We're starting to hit a point of listener saturation in the US and UK in their core markets. So, places like China and Argentina where there are still double-digit podcast listener growth are really important to them, but beyond that it's kind of hard. I wonder a lot, what is the next thing for Spotify?
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I'm going to guess that it's some tiny little pub with a boarding room somewhere in England. So I'm going to say somewhere in the 1500s, maybe. Marcus Johnson:. Close. It's not really close. You've got about 800 years further back to go before you get to... Let me say this right, the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, which is a Japanese resort not far from Mount Fuji, which has been in business since 705 AD.
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The UK and South Korea were longtime Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, in global rankings for ecommerce penetration, but both consumer cultures seem to have reached (or passed) their saturation point for digital buying. China is different though, possibly because of the energy its innovative and hypercompetitive homegrown ecommerce companies bring to the market. What are the implications?
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| Jul 14, 2023
Sales from markets outside the US—including key Amazon markets like the UK, Canada, Germany, Mexico, and India—will increase 11.6% from 2022 to $4.90 billion. To view the full forecast for US Amazon Prime Day sales, click here. Prime Day will surpass $8 billion in US ecommerce sales over the two-day period.
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| Jun 20, 2023
A study from the University of Cambridge showing basically half of UK teens feel addicted to social media. 57% of girls, 37% of boys said they felt addicted. And then the addiction spins into the question or the concerns about mental health, and you have a few groups, a few folks who are raising those alarms more so now than ever it seems.
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| Feb 29, 2024
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.
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| Oct 10, 2023
And two from the UK. Bill Fisher:. I like that you did some homework, Paul. That shocked me maybe more than the stat. Well done. That's excellent. Okay, Jason, over to you. Can you trump these guys? Jason Mander:. No pressure. So yeah, I was going to go Czech Republic, but I've thrown that one away already.
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Okay, I'm hoping that this term translates into American, otherwise this is going to be just for our UK listeners. Do you know the term to ring true? If something is to ring true? Rajiv Leventhal:. Sure. Lisa Phillips:. Mm-hmm. Marcus Johnson:. Okay. Okay, cool. All right, good. So where did that term come from is today's fact. So to ring true, so it means to appear authentic, to seem likely.
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In the UK, Getty Images is suing the text-to-image AI platform Stable Diffusion for copyright infringement, claiming the startup unlawfully copied its images. ChatGPT’s compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is also questionable. In Canada, Bill C-27 threatens to derail the country’s position as an AI leader.
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The UK 30% is done online. So the takeaway for me there, Jeremy, is stores still rule significantly and to your point, looking at where we're going to be in the future, one in $5, read the other way, four in five still in store, what's your take on this trend?
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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—up from about 75 million pre-pandemic.
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Average spending on social ads by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) rocketed 271% from 2020 to 2022, despite a sharp dip when the pandemic first hit Europe in early 2020, per a June 2022 Spendesk survey of over 4,000 SMBs in France, Germany, and the UK.
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| Jan 31, 2023
Aldi is not easy to navigate if you don't have a quarter, because you need a quarter to get the shopping cart UK style. And if you don't have a quarter, you just can't shop at Aldi. But otherwise, it's easy to navigate. It is an interesting store format. And like Becky said, it's a multi-billion dollar expansion. So yeah, I'll accept this move. Sorry, Suzy. Becky Schilling:. No, that's okay.
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| Mar 26, 2024
Then European Union, there's some in there, the UK, Indonesia, Russia, the US as well. So, yeah, the significance, the gravity of it magnified. Jacob Bourne:. Yeah, and apparently it's the biggest election year I think in decades. Marcus Johnson:. In terms of total people voting, or voting turnout in individual... Jacob Bourne:. Total people voting, yeah, and in the countries.
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