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The news: The Trade Desk unveiled Deal Desk, a new tool to fix the inefficiencies in private marketplace buying, where up to 90% of structured deal IDs fail to scale. By automating deal creation via API and surfacing metadata like fit and availability, Deal Desk aims to save time and unlock premium inventory. Our take: As PMP spending overtakes open exchange buys, The Trade Desk is shoring up the backend infrastructure that supports this shift. Deal Desk positions the company to capture more high-value spend and offers a cleaner path to scale in a fragmented programmatic landscape.

This is the first installment of our 鈥淯K Ad Spending Benchmarks鈥� series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.

Worldwide programmatic display ad spending will grow 14.6% in 2025. This report explains our programmatic forecasts for six countries to map global spending trends.

For one, merchants face the possibility of being penalized by Amazon if they鈥檙e found selling products at cheaper prices on other marketplaces.

Instagram announced in February it was expanding its marketplace tool to eight new countries, including Canada. Influencers are priming the pump of social commerce. There will be more than 11 million social buyers in Canada in 2024.

First-party data makes personalization possible in the wake of signal loss from privacy restrictions, but taking full advantage of the opportunity requires overcoming a series of obstacles.

Shein and Temu delivery providers face barrage of lawsuits regarding labor practices: Several have been accused of underpaying workers, misclassifying them as independent contractors, and failing to provide overtime.

Go further: Read our report on The US Online Marketplace Shopper.

That will require working with lawmakers to address questions about product safety, building deeper relationships with local merchants and brands, and cracking down on counterfeits and other questionable items on its marketplace. Go further: Check out our Asia-Pacific Ecommerce Forecast 2024 report and 4 Charts on Indonesia鈥檚 Ecommerce Battleground.

In the third of five reports in our 鈥淧ayments Ecosystem 2024鈥� collection, we unpack how the lines between POS hardware and software are disappearing as providers push the innovation envelope.

The platform is also working on adding more products to its marketplace to boost its shopper appeal: Users can now buy refurbished electronics from sellers, and the company is in the early stages of enabling creators to develop custom products.

Sainsbury鈥檚 and Superdrug are among the UK retailers to have taken aim at Amazon with the launch of their own marketplaces. And Chinese marketplace giants Temu and Shein are also giving Amazon a headache. Between them, they gained over 4 million daily app users in H1 2023, per GWS data, while Amazon saw its daily mobile app users drop by 1 million over the same period.

Yeah, I will say I think that they are competing in a very challenging and interesting marketplace for sure. So I think if anything this, I would almost flip this and say who is it more interesting for, Shein, who for over a year now tried to encourage people to open up these marketplaces within Shein.

Services that provide a revolving line of credit, retailer-branded financing options, closed-loop marketplace financing services, and card-linked installment services are excluded.Less.

Zooming out: Regulators are closely scrutinizing the App Store鈥檚 restrictions on alternative app marketplaces and payment systems, partially sparked by Apple鈥檚 ongoing feud with Epic Games. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said that Apple is 鈥渃loning鈥� features from rivals such as Steam, Xbox, and Epic while denying those companies the ability to compete with the App Store.