TikTok-owner ByteDance has launched a fashion website called If Yooou that’s currently shipping to customers in the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, and France. Pinduoduo unveiled an ecommerce site called Temu that sells products from multiple categories like sports and electronics, aimed at US customers, per CNBC.

By 2024, we expect Germany, Spain, and Sweden to follow suit. In Spain, for example, an estimated 19.5 million residents will check in to Instagram monthly in 2022; Facebook will claim just over 20 million users. Instagram is way ahead of TikTok and Snapchat in Italy. Fully 69.0% of social network users will use Instagram in 2022, though growth is now incremental.

This finding is based on an IBM survey of 3,000 Gen Z bank customers and 750 C-suite banking executives in the UK, Germany, and Spain. What do banks think?

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.

The streamer introduced additional fees for “sub accounts” in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain. Users in those countries can create two sub accounts for additional users for a monthly fee per user. Sub accounts can transfer their profiles to new individual accounts to keep their personalized recommendations and viewing history.

Highly penetrated markets like the US, UK, and Spain will have the lowest growth this year. Language is the main driver of podcast adoption. The most reliable predictor of a country’s enthusiasm for podcasts is the extent to which its population can make use of the vast global archive of English- and Spanish-language podcast content.

In France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK—Western Europe’s five leading markets—Google and Meta will continue to garner over two-thirds of digital ad spending. Google’s net ad revenues in those markets will increase 11.6% this year, driven by high engagement with search and YouTube. Meta ad revenues in the region will rise 14.1% in 2022.

Spain: CaixaBank recently said it would charge customers €2 ($2.28) to use services at branches that can otherwise be accessed online, per Reuters. The announcement follows a report from Banco de España showing a long-term rise in branchless rural areas.

Methodology: Data is from a February 2023 Metapack report titled "Ecommerce Delivery Benchmark." 8,000+ adults ages 18+ in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US were surveyed by Retail Economics during November 2022.

Travel check-ins, dining reservations, and other notifications in the messaging app can be sent directly to Wallet, starting with partnerships with Vietnam Airlines, Spain-based Renfe, and reservation service TagMe. Save company IDs. Google will add support for corporate IDs later this year. Google’s opportunity: These features can resolve pain points and meet consumer demands.

In the UK, it will be called GoHenry, and in French and Spain it will keep the name PixPay, which was established through GoHenry’s acquisition of PixPay last year. Prior to the acquisition, Acorns tapped into the US youth market in 2020 with Acorns Early, which provides investing opportunities for kids.

On Thursday Amazon filed a criminal complaint in Italy and a lawsuit in Spain. Together with 10 other lawsuits it recently launched in the US, the efforts target bad actors who Amazon claims operate more than 11,000 websites and social media groups that attempt to orchestrate fake reviews on Amazon and other stores in exchange for money or free products.

The leading American chip manufacturer is making inroads in Europe and has investments in France, Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Spain, where it expects to spend $90 million in funding over the next 10 years, per The New York Times.

Other car markets approaching the threshold include Canada, Australia, and Spain. EV sales grew 160% YoY in 2021 and are expected to grow exponentially in 2022. If the US continues its aggressive shift to EVs, approximately a quarter of new car sales could be EVs by 2025, beating forecasts by two years.

The retail giant launched Amazon Business in the US in 2015, before expanding into Germany, Britain, Italy, Spain, and France. “We believe that we’ve only scratched the surface of what’s possible to date, and plan to keep building the features our business customers tell us they need and want,” wrote Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in his letter to shareholders.

Both surveys were conducted during March 8-24, 2023 in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, the UK, and the US. Twilio is a provider of communication and authentication technology for software apps.

Block already lets Cash App users send money between the UK and US, but it may expand the service to other markets, like Spain. Dorsey called out Block’s acquisition of Spanish P2P payment app Verse, saying that Block would use Verse to inform its next moves.

Amex will focus on bringing new merchants into its acceptance network in key countries like France, Italy, and Spain. Powering growth with technology and customer experience. Last year, Amex’s tech investments accounted for 3.8% of company revenues. It plans to increase its competitive advantage by building out digital capabilities for travel as consumers scratch their pandemic travel itch.

In September, Starling said it would expand its BaaS business to continental Europe starting with France, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands. Monese announced earlier this month that it’s jumping into BaaS, with customization choices for clients in various countries. Australian neobank Volt has shifted focus to BaaS amid upheaval in the country’s consumer neobanking market.

The news: Samsung relaunched Samsung Wallet for Galaxy users in the US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Users will be able to store payment cards, loyalty and rewards cards, transit tickets, COVID-19 vaccination cards, and select identification documents like driver's licenses.

This year alone, Square moved into Spain, Ireland, and France and also expanded its product offerings in Canada and the UK. These expansion efforts can help Square compete with PayPal, which has built a substantial global merchant base, and also increase the company’s revenue potential.

For example, British fashion retailer Primark plans to invest 100 million euros ($104.9 million) to open new stores and refurbish existing ones in Spain, its second-largest market, as it seeks to appeal to shoppers looking for a bargain, according to The Business of Fashion. There are some reasons for optimism.

The news: Meta launched its metaverse platform Horizon Worlds in Spain and France last week. But what would have been a celebratory occasion for Meta instead turned into embarrassment after a commemorative virtual selfie from CEO Mark Zuckerberg was widely mocked for its unappealing visuals.

Adsmovil, a Hispanic mobile advertising and digital media firm, has launched Nuestra.TV, its first-ever ad-supported streaming video service aimed at “bicultural, bilingual" Hispanic viewers, including English and Spanish content from the US, Latin America, and Spain. Zoom out: Increasingly, major streaming players understand that catering to Hispanic viewers makes business sense.