Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2024

The offering brings together a variety of connected TV (CTV) ad serving and measurement solutions, along with Albertsons Media Collective’s shopper data and insights, into a single platform from which advertisers can execute a wide range of CTV initiatives.

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JULY 25, 2024

Members who opt in will see display ads on the cart page that dynamically refresh after each new product scan, giving advertisers a new way to reach Sam’s Club members at the point of conversion and giving members new opportunities for product discovery. To learn more about retail media, check out our full guide here.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Out-of-home (OOH) advertising has played an integral role in the media mix for decades due to its influence and impact. adults have noticed an OOH ad within a one-month period and 78% of these consumers took some sort of action after, according to research from Morning Consult and the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA).

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2024

If your brand is in this category, there is no need to worry — there’s a bright spot at the end of the tunnel. Elevating First-Party Data Amidst the Decline of Cookies Begin your retail advertising endeavors by embracing first-party data. In today’s dynamic marketing landscape, leveraging first-party data is paramount to success.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2024

Advertisers already have a healthy appetite for games advertising: IAB’s latest study on games advertising found that 40% of advertisers plan to boost spending in this area over the coming year, making it the third-most popular channel for increased investment, after social media ( 47% ) and digital video ( 40% ).

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released a preliminary framework to standardize retail media measurement. Criteo , Best Buy Ads , Kroger Precision Marketing , Target , Vibenomics and Colgate-Palmolive. Criteo , Best Buy Ads , Kroger Precision Marketing , Target , Vibenomics and Colgate-Palmolive.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Best Buy has built a 70,000 -square-foot studio to develop bespoke content for its own channels and those of its partners, including advertisers on its Best Buy Ads retail media network.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Health-focused online grocer Thrive Market plans to launch a retail media network powered by Instacart ’s Carrot Ads solution. Thrive Market will use Carrot Ads to help connect brands with its more than 1.5 million members through sponsored product and display ads on its own website and app.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2022

Rakuten Advertising has entered into a partnership with influencer marketing platform Mavrck that will expand Rakuten’s influencer offerings and provide program oversight, optimization and measurement for affiliate advertisers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

Zeropark offers commerce media solutions, targeted at retail brands and agencies looking to drive incremental performance and efficient sales with sustainable, cookieless and 100% brand-safe advertising. The solutions are designed to meet consumers while they’re in a shopping mindset and at their highest moments of intent.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Walmart Connect , the retailer’s retail media arm, has launched a new certification program to help advertisers of all types and levels understand and adopt the company’s evolving suite of advertising solutions. It was initially beta tested by more than 500 commerce-focused employees at media investment company GroupM.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

On May 11 the parent company of Facebook , Instagram and WhatsApp unveiled several new generative AI applications for its platform that it is currently trialing with a small group of advertisers. Sample of Meta’s text generation tool. Source: Meta) What’s new now is the “generative” part of the equation.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Retail media has rapidly evolved in Australia, reflecting a global trend where retailers are leveraging their customer data to create powerful advertising platforms. In today’s competitive retail landscape, Epsilon Retail Media empowers retailers and advertisers with a comprehensive suite of person-first solutions.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In fact, some major retailers reported double-digit growth in ecommerce sales during Q2, right at the outbreak of the pandemic. This, coupled with the rise of social commerce, has indicated major potential for retailers to adopt social advertising into their marketing mix. In fact, Smartly.io Facebook Remains Top of Mind.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2024

Dull advertising. But lately, I read a report that I reckon you need to know about because it discusses dull advertising in an utterly eye-opening way. But lately, I read a report that I reckon you need to know about because it discusses dull advertising in an utterly eye-opening way. Look at Bunnings. billion annually.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

We’ve all sat and watched the local news in awe at winners standing in front of local gas stations with an oversized check. The lottery is like a black box, leaving both players and advertisers in awe. For brands and advertisers in this space, the mystery is deeper. For players, the questions arise: How did they manage to win?

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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 team work under AI expert Daniel Hulme who was appointed chief AI officer at WPP two years ago.

