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Shake Shack looks to broaden its reach: The burger chain plans to more than quadruple its footprint in the coming years while preserving its status as a premium brand.

Bluesky鈥檚 funding round contrasts with Meta: The smaller social platform is gaining ground, but its ad model remains a question.

The National Retail Federation鈥檚 (NRF) Big Show closed earlier this week, bringing together retailers, tech companies, and industry experts to discuss the future of retail. Key takeaways included Gen Z鈥檚 influence on shopping, which will last even if TikTok goes away, the accelerating trend cycle, hesitation to adopt new payment technologies, and the transformation of digital grocery. Here are four takeaways from the event.

Latin America overindexed in time spent with social media/messaging at 3:25 daily, 65 minutes more than the global average. And respondents in East Asia and Oceania spent significantly less time daily with desktops/laptops/tablets than every other region, at 1:29 daily; it was less than half the time spent in many regions in the GMI. What does the peak in time spent with media mean?

Amazon will capture more than half (51.1%) of all retail ecommerce sales in Germany this year, according to our forecast. Canada will have the second-highest share of Amazon ecommerce sales among the countries we track, at 41.5%, followed by the US, UK, Japan, and Mexico.

In Threads鈥� first week, 33.5% of app downloads came from India, followed by Brazil (22.5%) and the US (16.1%), according to data.ai.

Latin America will continue to populate much of the high-growth leader board. For the past couple years, most ad spending forecasts have featured India and Latin America as the geographies to watch. That continues to be the case, although Latin America鈥檚 outlook trails India by a wider margin than in previous estimates.

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.

The country's central bank launched a pilot of the digital real, with hopes of giving the public access by the end of 2024.

The Meta-owned company's determination to overcome regulatory hurdles could signal bigger international ambitions

Fifty-eight percent of US households are 鈥渆xtremely concerned鈥� about inflation: While grocery price growth has normalized, the rapid increases over the past few years continue to influence shopping behaviors.

The news: Despite persistent high inflation and mounting economic uncertainty across Latin America, Mercado Libre generated nearly $10 billion in retail ecommerce sales in Q4 2022. 2022, in review:. Retail ecommerce sales grew by 21.5%, reaching $34.45 billion in 2022.

Digital, traditional, and total media ad spending growth will all accelerate in 2024, although only modestly. The outlook has stabilized for most countries and regions, even if spectacular growth is harder than ever to find.