Retail Focus

MARCH 25, 2025

Inflation has an impact on nearly every aspect of the economy, including raw material costs, wages, transportation, and, ultimately, the prices consumers pay for goods and services. Rising costs and shifts in consumer behaviors have a significant impact on the retail industry. Value replaces aspiration across advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2024

Meta has introduced a series of new generative AI tools to help advertisers automate and scale the “diversification of their creative,” which company executives said is key to seeing success from advertising campaigns on its platforms, including Instagram and Facebook.

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MARCH 24, 2021

consumers spent an estimated $14.9 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.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Simply put, Adaptive Retail is any commerce experience that brings consumers what they want, wherever and whenever they want it. The next generation of consumer is scrolling on social platforms, they’re binge-watching on streaming platforms, theyre spending their time playing games Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, Spatial.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

To address this, when Threads launches in the EU users in that region will have the option to access the app without creating a profile, enabling them to consume content on the platform without adding their own. Go f— yourself,” and then adding, “What this advertising boycott is going to do is, it’s going to kill the company.”

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2022

I’m seeing greater quantities of online advertising and – especially if they’re good ads – feel motivated to purchase. . For the year to June 2021, consumer retail spending grew by 9.1 per cent year-on-year growth in retail consumer spending to March 2022 3. Twenty-per-cent off at my local Thai restaurant on a Friday night?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Brick-and-mortar stores teamed up with brands to determine the optimal placement and positioning of products to entice consumers and their wallets. These days, however, consumers are the ones driving product placement, and owning the digital shelf has everything to do with the technology behind the scenes.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Between the tariff tug-of-war, flailing markets, insanely high egg prices and general twitchiness (as one strategist put it), consumers have gotten a bit hard to nail down lately. Here’s what some of the leading minds in retail say consumers need now. One thing is clear its not AI.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Consumers today expect immersive, content-rich ecommerce sites, yet if a site takes longer than four seconds to load, 63% of shoppers will abandon it altogether. Catalysts plug-and-play design has helped streamline essential tasks, like cart-to-checkout integration and customer account management, which reduced development efforts.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

While that may seem odd to say, given the extent that ecommerce now pervades most consumers’ everyday shopping, the current hot take from some industry analysts is that ecom growth has slowed and brick-and-mortar retail is on the rise. However, in an era of ad innovation, advertisers have to be prepared to fail upwards.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2021

The increase in social media usage, combined with a tandem increase in online purchasing, proved to be the push both consumers and brands needed to move into the burgeoning realm of social commerce. Social Advertising: Annoying but Effective. Facebook and Instagram Lead the Way in Social Conversion.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Federal Court has ruled that Harvey Norman, along with Latitude Finance Australia, made false and misleading financial claims in a national advertising campaign. “The financial obligations under a credit card are different to what was advertised by Harvey Norman,” said Asic deputy chair Sarah Court. .

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Solve-a-Challenge Marketing Approach is Broken Historically, marketing and advertising executives have followed a similar formula: tell people about a challenge they may or may not know they have, and show how your solution (or product) can fix it. As we all know in retail, the consumer is fast to change their mind, she admitted.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 18, 2024

The global economy is still in flux,” said Rob Garf, VP and General Manager of Retail and Consumer Goods at Sales f orce at a recent media briefing. billion commerce-focused consumer interactions as well supplemental consumer research. So what does all this mean for the holiday season? Register here.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2024

Even with research tools and ad tactics galore, new products still fail to resonate with consumers at an alarming rate. In large part, it’s a consequence of consistent consumer shopping routines. As we know, a change in consumer behavior is a lot to ask. This means demanding greater accountability from their partners.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2020

With COVID-19 forcing businesses to reinvent operations to meet changing consumer behaviors, companies have had to quickly evolve to a radically new normal — especially retailers. Studies have shown that 87% of consumers typically travel 15 minutes or less to make everyday purchases. The Shift from Brick-and-Mortar to Ecommerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2020

In 2018, Ernst & Young (EY) launched an ambitious project called FutureConsumer.Now , to model scenarios that would challenge present thinking about future consumers. Orschell discussed the differences and overlaps among these consumer segments as well as other recent research. for trusted brands and 23% for ethical products.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Called “Buy Direct,” the third-party marketplace is being integrated into Bing’s existing ecommerce experience, Start Shopping, where consumers can find products and are then directed to a retailer’s website to make the purchase. Bing accounts for approximately 25% of total monthly search volume in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2021

