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TikTok Shop launches '£1 Million Club' to grow brands on platform

Social commerce marketplace TikTok Shop has launched a new initiative in the UK to help new businesses “thrive” and hit 1 million pounds in revenue on the platform. The '£1 Million Club,' aims to help new merchants grow on the social media platform through a series of special incentives and support at no extra cost for new sellers onboarded from...

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TikTok to pause European e-commerce push to focus on US market

European brands and retailers who rely on social commerce to sell their collections will be disappointed to hear TikTok is pausing its European shopping platform as it focuses on the growth of its US market. The shortform video parent ByteDance has been under intense scrutiny in the US, where government officials oppose TikTok because of its...

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The Rise of Social Commerce – Why Retailers Must Pay Attention

Alexander Otto, Head of Corporate Relations, Tradebyte According to recent figures from Kepios, there were more than five billion social media users globally at the start of April 2024. This number makes up a colossal 63% of the world’s population, and has more than doubled since 2016. The average user now spends almost two and a half hours a...

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Xcel Brands invests in new social commerce marketplace Orme

Media and consumer products company Xcel Brands, which specialises in livestream shopping and social commerce, has co-founded a new short-form video marketplace with KonnectBio, Inc., called Orme, taking a 30 percent stake in the platform. Robert W. D’Loren, chairman and chief executive officer of Xcel, said in a statement: “Orme is an...

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Maka raises 2.65 million US dollars to simplify buying fashion in Africa

Africa’s leading fashion and beauty e-commerce platform Maka has raised a 2.65 million US dollar pre-seed round, co-led by venture capital firms 4DX Ventures and Janngo Capital, as it looks to simplify buying fashion and beauty products in Africa. The social media commerce platform, founded by chief executive Diana Owusu-Kyereko in 2021, said...

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Social media drives Gen Z shopping habits

LTK, the creator-guided shopping platform, has revealed that influencers are driving the majority of Gen Z’s shopping decisions, with 79 percent stating that their shopping originates from social media. According to LTK’s latest ‘Gen Z Shopping Study,’ social commerce has a major impact on Gen Z shopping behaviours, both online and in-store,...

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Will 2023 be the year of social e-commerce?

Long the norm in China, social e-commerce, shopping via platforms such as TikTok, YouTube and Amazon Live, may soon see similar success in the West. Social shopping and online sharing are blending and live social networking is finding audiences outside of China, writes Reuters. “ByteDance-owned TikTok introduced the concept in the United States...

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LIVE SHOPPING: Social commerce arrives in digital retail

Live shopping offers retailers, brands, and digital platforms a new channel with gargantuan scope for creating markets via social media livestreams. Mixing online shopping with social media, personal interaction is the real draw of live shopping and what gives it its cutting edge. Live shopping is exciting and brings back the fun factor. Even...

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Amazon rolls out social commerce feature, not unlike TikTok

Amazon on Thursday launched a feature allowing shoppers to buy products from a customised feed of photos and videos, not dissimilar to ByteDance’s TikTok network. The experimental feature will roll-0ut in the U.S. after a trial of selected customers in its launch phase, where users can select their interests and receive the most relevant feeds....

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TikTok Shop will focus on UK, Southeast Asia for now

Last year, Chinese platform TikTok launched TikTok Shop, a livestream shopping option in the UK, its strongest market outside of Asia. This option was supposed to be introduced in strong European markets like Germany, France, Spain and Italy too, but this has not happened so far. Contrary to earlier reports, however, TikTok has not abandoned to...

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Social commerce soars in the US but security and trust still a concern

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated consumer adoption of online shopping, including shopping on social media, with more than a third (39 percent) of US shoppers stating that they have made a purchase on social media and would do so again. New research from Mintel reveals that 61 percent of 25-34-year-olds buy on social media, while 81 percent...

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Smart portal to China

China is the largest e-commerce market in the world. Good news: your chances of realising success there are now hugely increased thanks to a full-service solution. We’re often instantly put in mind of a gigantic production market when we first think of China. Yet there are also vast sales opportunities for the Western fashion industry. “China is...