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| Jan 16, 2024
Source: Google; Ipsos
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| Jan 16, 2024
Source: Google; Ipsos
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| Jan 16, 2024
Source: McKinsey & Company
Despite France’s hot start to 2022, we expect it will continue to trail behind the leading European fintech hubs, the UK and Germany. UK-based and Germany-based startups raised $16.8 billion and $5.3 billion more in total venture capital funding last year than their French counterparts—a larger gap in both cases than in 2020, per a 2022 report from CB Insights.
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| Jan 19, 2022
What this means: The EU has led a global wave of regulation and penalties against Big Tech companies, with search and ad technologies coming under especially severe scrutiny, making this investigation the latest in a series of fines, legal challenges, and penalties that have plagued Big Tech in Europe. Google in particular has had it rough.
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| Mar 14, 2022
On today’s podcast episode, host Bill Fisher and our analysts Paul Briggs, Matteo Ceurvels, and Man-Chung Cheung each pitch their most dramatic predictions in their coverage regions for 2024, in hopes of securing "investment" from the other sharks. Can you be convinced to "invest" in their 2024 predictions?
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| Jan 29, 2024
Adults in the UK are spending more time than ever with digital media. Time spent watching videos online, particularly via social, is soaring.
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| Jun 6, 2022
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| Jan 15, 2024
Source: Capgemini
72% of adults in North America use their smartphone to research price comparisons while shopping in-store, making it the No. 1 type of research done on mobile devices in-store, per August 2023 1WorldSync data.
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| Dec 15, 2023
Europe: EU regulators last week urged lawmakers to consider “further analysing the use of data in AI/machine learning models and potential bias leading to discrimination and exclusion.”. UK: The Office for AI will release its white paper on governing and regulating AI in early 2022. This could lead to a shift from the government’s current sector-led approach to blanket AI-specific regulations.
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| Feb 15, 2022
In the EU: The European Central Bank (ECB) said that while eurozone banks have built up strong reserves over the past few years, and lenders stand to benefit from rising interest rates, they still must deal with a looming recession and astronomical energy prices. The ECB says banks should focus on their exposure to the energy sector and other sectors that are affected by the ongoing energy crisis.
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| Sep 20, 2022
The increased focus isn’t without reason as crippling ransomware attacks have increased by an alarming 175% in Europe in 2021. In response, banks have been shoring up their defenses to protect consumer data: Global security revenues for retail banking are expected to rise to $9.8 billion by 2024, according to GlobalData. Compliance.
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| May 12, 2022
I dust off my WhatsApp when I go to Europe because everybody in Europe uses it and I come back to the US and it just sits there and nothing happens unless I get pinged by some fraud person trying to scam me out money. So the fact it is enormously popular in markets where its hard to make money. Marcus Johnson:. I've texted you one time on WhatsApp.
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| Nov 17, 2023
French vehicle assembly plants were running at 60% capacity last October, per Automotive News Europe, and the difficulties continue in 2022. Renault, for example, announced in August 2022 that it would open a reverse assembly line, harvesting parts from used vehicles in response to the material shortage. These trends affect Germany and the UK as well.
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| Sep 19, 2022
The UK digital ad market is thriving. It will grow 11.9% this year, reaching £25.84 billion ($35.54 billion). Video will be a big contributor to this growth, as will social network spending, which is being disrupted by the likes of TikTok.
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| May 18, 2022
And then the low-cost European airline from Ireland, Ryanair Group, 168 million people. However, they were ranked third-. Max Willens:. All of them upset. Marcus Johnson:. ... third in passengers. Possibly. Third in passengers and 13th in terms of revenue. Delta was second with 170 million, so just a few more. And then they were actually the... recorded the biggest operating profit.
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| Nov 21, 2023
IP addresses are considered personal identifiable information by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Those laws ushered in a more privacy-centric era of digital advertising and, by extension, the beginning of the end of third-party cookies and mobile IDs. Will IP addresses also face deprecation?
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| Mar 29, 2023
However, the brand has committed to investing around £5 million ($6.9 million) to brick-and-mortar modernization across Europe, so it doesn’t seem like there has been an immediate financial hit. Gen X: Bringing Balance to Campaigns Will Pay Dividends. These folks have been around digital for long enough to understand the benefits, but it’s not the be-all-and-end-all of their day-to-day lives.
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| Feb 24, 2022
Digital video viewership continues to rise in the UK, despite already high penetration. A thirst for subscription content hasn’t quite been sated, but with a cost-of-living crisis looming, ad-supported options might garner interest among consumers.
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| Mar 29, 2022
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Source: data.ai (formerly App Annie)
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Source: data.ai (formerly App Annie)
UK regulators block Microsoft’s attempt to consolidate a gaming behemoth, sending Activision Blizzard stock spiraling. Microsoft faces a tough antitrust fight.
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| Apr 27, 2023
ES: Mounting tensions between Russia and Ukraine could leave necessary chip components in short supply: The region produces neon and palladium, which could further choke chip supplies if unavailable.
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| Feb 15, 2022
TikTok is the fastest-growing social platform amid slow overall social network user gains in the UK. Facebook remains the dominant force, but as its user base ages, its grip will begin to slip.
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| Jan 18, 2022
Proximity and peer-to-peer mobile payments are on the rise in the UK, thanks to high user adoption of mobile and banking. However, growth is slow, which means that wallet providers looking to crack the market will need to get creative.
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| Oct 29, 2021