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As of 2022, UK consumers had used BNPL in the past 30 days at 1.7 times the rate of US consumers and almost six times the rate of Canadians, per April 2022 Paysafe data. The shift: BNPL innovation drives its payment share forward. BNPL blends the flexibility of credit, short repayment terms, and app-based shopping into a simple, easy user experience.

Affirm will need to expand its partnerships with the likes of Amazon and Shopify to the UK to gain a significant footing and capitalize on these growth opportunities.

Collaborations that promote interoperability and user convenience are key; one example is Amazon and Google鈥檚 agreement allowing Alexa and Google Assistant to coexist on a single smart speaker.

Retail is challenging Big Tech for dominance in the top brand rankings in Canada鈥攚ith the added benefit of affiliated media networks. Loblaw Companies, the national grocer and lifestyle chain of retail banners, launched Loblaw Media in 2019 to target its more than 18 million PC Optimum loyalty program members, according to our Retail Media in Canada 2023 report. Listen to the full episode.

Netflix phases out Basic plan amid ad-supported regrets: The company鈥檚 approach to lifting ad-tier subs puts it far behind Amazon.

Chase is doing it based on what you actually buy across all of the different retailers that you purchase with compared to Amazon who does it based on what you've been purchasing and looking at On Amazon, chase has already executed 30 day ad campaigns for Air Canada, solo Stove, blue Bottle, and Whataburger. So they claim that the brands have seen a lift and have gotten traction with those ads.

Amazon. Amazon debuted a 24/7 shoppable programming through Amazon Live, a free ad-supported TV channel on Prime Video and Freevee. Viewers are able to shop in real time from shows led by brands such as Tastemade and The Bump, as well as stars from 鈥淰anderpump Rules鈥� and 鈥淭he Real Housewives of Atlanta鈥� through an app, streamlining the discovery-to-checkout journey.

The respondents were from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US. Additionally, 800 online sellers in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK were surveyed during the same period.

The list of backtracking countries included numerous key markets: Brazil; Canada; five markets in Western Europe (the UK, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy); and five markets in Asia-Pacific (South Korea, Australia, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Vietnam). Before 2022, this kind of backtracking had never happened before anywhere.

The proliferation of Chinese brands on Amazon created an opening for Shein and others to connect consumers more directly to China-based manufacturers at a lower cost. Lower prices are a powerful and sticky lure. Inflation remains top of mind among price-sensitive US consumers.

Searching on Google or Amazon is far from being intermediated by social search. US adults are still more likely to start on Amazon or a search engine to find products, per Jungle Scout. But many are turning to social media for other types of searches, such as:. Things to do. Over half (55%) of US consumers search for restaurants, per a 2022 survey by Frontier Communications.

So I think it is happening, but it's just the format and environment it's best suited for at present is not really what Amazon had imagined.

Essentially, it's Amazon, but you can click and collect, which you can kind of do already, but they could own it. Marcus Johnson:.

TikTok takes No. 3 in Canada. In Canada, TikTok will beat out both Snapchat and Twitter this year, becoming the country鈥檚 third-most used social platform. And just like in Latin America, Facebook and Twitter are losing users in Canada. Meta still accounts for nearly a quarter (23.8%) of digital ad spend in Canada, but that share is dropping as Facebook loses relevance among younger users.

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.

An outage hit 19 of Cloudflare鈥檚 data centers, resulting in Amazon, Twitch, AWS, Steam, Coinbase, Telegram, Discord, DoorDash, GitLab, and others going dark for some users. Cloudflare鈥檚 outage affected roughly 50% of all global HTTP requests handled by the content delivery network. July.

US retail marketplace ecommerce sales will grow 11.4% to reach $428.30 billion this year, per our forecast. Because Amazon (73.4%) and eBay (8.2%) will rake in the majority of those sales, smaller marketplaces like Shein, Michaels, and Wayfair are getting creative and taking the battle for sales in-store.

While Netflix and Amazon built big early leads in the subscription OTT market, consumers have shown they have the appetite (and disposable income) to pay for multiple streaming services. A TiVo survey of adults in the US and Canada in Q2 2022 found that the average monthly bill for video content was $178.13, up from $169.65 in Q4 2021.

Netflix began testing its new password restrictions in parts of Latin America in March 2022 and has since expanded them officially to Canada, New Zealand, Spain, and Portugal. Netflix anticipates cancellation backlash in the near term鈥攁s do we鈥攂ut expects numbers to eventually rebound in both memberships and revenues based on its experience in Canada.

Amazon launched Rufus, an AI-powered shopping assistant that can answer product questions, provide comparisons, and make recommendations. Zalando launched a fashion assistant powered by ChatGPT that can help customers find products via a conversational interface. Technology firms are also launching genAI tools for retailers.

Searching on Google or Amazon is far from being intermediated by social search. US adults are still more likely to start on Amazon or a search engine to find products, per Jungle Scout. But many are turning to social media for other types of searches, such as:. Things to do. Over half (55%) of US consumers search for restaurants, per a 2022 survey by Frontier Communications.

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.

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

In several other countries鈥擝razil, Canada, Germany, and the US鈥攖he category has historically accounted for low levels of online purchases. But in Argentina, it will be the third-biggest category, after apparel and accessories, and represent 13.8% of all digital retail spending this year.