Around the World: 2024 global predictions ('Shark Tank'-style)—Retail media rivals, metaverse shopping experiences, and more

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eMarketer principal analyst Matteo Ceurvels predicts retail media to be the next battleground between Amazon and Mercado Libre in Mexico. Mercado Libre overtook Amazon's share of retail ecommerce sales in Mexico for the first time in 2020. While they've been neck and neck ever since, he believes “Amazon will finally meet its match in an area which it's historically dominated globally: retail media.”

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Podcast: Launching ecommerce during the pandemic, the fitting-room dilemma, and rental services

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On today's episode, we discuss what it's like to launch an ecommerce business unit during the pandemic and how customers are changing. We then talk about livestream ecommerce's US entry point, how to solve the fitting-room dilemma, and how seriously we should take retailer rental services. Tune in to the discussion with ecommerce general manager for the Americas region at Tekmovil Cristian Serrano and eMarketer senior analyst Matteo Ceurvels and analyst at Insider Intelligence Blake Droesch.

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Podcast: Around the World with Holiday Shopping - Thanksgiving Weekend, Singles' Day, and the Buen Fin

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eMarketer senior analyst Bill Fisher hosts senior forecasting analyst Cindy Liu, research analyst Man-Chung Cheung, researcher Xiaodi Xu, and research analyst at Insider Intelligence Matteo Ceurvels to discuss holiday shopping around the world. They talk about the origins of Thanksgiving weekend shopping, why China's Singles' Day is the largest shopping holiday in the world, and how the Buen Fin in Mexico is adapting in 2020.

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