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Why UK Retailers Should Save Some of Their Christmas Marketing Spend for Chinese New Year

Retail TouchPoints

This means that marketing spend aimed at these high-spending visitors over Christmas is likely to get less return than usual. Prior to the pandemic they were the second-highest spenders in the UK after Americans and generally spent more per trip.

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How Temu and Shein drive up Black Friday marketing costs for US retailers

Inside Retail

Heavy online marketing spending by Temu and Shein is making it more costly for other retailers and brands to reach shoppers on Black Friday, marketing and industry experts say, with both platforms bidding heavily on search keywords used by competitors. Shein did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

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The Future of Retail Takes a Digital Shift to Omnichannel Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

How Marketers can Approach Spend Strategically. For digital marketers, strategic decisions about marketing spend allocated to specific retailers is now largely shaped by these factors; retailers unwilling to let a brand manage its own media, and the inability to run off-platform strategies to specific retailers.

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Foot Locker Deepens Relationship with Adidas as Both Retailers Focus on Digital Offerings

Retail TouchPoints

The deepened relationship will combine new product development, exclusive Foot Locker positioning, increased product allocations, shared marketing spend and an elevated premium presence across Foot Locker’s entire portfolio of banners, with a focus on key cities and communities that the companies jointly serve.

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Mejuri Leverages Real-Time Profitability Data to Inform Decision-Making

Retail TouchPoints

The computations incorporate the net costs of discounts, returns, landed COGS, acquisition and retention marketing spend, and fulfillment and delivery. The technology groups variable cost and profitability data by customer in order to track shopper-specific contribution margins to customer lifetime value (CLV).

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Moving from Monologues to Conversations: How Brands are Driving Innovation with Unified Commerce Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

As an example, Gillespie shared a story of a banking client that realized that customers in the Bill Pay section of its website would often open a separate screen to check their account balance before completing a payment, so the bank put an account balance window on the Bill Pay page. “ Where should I allocate marketing spend?

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Unwrap New Holiday Shoppers in 2024: The Gift of In-app Advertising

Retail TouchPoints

Ringing in a Changing Digital Landscape D2C brands have historically relied heavily on search and social media, which have devoured a significant chunk of their marketing budgets. Nearly 70% of marketing spend has gone to these channels. Search engine marketing Search is still a critical tool driving traffic to online stores.