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Apple committed to launching Apple Intelligence in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish in 2025, but China and the EU will not get AI features, due to pending regulatory approvals. Lack of AI features in China could become a problem for growth in that region, especially since Apple fell out of the list of top five smartphone vendors in China in Q2, per Canalys.

Twitter will maintain user growth in outlier Japan. Twitter is the No. 1 social platform in Japan, where its users will grow 1.4% in 2023 and 0.5% in 2024. The controversies surrounding Musk鈥檚 Twitter takeover seem to be a less-charged topic in Japan. The platform鈥檚 proposition of protecting user anonymity while also acting as one鈥檚 personal loudspeaker continues to hold value in Japan. What to Watch.

Those types of rewards, that's like free shipping now sort of in e-commerce. So it's thinking about different ways to add value and in today's economy that value is really around cost savings. Sara Lebow:. The keeping coming back really stands out to me.

Also, don鈥檛 be afraid of price shopping. The cost of tools that offer similar features can sometimes vary dramatically.

On today鈥檚 episode, host Bill Fisher is joined by our analysts Paul Briggs, Matteo Ceurvels, and Carina Perkins to examine what impact global economic turbulence is having on retail and ecommerce in different markets.

Next, he's our researcher for China and Japan. He's Man-Chung Cheung. Hello, Man-Chung. Man-Chung Cheung (02:31):. Hello guys. Bill Fisher (02:33):. Great to have you on the show. And finally, she's our UK and Western Europe retail analyst. It's Carina Perkins. Hello, Carina. Carina Perkins (02:40):. Hi, Paul. Hi... Let me try again. Bill Fisher (02:41):. I am Bill, great to have you on the show.

Thirty-eight percent of patients with chronic conditions in the US, UK, China, Germany, and Japan do not use their doctor as a default source for medical advice, per the Hall & Partners/Think Next survey. They鈥檙e more likely to seek information from social media and influencers. Doctors should consider building their social media presence.

First up, it's our research analyst covering China and Japan. He's Man-Chung Cheung, and I should probably say hi, have you eaten? Right, Man-Chung? Man-Chung Cheung:. Yeah, and I would say, yes, I have eaten. That means I'm doing well. Bill Fisher:. Great. Next up is our UK-based retail specialist and senior analyst Carina Perkins. And I will say to you, Carina, good day. Carina Perkins:.

On today鈥檚 podcast episode, we discuss why now might be the exact right time for Meta to bring back live shopping, who would be the most likely candidate to buy Party City, and why Disney thinks that now is the right time to pull the trigger on a big change. Tune in to the discussion with Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Vice President and Principal Analyst Jasmine Enberg, and Vice Presidents of Content Suzy Davidkhanian and Paul Verna.

It's like shopping, right? Alison Gensheimer:. ... Yeah. Marcus Johnson:. I'm going to go do some in-store shopping. Alison Gensheimer:. Exactly. I'm going to go to a Sunday shopper experience, no.

So the US is bigger overall, but then in terms of e-commerce, China's e-commerce sales are at nearly 3 trillion this year, whereas in the US it's only about 1 trillion this year for total retail e-commerce sales. Man-Chung, can you expand on that forecast a little bit? Man-Chung Cheung:.

I mentioned a couple of places in the news there, in Brazil and Japan. There's stuff that's already happened in Canada, Paul. Why don't you introduce us to some of the legislation that's been passed over there and just fill us in on how successful or unsuccessful it's been? Paul Briggs:. Sure. In prepping for the podcast, I did a little bit of homework here.

He says he likes to tell everybody that The Matrix's code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes. Jacob Bourne:. Lesson, the inspiration can come from anywhere, I guess. Marcus Johnson:. Yeah. This has systematically ruined The Matrix for me. There must've been some people sat there looking at it going, "Huh, might make that for dinner.". Jacob Bourne:.

So Amazon is interesting in the sense that while they're a very diversified company, their retail media, which is really what we call most of their advertising, their retail media can suffer if their e-commerce sales suffer because they're very, very closely correlated. And I think the other challenge that Amazon has is it is so big it's laying off...

However, Japan and the countries of Southeast Asia are at the opposite end of the rankings. Digital transformation is at very different stages across the region. The center of gravity for both total ad spending and digital ad spending remains North America, with Asia-Pacific taking second but falling further behind.

I think the UK is quite interesting because the UK's actually a very mature e-commerce market and in terms of penetration, e-commerce as a percentage of total retail sales, it's actually ahead of the US. But I think as Paul mentioned, it perhaps comes down to scale.

In Asia-Pacific, Japan and New Zealand have reached similar agreements with the European Commission. Tighter data control requirements led to major changes in ad buying behaviors. The ad industry鈥攑articularly the digital ad sector鈥攈as been affected by GDPR more than almost any other. Ad targeting drove the sharing and resharing of consumer data in ways that rode roughshod over privacy rights.