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Inside Retail

MAY 7, 2024

The first known banner ad was placed on Hotwired.com by AT&T in October 1994. As demand for online advertising increased, algorithms were developed to match ads with relevant website content. As author Cory Doctorow observes, platforms often shift over time, prioritising their interests over users and advertisers.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2024

A decade or so ago, for most retailers, television advertising was the most effective way to meet the masses, whether it be to promote great deals or craft a specific brand image. billion will be spent by advertising on social media channels this year – 14.3 billion will be spent by advertising on social media channels this year – 14.3

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Privacy and data regulations – such as Apple’s App Tracking Transparency Framework – have severely limited the data that brands and advertisers can collect on users of these channels. The company is now part of a movement to offer smarter, more sustainable customer acquisition that doesn’t rely solely on Google and Facebook.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 20, 2024

These factors have made it challenging for retailers to plan and execute effective marketing strategies. As a result, many retailers are adopting a more conservative approach to their marketing spend, focusing on efficiency and return on investment (ROI). Reassessing Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon’s summer Prime Day sales event now serves to kickstart many retailers’ summertime sales and back-to-school marketing efforts, and is generally pivoting marketers’ planning calendars. And now, brand marketing teams wonder if the holiday marketing calendar has been elongated too.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Ulta Beauty is testing new smart vending tech from SOS that will expand the beauty retailer’s in-store sampling program and add in-store advertising capabilities to its retail media offerings for the first time. SOS Co-founders showcase the smart vending capability at Ulta.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

“What we’re probably going to see is not necessarily more items sold, but because prices are going up due to inflation, consumers are buying the same amount but ultimately spending more, ” predicted Alex Kazim, VP and General Manager of Global Advertising for eBay in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As consumer spending dips, retailers and ecommerce businesses are facing a perfect storm that is impacting their digital advertising ROI. At the same time, the UK Office for National Statistics notes that approximately two-thirds of adults in Great Britain are spending less on non-essentials because of the rising cost of living.

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2022

Am I the only one who’s suddenly doing a lot more shopping at 8pm? Twenty-per-cent off at my local Thai restaurant on a Friday night? I’m seeing greater quantities of online advertising and – especially if they’re good ads – feel motivated to purchase. . What is Marketing Mix Modelling anyway?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

When Threads initially launched in July 2023 it was available in most global markets, but Meta held off on launching in Europe because of that region’s strict regulations around online services and data privacy. 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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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

What interests me about the metaverse is the massive opportunities for brands and advertisers. However, these opportunities don’t lie with the digital platforms and destinations being crafted — users’ behaviors and actions are the pot of gold at the end of the metaverse rainbow. Contextual’ Versus ‘Additive’ Advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

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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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 4, 2024

Last month, Google , Meta and TikTok all debuted more AI-based capabilities for their customers (that is, advertisers, creators and merchants). Because if you are using AI-generated content from these platforms for your advertising and brand assets, then you could unknowingly be drawing on copyrighted material.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 17, 2023

Direct response and other small advertisers are running more ads on Twitter as many large marketers have ended or cut back advertising on the social media site since Elon Musk acquired it. I’ve seen this all over the place.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Macy’s has named Sharon Otterman as its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), effective Dec. Otterman, a 25- year marketing veteran who was most recently CMO at Caesars Entertainment , will report to Macy’s President and CEO-elect Tony Spring. At Caesars, Otterman launched Caesars Sportsbook, a new sports betting brand in the U.S.,

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2024

Since the advent of paid ads on social media, performance marketing has reigned supreme, offering brands direct access to consumers and the ability to convert sales. There has long been speculation around the law of diminishing returns in performance marketing and brands’ decreasing conversion rates are starting to suggest the same.

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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

JUNE 18, 2024

CVS Media Exchange (CMX), CVS ’ retail media network, is beta testing a new self-service offering for its advertiser partners in collaboration with The Trade Desk. The new offering also will provide advertiser partners with more ways to reach CVS ExtraCare shoppers across off-site channels, including programmatic display and connected TV.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

For the first time the tech giant broke out revenue from its advertising business (more than $31 billion in 2021 — see, you’re impressed) and announced that it will be raising the annual fee for its Prime subscription for the first time since 2018, from $119 a year to $139 a year. All About the Advertising. billion in Q4 2020 to $10.3

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