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Amazon bought One Medical鈥攚hich owns Iora Health, a VBC entity鈥攆or $3.9 billion last July. CVS reached a deal to acquire Oak Street Health, a value-based primary care company, for $10.5 billion in February. Humana and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe pumped $1.2 billion into a joint venture last May to expand the insurer's network of VBC clinics.

The US triopoly of Google, Meta, and Amazon will take in nearly 58% of worldwide digital ad spending in 2024, which is less than their peak in 2021 but more than in 2023. If China鈥檚 ByteDance and Alibaba are included, over 70% of worldwide digital ad revenues will be accounted for this year. Mercado Libre, TikTok, Reddit, and Amazon will lead in growth.

The UK and South Korea were longtime Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, in global rankings for ecommerce penetration, but both consumer cultures seem to have reached (or passed) their saturation point for digital buying. China is different though, possibly because of the energy its innovative and hypercompetitive homegrown ecommerce companies bring to the market. What are the implications?

The feature, which launched in the US and UK in August 2021, enabled Shopify sellers to sync their product catalogs to TikTok where items would be featured in a dedicated tab. Shoppers could then click on linked items to purchase them on Shopify. It plans to bar links to outside ecommerce sites.

Google argues it operates in a highly competitive ad tech market with players like Meta, Amazon, and TikTok. "Display advertising encompasses many channels beyond just Google's offerings like social media, retail media, mobile and app ads," said Goldman. 2. Innovation benefits.

Respondents were companies with a business focus of entirely B2B (38%), mostly B2B (36%) or approximately equal split between B2B and B2C (25%), B2B revenues of $200 million and over, based in North America, UK, France, Spain, Nordic countries, Austria, Germany and Switzerland from various industries with a job title of Manager (42%), Director (27%), VP (16%), C-Level Executive (9%) or Product Manager (

Amazon will advance its streaming-TV ambitions through hardware, content, and ads innovation. Amazon will push Fire TV Omni Series via deep Prime Day discounts and ramp-up voice-enabled shoppable ads to bring performance advertising to TV. Look for Instacart to ink major CTV partnership鈥攑ossibly with Microsoft.

An outage hit 19 of Cloudflare鈥檚 data centers, resulting in Amazon, Twitch, AWS, Steam, Coinbase, Telegram, Discord, DoorDash, GitLab, and others going dark for some users. Cloudflare鈥檚 outage affected roughly 50% of all global HTTP requests handled by the content delivery network. July.

In 2025, Amazon and Walmart combined will take in more than 84.0% of all retail media ad spending, per our November forecast. "Every day you hear about a new retail media network launching," our analyst Sarah Marzano said on an episode of "Behind the Numbers."

Amazon launched Rufus, an AI-powered shopping assistant that can answer product questions, provide comparisons, and make recommendations. Zalando launched a fashion assistant powered by ChatGPT that can help customers find products via a conversational interface. Technology firms are also launching genAI tools for retailers.

Some 51% of decision-makers at US and UK retail and travel organizations say they plan to bring their commerce media tech stack in-house, and 49% plan on switching technology partners, according to a Forrester Consulting study conducted on behalf of PubMatic.

Canada-UK Trade Continuity Agreement (Canada-UK TCA): This pact provides continuance of CETA with the UK post-Brexit. Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP): This agreement includes Canada and 10 other countries: Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.

The respondents were from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US. Additionally, 800 online sellers in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK were surveyed during the same period.

Too fast to regulate: As one of the success stories in technology, generative AI has seen the backing of Big Tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Generative AI is not as capital intensive to develop compared to hardware and software鈥攊t can quickly be improved even during a recession.

Nearly 60% of US and UK consumers plan to cut back on everyday purchases to prioritize their gift budgets, while cost, value, and budget ranked as their top holiday shopping concern, per a survey by Coveo. A separate survey by Bankrate found that 1 in 3 holiday shoppers plan to spend less this year, with a similar proportion (34%) saying that inflation will change the way they shop.

The functionality will first be made available to viewers in the US and the UK. Once videos are published, any tagged piece of content will show up above the caption. Users who click that link will be taken to another page with details about the title as well as a list of other TikTok videos featuring the same IMDb tag.

Respondents were from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, UK, and US.

Klarna is also seeking in-store partnerships to take advantage of robust BNPL demand in the UK: More than one-third of UK consumers used BNPL to make a purchase in 2022, up from just 12% in 2021. The UK government also reportedly backed down from its proposed BNPL regulations, clearing the growth runway. Why it matters: Leading BNPL firms have struggled to find profitability.

These big tech giants also being investigated, Google by the DOJ for anti-competitive practices like paying Apple to be the default search engine on its iPhones, and Amazon is also being taken to court by the FTC for anti-competitive behavior. Mr. Warzel continues by saying that, "We end up saying the Google search is less useful now, or that shopping on Amazon has gotten worse.

So Walmart Inc in the US accounts for 8.2% of retail e-commerce sales and Amazon has a 40.9% share. So it is still really very dominant when it comes to e-commerce, and I think that's going to be in its advantage when it comes to staying ahead of Walmart+. Also, from a global perspective, Amazon has a huge lead, particularly in Europe, where Walmart doesn't operate at all.

Amazon is probably the Amazon of furniture. Zak Stambor:. Right, very true. Sara Lebow:. Amazon is probably the Amazon of most things. Okay, so we have e-commerce, we have big business, both in the UK and in the US. Zak, give us our next big challenger for IKEA. Zak Stambor:. Yeah, resale.

While marketplaces like Amazon or Mercado Libre remain the most popular search channels for shoppers worldwide, their share is decreasing, per Wunderman Thompson. Meanwhile, the number of people worldwide who browse in-store is rising. In the US, Amazon is also losing search share as consumers increasingly turn to social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, per Jungle Scout.

Click and collect is especially big in the UK, where 62.2% of the population will use the tech by year鈥檚 end, according to our forecast. (It will be 52.7% in the US.) Expect consumers and retailers to embrace click and collect as a form of hybrid shopping even more this year.