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TikTok Shop launches in Japan and secures a future in Indonesia
Bytedance is preparing to launch TikTok Shop in Japan. This is expected from a change in the app’s privacy policy in Japan, which now refers to “shopping features,” according to...
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19 June 2025
Ireland: TikTok Shop captured 5% of the beauty market in just 3 months
Threatened with a loss of control in the U.S.A., TikTok is accelerating in Europe. With a remarkable breakthrough in the U.K., where the online store is already the 2nd largest cosmetics...
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24 April 2025
With 40% of online sales, Best Buy is banking on influence to reach a new level
In the U.S.A., with preparation for a marketplace by June 2025, Best Buy (2024 turnover US$41.5 billion, down by 4.4%) launched an affiliate programme for content creators on April 8. Not yet...
10 April 2025
TikTok Shop arrives in France, Germany and Italy
TikTok announced the launch of TikTok Shop in France, Germany and Italy on March 31. The service is now available in 15 countries. The shopping features are directly integrated into the videos in...
28 March 2025
With live shopping, Voyages E.Leclerc has attracted 28,420 viewers in two years
E.Leclerc Voyage, the travel agency of the second largest French grocery retailer by market share (2024 turnover: €49.9 billion, excluding fuel, up by 2.6%, after a 10.3%-increase in 2023)...
25 March 2025
In 2024, E.Leclerc and Lidl were the 2 biggest French advertisers
On March 6, 2025, Kantar Media presented the Top 100 Advertisers 2024, revealing that they now account for 46% of investments in the multi-media advertising market (press, radio, TV, OOH, cinema...
13 March 2025
TikTok Shop arrives in Western Europe, with a potential market of €3.3 billion
After the launch of TikTok Shop in Mexico, the platform is launching this feature in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, four countries with a combined total of 85 million users in 2024. Since...
26 February 2025
Perplexity AI, Project Liberty, Elon Musk… Who will buy TikTok US?
After obtaining a temporary reprieve from President Donald Trump, it's time to ask who among American investors will get their hands on 50% of TikTok US?
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23 January 2025
California: first flagship dedicated to live shopping on TikTok
Gone are the days of content creators live-streaming from a bedroom. On November 21, digital agency Outlandish opened a first store in the U.S.A. dedicated to live shopping on TikTok Shop. In...
28 November 2024
YouTube partners with e-tailer Shopee in 3 South Asian countries
Faced with a dynamic growth of TikTok in South East Asia, YouTube Shopping (a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.) and Shopee (a subsidiary of Sea Group, with 2023 sales of US$13.1 billion, including 69%...
23 September 2024
Xavier Niel joins the board of directors of ByteDance, parent company of TikTok
TikTok has until the end of January 2025 to meet an ultimatum set by the USA. Meanwhile, Frenchman Xavier Niel joined the Board of Directors of ByteDance, TikTok's parent company.
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5 September 2024
Social commerce: why Amazon needs TikTok’s audience
At a time when growth is slowing, Amazon (2023 sales: US$574.8 billion, up 12%) signed an agreement on August, 8 with Tik Tok (1.58 billion users in April) to enable highly engaged American users...
21 August 2024
TikTok: 120 mins per day in France, 127 minutes for the U.K.
According to Qustodio, TikTok is the first social network in the world, in terms of time of use by customers under 18 years old. Building on a growing audience, TikTok has just announced an...
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8 February 2024
Social commerce: TikTok acquires an Indonesian e-commerce giant
In Indonesia, the parent company of TikTok ByteDance (2022 revenue of US$85.2 billion, operating margin of US$20 billion) finalized the acquisition of the online retailer Tokopedia. Tokopedia is...
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1 February 2024
USA : TikTok adds an e-commerce site to compete with Shein and Temu
TikTok (1.17 billion users by June 2023) is opening an e-commerce business in the U.S.A. Ranging from clothing to electronic equipment, the “Made in China” offer is available directly...
3 August 2023
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Against a backdrop of growing pressure on household budgets, the European CCD2 Directive coming into force and a new legal framework for assisted purchasing journeys, Oney is stepping up an...
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29 October 2026
Amid an ownership shake-up following its acquisition by Evoriel, shopping centre operator Advantail has signed with Formality to digitise the management of commercial leases and contracts across...
23 October 2026
With an average basket of €3,500 and a payment journey that includes a financial deposit at the time of ordering, Mobilier de France shares with mind Retail its assessment of the rollout of...
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15 October 2026
Eager to bring together customer data and improve data accuracy, jewellery and watch retailer Maison A.Constant built its own Single Customer Repository (SCR) using n8n, an orchestration platform...
7 October 2026
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US retailers divided over the rise of autonomous shopping agents
In the US, Gap, Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon and eBay are taking very different approaches to agentic commerce. While TV shopping giants QVC and HSN see these new intermediaries as an opportunity to...
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21 October 2026