Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2020

Facebook Shops also presents a remarkable opportunity for advertisers. By adding a real social commerce component to the platform, Facebook now has much better information about real purchase intent. Purchase intent data from Facebook Shops can help advertisers retarget customers who didn’t complete their purchase.

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Wiser

APRIL 3, 2023

Think about it, when was the last time you were scrolling through your social media and came across an ad for a product? It usually goes something like this: you’re scrolling through your feed looking at normal posts when you come across an advertisement for a product. This is social commerce. billion dollars.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2022

More than two-thirds of shoppers overall are already familiar with the metaverse, but the percentages for each generation vary widely, according to KPMG’s Go boldly, not blindly, into the metaverse Consumer Pulse Survey. The patterns reflect early adoption of other technologies, with younger, wealthier consumers ahead of the curve.

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Retail TouchPoints

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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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With the growth of buy online, pick up in-store and expedited shipping options, consumers experienced firsthand the ease of digital shopping versus going to the store to make a purchase. This, coupled with the rise of social commerce, has indicated major potential for retailers to adopt social advertising into their marketing mix.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

As 2024 advances, the importance and reach of paid social media advertising will only continue to grow. Social commerce value will keep on growing. The value of social commerce continues to grow rapidly and is shaping the future of online retail. E-sellers will leverage social channels more than ever.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This week, the social media platform introduced a sweeping set of new tools and advertising products — including product links , live shopping and even a full-service commerce solution — all aimed at expanding TikTok’s reach from culture and creation into commerce. .” billion views and counting.

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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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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

The perimeters between CRM and social community have blurred, and sales of products are now being directed by an army of KOCs (key opinion consumers). Second-life commerce. China’s secondhand luxury market is flourishing as young consumers are looking for affordable high-end goods through second-hand trading platforms.

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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 Assist

MARCH 1, 2023

Social commerce has revolutionised the way retailers interact with their customers. Creating direct connections, building relationships, increasing engagement, and ultimately facilitating sales, social media is the place that many consumers are choosing to place their transactions. Here’s why.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands have a unique advantage in that they own the entire customer experience — and perhaps most important, all the data that is generated along with it. RECOMMENDED LISTENING: Riding the Social Commerce Wave. The new DTC model is the Community Economy plus Content-Driven Commerce,” Hamilton said.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Every interaction between a consumer and a brand is part of the overall retail experience. This could be a billboard or advertisement on the street, the look and feel of a storefront design, or the physical and digital displays within a shop. in-store retail media advertising spending will increase more than 30%.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

Customer retention With both consumers and retailers feeling the pinch of increasing costs, customer retention will be a key theme of 2024. According to research from McKinsey, 71 per cent of consumers expect companies to deliver personalised interactions. We see this play out across paid and organic social.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Whether it was inspiration from this “summer of sport” or keeping up with the ever-changing weather, the increasing unpredictability of consumers’ shopping habits was on display this summer. Having grown up as internet natives, Gen Z is said to be more desensitized to traditional advertising.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A few additional ad types focus on boosting discoverability for brands: A new ad spot in the Explore homepage , which was previously ad-free; and AI-powered multi-advertiser ads : when a person engages with an ad, Meta will now deliver a carousel of other ads underneath it that might also be of interest, powered by machine learning.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

From a marketer’s perspective, this gives you the opportunity to blur the lines between native content and branded advertisements. These experiences are the newest flavor of social commerce that is redefining the retail shopping experience — both online and in-person. Face Effects: Digital Fitting Rooms. What does that mean?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As marketers, we’re already sold on the performance advantages of RMNs: enormous sets of first-party consumer data, precise attribution and analysis, a future beyond third-party cookies. In one client example, it was discovered that consumers who saw a Streaming TV ad were over 2.5X See how the funnel circled back to the top?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Traditional outbound marketing to consumers, such as email campaigns, SMS text messaging, display ads, retargeting and other forms of “push marketing,” will in the future see even less engagement from consumers. There are two primary areas of marketing innovation underway: shopping rewards and social commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Unfortunately that ancient (1989) bit of cinematic wisdom hasn’t exactly held true in the modern field of social media, where platforms including TikTok , Facebook and Instagram are increasingly pulling back on social commerce initiatives that have failed to attract enough of the right players. is livestream shopping.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It’s no secret performance marketing on social media platforms isn’t what it used to be but it’s where consumers reside. Michelle Evans, global lead of retail and digital insights at Euromonitor International, said in a statement that “consumers are also seeking more power in their relationships with brands”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2022

