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Triplets, quads, and other multi-baby births are getting rarer. The number of IVF treatments has more than doubled in the last decade, but triplets are increasingly uncommon in the US. According to figures from the National Center for Health Statistics, cited in a new report from the CDC, triplet and higher-order multiple births have fallen by 62% since 1998, with the decline rising to 79% for births with 4+ babies. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/ebBQuapr

Google parent company Alphabet revealed that its Google Cloud business—which includes servers, computing, analytics, and other enterprise IT solutions—continues to reap the rewards from the AI gold rush, with revenues rising 35% year over year. The continued dominance of Google is enabling the company to take some very expensive swings on nascent technologies, some of which are starting to make a splash. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/eP3eAMca

We apparently still haven't hit peak podcast—and now, the relatively young media format is becoming an increasingly major player in the election cycle. As one example, thousands of Donald Trump supporters were left waiting at a rally in Michigan last week after the Republican candidate rearranged his schedule to record a three-hour interview with Joe Rogan. The Trump episode has a good chance of becoming the most-watched video on Rogan's YouTube channel, having already racked up 34 million views in just three days. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/evqAXk8H

Are print magazines having their vinyl records moment? At its peak in 2007, annual advertising revenues from print publications were as high as $19.5 billion in the US. Since then, every following year has brought in less advertising revenue than the one before. But just like film cameras, bookstores, and vinyl records, print media is seeing something of a revival, and established magazines are rebranding to more specialized luxury “leisure products”. Read more: https://lnkd.in/en7xJscd

The energy drink market remains as hot as ever—and everyone is trying to get a piece. Now Keurig Dr Pepper is joining the fray. The company announced it's set to acquire 8-year-old energy-drink-maker Ghost, in a deal worth more than $1 billion. Marking Keurig’s biggest deal since buying Dr Pepper Snapple Group in 2018, the company will put down an initial investment of ~$990 million for a 60% ownership stake, before acquiring the other 40% in 2028. https://lnkd.in/eeRDYniX

Miami tops the list of cities worldwide at risk of a housing bubble. The annual UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index for 2024, which analyzes residential property prices in 25 major cities worldwide, revealed that Miami’s soaring housing market had the highest bubble risk with an index score of 1.79 — beating Tokyo and Zurich for the top spot. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ebQSHgp3

The economics of Netflix aren’t what they used to be—they’re way better. Going against the grain of what some of us might feel—which is that we’re just one night of frustrated Netflix scrolling away from canceling the service—the company’s latest earnings reveal that it’s healthier than ever. Netflix just reported another quarter of subscriber gains, taking its global total to almost 283 million, and with user numbers in all four of the company’s major regions trending up in the last 12 months. Full story: https://lnkd.in/gYYS_5ff

Hate it when you get delayed at the airport? The latest Air Travel Consumer Report offers some best practices for avoiding delays—and which airlines are most and least prone to be running behind. Full story: https://lnkd.in/e3BjWGrx

Been at your job for 10+ years? That’s increasingly unusual. The latest BLS data on employee tenure shows that the number of American adults stepping down from long-term careers is stepping up. In 2024, the total percentage of employees who had been with their current employer for 10 years or more fell to just 30.2% — down 3% from only a decade prior. The same report found that the median years of tenure at a current employer was 3.9 years as of January — that’s the lowest figure on record for 22 years. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/eXuQJS2Y

Across the globe, one societal trend is beginning to loom larger than any other: falling birth rates. America’s total fertility rate hasn’t been at the replacement level of 2.1 since 2007, after peaking in the late 50s during the Baby Boom, and stood at 1.62 in 2023, by the UN’s count. It may be easy to blame a rough economy and recent inflation woes for the decline in US birth rates, but this trend has been decades in the making. More than anything, it seems that social change is what's causing the "baby bust." And the US is not alone. The Lancet has estimated that, by 2050, more than three-quarters of countries worldwide will not be able to sustain their population size over time. A deep dive on our population problem: https://lnkd.in/e75B8e2e