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Traditional in-store activations tied to events like Black Friday are becoming increasingly crowded and predictable. To connect more meaningfully with consumers, brands are rethinking the retail calendar to engage shoppers year-round.

But I think as well, it's interesting in the UK we've really... I felt like the Olympics just keep gaining momentum apart from that strange pandemic year. And it's been since we hosted it here, so since the 2012 games, I think a lot more people tuned in then because it was Olympics happening in the UK and people got really interested in it, the UK did quite well.

Yeah, I'm British. I lived in America for 17 years, but I'm back in the UK. I paid for college with websites. I did a physics degree at Cambridge, but I focused specifically on rowing. And I paid for college with websites and a bit of rough labor and stuff during the summers, and it worked out very well and it turned out that I could turn that into my job. (02:37):.

Thirty-one percent of Gen Zers surveyed by Censuswide and Tink in the UK鈥攚here open banking rules are already in effect鈥攕aid their bank was at risk of losing them as a customer if it didn鈥檛 upgrade its digital tools and services. Gen Zers said competitors could win their business by offering tailored support for meeting financial goals (49%) or tools to manage spending (48%).

By 2030, mobile gaming revenues worldwide will total $195 billion, according to GlobalData research. 86% of US and UK players engage with mobile games at least once per week, and 53% play daily, per Activision Blizzard Media. Use this chart:. Make the case for expanding advertising to include gaming. Consider selling branded virtual goods in mobile games.

And back with us from the UK is Senior Analyst Carina Perkins. Hey Carina. Carina Perkins (01:00):. Hi, Sara. Good to be on as always. Sara Lebow (01:02):. Good to have you. Okay, let's get into AI. Back in December, US digital retailers said generative AI would affect their business this year more than any other trend. That's according to data from Bolt Inc.

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Amazon plans to open more Just Walk Out stores this year than ever before, adding to over 170 third-party locations at airports, stadiums, hospitals, and more in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada. In July, the company also announced updates to Just Walk Out that boosts accuracy even in the face of camera obstructions, poor lighting conditions, and unpredictable shopping behaviors.

Here are five charts that size social network usage on a worldwide level by platform and by country and region.

Return to office comes for the ad industry: Publicis laid off hundreds of employees who didn鈥檛 comply with RTO. How is the rest of the Big Four approaching it?

Brands and retailers need to understand what customers expect from the ecommerce experience鈥攁nd how to deliver on it. This infopack provides the most relevant information to help you navigate the opportunities in ecommerce.

The countries surveyed were Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US.

And in the UK I just learned while researching earlier, they have Veganuary, maybe I'm butchering that term, but where you can try being vegan for a month. And I think there's not just an emphasis on resolutions or major life changes around the new year, but some people just want to have a reset after the holidays and take a break from the indulgences.

Only 18% of ChatGPT users in the US, Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan and UK use it weekly or more, per Reuters Institute and the University of Oxford data. Google remains deeply embedded in consumer habits and devices as the default search option. SearchGPT currently requires users to go to a separate site, adding friction compared with built-in search bars. 2.

Looking at how its users are doing, not great, reporting from the Financial Times notes, according to similar web data, active daily users in the UK have dropped from 8 million to less than six in the past year. Most of that fall coming after Mr. Musk made comments about the summer riots. Over the same period, X's active users in the US have fallen by about a fifth.

According to The Verge, users in Canada and the UK began to receive prompts earlier this month stating that July the 13th was the last day that viewers on this plan could continue watching content. Paul, what will this mean for the Netflix subscription landscape in Canada? Paul Briggs (05:49):. Yeah, my sense is that it'll have a marginal impact.

It's Great British Bake Off style for today's episodes in which our takers, bakers, will be cooking up one trend each for you. Three rounds. Signature take, the how it will technically play out challenge, and the show stopping arguments. Let's meet the contestants predictions. So Ross, and then Paul, in a sentence, what are you going to be baking for us today? Ross, you go first. Ross Benes:.