One year after examining the potential impacts of generative AI on creative industries, it’s clear that tools like those on Etsy are both useful and disruptive, leading to policy clarifications and heightened awareness of AI-generated content’s prevalence and challenges.
The world’s creative manufacturers and distributors convened at h+h Cologne in Germany, where small retail is king.
Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, sanctions are affecting the creative industry beyond Russia’s borders.
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Product sales on the craft marketplace Etsy more than doubled in 2020, to $10.3 billion making this a blockbuster year.
Mega-retailer Michaels is doing OK, but it’s not out of the woods yet.
Etsy reported $2.6 billion in sales for Q3 2020, the second-highest quarter in its history. Mask sales are cooling as holiday shopping begins.
Zines — limited-edition, DIY, often photocopied publications — never went away, per se, but are experiencing a wide-sweeping revival during the pandemic.
Craft retailer Michaels got this quarter’s sales up 11.1% over last year by going hard on e-commerce and new marketing initiatives.
Mask sales and in-person shopping restrictions drove Etsy’s gross merchandise sales through the roof during the second quarter of 2020.