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From the rise of sophisticated AI-driven tools to new policies reshaping data privacy and competition, 2025 promises to be a year of relentless change. Companies that adapt will thrive, while others risk being left behind in a swiftly moving market.

In Southeast Asia, TikTok will have to flex its innovation chops to tackle growing headwinds. And among all the tectonic shifts, the biggest will be the emergence of AI. Underperforming retail will rebound in China after a disappointing start. China鈥檚 retail sector is showing signs of life.

People worldwide spent less time with media across all categories except mobile (which remained the same) in H1 2024 as compared with H1 2023, per GWI data.

TikTok is betting big on AI for content moderation: The company laid off hundreds of employees who reviewed harmful content as legal battles mount.

And what role do things like data lakes, data seas, data oceans play in all of this? Moitree Rahman (21:48):. Yeah.

I would say for this particular activity, this is an outlier, although relatively high also in Asia, Southeast Asia in particular, seeing high viewing influencer videos. And that could be, to Jason's point earlier, a younger audience and then also just so ingrained in the consumption habits, whether it's mostly on a device in this case in those regions. It's also relatively high in Latin America.

China鈥檚 manufacturing expertise is difficult to compete with: That has led some retailers to rethink supply chain diversification even as India, Latin America, and Vietnam gain traction as production hubs.

Amazon is expanding its logistics network to include over 300 sea routes. The company claims this will facilitate hassle-free transportation from customs to final delivery for UK small and medium-sized enterprises selling to consumers across Europe.

Targeting bias detection and fostering global ties, the UK aims to lead in AI assurance and strengthen its tech sector.

How time spent with media, device ownership, and media adoption stacks up in Western Europe.

Time spent with mobile devices favors smartphones by a wide margin in Southeast Asia. Time with mobile reached 4:29 daily this year in Southeast Asia, 1:34 more than time with PC/laptop/tablet. Almost every country in the Middle East and Africa experienced a drop in time spent with online TV/streaming. It was the largest global drop, as the average regional time decreased by 13 minutes to 1:40.

TikTok employs 6,000 content moderators in Europe: The platform disclosed it has 150 million users in the region in a regulatory filing.

"Obviously, we know that ads do trigger something in your brain, right, to signal, you got to have this now," our analyst Man-Chung Cheung said on a recent episode of the "Behind the Numbers: Around the World" podcast. But when it comes to banning advertising for certain products, the effects aren't always clear-cut.