Chris Dawson

1 week ago | channelx.world | Chris Dawson

The dates for Amazon Prime Day 2025 have been revealed and, from it’s humble beginnings of being ‘a day’, will be stretched over 96 hours – yes that’s four straight days of deals running from the 8th of July through to the 11th! Originally launched in 2015, to celebrate Amazon’s 20th birthday, a decade on and it’s become one of the biggest sales events of the year! Prime Day 2025 will return to the following countries this year: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France,...

1 week ago | channelx.world | Chris Dawson

Sociallyin have released a comprehensive new analysis of global social media trends, revealing that social media usage has reached an all-time high, with 5.07 billion people now actively using social platforms worldwide, representing more than half of the global population and 93% of all internet users. The latest data shows dramatic increases in user engagement, with average daily social media usage climbing from 90 minutes in 2012 to 143 minutes in 2024, a nearly 60% increase.

1 week ago | channelx.world | Chris Dawson

Sainsbury’s loyalty, insights and retail media business, Nectar360, has announced the upcoming launch of a new unified retail media platform: Nectar360 Pollen. Designed to solve for the industry’s biggest pain points and to support Nectar360’s mission to create valuable relationships between customers and their favourite brands.

2 weeks ago | channelx.world | Chris Dawson

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (‘CAT’) has made an order certifying a £1 billion legal claim against Google on behalf of UK app developers that have allegedly been overcharged by Google for using its Play Store. The case can now proceed to trial, with thousands of businesses poised to receive compensation for the loss in revenue suffered as a result of Google’s alleged conduct if the claim is successful.

2 weeks ago | channelx.world | Chris Dawson

After all the woo hah caused by Royal Mail slightly jumping the gun to notify business users about potential changes to 2nd Class mail, which everyone knows is realistically likely to happen, Royal Mail have written again to business users to clarify the position. What happened is that Royal Mail, (probably… we’re guessing) wanted to give advance notification of a change from 6 day a week deliveries for 2nd Class to every other week day.