Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

At its annual advertiser summit this week, Pinterest presented a pin-worthy pitch to marketers — that the platform has grown its audience and improved advertising performance without sacrificing its feel-good vibe. And at the same time, we’ve turned Pinterest into a competitive performance player for our advertisers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2024

Leading the charge in innovative, consent-driven strategies is the adoption of zero-party data , or data that consumers proactively share with a brand. Elevating First-Party Data Amidst the Decline of Cookies Begin your retail advertising endeavors by embracing first-party data. The question remains: where and how should they begin?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

With gains in total revenue, ecommerce sales, membership rolls and the Walmart Connect advertising business, the retailer has raised its guidance for Q3 and full-year outlook. Walmart’s retail media network Walmart Connect also posted massive gains with advertising sales growing 30% in the U.S., billion for the quarter reflects a 4.8%

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2024

The Sam’s Club Member Access Platform (MAP) , the retailer’s media network, is launching display ads in the Scan & Go mobile checkout experience, with the aim of reaching consumers closer to their point of decision. At launch, several Sam’s Club MAP advertisers such as Unilever already plan to utilize Scan & Go ads.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As consumer spending dips, retailers and ecommerce businesses are facing a perfect storm that is impacting their digital advertising ROI. The result is a growing need to optimise digital campaigns to ensure they are reaching the right consumers and delivering legitimate traffic to their websites.

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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

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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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 4, 2024

The latter competition could have broad implications for any business using these platforms to connect with consumers…so, just about everyone. Last month, Google , Meta and TikTok all debuted more AI-based capabilities for their customers (that is, advertisers, creators and merchants).

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 31, 2023

To help solve both challenges, the Arity Private Marketplace (PMP) enables marketers to leverage driving behavior data to understand where and when consumers are driving and to reach them with relevant messaging before they even get behind the wheel.

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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. No disruption to consumers’ comfy shopping routines.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2024

Australia’s leading supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, delivered their third-quarter results to shareholders this week along with new consumer insights. Both retailers reported that the current economic environment has challenged consumers’ discretionary spending and that households have evolved their buying habits to seek out value.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

True to form, Best Buy turned its eye to advertising’s newest tech-infused channel to reach this consumer segment — connected TV (CTV). CTV viewership is growing every year as more and more consumers “cut the cord,” and the vast majority of U.S. But just as the number of CTV viewers is climbing, so is the number of advertisers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Gen Z is undoubtedly revolutionizing the consumer landscape. How can brands develop successful consumer promotions that actually draw in the often-elusive Gen Z shopper? Developing successful consumer promotions for Gen Z requires a deep understanding of their preferences and behavior.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Rather than actively seeking out products, younger consumers more frequently discover them through engaging, immersive content on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram. How do you create experiences that spark consumer interest before they know they want (or need) your product?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

In this way, retailers will act more like media houses and thus engender the trust of CPG advertisers. However, reading around the subject can lull some retailers into the view that they need to do no more than create an internal agency and then leave all the work to third-party advertisers.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Providing Access to First-Party Data With so much competition over the holidays, its essential for mid-market brands to reduce wasted ad spend by targeting consumers who are most likely to convert. consumers starting as early as June. RMNs provide access to high-converting audience segments through first-party data.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The new interactive ad formats include: Shoppable ads: CPG advertisers can create a direct path to purchase from their Roku ad creative via text messaging or QR code, with Instacart as the landing destination. Brands can now better reach consumers on Roku by delivering more relevant ads based on their Instacart purchase behavior.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 1, 2024

Yahoo Advertising and Kroger Precision Marketing (KPM) — the retail media business of Kroger , powered by 84.51° — are teaming up to bring Kroger’s first-party, purchase-based audiences to the Yahoo Demand-Side Platform (DSP). “Advertisers on average see 6.5X

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

The new network aims to connect advertisers to Planet Fitness’ more than 18.5 We are thrilled to evolve our advertising solutions to provide agency teams, media buyers and brands the opportunity to reach our more than 18 million Planet Fitness members,” said Sherrill Kaplan, Chief Digital Officer at Planet Fitness in a statement. “Our

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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

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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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2024

In the dynamic world of retail, businesses face the ongoing challenges of rising advertising costs alongside a swiftly changing media landscape. Here we explore the complex dimensions of DCO and its fundamental role in optimizing content for retail advertisers.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) brought Meg’s Flowers to court, noting that the flower shop did not directly maintain any local shopfronts accessible to customers, contrary to its claims in 156 websites and in 7462 Google advertisements.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

For several years now, consumers’ search behavior has been trending away from generic search engines and toward platforms like Amazon and social media sites. The new advertising solution builds on TikTok’s previously released Search Ads Toggle offering, but it gives brands more control and advanced targeting capabilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2024

NBCUniversal and Instacart are expanding their existing partnership to include a new retail media workstream that will enable Instacart’s CPG advertisers to connect with consumers via NBCU’s streaming and linear television content.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2024

Walgreens Advertising Group (WAG) is making good use of one of its most valuable assets: a treasure trove of first-party data from the broader organization. When we think about media strategy, audience, channel or even measurement plan, it all starts with those consumer insights.”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2024

With eMarketer projecting that advertising revenues within video games will surpass $8.5 The IAB’s SVP of Research and Insights Jack Koch summed up the situation at the organization’s PlayFronts event earlier this year: “Capturing consumer attention in these immersive, engaging experiences offers a huge, tremendous opportunity for brands.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This has never been more apparent than now, as consumers look to elevate their in-store shopping experiences and expect the same versatility and ease that they have obtained with modern omnichannel retail. Consumers want to be part of an in-store experience that allows them a personalized, agile and enjoyable shopping experience in store.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With social media expected to drive a large portion of shopping research and conversion this holiday season, Meta has unveiled a slate of new advertising tools to help brands connect with consumers on its platforms.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A full 60% of marketers believe the era of advertising cookies and IDs is coming to an end. I think everyone’s talking about it but not many people are actually doing a lot of preparation yet,” says one anonymous advertising executive quoted in the study. “I It’s time to say goodbye to cookies. And yet there’s a successional gap.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Save A Lot is bringing retail media capabilities to its network of 800 independently owned and operated stores to boost their competitive advantage and better serve price-conscious consumers.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2024

That typically includes the ‘Super Bowl of advertising’: the actual Super Bowl. In fact, Sensor Tower claims Temu and Shein were Meta’s (owner of Facebook) second and fourth-largest advertisers in Q4 last year. Amazon long made this leap to advertise its retail platform, cloud computing offering and Prime Video.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2024

Gartner reveals that 71% of CMOs believe they lack sufficient budgets to fully execute on advertising strategies, and GroupM expects U.S. Diversifying advertising budgets with omnichannel media, like digital audio, will help advertisers reach unique and performative audiences at scale, with mere clicks of a button.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched the legal action in the Federal Court against Webjet for displaying “flights from $X” statements but omitting its compulsory service fee and booking price guarantee fee in the advertised prices between November 2018 and November 2023.

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