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Amazon Expands Advertising Options in CTV, Fresh Stores and Twitch

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon unveiled a slate of new advertising products and capabilities at its unBoxed conference, touting its ongoing mission to “make marketers’ lives easier” and help them adapt to the changes taking place in digital marketing (read: deprecation of the cookie and ongoing privacy regulation). . “We

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3 Things Every Retailer Can Learn from Amazon

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If Amazon is using that technology, we should be using that technology,” said the Prosper keynote speaker, Koffee Kult Founder and President James Mardis, who launched his artisan coffee brand on Amazon in 2014. It very well might be [advertising].”. So if the first phase of that is a marketplace, what is the second phase?

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WhatsApp launches test of in-app business directory

Inside Retail

The test in São Paulo, Brazil, which allows WhatsApp users to find shops and services through a directory in the app, is the latest feature in Facebook’s drive to bolster ecommerce on its services. As online retail has continued to boom during the Covid-19 pandemic, Facebook has pushed in-app shopping features across its apps.

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Brands Pop into the Surreal as 3D Billboards Surge

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Many brands, including Coach, Louis Vuitton, Samsung, WhatsApp and BMW have caught on to the benefits of this surreal and sensory approach to advertising. Part of successful advertising is understanding how people engage with their environments. The benefits of this new sensory approach to advertising include: 1.

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Don’t be Fooled, Meta isn’t Abandoning Social Commerce — and Here’s Why

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Recent headlines about Meta ’s Instagram and Facebook doing away with shopping features on their platforms might appear to be a retreat in the social commerce wars. That’s a lot of money to walk away from, and Meta isn’t, especially as it (like everyone else) is being hit hard by declines in digital advertising spend.

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NFTs will Bridge the Gap Between the Real World and the Metaverse

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In 2014, NFTs (non-fungible tokens) were introduced. And, some major publishing companies are closing shop on their NFT marketplaces. Advertisers have been buying digital products from Facebook and Google for years. Thousands of years later, in 2009, the market for digital assets arose.

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Analysis: Why Abercrombie & Fitch’s turnaround has not been cancelled

Inside Retail

Other flagships followed as far afield as Tokyo, Milan, Paris, Madrid and Singapore – although advertising in the latter market quickly fell foul of guidelines on decency. A turnaround program was set in motion in 2014, focused on cost-cutting and trendier merchandise that abandoned its logo-centric designs to a certain extent.