Both Pinterest and Healey are pushing the boundaries of social commerce in their own ways — Healey is working to catch up to consumers in an industry that has been slow off the starting line when it comes to ecommerce. The Convergence of Car Sales and Social Commerce. Not Your Father’s Auto Sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Shein and Temu have launched massive advertising campaigns paired with optimized sales tactics to carve out a new niche and redefine the standards of ecommerce success. ecommerce market with TikTok Shops, delivering the most complete social commerce experience to date. billion in advertising during the first year of its U.S.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Lightspeed Commerce Inc. has announced that Lightspeed eCommerce merchants using the recently acquired Ecwid integration can sell to consumers directly through TikTok. Lightspeed acquired Ecwid in 2021 as part of a vision for a powerful single platform for headless, omnichannel commerce,” said Lightspeed eCommerce GM Ruslan Fazlyev.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Retailers certainly need to know what consumers want , but perhaps an even more important question is: How do I provide it to my shoppers? Enhance advertising and recommendation relevancy with better targeting and search. Share granular consumer data with suppliers to create more appealing products.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2021

How will the splintering of viewership across media channels impact the resonance of advertising campaigns? Trusted platforms like Facebook are already pushing social commerce and running livestreams — it’s just a matter of expanding their appeal. How will Splintered Viewership Impact Advertising Efforts?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Shoppers can visit the store and stay connected through social commerce, shoppable livestreams and exclusive offers, delivered via digital out of home advertising and augmented reality pop-up installations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 15, 2024

Using Expedia’s first-party traveler intent and purchase data, the media network can help advertising partners reach consumers via contextual and timely ads. Advertising partners will have access to onsite and offsite advertising capabilities, as well as an in-house creative team to support campaign development across platforms.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 28, 2024

But the latest threat comes in the form of social media, with 40% of younger consumers launching their information queries on platforms like Instagram and TikTok instead of Google, according to Google’s own data. Back when Amazon was the biggest threat, Google tackled the problem by putting its energy into the shopping experience.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

The rise of online shopping scams presents significant reputational risks for e-commerce businesses of all sizes if they don’t take proactive measures to help protect consumers. Last year, Aussie online shoppers lost more money than ever to scams, including various ‘trojan horse’ methods that imitate e-commerce retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2022

Singles’ Day, also known as Double 11, is now the world’s largest shopping holiday, with advertisers seeing incredible returns. As social commerce becomes increasingly entrenched in mainland China, livestreaming has become a backbone to the influencer and ecommerce economy. Now that this trend is finally reaching the U.S.,

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s safe to say the platform has some winning strategies that keep consumers coming back. But beyond that, similar to other e-commerce platforms, using it isn’t entirely risk- or guilt-free. However, Temu’s consumers are beginning to view it as offering affordable products that do not necessarily compromise on quality.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

James Weiss, Managing Director, Big Drop If the social media platform goes away, millions of passionate consumers — not to mention the brands that use the platform to connect with them — will be devastated. Retail TouchPoints: What makes TikTok such a powerful platform, both for consumers and marketers?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In fact, 54% of marketers planned to activate their 2024 holiday campaigns in Q3. But consumers have spoken, and 89% think pre-October is “too early” for brands to launch their Christmas marketing campaigns, according to new data from brand tracking company Tracksuit. RTP: Consumers are especially mindful of value this year.

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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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