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Chen at Rest at World saying that Lemon8 has also been compared to Xiaohongshu, the Chinese social media and e-commerce platform with over 200 million MAUs known as the country's lifestyle bible. And so I think ByteDance does still believe in it, and TikTok could in theory still get banned, right, Debbie? So maybe they do need a backup if that happens. Debra Aho Williamson:. Good points.

Mytheresa knows what luxury shoppers want: The luxury ecommerce retailer grew sales by 7.6%, bucking the global luxury slowdown.

TikTok Shop joins Amazon in holding a July sale: The marketplace hopes exclusive discounts on brands like L鈥橭r茅al and live-shopping events will boost GMV.

We鈥檙e showing some strength in retail ecommerce thanks to our internal assumption that the US is going to successfully achieve something of a soft landing, that inflation is going to get, by the second half, somewhat under control, and that fears of a recession are going to recede at least somewhat in the US market, leading to a very marginal rebound in the outlook for ecommerce 辞惫别谤补濒濒.鈥�.

惭别虫颈肠辞鈥檚 ecommerce market is dominated by players like Mercado Libre, Amazon, Walmart, and Liverpool, offering TikTok Shop plenty of competition in a high-growth growth market. Sources. Associated Press. CNBC. The Economist. The Information. MediaPost. NPR. Politico. South China Morning Post. Wall Street Journal.

Areas with strong ecommerce potential include beauty ecommerce resale and rental, off-price, and limited-edition collaborations with non-luxury brands.

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Shein stumbles under UK regulators鈥� scrutiny: The ecommerce platform failed to relieve concerns about forced labor in its supply chain as it prepares for a more challenging operating environment.

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On today's episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss what TikTok's flywheel looks like, its latest efforts to build out its own shopping platform, and what the social network has that Meta doesn't. Then, for "Pop-Up Rankings," we rank our top four existing TikTok copycat apps. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analysts Sky Canaves and Jasmine Enberg.

As engagement continues to shift to digital channels, QVC is hoping to shift with it: The company is looking to reinvent itself as a 鈥渓ive social shopping company,鈥� with the aim of generating $1.5 billion in run-rate revenues from social platforms within three years, according to a March letter to shareholders.

Amazon dominates in the US, but Mercado Libre is a major player in Latin America, and in China, Alibaba, JD.com, and Meituan contribute to ad inventory, our Worldwide Retail Media Ad Spending Forecast 2024 report noted. 5. Retail media will make up more than half of US search ad spend growth. Retail media will drive US search ad spend growth in the US in 2024 and beyond.

But that said, we have a whole new wave of e-commerce marketplace players moving into the US in a big way and trying to shake things up. I think they will have some impact. These new players have their roots in China.

Ad spending devoted to ecommerce is the reason why the retail industry will account for more than a fifth of total digital ad spending in the UK this year. Proportionally, though, retail ad spending has been in stasis thanks to a dip in ecommerce spending.

That the company would consider allowing other brands to capitalize on its own competitive advantage shows how pressured the retailer is by Temu鈥檚 well-funded rise and Amazon鈥檚 maneuverings to maintain its ecommerce dominance. A supply chain offering could go a long way toward improving Shein鈥檚 margins, which were just 3.5% in 2022鈥攏early three times lower than Inditex鈥檚 in the same period.

After its US launch in September, TikTok Shop faces its first holiday season, heating up competition in the social commerce space.

But reports of declining overall sales in China brought Apple shares down 1.3% the day after it reported its earnings. Wearables revenue dropped 3.3%, which could be due in part to declining sales of its Vision Pro headset.

罢颈办罢辞办鈥檚 ecommerce push could be driving down engagement: Users are steering clear of Shop posts as the platform struggles to clean up the marketplace experience.

It continued its US expansion by shipping more apparel and home goods items to US warehouses from China to speed up delivery times, partnered with fellow fast-fashion brand Forever 21 on a co-branded clothing line and a physical pop-up store, and filed for an IPO.

Over the past few years, Walmart has opened its marketplace to international merchants from China, Canada, Japan, and the UK, according to our US Retail Ecommerce Marketplaces Forecast 2023 report. Now, the marketplace offers around 400 million SKUs from marketplace sellers, up from 75 million pre-pandemic, per our report.

So looking to China, Alibaba, Taobao, big e-commerce platform, they have a pretty good model they introduced a few years ago with the pandemic. They really had to make sure that seniors could use mobile apps for e-commerce as well. They added features like voice shopping and simplified navigation and more support features.

The big takeaway: As TikTok prepares a large-scale ecommerce push in North America, it is competing with Temu, Shein, as well as Amazon. That鈥檚 forcing it to look for ways to stand out in an environment where Temu also offers a full-custody model and Shein is waiving commissions on a selective basis. However, in the push to grow its merchant base, it may be entering a race to the bottom.