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Meta, Apple, and France-based startup Mistral declined to sign but must still follow the law. Zooming in: The law categorizes AI systems into four risk levels—low, medium, high, and banned—with corresponding obligations. High-risk applications, such as medical AI tools, must meet stringent security and accuracy standards.

Loyalty program adoption is highest in the UK: 92% of UK consumers participate in at least one loyalty or reward program, ahead of France (81%), Spain (75%), Germany (72%), and Italy (70%), per an April 2024 survey by Capterra. Supermarkets are winning the loyalty race with member pricing strategies.

This positions the UK well below its North American counterparts and even below its neighbors, France and Germany. Digital media is picking up the slack. Despite the decline in media time overall, time spent with digital media continues to grow. It will account for more than 60% of total media time in the UK this year.

Methodology: Data is from the November 2024 Bazaarvoice report titled "Shopper Experience Index Vol 18." 8,000+ shoppers worldwide in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, the UK, and the US were surveyed online by Savanta during September 2024.

Since 2019, the percentage point increases in ownership have been significant in the US (up 19.1 points to 62.2%), UK (up 19.0 points to 64.1%), Canada (up 18.0 points to 57.3%), France (up 16.5 points to 44.4%), Germany (up 13.4 points to 60.5%), China (up 6.2 points to 47.9%), and Brazil (up 15.0 points to 71.5%).

BNP Paribas (France) – €2.594 trillion. 3. Crédit Agricole Group (France) – €2.476 trillion. 4. Banco Santander (Spain) – €1.797 trillion. 5. Barclays (UK) – €1.712 trillion. 6. Société Générale (France) – €1.554 trillion. 7. UBS Group (Switzerland) – €1.554 trillion. 8. Groupe BPCE (France) – €1.544 trillion. 9. Deutsche Bank (Germany) – €1.312 trillion. 10.

The chef was Frances Roman. The story was also updated to note that journalist Victoria Leandra was also in attendance.

Social users around the world engage with and make purchase decisions from creator content in similar ways. Localizing creator strategies is key, but marketers can apply the same best practices across many geographies.

The outlook for retail media ad spending remains bright throughout most of the world, even as ad budgets are increasingly constrained in the face of economic storm clouds.

The news: Amazon will bring inventory from Roku to its demand-side platform (DSP), the two announced at Cannes Lions, starting in Q4 2025. Our take: Amazon’s Roku partnership is a well-timed announcement to convince advertisers to stick with their CTV ecosystems even amid tightening budgets.

Brazil’s digital economy continues to thrive, driven by shifting advertising trends and increased social media usage. This report series explores key media consumption trends in Brazil in 2025.

Brazil’s digital advertising economy continues to thrive, driven by retail media investment, growing video ad spend, and slower social ad spending. This report explores trends shaping Brazil’s digital advertising landscape in 2025.​

In our exclusive survey with ESW, data from shoppers in 18 countries reveals new twists in the path to purchase, the rising momentum of marketplaces, and the resilience of age-old fundamentals.

The UK, Germany, Russia, and France remain the core European markets for ecommerce. The top 10 countries for retail ecommerce sales in Europe largely correlate to population size, with the notable exceptions of Russia underindexing and the UK heavily overindexing. Norway also overperforms, although on a much smaller scale.