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

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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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The Future of Retail Takes a Digital Shift to Omnichannel Marketing

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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

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

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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.

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

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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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Influencers: A Secret Weapon for Tackling Supply Chain Challenges

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Jerutis: Brands can leverage their own social media accounts to alleviate many of the pressures that supply chain issues can bring. As marketing objectives fluctuate, so should influencer marketing spend, incentives and focus. RTP: What challenges or pressures can social media help address in supply chains specifically?

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How Ecommerce Retailers Can Prepare Now for Back-to-School 2022

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Another easy step: Drop account creation requirements and allow guest checkout. You can configure the guest checkout process so customers can create an account later, after they’ve had a fast and easy checkout experience with your store. Even better, allow their digital wallet to automatically populate those checkout fields.