Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Social commerce, or purchasing products and services within social platforms, represented just 4 per cent of the US retail e-commerce market in 2021. Millennials’ and Gen Z’s reliance on social media and willingness to make in-app purchases are fuelling wider adoption – and a sort of transformation.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2024

There’s no shortage of companies trying to crack the code of social commerce in the U.S. from the biggest social media platforms to small start-ups. Video commerce is the delivery of content. It ties together the best of affiliate, the best of influencer and the best of digital into social commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meta and Amazon have quietly debuted a new closed-loop social commerce experience that allows Facebook and Instagram users to link their social media accounts to Amazon so they can make purchases directly in-platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The numbers from our latest guide to omnichannel commerce speak for themselves, showing that marketing across three or more channels earns brands 250% higher engagement. Social commerce metrics are up in 2023 , with a 9% increase in gross merchandise value and a 63% increase in average order value across BigCommerce’s merchants.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s no secret that retailers and brands have become obsessed with driving conversion in their quest to recover the more than half of shoppers who abandon checkout before completing their purchase. Maximizing that combination of factors can be accomplished at checkout, as long as it’s not stripped of all its goodness.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

One variation of Bolt’s Checkout Everywhere function on The Independent ‘s site. Social Commerce Meets Affiliate Marketing. When they close the checkout, they’re back on the article if they want to continue shopping or reading or doing something else.”. IndyBest’s centralized shopping section.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2024

Having spent a whopping $3 billion on online advertising in the U.S. in 2023, China’s Temu is hoping that its online advertising blitz can help it establish a foothold in what is traditionally Amazon’s territory. advertising campaigns, signaling that this trans-Pacific ecommerce battle is only just beginning.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2023

The power lies in creating a content and advertising ecosystem that helps consumers instantly turn their inspiration into action — something that very few platforms have been able to monetize successfully. Deep linking, which takes users from products straight to a retailer’s checkout, represented 40% of Pinterest’s shopping revenue.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2022

That goal, to be the “starting point” for shopping, is remarkably similar to how Ready’s previous employer Google describes its own commerce ambitions — aiming to be a place of discovery and commerce enablement rather than actually owning the transaction.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Heightened competition inspiring hyperlocal, omnichannel advertising. That means both omnichannel retailers and their online-only counterparts will be vying for the same shopper dollar, creating a hyper-competitive advertising landscape.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

When creating an advertisement or a campaign, there is a clear number-one priority a brand needs to focus on: not just getting a consumer’s attention, but holding it. That can be difficult when the average consumer is bombarded with ads, but that is why brands are turning to interactivity to stand out amongst the clutter.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

In fact, NBCU just launched a self-serve platform for brands to advertise on its CTV app Peacock , and many other streaming services have similar offerings. For many brands, television can seem like an imposing channel to start advertising on, but it’s never been easier for a brand to start advertising on television ,” said Moore.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

and Secure checkout: TikTok has partnered with third-party payment platforms to facilitate transactions on TikTok Shop and to ensure a quick, smooth and secure checkout process. Previously, TikTok had only shared the availability of FBT in the U.K. ; The company also reiterated that all TikTok-protected U.S. and managed by the U.S.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2024

Scammers lure consumers in with enticing discounted prices on products that are advertised and targeted towards them just like any other legitimate business would on social media, search engines and other online channels.

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Star Miconics

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Part of this shift is the emergence of social commerce, a trend that’s setting the stage for this next retail revolution. Combining mobile shopping and social media, two of the most popular contemporary pastimes, retailers are finding more creative ways to engage consumers, drive sales, and enhance the shopping experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lionesque Group CEO Melissa Gonzalez and MG2 Design Principal Justin Hill will reveal how retailers can rethink the checkout experience while maintaining fluidity between high-touch customer service and self-service capabilities during an interactive roundtable discussion on Nov. 17 from 1:20 to 2:10 p.m.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2024

