So I think that luxury e-commerce is kind of taking a hit there as well. Zak Stambor:. Yeah, I think that's right.
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| May 1, 2024
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| Jul 3, 2024
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| May 8, 2024
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How will tariffs affect international ecommerce? Trump’s punishing tariffs on Chinese imports could significantly impact Chinese retailers like Temu and Shein, which rely on low-cost goods to compete in the US.
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| Mar 11, 2025
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| Jun 27, 2024
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Read the full report, Worldwide Retail Ecommerce Forecast 2024 Midyear Update.
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| Sep 10, 2024
In an almost universally underdeveloped ad space, Indonesia remains the market with the most promise. If Indonesia had a digital ad market commensurate with its ecommerce market, it would produce billions more in ad spending per year. We don’t see this outcome on the horizon just yet, however.
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| Jan 19, 2023
Alibaba, Amazon, and Mercado Libre dominate retail ecommerce in different parts of the world. Here’s a look at how these marketplaces stack up, in seven charts and graphics.
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| Dec 15, 2022
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| Sep 22, 2023
Geographically, Germany, Turkey, and China bore the brunt of attacks, while Hong Kong and Indonesia led attack sources. Key takeaway: DDoS attacks are only going to get worse. For marketers, a surge in cyberattacks can cause downtime that tanks campaign performance and reduces customer trust and revenues.
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| May 6, 2025
Բ’s ecommerce disruptors will get disrupted. Shein, Temu, and TikTok Shop face a reckoning following breakneck worldwide expansion. The crop of mobile-first ecommerce players with roots in China have taken off with consumers around the world.
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| Nov 14, 2024
Indonesia dominates the region’s ad spending as digital surges. It accounts for 29.1% of the total media and 26.2% of total digital ad spending in Southeast Asia. Digital ad spending in Indonesia will increase 12.1% YoY to reach $1.16 billion. What do these forecasts mean for marketers in India and Southeast Asia? India is becoming an exciting growth market.
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| May 9, 2023
Our analysts are currently preparing an updated US Retail & Ecommerce forecast, slated for release in May, with revised global retail forecasts coming by late June. Our take: The tariff escalation is more than a headline—it’s a structural shock that could reshape global consumer demand and ad spending for the remainder of 2025 and for years to come.
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| Apr 7, 2025
The most noteworthy holdouts still favoring traditional ad spending are Japan, Italy, India, and Indonesia. To view the full forecast, click here. Բ’s embrace of all things digital remains unmatched. Just as China leads the world in ecommerce as a share of overall retail, it also leads in digital advertising as a share of total media advertising.
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| Jan 10, 2024
On today’s podcast episode, host Bill Fisher is joined by our researcher Man-Chung Cheung and analyst Carina Perkins to examine TikTok’s ecommerce plans around the world, looking at what’s driven success in some markets and held it back in others.
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| Sep 25, 2023
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| Apr 24, 2024
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It helped tourists use their domestic wallets to make payments in South Korea, launched a digital storefront solution for brick-and-mortar businesses, rolled out end-of-year shopping campaigns with merchants across Asia-Pacific, and brought three of its mobile wallets to Thailand.
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| Aug 14, 2023
Worldwide sub OTT viewership will grow 3.5% in 2025 thanks to a decent bump from major population centers like Indonesia, Brazil, and India. But most countries won’t reach even that modest mark, as sub OTT’s core markets (in North America and Western Europe) are extremely saturated and won’t see many new viewers.
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| Dec 9, 2024
TikTok aims to generate $20 billion in sales via TikTok Shop, and is expected to launch its own US ecommerce store soon. The platform is also leveraging new search features to become a hub for retail ecommerce. TikTok is also pushing new AI ad tools, and getting involved in a host of new media ventures. Here’s what the platform has been up to over the past month.
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| Jul 7, 2023
On today's podcast episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss why folks are shopping more on their mobile devices and the role of mobile in-store. Then, for "Red-Hot Retail," our analysts give us some spicy predictions about the future of mobile shopping. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analysts Carina Perkins and Yory Wurmser.
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| Feb 7, 2024
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| Mar 30, 2024
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Indonesia and Monaco both have two horizontal stripes, red over white, but their dimensions differ. New Zealand and Australia are the same, but the stars are different colors. Venezuela, Ecuador, Columbia are yellow, blue, red horizontal bars, but have different emblems in the middle. Two more for you. Luxembourg and the Netherlands are red, white, blue lines, but the blue's slightly different shades.
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| Apr 18, 2025
We outlined the five possible growth areas for TikTok in August, which predicted its entry into ecommerce, streaming music, gaming, online learning, and search. Little did we know that TikTok’s expansion plans in all these areas were already well underway. TikTok is considered the go-to platform for discovering new music, which has propelled obscure songs into the Billboard 100 and Spotify Viral 50.
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| Dec 21, 2022
Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam will collectively account for about half of all TikTok users in Asia-Pacific (excluding China). And except for Singapore, all will see over 10% growth in TikTok users this year. Indonesia will retain its position as the country with the third-largest number of TikTok users, behind only the US and Brazil.
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| Jan 23, 2023
Douyin, TikTok's Chinese sibling, is about to become Բ’s largest social platform. It's also crashing the country’s ecommerce party. Already the fourth largest online shopping platform by sales, its market share is rapidly approaching JD.com's.
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| Sep 14, 2023