And in some countries—including Ireland, Japan, and Vietnam—voice search was less widespread than last year. Researchers also reported some notable age- and gender-related shifts in voice search. This is just a small sampling of the granular detail that GlobalWebIndex data provides.

To help assuage regulators in Europe, TikTok said in an August company statement that it is building a data center and operations hub in Ireland, where it plans to store the data of its users in Europe once the facility opens in 2022. But it is likely that the company will continue having to answer to regulators about its practices in Europe in 2021. UK and Ireland.

Less than a week later, the US extended the ban to include the UK and Ireland. On March 16, residents of six counties in the San Francisco area were ordered to shelter in place, marking the beginning of a wave of stay-at-home measures that would be implemented across the country.

August 2020: Expanded the availability of skin tone ranges in beauty search results from the US to the UK, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. Pinterest Try on users can customize their lipstick choices based on these skin tones. Pinterest also said Try on now offers more than 10,000 lipstick shades, including those from new partners Nars, Clé de Peau and Thrive Causemetics. TikTok.

In France, Ireland, and the UK, 76% of consumers polled by PFS and LiveArea said that online retailers and brands had an obligation to protect, conserve, and benefit the environment, and 39% said they would be willing to pay more to support such corporate social responsibility initiatives. Crucially, consumers believe that firms’ ethically responsible behavior should be a long-term commitment.

Respondents in Italy and Spain were more positive about AI than those in France, Germany, the UK and Ireland. Knowing that most consumers will accept AI in certain circumstances should encourage digital retailers to invest more this year.

Among the $327.28 billion spent worldwide on digital advertising in 2019, 61.2% will go toward advertising on Google, Facebook and Alibaba. This report includes our latest global ad spending forecast by country, region and company.

UK and Ireland. 2.4 million UK adult mobile unique visitors, August 2019. Used by 2% of Ireland consumers, June 2019. TikTok had 2.4 million adult mobile unique visitors in the UK in August 2019, according to Comscore, ranking it eighth among social media properties.

For every 1,000 payment cards, 69 had a fraudulent transaction that year, followed by Ireland (47) and Great Britain (39). (The data includes ATM, POS and card-not-present [CNP] fraud.). While it’s easy to assume that fraud would make consumers hesitant to use payment cards, that isn’t necessarily the case.

Retail ecommerce sales in Western Europe will rise 11.6% to $381.58 billion in 2018. Amazon is planning to capitalize on rebounding markets by building 1,300 warehouses across the continent.