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Industry slams “absurd” online junk food advertising ban warning it will severely impact COVID recovery

May 12, 2021

Food retailers and business groups have slammed government plans to impose a blanket ban on “junk food” advertising across all social media and online platforms. The “absurd” plan was announced…

Pinterest trends are helping retailers like Made.com gain insight into how they should market their products in 2021.

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March 12, 2021

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Pinterest trends are helping retailers like Made.com gain insight into how they should market their products in 2021. Made has launched its ‘invest in rest’ advertising campaign based on Pinterest’s…

TikTok is being sued for billions of pounds in the UK and Europe over accusations it has illegally collected personal information of millions of children.

TikTok expands Shopify partnership helping UK sellers “achieve a huge sales increase”

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February 23, 2021

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TikTok and Shopify have significantly expanded their partnership allowing UK sellers to engage with the platform’s 100 million users. Shopify, which now provides the ecommerce platform for 1.7 million retailers,…

Mobile ecommerce has almost exclusively involved finding ways to shrink websites to fit on smaller screens. Yet, this tactic has completely overlooked the most significant opportunity smartphone culture presents.

Virtual shopping is set to be the next major trend in retail

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January 5, 2021

Ben Stevens

As anyone who has ever dared to monitor their screen time will know, the average UK adult now spends an average of 3 hours and 23 minutes on their phone…

L’Oréal Paris launches its first virtual makeup – “only wearable online”

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November 10, 2020

Ava Szajna-Hopgood

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Cosmetics brand L’Oréal Paris this week launched its first line of virtual makeup products. In an announcement on the company’s website, L’Oréal said its new Signature Faces collection introduces “a…

TikTok users will now be able to shop from nearly 1 million Shopify retailers in-app

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October 28, 2020

Ben Stevens

TikTok users will soon be able to purchase items as they scroll through the app as the social media giant makes its biggest push yet into ecommerce. The Chinese short-form…

Burberry to livestream fashion show with Twitch

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September 15, 2020

Ava Szajna-Hopgood

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Burberry will become the first luxury brand to live stream its fashion show with Twitch, with its Spring/Summer 2021 show taking place this Thursday 17 September. Followers will need to…

Walmart has agreed to purchase a 7.5 per cent stake in TikTok as a complex deal to keep the social media giant operating in the US is receives President Trump’s “blessing”.

TikTok owner announces bonuses for staff after US labels app a security threat

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September 8, 2020

Ava Szajna-Hopgood

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TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. has announced it will pay out a rare half-month’s salary bonus for its employees, hoping to assuage its workforce as questions mount over its sale…

TikTok is set to make a major push into ecommerce this year as it prepares to launch a host of new feature aimed at driving sales on its platform.

TikTok sale to Walmart/Microsoft could be scrapped by new Chinese restrictions

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September 3, 2020

Ben Stevens

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TikTok’s sale in the US is set to be delayed or even blocked entirely as China imposes new restrictions on technology exports. China’s government updated its list of “forbidden and…

Microsoft confirms plans to buy TikTok despite imminent US ban

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August 3, 2020

Ben Stevens

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Microsoft is in talks to buy social media giant TikTok in the US just days after President Trump threatened to ban the app over security concerns. Microsoft confirmed yesterday that…

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