If you’re a consumer brand in a category with Amazon private label, however, Amazon’s private label presence certainly feels more pronounced. If you’re concerned about private label advertising on your product pages, for example, you may be able to negotiate them away.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The holiday shopping frenzy is officially in full swing now that Thanksgiving weekend has ushered in Cyber Week dealmaking, and brands are pulling out all the stops to capture consumer attention during the most lucrative retail season of the year.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We know one of the most critical ways brands connect with consumers is via social media. As one of the fastest-growing forms of communication (the average annual growth rate amongst consumers on social platforms is 7.2%), brands would be remiss to ignore this relatively low-lift form of engagement. In fact, there are now roughly 3.78

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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. The Shopify Pinterest Channel is now home to more than 1.7 million merchants.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 12, 2024

Particularly in a competitive industry like retail, where mobile phones already account for 75% of retail site visits and were used to make 70% of online shopping orders last year , adopting a mobile specific approach to your advertising and digital customer experience (DCX) could make all the difference in setting yourself apart from the crowd.

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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

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 Digital Signage in Amazon Fresh Stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 14, 2025

As consumer shopping behaviors become more fragmented in 2025, the path to purchase is no longer linear and brands must adapt to stay ahead. Consumers today are no longer giving their attention or money to a singular brand or retailer as previous generations did. Who is the Movable Middle Consumer and Why do They Matter?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2024

Through algorithm-powered feeds, consumers receive a curated selection of accounts, brands and products that they can interact with (and buy from) all over the world. But although consumers can easily use social platforms to discover and buy from new brands, it doesn’t mean they will. In fact, more than half of U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Amazon’s Prime Video was one of the last streamers to announce the addition of advertising. on a monthly basis,” touted Amazon Ads’ VP of Global Ad Sales Alan Moss at the Amazon UnBoxed , the company’s annual conference for advertisers. What TV Advertising Could Mean to the Amazon Business As UnBoxed closed out on Thursday, Oct.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Retailers compete for their advertised products to appear high up in online search results, by bidding on keywords. ” Paid search ads can drive anywhere from 15 per cent to 30 per cent or more of a retailer’s online sales, and account for as much as half of the marketing budget, Lautier said.

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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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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2025

They demand little from viewers, each episode lasts a minute or two, easily consumed between subway stops or during lunch breaks. Consumers are tired of obvious ads being shoved in their faces or having their feed interrupted by commercials. Micro-dramas are a perfect match for todays fragmented attention spans. A blueprint for Asia?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

“AEO protects its brands and cannot allow bad actors like Amazon to confuse and deceive consumers” by steering them towards substandard imitations, “piggyback[ing] off the goodwill, success and popularity of the Aerie marks.” Retail TouchPoints reached out to both AEO and Amazon for comment.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 2, 2025

With brands having to work harder than ever to maintain attention, loyalty and consumer spend, powering authenticity with imagination – have driven impressive commercial results through dynamic retail design. So, what can we expect in 2025 and how can Checkland Kindleysides help retailers?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The acquisition is designed to support Walmart Connect , the company’s retail media business, by combining Vizio’s advertising solutions with Walmart’s reach and capabilities. “We We also believe it enables a profitable advertising business that is rapidly scaling. in a statement. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Only consumers only had 17% of their shopping done by early July, and 54% said they held off on spending because they didn’t know what they needed. The most notable shift between the 2019 back-to-school season and today is the strong consumer preference for technology over traditional items like apparel and even school supplies.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There are implications for the advertising industry as it navigates new data privacy and compliance rules: Reliance on third-party cookies has been estimated to lead to a 36-per-cent decrease in measured and reported ROAS. The digital advertising industry is defined by change. Change brings new opportunities.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

Now more than ever, it’s critical to understand the latest consumer expectations — and be ready to adapt. Direct-to-consumer selling. Around the world, direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands are becoming mainstream — and they’re causing a major shift in where, when and how shopping is done. Fulfilment of the future.

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