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The company experienced a 17.4% decline in China; a 4.5% decline in takings in Western Continental Europe; a 5.5% decline in the UK; and a 5.5% increase in India. Still, WPP鈥檚 top 25 clients saw 2.5% growth in Q1, helmed by a robust CPG performance, improvement in tech and digital spend, and stabilization in healthcare. Retail, telecom, and travel and leisure declined.

The feature will roll out to Android users in the US, the UK, Australia, Spain, and Poland in the coming weeks. The bigger picture: Google Wallet previously added tap to pay support for its kid-focused Fitbit Ace LTE through partnerships with Greenlight and Acorns. And it鈥檚 not the only mobile wallet to launch kid- and teen-oriented payment features.

The feature is available to customers in the US, Germany, Italy, and Spain and will launch in the UK soon. Why this can work: While extremely popular for checkout, PayPal wants consumers to spend more time in its app and use more of its products and services. To do this, it鈥檚 launched new features like PayPal Smart Receipts and Cash Pass.

And Hilton launched hotel loyalty debit cards in the UK that let cardholders make A2A payments through the cards. Globally, total A2A payment transaction volume will reach $186 billion in 2029, up from $60 billion in 2024, per ACI Worldwide. Our take: Payment players clearly believe in the long-term future of A2A payments, despite minimal retail adoption.

We're also joined by a senior analyst who covers retail and e-commerce for us in the UK and Western Europe. She's based in England. We call her Carina Perkins or Charles Dickens. Who would you be, Carina? Carina Perkins:. I am going to have to think about that one. Marcus Johnson:. Madonna? Carina Perkins:. Madonna, perfect. Marcus Johnson:. It's Madonna. Welcome to the show. Carina Perkins:.

Tariffs drive ad pullbacks: Temu and Shein reduce US ad spending ahead of policy shift, signaling fallout across ecommerce and social platforms.

I think the UK is quite interesting because the UK's actually a very mature e-commerce market and in terms of penetration, e-commerce as a percentage of total retail sales, it's actually ahead of the US. But I think as Paul mentioned, it perhaps comes down to scale.

And then the third part is their international UK-based health and beauty retailer, Boots, which is huge in the country, the biggest one by far. So they've got those three pieces that they could play with/break up. Rajiv Leventhal:. I think they're going to hold on to the US pharmacy business.

TikTok sister app Douyin is a livestream behemoth in China, where nearly 40% of internet users also engage in livestream shopping, according to our forecast. But in the US, the format hasn鈥檛 caught on in the same way.

36% of UK and US content and creative professionals cite inconsistent metrics across platforms and limited resources as the biggest hurdles in measuring digital content performance and ROI, according to October 2024 data from Canto and Ascend2.

The ecommerce giant also launched a low-cost line of essential grocery items, Amazon Saver, in late 2024, with extra discounts for Prime members. The strongest private label retailers draw shoppers to their own brands. Limited-selection retailers (such as warehouse clubs and discount grocers) lean into private label to offer value-focused products and drive customer loyalty to their brands.