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On today's podcast episode, we discuss why shopping on Amazon is changing, the proposal of ad-free TikTok and Instagram subscriptions, how much Amazon's AI chatbot shopping assistant can move the needle for customers, whether Toys-R-Us can make a successful comeback, the share of women in leadership roles and more. Tune in to the discussion with our vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian and analysts Blake Droesch and Paul Verna.

The US retail giant has opened up its third-party marketplace and invited sellers from China, Canada, Japan, the UK, and other countries to join. It now offers around 400 million SKUs from marketplace sellers鈥攗p from about 75 million pre-pandemic.

In 2024, 蘑菇AV data partner GWI started offering data on respondents ages 65 and older in seven markets: the US, the UK, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Israel, and Japan. For ease of comparison, our report features data for respondents ages 16 to 64 in all countries. But we have included the data for respondents 65 and older for those seven countries here as a supplement.

So taking the UK as an example, London is the epicenter of most agency brand, any kind of marketer activity. London accounts for a little over 10% of the population. There are big cities around the rest of the UK, but London's the only megacity in the UK. Meanwhile, over a fifth of the UK population lives in rural areas.

TikTok has already rolled out full-fledged marketplaces inside its main app in the UK and Saudi Arabia that offer that type of 鈥渇ull-custody鈥� model, and it aims to launch a similar service in North America in the next few months.

Many consumers in Latin America now start on retailers鈥� digital properties to research products, find inspiration, and search for deals鈥攁 shift also seen in countries like the US, the UK, and France. Mainstream search engines鈥� dominance is no more.

Platform users can also access other Amazon 辫谤辞诲耻肠迟蝉鈥攍颈办别 Amazon Connect to create a call center, Amazon Cognito for customer security, and Amazon Pinpoint for client-relationship management. BaaS bonanza: We estimate that BaaS revenues will nearly triple from $2.3 billion in 2022 to $5.8 billion in 2026, per our forecasts.

Late last year UK-based Revolut made moves into Mexico and Latin America by naming a new CEO to head the entry into the market and by launching remittance services between the US and Mexico.

By contrast, US retail sales rose 1.3% MoM in October, thanks in part to Amazon, Walmart, and others pushing high-profile promotions as they attempted to pull holiday demand earlier than ever, per the US Commerce Department. On an annualized basis, retail sales jumped 8.3%, outpacing the rate of inflation.

Respondents were from: UK, US, France, Spain, China, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, India, Poland, UAE, Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, and Thailand.

A number of signs point to weak sales this holiday season in the UK and continental Europe. Meanwhile, US consumer confidence in October fell to a three-month low, per the Confidence Board. That data point is often correlated with a pullback in spending.

Approximately 1,000 respondents were surveyed in each country: Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the US.

So it's a Great British Bake Off style episode you'll be pleased to learn, or not, but you have no choice. In today's show, our takers or bakers will be cooking up two trends, one social, one creator for 2025. We'll start with the social trend for our mains. Very clever. And then the creator trend as dessert. So social trends is where we begin. These will be our mains dishes.

Respondents were from United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Thailand.

On today鈥檚 podcast, we discuss the 蘑菇AV report, 9 Pivotal Shifts in AI, Regulation, and Advertising That Will Change the Business Landscape. Our analysts will compete in the Great Behind The Numbers Take Off 鈥� Top Trends edition, borrowing from the television show, The Great British Bake Off. In the Take Off, we will talk in-depth about how retail media, social and AI will undercut traditional search and will governments protect children from digital ad giants. Listen to the conversation with Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Senior Analyst Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf, and Analyst Bill Fisher. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.

That鈥檚 less than one-third of US users and one-sixth of UK users. The shift: The entry of global BNPL giants will triple payment value to C$9.05 billion ($6.95 billion) by 2025. Big names like Affirm and Afterpay have started pushing their presence in the market. Among converts are credit card holders, 17% of whom would consider using BNPL instead of their card for a large purchase, per a 2022 J.D.

My question there is how can they compete with competition or are they seeing competition from cheap Chinese goods that are listed on Temu, SHEIN, and Amazon? Sky Canaves:. So I think they have the brand advantage. So Amazon has brands, but Temu and SHEIN really, it's basically commodified goods.

Twenty-three percent of US and UK consumers said sustainability is a brand bonus when buying, according to an October 2022 survey from Coveo and Arlington Research. This was originally featured in the Retail Daily newsletter. For more retail insights, statistics, and trends, subscribe here.

At least 1,000 respondents were surveyed from each of the following countries: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, the UK, and the US. Data is also from the June 2022 Bond report titled "The Loyalty Report" in partnership with Visa. Approximately 17,000 US consumers were surveyed each year of the survey.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss the significance of the Amazon-Anthropic deal and what's possible now that ChatGPT can talk to you and see things. "In Other News," we talk about whether Bard AI integrations can help Google catch up to the competition and why one company is producing 10,000 humanoid robots. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jacob Bourne and Gadjo Sevilla.

Quality issues and plagiarism are potential weaknesses of AI, according to 65% of US and UK content and creative professionals in an October 2023 survey by Ascend2 and Canto. Retailers must balance hyper-personalization with privacy. Implement robust data privacy policies. Retailers must keep customer data safe and comply with privacy laws and regulations.

Follow the leader: Fast-fashion companies like Boohoo and Zara began implementing returns fees earlier this year in the UK. (But beware of this strategy, as it may result in customer blowback.). Ahead of the holidays, Walmart has added curbside returns and returns pickup from home to its offerings, as well as extending its returns policy through January 31, 2023.

They say Netflix and Amazon, almost certainly, probably some combination of Disney and Hulu. Obviously they're not including YouTube in this grouping. So Netflix, Amazon, Disney, and Hulu. And then Apple remaining a niche participant but appears to be feeling its way into a long-term, albeit money losing presence, which it can afford to do.