The UK follows suit: “As in the US, we’re seeing [health, personal care, and beauty ecommerce] sales growing fast at 7.6%, and that's versus a 0.6% dip in overall UK ecommerce sales this year,” said our analyst Carina Perkins.
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| Jul 18, 2023
The UK-based firm cited dwindling US revenues from its tech clientele, which led to the company slashing its annual revenue growth outlook down to 1.5% to 3% from 3% to 5%. WPP competitor Omnicom Group missed analysts' revenue forecast in its July earnings report, saying tech and telecom firms hit the brakes on their ad spend. Interpublic Group also cut its outlook.
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| Aug 8, 2023
Someone in the UK was just given a nine-year sentence for breaking into Windsor Castle with a crossbow in 2021 and declaring that he wanted to kill the queen because he claimed a chatbot had encouraged him to do so. So some of these are warnings for folks, whether they're advertisers, whether they're AI makers, that some of these do get pretty sinister and pretty dark quite quickly.
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I know the UK is a much more mature market when it comes to sports betting, and they have banned or scaled back a lot of gambling sponsorships and ads.
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In the UK, the eurozone, and Turkey, the ad spending outcomes for 2022 were not quite as bad as they appear, thanks to the weakness of the local currency against the dollar:. In the UK, 2022 total ad spending declined by 4.9% in US dollars, but in pounds sterling, spending increased by £3.33 billion.
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Self-tanning and suncare brand Bondi Sands has teamed up with beauty and fashion tech provider Perfect Corp. to offer a self-tanner virtual try-on solution across the US, the UK, Europe, and Australia. Perfect Corp. is also partnering with travel retailer Dufry to bring AR-powered makeup try-on experiences to airports around the world.
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| Jul 25, 2023
And it also depends on where in the world you are, because there's this other study that just came out, The Clinician of the Future from Elsevier, and it shows that Chinese doctors are really all set to use AI, whereas doctors in the UK and the U.S. are far less ready to trust it.
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| Sep 19, 2023
Private label brands: A “Trendy Beat” shopping section launched in the UK sold viral products under TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. “It hasn’t gotten as much attention, or drawn as much interest from consumers,” our analyst Sky Canaves said. More recently, ByteDance filed a trademark for its own publishing label, 8th Note Press, which could help the app monetize the success of its #BookTok videos.
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| Aug 4, 2023
Over 1 million people in the UK canceled their paid audio subscriptions in Q1 2022, chiefly citing money concerns, according to Kantar.
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| Dec 21, 2022
We forecast that digital ad spending will rise just 4.5% in Western Europe and 4.9% in the UK this year. The Europe turnaround came even though Facebook lost users in the region in Q2. Daily active users were flat at 307 million, and monthly active users fell to 409 million from 411 million, per Meta data. This was originally featured in the eMarketer Daily newsletter.
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Further, marketers who target and collect data from EU and UK buyers must adhere to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the highest privacy standard. As regulations increase, the appeal of contact list buying is declining, and marketers’ spending on those data providers is dropping.
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| Jan 20, 2023
Average time spent with TV was 2 hours and 56 minutes (2:56)—more than any other country tracked (The UK and Romania tied for second place, at 2:40 daily). Since 2019, US time spent with broadcast TV only increased 5 minutes. Online TV/streaming added 31 minutes since 2019. Western Europe trails North America and Latin America in time spent watching traditional TV.
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Respondents were from: UK, US, France, Spain, China, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, India, Poland, UAE, Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, and Thailand.
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| Jul 27, 2023
And so, coincidentally, that is the same flight time as the shortest flight in the world today, which is a long-established air route between two of the Orkney Islands, Westray and Papa Westray, just above Scotland. The distance is less than two miles, and the actual flight is often less than a minute. Buy a boat, Scotland. What are we doing? Who's getting on this plane? [inaudible 00:32:45].
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The news: Domino’s Pizza aims to drive additional revenues by listing its menus on Uber Eats and Postmates apps across 28 markets, including the US, UK, and Canada, per The Wall Street Journal. The pizza company’s CEO Russell Weiner told the Journal that he hopes the broader exposure will help it generate $1 billion in incremental revenues.
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| Jul 12, 2023
Carina, what does this trend look like in the UK? Is it similar? Carina Perkins:. Yes, we're seeing a similar trend in the UK.
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England [inaudible] Spain. Bring it on, Oscar. Oscar Orozco:. It's Spain versus England on Sunday at 6:00 in the morning here on the Eastern Coast. So please watch. Please support the game. Marcus Johnson:. Support England. Don't support the game. Oscar Orozco:. We'll see about that. We'll see about that. But because it's a dinner party, I mean, I want to throw a couple facts in there.
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“We’ve seen a fair amount of this kind of consolidation in the UK where other retailers are buying these brands out of administration [or bankruptcy]—not necessarily always the stores, but sometimes just the intellectual property,” said Perkins. Case study: UK retailer Next has avoided closing its own doors with the smart purchases of retailers Cath Kidston and Joules.
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| Jul 6, 2023