US, UK, and EU authorities have several enforcement tools at their disposal, including:. Probes and investigations. Usually the first step in initiating other enforcement actions, inquiries alone can motivate businesses to bring internal policy in line with legal expectations.
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| Mar 5, 2024
Retailers should leverage TikTok, in particular, to reach this demographic, as it is already home to creators who share value-oriented finds. Among them:. DupeshopBeauty, dupe reviewer (358,000 followers). AJ and Big Justice, aka CostCo guys, retail-focused (2.7 million followers). CostcoHotFinds, retail-focused (1.5 million followers).
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| Apr 24, 2025
Whereas on TikTok, people like the for you algorithm and the for you page. There's this sense of training your algorithm to show its stuff you want it to show you, almost like it's a game. And I think people like what they're being served on TikTok a lot of time. So I agree.
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| Sep 1, 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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And this is a UK study from the ADA Lovelace Institute and the Allen Turing Institute. It asks UK adults about the perceived benefits and concerns with AI in a number of different fields, and it came up with a net benefit score in those fields. So all the overall concerns were subtracted from the perceived benefits to give a score.
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On today's podcast episode, we discuss how much people are actually searching on social media platforms versus looking elsewhere, what a TikTok ban could do to social search, and how AI-powered chatbots are changing how we look for things. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf.
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| Jun 13, 2024
US and UK inflation both fell a point, but the UK fell from closer to 9% to closer to 8%. The US fell from 4% to 3%, that's May to June. Most of the major economies are lower than the UK. Germany, 6.4%. India, about 5%. France, 4.5%. Japan, just over 3%. Carina, in the UK.
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| Jul 27, 2023
So I looked at this from a UK perspective, podcast listener numbers are going up, but not particularly significantly. So audiences aren't really growing by much. I actually found some data from Quantilope. I found that audio streaming ads including podcast as a subcategory, the most disliked ads among UK adults. What's going on here? Well, I guess what we're seeing in the podcast-. Marcus Johnson:.
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| Jul 7, 2023
ٱٲԳ’s TikTok is living up to the hype and disrupting the status quo, but only gradually. TikTok was expected to take the global ad industry by storm, and it has—but the gap between ByteDance and the legacy leaders remains enormous. Amazon’s retail media boom has unexpectedly split the spotlight, and neither will catch Google or Meta any time soon.
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This is just an energy drink that basically they developed and released and it just became massively popular overnight and to the point where it's been banned in schools in Australia, people were spending 20 pounds for a six-pack of it in the UK.
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| Apr 4, 2023
Story one, Amazon ran a TikTok game show as part of its Prime Day sales event. Jul for deals, as it was called, combined shoppable content in an interactive live streaming experience with a game show format. Sara Karlovitch of Marketing Dive notes that during the event a bunch of TikTok influencers played a series of games while viewers worked cooperatively in the chat to unlock specific deals.
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| Jul 25, 2023
On today's podcast episode, we discuss whether the way people watch sports has changed, if Uber and Lyft will ever be able to turn a profit, whether Peacock can keep its head above water, what happened to the TikTok ban, what The Walt Disney Co. should do with ESPN, who's not on the internet, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our forecasting writer Ethan Cramer-Flood and analysts Bill Fisher and Max Willens.
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| Aug 24, 2023
And finally, we're in the UK to look at some of the legal implications that generative AI might throw up. At the end of last month, Getty Images issued a formal notification of impending litigation in the UK against text-to-image AI platform Stable Diffusion. Technology editor at France 24, Peter O'Brien, explains more. Peter O'Brien:.
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| Feb 24, 2023
On today's episode, we discuss why Snap's growth continues to stall, what to make of their TikTok-esque short form video feed Spotlight, and what to expect from the company in the second half. "In Other News," we check in on Pinterest and discuss the most interesting trends in social media usage by generation. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Jasmine Enberg.
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| Aug 8, 2023
In 2023, British newspaper, The Guardian wrote about a Finnish multimillionaire businessman who was hit with a 121,000 Euro or $130,000 fine, speeding fine for going 50 miles an hour in a 30. Jasmine Enberg (01:56):. Did he pay it? Marcus Johnson (01:58):. I hope so. Yeah. I don't know. I didn't check. He better have.
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| Nov 5, 2024
Zara began testing a program for resale, repairs, and donations in the UK in late 2022, and H&M launched a new resale program in the US in March 2023. Shein’s P2P resale platform debuted in October 2022 and creates listings based on customer purchase history. But some of these efforts have also heightened criticism of the brands and their association with overproduction.
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| Apr 5, 2023
My kids, every podcast I've got to mention TikTok, because I love it, my kids do, every search that they begin they're beginning on TikTok now, that's why Google's so interesting in partnering with them. Which might make my point moot I guess, but people aren't mugs and they will vote with their feet or eyeballs if things get particular bad, eventually. Marcus Johnson:. Yeah.
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| Oct 20, 2023
On today's podcast episode, we discuss how young Gen Zers differ from older Gen Zers, the numbers that tell the story of teens' social media use, and how teens and parents approach screen time. "In Other News," we talk about whether 20-somethings saying "no" to TikTok is a big deal and whether a new push to ban TikTok is for real this time. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jasmine Enberg and Paola Flores-Marquez.
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| Mar 18, 2024
On today's podcast episode, we discuss in what instances Gen Zers prefer TikTok over Instagram, Snapchat's relevance for young folks, and how much we anticipate young people will soon pull back from social media. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Minda Smiley.
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| Feb 29, 2024
The ByteDance subsidiary and TikTok prototype hit its ecommerce stride just recently—total sales surpassed $100 billion in 2021 and $200 billion in 2022, and we expect the figure to pass $300 billion this year. Livestreaming, searchable social shopping, and shoppable short videos have been the keys to its success.
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| Jul 14, 2023
Learn more about better measurement on TikTok at tiktok.com/business. Jacob Bourne (00:20):. I mean, they'll still be relevant, especially for the workplace and for certain use cases, but I think when people can access the technology through things like Meta's AI assistant on social media, for example, I think that will diminish the need to really go into a standalone platform.
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| Oct 17, 2024