The UK is home to some of the most voracious digital video viewers, but planning a campaign across the plethora of video platforms is getting more and more complicated. An increase in ad-supported on-demand platforms is adding to the complexity.
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| Nov 7, 2022
UK consumers’ hearty appetite for ecommerce hasn’t extended to social shopping. But there is strong potential for growth as TikTok triggers a new wave of community-driven commerce.
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| Nov 3, 2022
This fourth annual study ranks 10 UK banks and building societies based on their support of 42 emerging mobile banking features, weighted by consumer demand.
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| Nov 2, 2022
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| Nov 2, 2022
It has also introduced three-day delivery on selected products in Spain and free shipping for standalone products in countries including France, Germany, Poland, Spain, and the UK. TikTok Shop is driving social commerce in the UK. TikTok has overtaken Instagram for social purchasing in the UK.
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| Apr 18, 2024
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| Sep 12, 2023
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| Sep 12, 2023
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The UK has seen the steepest decline in cross-border buying. By the end of 2024, the number of people making cross-border purchases in the UK will have fallen by 16.8% since 2020. That’s largely due to the impact of Brexit, which added to the cost and complexity of shopping from countries in the EU. Spain and Italy are bucking the trend.
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| Feb 15, 2024
View our forecasts for grocery retail sales in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain.
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| Mar 1, 2024
The Western Europe coverage in the Global Media Intelligence Report includes poll results from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.
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| Oct 20, 2022
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We will keep a close eye on the UK regulator’s final decision regarding this ad—it could set a precedent for what’s allowed in financial services marketing in the UK going forward.
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| Feb 12, 2024
Vanquis’ latest acquisition will help UK consumers with cost-of-living crisis: Money-saving app Snoop shows the potential of the nexus of AI and open banking.
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| Aug 2, 2023
Part of that's been driven by the cost of living crisis, but I think also players such as Klarna are really pushing it in the UK. Buy Now, Pay Later volumes expected to account for 12.1% of UK E-commerce payments by 2025.
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| Mar 12, 2024
This is in contrast to retail ecommerce sales, where Canada’s lagging position against the US and UK is less pronounced and the gap has closed over the past decade. View the forecasts for click-and-collect penetration in Canada, the US, and the UK. Grocery is fueling greater click-and-collect adoption. Grocery likely accounts for the majority of click-and-collect sales.
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| Apr 3, 2024
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.
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| Apr 11, 2024
In the UK, which has lost over 28% of its ATMs since 2016, legislators have proposed new regulations that aim to guarantee that no person or business will be more than three miles from withdrawal/deposit facilities. Ireland also proposed a new bill that aims to ensure everyone around the country has access to cash.
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| Feb 5, 2024
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| Sep 7, 2022
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The news: Meta has announced it will terminate Facebook's news feature for users in the US and Australia in April—part of a broader strategy to phase out the News Tab, a trend that began with its withdrawal in the UK, France, and Germany in recent months.
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| Mar 4, 2024
The US open banking rollout isn’t looking like the UK rollout: While UK FIs worried about open banking prior to its 2018 implementation, their lobbying efforts against it were relatively subdued. Though some of the changes conflicted with their financial interests, the UK’s large banks “showed signs of embracing open banking,” according to the UK Competition and Markets Authority.
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| Jan 10, 2024
Yeah, for sure, and we've seen a similar trend in the UK. It's the biggest online beauty retailer in the UK and it's been interesting how the retailers here have reacted. So Superdrug, which is another sort of high street drugstore, has actually just launched, recently, an online marketplace.
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| Apr 10, 2024
Mobile commerce is increasing in share of total retail sales in both the US and the UK. In the US, mCommerce will make up about 7.5% of US retail sales this year, 7.5%. In the UK, that's about 10 percentage points higher at 17% of total UK retail sales. That's according to our forecast. In both places mobile adoption is definitely growing in double digits in the US, single digits in the UK.
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| Feb 7, 2024
The UK has not gravitated toward podcasts as much as the US, Australia, and Canada. The UK will rank a solid fifth in podcast penetration among the 14 countries that we break out globally, but with only 29.8% of internet users partaking, it will trail the other English-speaking countries (and Spain) by a wide margin.
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| Nov 2, 2023