity | First Insight has released “Decoding Price Elasticity to Unlock Revenue and Minimize Risk,” a report centered on price elasticity within the fashion apparel category. Due to shifting consumer priorities, the report discovered several areas ... |
| 21.12.2016 | The smartwatch market is running out of time — can it recover? | Apple’s Tim Cook drove headlines this month by revealing something we haven’t heard for a while in the smartwatch industry — sales are up. Back in September, the Apple Watch Series 2 put a stake in the ground, ignoring the industry approach... |
| 21.12.2016 | The smartwatch market is running out of time — can it recover? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apple’s Tim Cook drove headlines this month by revealing something we haven’t heard for a while in the smartwatch industry — sales are ... |
| 17.03.2016 | Consumers believe retailers don't understand them | Retailers have long depended on email marketing as an affordable and effective way to reach their customers, maintain loyalty and drive purchases.
On average, consumers opt-in to receive emails from two retailers and this can lead to them r... |
| 12.08.2015 | Beacons are unknown, celebrities don’t count, and Millennials prefer email for sales | Retailers, don’t get too depressed if you don’t have beacons and your competitors do.
According to a new survey from consumer analytics firm First Insight, out today, 70 percent of consumers don’t even know what they are.
The Consumer Surve... |
| 12.08.2015 | Beacons are unknown, celebrities don’t count, and Millennials prefer email for sales | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Retailers, don’t get too depressed if you don’t h... |
| 03.07.2015 | Software For Spotting Latest Fashion Trends Replaces Focus Groups | James Geddes, Tech Times 03 July 2015, 07:07 am
Fashion retailers are using new software to predict the latest fashion trends based on shopper's preferences and picks as communicated via online surveys. Formerly, the companies used focus gr... |
| 06.03.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 3/6/15
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Smartbike startup Vanhawks raised $1.6 million from Real Ventures, Simon Whitfield, Brenda Irwin and various angels.
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| 05.03.2015 | First Insight Raises $14M in Series B Financing | First Insight, a Pittsburgh, PA-based provider of a predictive analytics platform, raised $14m in a Series B financing.
Updata Partners made the investment. As part of it, Updata General Partner James Socas joined the board of First Insight... |
| 05.03.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Marketing company First Insight grabs $14M
Today First Insight, a company which calls itself a “leading provider of solution... |
| 16.01.2015 | This Smart Thermostat Was Your Favorite Gadget From CES 2015 | Honeywell’s Lyric smart thermostat was TIME readers’ favorite gadget showcased at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, , according to data from our reader poll conducted alongside predictive information platform First Insight... |
| 28.11.2014 | Our crystal ball says the top-selling smartwatch this season will be … | ‘Tis the first big season for smartwatches. Since this is also the season of predictions, VentureBeat teamed up with consumer analytics firm First Insight to crystal-ball smartwatch winners in the U.S. this holiday season.
The crystal ball ... |
| 28.11.2014 | Our crystal ball says the top-selling smartwatch this season will be … | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
‘Tis the first big season for smartwatches. Since this is also the season of predictions, VentureBeat teamed up with consumer analytics... |
| - | How a Canadian coffee roaster is replacing container ships with sailboats to decarbonize its supply chain — and cutting costs in the process | From left, Ib Bergström, the captain, Saga Bergström, the cook, Ergil Bergström, an owner, and Odd Bergström, an owner, on board the Vega cargo sailboat. Courtesy of Sail Cargo Inc.
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| - | Risk Versus Reward: First Insight Examines Fashion’s Current Price Elasticity | First Insight has released “Decoding Price Elasticity to Unlock Revenue and Minimize Risk,” a report centered on price elasticity within the fashion apparel category. Due to shifting consumer priorities, the report discovered several areas ... |
| - | Inflation may dampen the growth of organic and sustainable products | The trend: Consumers want to buy sustainable products, such as Patagonia’s merchandise made from recycled materials and organic foods. And they’re willing to spend an additional 10% (or more) on those items, per a survey conducted by First ... |
| - | Greg Petro of First Insight on Price Elasticity, Maximizing Product Costs | During his presentation, Greg Petro, chief executive officer and founder of First Insight, addressed the role of pricing within the fashion apparel and accessory categories — and how retailers and brands can optimize their strategies to mai... |
| - | TikTok's newest shopping feature is destroying the planet | TikTok's newest shopping feature is destroying the planet
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| - | Organic-loving consumers will likely keep buying sustainable food despite higher prices | A woman selects fruits and vegetables Dalibor Despotovic/Getty Images
Grocery prices are up 10% from a year ago, but some devoted foodies will keep buying organic. About four in 10 consumers who order takeout are willing to spend more on su... |
| - | First Insight to Cover All Operating Expenses for Retail Orphan Initiative Fundraiser | First Insight said today that it will donate $50,000 to cover all of the operating expenses of the Retail Orphan Initiative‘s upcoming “SuperFriday” fundraiser while also establishing the 100% Club, which will enable “all other personal and... |
| - | First Insight Unveils Price Elasticity Prediction Tool | First Insight has debuted its price elasticity prediction tool, ElastiCast. The platform aims to enable users to determine the most optimal product pricing and in turn, increase margins.
“ElastiCast takes the guesswork out of pricing decisi... |
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| - | Fashion Institute of Technology, First Insight Partner for Data-Focused Course | The Fashion Institute of Technology and First Insight, a leading solutions provider have partnered to offer a certification course centered on optimizing predictive analytics to inform design and merchandising decisions.
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