TikTok also offers seamless shopping feature integrations on the platform, which allows users to buy products immediately through shoppable ads and in-app checkout. In his ecommerce career, Fedotoff has generated over $100 million in revenue, profitably using paid advertising and influencers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

We tweaked our search and checkout capabilities and have increased our retention rate. You have to make sure you are offering frictionless checkout. A lot of people will lose steam after two or three steps at checkout. All of them are now charging for advertising and other bells and whistles on their sites.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

This is the seventh year of the Index , and while the company noted that top-performers “aggressively” rolled out optimized content, frictionless checkout and other cross-channel capabilities, there was a sizeable gap between industry leaders and their peers. Loyalty programs.

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365 Retail

MARCH 1, 2022

We predict that the ongoing shift in buyer behaviour and subsequent move to online shopping will be the driving forces for brands to continue and even accelerate the pace of their Amazon digital transformation sales strategies, as well as use this as an opportunity to improve their digital commerce operations.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 27, 2022

First, look to enhance your customer experience by optimising your website and develop a frictionless checkout experience that is fast and easy, as 50% of American shoppers are less likely to buy something if the checkout process takes longer than 30 seconds. Secondly, social commerce is increasingly critical.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JANUARY 23, 2023

Retail Media Networks Retail media networks are a form of advertising that enables retailers to monetize their first-hand data to better serve customers with more relevant offers when shopping in digital and physical stores and via email/SMS. Self-service checkouts and frictionless experience are major drivers of this demand.

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Retail Smart Guys

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Aside from seamless entering of sales and customer checkouts, point-of-sale (POS) systems can produce information to analyze customer data, develop inventory, track shopper trends, and hassle-free data migration. Utilize Social Commerce. People spend so much time browsing their social media accounts like Facebook and Instagram.

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Retail Assist

JANUARY 17, 2023

Quick commerce, social commerce, marketplaces, greenwashing of brands, a resurgence in physical retail and a rebalancing of ecommerce were key themes during the year. Whilst some press reports suggest there could be a decline in social media usage amidst a shunning of Big Tech, it’s pretty unlikely.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

We also briefly discuss e-commerce in Brazil, around Jason’s recent trip to São Paulo. In this episode we recap everything you may have missed if you couldn’t make it to Las Vegas. But apparently like taking the email address of all the people you sell something too and uploading it to a server via an API is too hard.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this episode we cover: Amazon Q4 Earnings Walmart Q4 Earnings US Department of Commerce Q4 e-commerce data Discussion of Temu and other Social Commerce News Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. 38:37] Selfish piece of.

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Retail TouchPoints

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. On the advertiser side, 48% of influencer marketing budgets were spent on Instagram in 2021. Instagram, TikTok and YouTube are Where it’s At.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 9, 2021

Four percent of your total e-commerce site but now you’re partly headless so you know so I would say. [13:02] Um are we leaning heavily into it and we’ve seen Walmart due to two pilots where they had Commerce events on Tik-Tok now, and. [30:54] 32:46] The digital disruption of Commerce means. The the wrinkle is.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2021

5 Social Advertising Trends for Retailers to Know in 2021: Featuring Under Armour. During COVID-19, social networks became powerful vehicles for driving product awareness, education and, in some cases, real-time engagement and community building.; that’s why marketing teams are allocating more of their spend towards them.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 31, 2021

Harrison Ford and others to advertise this product on the Super Bowl so that’s kind of what, owned brands are and there was a lot of own Brands progress in the news this week. Jason: [18:57] Yeah no I totally agree I think they’re going to lean into that check out but I wouldn’t be surprised we may never know.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We also discuss the latest news (and controversies) around Facebook and TikTok pulling back from some social commerce initiatives (and pressing forward with others). 31:44] Social commerce still has a bunch of avenues like live streaming does not appear to be a high volume one in the US and then later in the month.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Yes Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks. And last year, they added automated integrations with Snap, Criteo, which Criteo is a multi-platform advertising platform, and TikTok.

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