Retail TouchPoints

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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MARCH 15, 2022

If you spend any time at all on social media it’s hard to escape influencers, and there’s a good reason for that — they are incredibly compelling, both to consumers and advertisers. While influencer marketing clearly isn’t going anywhere, it might soon have a new name: the “creator” appellation is increasingly taking precedence.

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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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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Shopify is expanding the reach of its merchant advertising tool Audiences to include all major advertising platforms. and Canada Shopify Plus merchants, first debuted in May 2022 , with the goal of helping brands identify and reach target customers on their preferred advertising networks.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2023

Some of the world’s biggest advertisers, from food giant Nestle to consumer goods multinational Unilever, are experimenting with using generative AI software like ChatGPT and DALL-E to cut costs and increase productivity, executives say. “The savings can be 10 or 20 times,” Read said in an interview.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Though many of the economic indicators were excellent, including the low unemployment numbers and strong GDP growth, there was a lot of uncertainty in the market throughout the year. from 2022, while Cyber Week overall sales were $38 billion, an increase of 7.8% vs. 2022, according to the CNBC /NRF Retail Monitor.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Mattress Firm has hired retail and technology veteran Mickey Mericle as its new Chief Marketing and Experience Officer. She will oversee the retailer’s marketing, advertising and customer experience initiatives as well as lead the development and execution of Mattress Firm’s brand strategy and develop a forward-thinking media strategy.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Retail and etail spend massively on measurable digital advertising. Additionally, retailers typically devote 25% of their annual budgets to media during the four-day shopping period from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, according to a survey by performance advertising software Nanigans. of retail sales happen during Q4. living rooms.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

“While Australians continue to face cost-of-living pressures, particularly in a high-interest rate environment, we’ve seen that they’re still willing to spend, particularly on others during key gifting moments like Black Friday,” James Holloman, David Jones’ chief marketing officer, told Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the course of her expansive career in marketing, Kristen D’Arcy has worked for household names like American Eagle , PacSun , Ralph Lauren and Oscar de la Renta. But she believes that successful marketing revolves around one key thing: understanding your customer and creating the value they expect.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Former NBA Chief Marketing Officer Kate Jhaveri has been named Global Head of Marketing at TikTok. Jhaveri will work closely with Sofia Hernandez, TikTok’s Head of Global Business Marketing, who focuses primarily on business and advertising solutions, according to a company spokesperson.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2025

And some seven years on, much to the dismay of retailers, it is now starting to shake the tree and become a real force in the market , as Australian shoppers increasingly turn to alternatives to manage the cost-of-living crisis. billion in sales revenue (across cloud, advertising and marketplace sales) in calendar year 2023, up from $2.63

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Retail TouchPoints

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

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. In fact, most ecommerce brands are barely getting 2X-3X gross profit return on ad spend in 2022. What needs to change?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

As 2024 advances, the importance and reach of paid social media advertising will only continue to grow. Recent data shows that online retailers are increasingly relying on social media advertising platforms to reach and engage with their target customers, while search-based channels such as Google Shopping and Bing are becoming less popular.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2023

Wine marketers have an exciting opportunity to identify ways to educate new consumer segments, show up in key commerce channels and drive marketing ROI. In this phase, influencer marketing is an ideal channel for wine brands , especially to reach the key millennial/Gen-Z demographics that have been slower adopters of wine.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2023

Former Red Bull CMO Ken Turner has been named as the first Chief Marketing Officer of Fanatics Collectibles , Fanatics ‘ growing trading cards and collectibles business. Collectibles have become a big focus for the sportswear platform, which solidified its ambitions in the space with the acquisition of Topps in January 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2022

Since the infamous shopping holiday was created and marketed by Alibaba in 2009, there has been no slowing down. Singles’ Day, also known as Double 11, is now the world’s largest shopping holiday, with advertisers seeing incredible returns. brands leverage these ecommerce strategies going into 2022?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Microsoft is gearing up to take a bigger piece of the growing retail media pie with the debut of a suite of new capabilities through its PromoteIQ marketing platform, which the company acquired in 2019. Retail media spend is projected to reach more than $61 billion in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Bed Bath & Beyond has appointed Bart Sichel as EVP, Chief Marketing and Customer Officer as the troubled retailer rebuilds its executive leadership following a number of departures in 2022, including former SVP of Marketing James Reath.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I visit them, and we text about what’s hot in the market, what new colorways they’re seeing. We got right over $1 million ,and it allowed me to hire two more people through 2022. But we are looking at advertising in a positive light going forward. RTP: How did COVID affect your operations? This is just the beginning!

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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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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2022

Prior to her current role as VP of Data Analytics & Customer Insights at Amyris , a biology company in the clean beauty, health and wellness and flavors/fragrances markets, she held ecommerce and digital marketing roles at brands like Coca-Cola and Unilever. How Unilever Harnessed the Power of Microsegments.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2022

They aren’t bound by traditional constraints, and are gathering data far and wide to inform decisions with behaviors that no longer follow any established marketing models. What this means is that consumers aren’t following the pathways on which our research and marketing models have been based for decades. Brooks holds a B.A.

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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 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

JULY 24, 2023

Yet despite the complexities, an effective personalized approach to marketing is critical to success. Opportunities and Challenges Across Marketing Touch Points Email marketing: Perhaps the most popular example is the email campaign. of these emails being spam, 36% of which are from marketing and advertising initiatives.

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Inside Retail

MAY 4, 2022

It is the new search, the new storefront and the new helpdesk,” observes Etienne Mérineau, senior director of marketing at Hootsuite. Customers want to have meaningful conversations, not be advertised to. Customers want personal advisors, not advertisers. Advertisers, stop interrupting, start inspiring.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 16, 2022

Target grocery benefited from the pandemic, gaining $3 billion in market share and building trust with our guests,” said Gomez in the session titled Bringing Tar-Zhay to Target’s Food and Beverage Business , moderated by Liza Amlani, Principal and Founder of Retail Strategy Group. Loyalty Program Yields Rich Customer Data. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There’s been a great deal of hand-wringing around the advertising industry lately as brands deal with rising marketing costs. Marketing budgets are 9.5% Direct-to-consumer brands in particular have been hit hard, with many reporting huge increases in marketing spend in Q1. . of total company revenue so far this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

Wish has launched a global marketing campaign following almost a year’s pause on major advertising as new leadership settled in and formulated a turnaround strategy for the bargain shopping app. There’s probably a lot more companies pulling back on marketing — we’re doing the opposite, and that puts us in a unique position.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As the explosive accessibility of image and text generation allowed the public to see this new technology at work before their eyes, VisualGPS research reveals that trepidation increased, with 53% of Americans saying they were very nervous about AI in 2022, rising to 63% in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

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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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2022

Leaders from TikTok , Snapchat and Pinterest spoke at the 2022 Sofa Summit , hosted by Smartly.io , to discuss how marketers can better utilize the unique options that set each platform apart. Retail marketers should create posts that look to the future, rather than the past or present, in order to make the most of this.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2024

The use of LLMs (large language models) to enable the optimization and maximization of ROAS for programmatic advertising predates generative AI by many years. This technology is used to personalize content at scale and generate content for marketing campaigns and informational pages.

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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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

By using future-focused insights, retailing marketers can evolve their strategies to stay abreast of change. A marketer’s crystal ball? For example, weighing up trends such as the super-inclusivity ushered in by the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements, and what this means for brands and how they advertise.

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