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2021: The Year of Social Advertising

Retail TouchPoints

Entering 2021, retailers are still looking to beef up their ecommerce strategy to get this trend to stick. This, coupled with the rise of social commerce, has indicated major potential for retailers to adopt social advertising into their marketing mix. In fact, Smartly.io In fact, Smartly.io Facebook Remains Top of Mind.

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Meta Tests Out New Generative AI Features with Small Group of Advertisers

Retail TouchPoints

On May 11 the parent company of Facebook , Instagram and WhatsApp unveiled several new generative AI applications for its platform that it is currently trialing with a small group of advertisers. Sample of Meta’s text generation tool. Source: Meta) What’s new now is the “generative” part of the equation.

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How Retailers Should Deal with Digital Advertising Inflation in 2023

Retail TouchPoints

The advertising industry is managing growing fears of inflation and an economic downturn as many top retail brand advertisers are dealing with the effects. Even companies less dependent on advertising, such as Microsoft, reported a $100 million loss in revenue in its second quarter due to a reduction in ad spending.

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Mmm, it’s the sweet smell of advertising success

Inside Retail

I’m seeing greater quantities of online advertising and – especially if they’re good ads – feel motivated to purchase. . Annalect’s latest Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM) analysis 1 took a deep dive into the world of Aussie retail and it’s borne out a lot of the behaviour I describe above. What is Marketing Mix Modelling anyway?

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eBay Ads Holiday Report Reveals Keys to Advertising Success During an Elongated Season

Retail TouchPoints

“What we’re probably going to see is not necessarily more items sold, but because prices are going up due to inflation, consumers are buying the same amount but ultimately spending more, ” predicted Alex Kazim, VP and General Manager of Global Advertising for eBay in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “We

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As Meta Flounders, Amazon and Google Prove it’s All About the Advertising

Retail TouchPoints

For the first time the tech giant broke out revenue from its advertising business (more than $31 billion in 2021 — see, you’re impressed) and announced that it will be raising the annual fee for its Prime subscription for the first time since 2018, from $119 a year to $139 a year. billion in Q4 2021, up 98.6% in 2019.

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TikTok Debuts Creative Exchange to Help Advertisers Create Platform-Specific Content

Retail TouchPoints

The portal expands on a host of new advertising formats that TikTok rolled out in late September 2021. Through this new platform, we aim to equip advertisers with a suite of tools to speed up the creation of high-performing creative.”. The first phase of TikTok Creative Exchange is available now to a limited set of advertisers.