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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

How time spent with media, device ownership, and media adoption stacks up in the United States.

How time spent with media, device ownership, and media adoption stacks up in South and Southeast Asia.

The news: NBCUniversal has reached a multiyear licensing agreement with EverPass Media, a company that works with rights holders and distribution partners to commercially distribute live events.

Paid media metrics paint an incomplete picture. Amplifying creator content as paid media has a lot of benefits for brands: It can help them more effectively target and retarget consumers, reach new audiences, and better measure performance.

German grocery retailer Lidl launched a TikTok Shop pop-up in the UK, marking one of the first major grocery retailers to experiment with TikTok鈥檚 ecommerce capabilities.

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.

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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 pandemic accelerated investment in CX technology to meet rapidly changing needs. But as consumer priorities shift again amid high inflation, UK retailers need to understand which technologies are hitting the mark and which are not.

And finally, we have our principal analyst covering everything media marketing in the UK. He's, of course, the host of our Around the World Behind the Numbers Show. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Bill Fisher. Bill Fisher:. Thanks for having me back, eventually. Marcus Johnson:. No idea why you weren't allowed here back for one year, but I feel like Victoria had something to do with it. Welcome.

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Google takes aim at fake reviews: The company will improve detection and impose stricter penalties on UK businesses and individuals.