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But a mortgage solutions provider in the UK may give lenders鈥攁nd their customers鈥攁nother option, per TechCrunch. The solution: UK-based fintech Sprive is one alternative that helps users overpay their mortgages using automation and shopping-based cashback rewards.

Shein and Temu鈥檚 spending was most notable in the UK and France. Shein increased spending in these regions by 35% MoM, while Temu increased spend by 20% and 40% MoM, respectively. UK advertising is contributing to a spike in app downloads. Shein downloads in the UK have increased 25% MoM, while Temu has more than doubled downloads.

Germany and the UK have almost the same share breakdown of mobile versus nonmobile programmatic ad spending. Mobile adoption in France, which once lagged, has nearly caught up with Germany and the UK. But France鈥檚 programmatic market is still biased toward nonmobile due to consumers鈥� slight preference for desktop ecommerce over mcommerce.

The news: UK retailers are reeling from a series of cyberattacks that hit operations at Marks & Spencer, Harrods, and Co-op. In addition to exposing sensitive customer data to bad actors, the hacks have upended operations, resulting in empty shelves and stalled ecommerce sales.

The Western Europe region of the Global Media Intelligence Report includes poll results from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and UK.

Digital rights group Eko filed complaints against Meta with data protection officials for its targeted advertising practices in Europe, while UK regulators opened an investigation into TikTok for alleged inappropriate use of children鈥檚 data.

The UK is home to the highest proportion of startups in Europe and Israel, per a June 2024 report by Accel and Dealroom鈥攂ut French-founded genAI companies have raised the most funding of $2.29 billion, ahead of UK ($1.15 billion) and Germany ($636 million). Predictions. Strategic partnerships with technology vendors will be a key priority in 2025.

Carney is also the only person to have led both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. This background gives him rare insight into global financial systems, monetary policy, and crisis management, as he helped to steer Canada鈥檚 financial industry through the 2008 recession, per Politico.

Both companies are increasing ad spend in Europe, especially in the UK and France鈥攁lthough such relief may be short-lived, given that both countries are also considering crackdowns on de minimis imports.

Which is likely why 79% of professionals exaggerate their AI knowledge and 91% of C-suite executives admit to overstating their skills, per Pluralsight鈥檚 2025 AI Skills Report, indicating a culture of AI 鈥渇aking it鈥� at work in US and UK companies.

Outside of the US and China, the UK is the largest B2B digital advertising market. In the major markets of Western Europe, a relatively higher share of digital ad spending comes from B2B compared with the rest of the world. This will help put the UK, Germany, and France among the top countries for B2B digital ad spending outside of the US and China.

Germany and the UK are accelerating away from France in terms of total digital ad spending in the auto sector. Click here to view our full forecasts for automotive industry digital ad spending in France, Germany, and the UK. Behind the Numbers.

While Shein is angling to go public as soon as April, that could now be pushed into the second half of the year鈥攚hich would force the company to refile with the UK authorities, lengthening an already protracted process. Our take: Shein is in trouble.

The company also collaborated with partners such as Bad Bunny, Wales Bonner, and Edison Chen. It also sold off the last of its once-lucrative Yeezy sneaker line鈥檚 inventory in Q4; Yeezy generated revenues of around 鈧�650 million ($700.8 million) in 2023.

Both of those figures are significantly higher than the 3.8 million monthly users in the UK, an ecommerce market that鈥檚 over 18 times the size of these two markets combined. Estimates show Shein as a leading apparel retailer in the region.

Also this month, Affirm expanded its tie-up with Adyen to push further in the UK after debuting there in November. It鈥檚 trying to better compete internationally with Sweden-based Klarna, which already has a large European presence. The two are currently evenly matched in the US: We forecast Affirm鈥檚 US BNPL payment value will total $30.58 billion this year, compared to Klarna鈥檚 $30.42 billion.

However, while Spain will account for 10.5% of Western Europe鈥檚 ecommerce growth in 2024, Germany, France, and the UK will account for more鈥�11.9%, 12.7%, and 28.1%, respectively鈥攂ecause of the relative size of their ecommerce markets. The UK is still the region鈥檚 biggest ecommerce market by far.

And PayPal鈥檚 Fastlane is also expanding to the UK and other European markets through a partnership with JPMorgan Payments. The bigger picture: PayPal forecasts strong growth in the next few years thanks to these initiatives. It projected that the annual growth rate for branded checkout volume will be between 8% and 10% YoY in 2027, up from 6% YoY in 2024.

UK. Time Spent With Media. In the UK, the average daily time spent with mobile devices (3:00) trailed the average daily time spent with desktop/laptop/tablet by 13 minutes. But time spent with mobile devices in the country grew by 7 minutes YoY. In almost every other region, mobile time spent already far exceeds time spent with desktop/laptop/tablet.