However, other shopping events—like Hot Sale in Argentina and Mexico, or Father’s Day in Brazil—have grown in popularity, giving retailers a sales boost in Q2 and Q3. Key Highlights. Consumers’ new spending habits have diminished Q4’s importance as a revenue driver.
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| Jun 29, 2022
The news: Western Union partnered with Argentina-based online marketplace MercadoLibre to enable digital remittances in Mexico, according to Reuters. Recipients in Mexico can collect Western Union remittances from the US via Mercado Pago, MercadoLibre’s Latin American digital payment platform.
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Yet large swaths of the population remain underserved, meaning there are huge user acquisition opportunities in the region: 75% of transactions in Argentina and 80% in Mexico are still conducted in cash due to lack of card acceptance. Investors are eagerly pouring money into startups that can alleviate these pain points and become big local winners.
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| Nov 17, 2021
Its 32.8% share of total retail ecommerce sales this year will be 10.5 percentage points higher than in neighboring Argentina. Despite faster sales growth in categories like food and beverage and furniture and home furnishings, we expect its share to remain consistent through 2026. Auto and parts sales’ share is remarkably higher in Brazil than in more developed economies.
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The fintech super-app Ualá raised the largest private investment round in Argentina ever, at $350 million. The number of rounds in Latin America is also higher than ever. And a bigger chunk of funding is going to later-stage startups as the fintech ecosystem grows. What’s the opportunity? There’s enormous latent demand for fintech services in Latin America.
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| Jan 25, 2022
The news: Argentina-based ecommerce company Mercado Libre launched its own digital currency in Brazil, with plans for it to extend throughout Latin America, per CoinDesk. More on this: The digital currency, Mercado Coin, will be available to Mercado Libre’s 80 millions users in Brazil by the end of August.
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| Aug 24, 2022
Yet large swaths of the population remain underserved, meaning there are huge user acquisition opportunities in the region: 75% of transactions in Argentina and 80% in Mexico are still conducted in cash due to lack of card acceptance. Investors are eagerly pouring money into startups that can alleviate these pain points and become big local winners.
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| Nov 16, 2021
India and an inflation-skewed Argentina will round out the top five, and two more Southeast Asian countries—Malaysia and Thailand—will find their way into top 10. Indonesia, India, and Brazil will be the top growth stories among big countries. Together, these three markets will produce nearly $230 billion in retail ecommerce sales this year, nearly double the rest of the top 10 combined.
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| Jul 29, 2022
Penetration is 25.5% in Canada, ahead of Brazil, the UK, Argentina, and the US. Twitter is the only social platform with more male users than female. According to Reuters, 25% of male respondents were users, compared with just 15% of females. Other platforms are heavily weighted to females: For TikTok, the shares are 22% for females and 10% for males, and Snapchat has a similar ratio.
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This is the Friday show that gets emailed by Paul Daley reminding it that Argentina won the World Cup. I'm your non-Argentinian host, Marc ... That actually happens, literally every day. I'm your non-Argentinian host, Marcus Johnson. In today's show, is it time for Google to spin off YouTube? Paul Verna:.
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Argentina: 26.9%. UK: 25.0%. Italy: 24.3%. Spain: 24.0%. France: 23.1%. Germany: 20.2%. Japan: 18.6%. How Social Commerce Stacks Up Across the Social Platforms. “Social commerce” is an umbrella term for a variety of different shopping experiences on social media.
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Nearly 50% of social network users in Thailand will be TikTok users, giving the country the highest TikTok penetration in the world, according to our forecast. The US will rank second, with 45.3% of its social users on TikTok. We expect penetration in the US will be as high as 49.1% by the end of 2026.
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| Jan 27, 2023
Or even if my daughter is watching with me, I've tried to indoctrinate her as a Mets fan, as an Argentina fan, which won the World Cup by the way. Marcus Johnson:. Great. Thank you. Paul Verna:. So she also, despite being of a different generation, I think an ad that's targeted to me that's hitting her is probably having some value.
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| Apr 7, 2023
Was one of those World Cup games the one that Argentina won in the final? Marcus Johnson:. Okay, moving on, moving on. We don't have time for that. Yes, Argentina did win. According to Sportico, the most watched scripted entertainment telecast of the year was the premier of Yellowstone's fifth season, averaging 12 million viewers. Maybe some listeners saw that show.
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