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Just Eat Takeaway expands retail media offerings with Rokt partnership: The delivery company joins DoorDash, Instacart, and Gopuff in enhancing its ad capabilities

However, 62% of US and UK adults say they are likely to buy a product via AI-powered virtual shopping assistants if it helps them find exactly what they want, according to November 2024 data from Arlington Research and Coveo. What it means: Consumers want exclusive perks more than futuristic tech鈥攗nless that tech, like AI assistants, clearly improves the shopping experience.

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On the flip side of this, though, England, Scotland, and Wales have their own football and rugby teams, but in the Olympics they compete as Great Britain, correct? Marcus Johnson (31:51):. Yes. Yeah, I don't know why. We share a team when we're doing the Olympics, but we can't stand each other the rest of the time, pretty much, which includes when we play soccer. [inaudible 00:32:04].

Key stat: Marketers are actively using emerging social platforms. 82% are either already posting on or planning to build a presence on Bluesky, while 80% of marketers are either posting on or planning to build a presence on Threads, according to a Sprout Social survey of marketers in the US, UK, and Australia.

Some companies like British retailer Asos have opted to focus on loyalty programs instead in the hopes of driving recurring sales. Others have been pulled to Meta platforms and TikTok, leaning on their large audiences and shoppable commerce features instead.

Lidl delivered its most successful UK Christmas season on record: The discount grocer鈥檚 revenues rose 7% in the four weeks leading up to Christmas.

The EU and UK have both passed sweeping laws like the Digital Markets Act that redefine the rules around data collection and come with their own: Companies in violation of the DMA can lose up to 10% of their global annual revenues. Those laws also limit how platforms can gather and use data from minors, causing major signal loss for in-demand advertising data.

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Retail media has matured greatly since our 5 retail media networks (RMNs) worth watching. That evolution has come from growth in spend (we forecast US omnichannel retail media ad spend growth at 26.0% this year, with larger increases in off-site and connected TV), in-store innovations, and new entrants from other non-retailers.

Last week, an AI system used by the UK government to investigate welfare fraud was shown to hold bias based on age, disability, marital status, and nationality, per The Guardian. In May, a Yale study found notable racial bias in OpenAI鈥檚 ChatGPT model.

That could mean a divesture of Boots, the company鈥檚 UK pharmacy chain that has been in talks to be sold multiple times over the past few years. It would also likely indicate even more layoffs and an acceleration of its planned store closures as Sycamore looks to right-size the business.

Visa proactively blocked 410% more suspected fraudulent transactions in the UK on Black Friday than it did the year prior. And across all of Cyber 5 weekend in the UK, Visa blocked 117% more transactions than it did in 2023. The payments network didn鈥檛 disclose the number of US transactions it stopped.

The leading reason consumers in the UK and US return online purchases is due to fit, size, or color, according to Coveo. Damage, defects, and poor quality are other top reasons. Some 18% of UK and US consumers make returns because they order multiple sizes with the intent of keeping only those that fit.

Media habits in Canada have changed, favoring digital across all formats. The GMI report for Canada is a single source for quantifying the pace of change in time spent with media, media adoption, and device ownership.

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The news: HSBC is shutting down key parts of its investment banking operations in the UK, US, and Europe as part of CEO Georges Elhedery鈥檚 broader restructuring plan, per The Financial Times. The exact timeline for the closure of these units has not been specified, but the process is expected to unfold over the coming months.