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MAY 30, 2024

PayPal is entering the media business with plans for a new advertising platform that will draw on its relationships with millions of consumers and merchants to help the latter “sell more products and services effectively,” according to a company statement.

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MAY 9, 2024

Disney Advertising and Walmart ’s retail media division Walmart Connect are teaming up to bring retail media insights to Disney’s streaming TV platforms, including Hulu and Disney+ , for programmatic advertising campaigns and measurement. Approximately 145 million customers shop with us online and in stores weekly.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

As social media and digital connectivity continue to shape consumer behavior, especially among younger generations, brands are increasingly focusing on how to leverage fandoms and community to connect with young shoppers. Combined, the two sites have more than 170 million monthly active users, primarily Gen Z females.

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MARCH 5, 2025

While marketers can breathe easy now, the industry still has every reason to limit their reliance on third-party cookies and prioritize efforts to adapt to new ways of tracking and measuring user behavior. After years of teasing out the impending deprecation of third-party cookies, it turns out Google is keeping cookies after all.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Webjet is facing legal proceedings for allegedly misrepresenting the minimum price of airfares on its app, email marketing, and social media posts. The ACCC also alleges that Webjet breached consumer law by sending a booking confirmation message after taking payment from customers, but the company failed to book the flight with the airline.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

In addition to the compressed retail rush, Salesforce reports that 43% of consumers are carrying more debt than last year, making the fight for attention even more intense. 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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

TikTok has launched Attribution Analytics , a first-party measurement solution designed to help marketing teams understand the bottom-line impact of the social network’s advertising solutions. TikTok will continue to add new features to Attribution Analytics over time to give advertisers more insight into how their campaigns perform.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2025

According to Elina Vilk, Chief Business Officer of Davids Bridal, the retailer has effectively 90% of the entire market of brides , she shared in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. And it’s first party; [advertisers arent] rebuying this audience from a Meta, they’re coming directly to us. What car are we going to buy?

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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. Economies thrive on competition, and right now our industry needs more challengers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Building Flexibility in Forecasting for Variable Advertising Costs TV advertising is still the most common form of advertising in the U.S., Advertising was already likely to be up 5.6% this year (excluding political advertising) to $360 billion – and those high prices could spell disaster. The list continues.

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MARCH 9, 2025

The retail marketing landscape is more dynamic than ever, so understanding which trends are worth pursuing both from the consumers and the businesss perspective and which ones are just noise, will be critical to achieving growth in the year ahead. Here are three common themes that came to the fore.

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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

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

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Amid all the ongoing furor around new artificial intelligence applications, when it comes to actual utility for both brands and consumers, the cream that has risen to the top appears to be AI-powered agents. This shift could eliminate the gap between research and purchase entirely, creating a more intuitive consumer journey.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The influencer marketing industry was priced at £21 billion in 2024 and is projected to rise to £25 billion pounds by the close of 2024. Consumers commonly invest in the product recommendations of their chosen influencer; others are turned away by what they deem inauthentic content. When every post is an ad, consumer trust takes a hit.

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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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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But even now, with the platform’s existence more precarious than ever, it continues to expand its user base, cultural influence and status as a marketing and commerce powerhouse. Retail TouchPoints: What makes TikTok such a powerful platform, both for consumers and marketers? has hung in the balance. based owner.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Indeed, 30% of consumers said they buy from online marketplaces a few times a month, while another 20% buy from them a few times a week, according to Bizrate Insights. However, 70% of consumers prefer shopping with specialized marketplaces over their mass counterparts, according to Boston Consulting Group. According to Emarketer , U.S.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

This lengthened proposal and wedding planning lifecycle has brides spending more time researching, planning and curating their dream day, creating a prime audience for advertisers that Davids Bridal is now uniquely positioned to serve.

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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 24, 2025

Consumers today expect immersive, content-rich ecommerce sites, yet if a site takes longer than four seconds to load, 63% of shoppers will abandon it altogether. If that was consumers first interaction with Uplift Desk, we knew they were not going to have a great interaction and they were going to bounce and go somewhere else, Burrow said.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

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.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Simply put, Adaptive Retail is any commerce experience that brings consumers what they want, wherever and whenever they want it. We live in an attention economy, said Justin Breton, Head of Brand Marketing Innovation at Walmart in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Walmart is not about to miss that boat.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Exclusive: Google Debuts New Retail Media Solution with Lowes as First Beta Tester (March 18, 2024) Retail media was THE growth story in 2024, fueled by these networks ability to target consumers at key decision points in the shopper journey. consumers wallet.

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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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MARCH 11, 2025

By offering participants a chance to win a fun prize through this type of consumer promotion, you can create excitement for your brand, attract new customers and keep existing consumers coming back for more. A sweepstakes is a type of consumer promotion that is based on chance, where every entrant has the same opportunity to win.

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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

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

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

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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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With consumer sentiment and discretionary spend down, many retailers are already facing reduced profit margins and a higher cost of doing business, making hefty discounting for prolonged periods a particularly costly exercise. LSKD’s approach has also garnered the attention of consumers and its community. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 20, 2024

Inflation rates remain unpredictable , consumer confidence is fluctuating and supply chain disruptions , including the geopolitical environment, continue to affect inventory levels and pricing. These factors have made it challenging for retailers to plan and execute effective marketing strategies. Four of these strategies include: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 31, 2023

As privacy regulations ramp up, brands and retailers are looking for ways to personalize marketing efforts without relying on cookies — and brick-and-mortar retailers are always looking for effective ways to entice people to visit their stores. Additionally, retailers can deliver more targeted ad placements through driving behavior data.

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MAY 8, 2023

While optimizing budgets in times of financial uncertainty makes sense, such times also provide smart marketers with easier opportunities to improve market position. According to research from Analytic Partners, 63% of marketers that increased their marketing investment during the financial crisis of 2008 generated a positive ROI.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

Ankos Folding Juicer appears to be lime-sized in a yellow colourway, missing numerous functional features and is advertised as a lemon juicer. We’re in the business of designing and inventing the next greatest yada yada and then marketing that to the world. You’ve got to ask yourself as well, What is your core business?.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2023

Understanding Wine Consumer Behavior Trends Today’s wine buyers skew older and are more affluent. For example, 16% of consumers purchased natural wine in 2021 and sparkling wines are also rising in popularity. Driving Direct-to-Consumer Wine Sales Many wine and spirits brands are capitalizing on a direct-to-consumer model.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Brands have long recognized the power of celebrities to influence the buying decisions of consumers. This new breed of individuals has become known as “influencers,” and as their measurable popularity and influence grew, brands quickly lined up to incorporate them into targeted marketing campaigns. Video has indeed evolved.

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