Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2021

The biggest standout was Target’s same-day digital services, which grew nearly 55% in 2021 on top of the 270% growth posted in 2020. Walmart also noted that its advertising business was strong globally, with sales nearly doubling in the U.S. in Q2 2021, maintaining some of the momentum from the 24.3% compared to Q. on top of 10.9%

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MAY 12, 2022

Tech giants like Facebook and Microsoft have gone all-in on the metaverse, based on the idea that it’s the future of digital experiences like gaming, collaboration and marketing. The metaverse is the next frontier for marketers, offering them the opportunity to blend physical and digital marketing tactics.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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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JANUARY 2, 2025

Retailers including Walmart are stretching the boundaries of retail media by providing access to non-endemic advertisers and additional in-store opportunities. After moving aggressively into direct sales in 2020 and 2021, Nike had to begin rekindling wholesale relationships with retailers including DSW and Macys in late 2023.

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MARCH 20, 2023

One of the major challenges faced by the cannabis industry is limitations on its ability to advertise, due to a combination of state and federal regulations as well as platform-specific rules. However, the first signs that this may be changing have appeared on Twitter, which has loosened its policy regarding cannabis to allow advertisements.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

The holiday 2020 surge in ecommerce caused digital headaches as shoppers contended with slow or unresponsive web sites, and retailers can’t afford a repeat in 2021. The 2021 holiday season will mark a golden opportunity for retailers to get a head start on this process by directly gathering data from customers during a high traffic period. “

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2021

The Channel grants retailers that advertise on Pinterest through Shopify access to Dynamic Retargeting, which enables them to re-engage with Pinners who have already expressed interest in their products on Pinterest. Catalog feed uploads increased globally by more than 14X from March 2020 to March 2021, according to internal Pinterest data.

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JUNE 22, 2022

You can do everything right in your advertising plan — target the right users, deep-link to the ideal product pages and create great ads — and still see users clicking on your ads only to quickly leave your site. Improving Your UX to Boost Advertising ROI. In 2021, 79% of smartphone users made online purchases on their devices.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2022

Even though it has not been around for very long, it’s created such a long-lasting impact in its short lifespan that it will be transformative for the ecommerce market in the years to come. The explosion of NFTs over the last two years has been significant, and the market has seen about a 10X growth. The Impact of NFTs on Brands.

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MAY 23, 2023

Digital marketing is a constantly evolving field — and new trends often emerge due to changes in consumer behavior and technology. Brands that adapt quickly to these changes are more likely to be effective in their marketing efforts. Here are five digital marketing trends that brands should pay attention to in 2023: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2023

For example, 16% of consumers purchased natural wine in 2021 and sparkling wines are also rising in popularity. Wine marketers have an exciting opportunity to identify ways to educate new consumer segments, show up in key commerce channels and drive marketing ROI. The key is to avoid early mass media investment.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2024

Achieving this level of personalization and marketing effectiveness is difficult given the range of Fender’s channels and customer touch points. Evolving from Channel-Specific to Customer-First Marketing Fender has the advantage of being a well-known, respected and trusted brand; that itself is a powerful marketing lever.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

It closed down all channels except online, and put all its advertising dollars and social media initiatives into selling direct to consumers (DTC). Upscale jewelry designer Gorjana, for example, saw 300% growth in 2020, with a 400% monthly increase in sales between April and May 2020 alone. It really had no choice, its executives told Forbes.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

With more than 10 years of experience in digital marketing, ecommerce strategy and digital transformation, she has helped architect omnichannel strategies for hundreds of brands and retailers, including Michael Kors, Joann Fabrics , Converse and Billabong Brands. There’s also a nice take-rate model, the way that Amazon has built.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 18, 2021

ASONTV companies continued to break advertising records throughout the remainder of 2020. Given unprecedented levels of ASONTV spend in 2020, there will be a significant pent-up consumer demand for these extensively advertised products. The more the ASONTV marketer spends, the higher the eventual retail sales should be.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2021

These have made it generally legal to sell CBD nationally while simultaneously making it difficult to advertise , especially since major platforms like Facebook, Google and Amazon currently ban the promotion of CBD products. It is a great tool to use on our site and in advertising. Using Interactive Quizzes to Engage and Inform.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2021

Before they’ve even started, the 2020 2021 Olympic Games have already made history. Despite everything that’s happened in recent weeks, the opening ceremony will take place as (re)scheduled July 23, 2021. How will the splintering of viewership across media channels impact the resonance of advertising campaigns?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Retail media is when a retailer offers advertising capabilities and services, similar to what media outlets such as publishers and television networks have done for years. Off-site advertising is typically more complex than on-site and is therefore something that only the more mature retail media networks offer at this stage.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

