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The Portugal-based company is determined to help retailers implement automated pod-based stores primarily in Portugal, France, Italy, and Spain, as well as South American markets like Brazil, per TechCrunch. BlueCrow Capital led the funding round, alongside Lince Capital, Explorer Investments, and Kamay Ventures, Metro AG, and Techstars Ventures, per Maginative.

By 2026, the entire top 10 list will be countries with at least $100 billion in sales鈥攁nd Brazil will leapfrog in, bumping France. Ecommerce penetration is once again increasing almost everywhere. In each of the past two years, ecommerce鈥檚 share of total retail declined in more than a dozen markets and failed to rise meaningfully in numerous others.

The survey was conducted in July 2024 across nearly 6,000 respondents from the US, Canada, India, Brazil, Mexico, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, and Japan. Coupons over email: Other studies largely support the GetApp findings.

Reddit made machine translation features available in France early this year and said it鈥檚 now one of its top three fastest-growing countries, outpacing the US. Others are lagging: Translation tools are a key feature for platforms looking to expand their user base, and platforms without them are missing out on potential revenue from a global audience.

To compare, Mexico鈥檚 ecommerce market is currently larger than the ecommerce markets of Spain, France, the UK, Germany, and Italy. Learn more in our Retail and Ecommerce Sales Benchmarks: Q4 2024. This was originally featured in the Retail Daily newsletter. For more retail insights, statistics, and trends, subscribe here.

In preparation, several EU countries have already introduced EPR schemes for textiles, including France (which in 2007 became the first country in the world to introduce an EPR for textiles) and the Netherlands. The EPR Textile Proposal is part of an amendment to the Waste Framework Directive (WFD), which is the EU's legal framework for waste management.

In 2024, a perfect storm of technology, business, and consumer behavior trends will conspire to intensify the challenges of protecting brands on digital media.

Personalized Promotions tools to help advertisers offer discounts in markets including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, France, and Japan. A new bidding feature in Performance+ that lets advertisers maximize the overall value of campaigns, not just clicks or conversions, giving them more control to tailor their strategies.

Sustainability is a big issue for Western European digital advertisers. To meet their clean emissions goals, though, they鈥檒l need to tackle the digital inefficiencies inherent in the ad supply chain.

France will also see 9.0% listener growth this year鈥攁 faster rate than most鈥攂ut over time it will remain one of the least-penetrated podcast markets.

France-based startup Mistral entered a 鈧�15 million ($16.2 million) multi-year 鈥渟trategic partnership鈥� with Microsoft in February. Google鈥檚 Gemini models are evolving rapidly. Against these rivals and slowing user growth across the genAI sector, OpenAI鈥檚 market share is expected to drop to 65.3% in 2026, down from 80.0% in 2022, per our forecast.