Best Buy is the latest retailer to enter the advertising market with the launch of Best Buy Ads, an in-house media company designed to help shoppers explore the retailer’s products, services and offers. Best Buy Ads will partner with brands to guide their marketing efforts with relevant messages.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Quartile , which provides advertising optimization services to ecommerce marketplace sellers, has purchased performance marketing solution provider Sidecar. Quartile expects that the acquisition will double its amount of advertising spend under management to $2 billion in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2022

Add the increasing CPC costs at all sorts of paid advertisement channels and harsher competition to that, and you get a not-so-rosy outlook for the market altogether. Advertising. Advertising automation is vital if you want to maximize ROAS and stay competitive. Email marketing. In 2021, 20.8%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2023

If you think those “sponsored” products on Amazon are an innocuous little niche of advertising, think again. digital advertising channel after paid search and paid social campaigns. Currently, Amazon dominates the space with almost 78% of retail media ad revenue in 2021, trailed by Walmart at a significantly lower rate of 5.4%.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2024

has appointed Michael Krans as VP of Macy’s Media Network , where he will oversee the company’s in-house media business dedicated to connecting advertising partners with Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s customers. He takes the reins of our growing retail media network, bringing with him more than two decades of sales and marketing experience.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

This winding-down period gave advertisers a head start in finding the best ways to perpetuate a healthy, ad-supported web and deliver better customer experiences. According to a study conducted by Google and BCG , using first-party data for key marketing functions achieved nearly 3X the revenue uplift and a 1.5X

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

Ulta Beauty is the latest retailer to launch a retail media network, aiming to tap into the growing pool of ad dollars flowing into closed-loop systems as marketers look beyond search engines and social media in preparation for a cookie-less future. The company said that it plans to roll out additional advertising formats in the future.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2024

Tuckernuck , an omnichannel lifestyle retail brand that sells classic yet unique apparel and gifts, needed a scalable advertising channel that it could rely on to drive significant performance during the peak holiday season. They kicked things off by increasing Q4 CTV budget by 32%.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 10, 2025

The retailer is set to launch a new home publication, Foundation , alongside a major spring advertising campaign as part of its commitment to growing its homeware division. The new publication launch is accompanied by the largest home marketing campaign John Lewis has undertaken since 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The big differentiator is that Google insists its aim is not make the actual sale, but rather to support product discovery: “We’re indifferent on where the shopping journey ends, where that transaction takes place,” Matt Madrigal, VP and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google told Retail TouchPoints in a 2021 interview.

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Merchant Services Shopping Payment Services Advertising 306

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2022

Yahoo has partnered with ecommerce enablement software MikMak to offer add-to-cart functionality and ecommerce analytics for advertising campaigns on its properties, which include Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch and AOL. Yahoo’s move to make its advertising products shoppable mirrors the current retail media trend.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2023

Online fashion retailer ASOS has named Criteo as its exclusive partner for endemic brands’ advertising across its app and web experiences. Advertisers will be able to take advantage of improved targeting and measurement capabilities, and Criteo also will support AMG sales efforts to brands and agencies in key markets.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Carrefour Group — which was one of the first retailers in Europe to launch a retail media network — has created a joint venture with Publicis Groupe , with the goal of bringing the retail media market in Europe and Latin America to the same levels of scale and connectivity as in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2022

billion for the latter, not too shabby for a company with a core business that isn’t advertising. “We’re First, there’s the Amazon effect: retailers see how lucrative ad sales have been for the perennial disruptor ( $31 billion in 2021) and want a piece of the rapidly growing action.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2021

Wayfair has announced that Chief Product and Marketing Officer Ed Macri will retire from the company this year. Bob Sherwin, who has worked alongside Macri for the last eight years and currently serves as VP of Marketing, will assume the role of Chief Marketing Officer. In his new role, Sherwin will report directly to Oblak.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

Since its 2021 launch , Lowe’s media network has grown significantly and now serves more than 300 brands in the home improvement category. The new partnership with Vibenomics will allow Lowe’s to offer its advertising partners targeted, specialized audio ads that are delivered programmatically to stores chainwide.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2024

In November 2021 the UK saw a total of 321 million ecommerce transactions, according to Statista. Cost of goods is increasing whereas consumer confidence is decreasing, so businesses need to rethink their marketing strategy and drive incremental gains. The move to more automated campaigns has changed the marketing landscape.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2024

Where retailers carved out a unique ability to deliver closed-loop media measurement, large-scale businesses in verticals such as travel, sports, entertainment and delivery services can offer advertisers rich first-party data and exclusive behavioral insights into loyal, passionate and targeted audiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s still a lot of work that still needs to be done, of course, and Chapter 1 of the NRF 2021 Big Show highlighted the importance of this mission with its Equality Lounge sessions — daily panels that covered diversity from a variety of angles.

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