Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A full 60% of marketers believe the era of advertising cookies and IDs is coming to an end. The same survey reports that 41% of marketers aren’t familiar with targeting methods other than third-party cookies or IDs. “I The upshot is that marketers will lose direct visibility into user behavior beyond a brand’s website.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2024

Walmart plans to take its Connect retail media offering “to the next level” this year, by expanding access to international and non-endemic advertisers, doubling down on self-serve capabilities across its spectrum of advertiser tools and expanding in-store, onsite and offsite advertising opportunities.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Streaming TV platform Roku has introduced Roku Ads Manager, a self-service solution for purchasing CTV advertising. Roku Ads Manager offers insights designed to drive awareness and bottom-of-funnel engagement, as well as improved efficiency and competitive pricing without third-party fees.

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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. That’s why we’re making it easier for our advertisers to understand and adopt our rapidly evolving solutions.

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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

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

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Retail and etail spend massively on measurable digital advertising. Additionally, retailers typically devote 25% of their annual budgets to media during the four-day shopping period from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, according to a survey by performance advertising software Nanigans. of retail sales happen during Q4. living rooms.

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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

JULY 21, 2023

The lottery is like a black box, leaving both players and advertisers in awe. For players, the questions arise: How did they manage to win? For brands and advertisers in this space, the mystery is deeper. We ask ourselves — what kind of lottery ticket or scratch-off did they buy, and how can I play to have a chance to be next?

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Retail TouchPoints

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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

After retailers finalize all inventory shipments and secure holiday storage, it’s time to implement a strong integrated digital marketing strategy. Focusing on an integrated digital marketing campaign can be the factor this year to a successful holiday season. What is an integrated digital marketing campaign?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Though many of the economic indicators were excellent, including the low unemployment numbers and strong GDP growth, there was a lot of uncertainty in the market throughout the year. She previously served as a data analyst and media buyer for a broad range of digital marketing clients. billion, up 7.5% from last year.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2021

This new generation of online surveys is starting to have a significant impact not only on ad testing but on the entire spectrum of product development and marketing research, from consumer behavior analysis to pricing and brand tracking. Rasto Ivanic is a Co-founder and CEO of GroupSolver ®, a market research tech company.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Marketing is often first on the chopping block during a recession, and with GDP contracting two quarters in a row, retail marketers are working hard to determine how to make each dollar go further. Many organizations will cut marketing spend in a bid to preserve margins. Capitalizing on In-Store Advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. This became known as influencer marketing. All of that, including managing returns, is done for them. Video has indeed evolved.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2023

Social media has become an essential part of any business’ marketing strategy, and Instagram has emerged as a leading platform for reaching out to potential customers. Here are some strategies that social media managers can use to scale reach and, in turn, increase ROI on Instagram. With more than 1.3 billion active users, 3.76

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Former NBA Chief Marketing Officer Kate Jhaveri has been named Global Head of Marketing at TikTok. Jhaveri will work closely with Sofia Hernandez, TikTok’s Head of Global Business Marketing, who focuses primarily on business and advertising solutions, according to a company spokesperson.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2022

But as more outside forces shine a spotlight on how those behaviors are turned into data that is leveraged for monetary gain, consumers are looking for more control over their information — and marketers are scrambling to keep pace. adults and 125 marketers. But a separate survey from Motive.co Data Privacy Becomes a CMO Priority.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

These new capabilities are now available to grocers across North America and are already being used by wholesalers like Associated Food Stores as well as retailers including New Seasons Market , Niemann Foods , The Fresh Market and Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2023

True Religion has appointed Kristen D’Arcy as its new Chief Marketing Officer, reporting directly to CEO Michael Buckley. In addition to drawing in new customers, D’Arcy will be responsible for all aspects of marketing, including content creation, creative, brand, public relations, influencers, social media, partnerships and philanthropy.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Retail marketers stand to gain much-needed support and time from AI in a sector fueled by creativity and innovation. At a time when innovation and quick decision-making are business imperatives, marketers need to make their AI investments count. We know that AI can help build more meaningful connections between people and content.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2022

AMP for email has continued to improve functionality, providing email marketers with a slew of personalization and interactivity capabilities — adding loads of features to the inbox. AMP for email allows marketers to send surveys and collect data, too. Why AMP, and Who’s on Board? An AMP Use Case. Do they have the right size?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A Consumer-Run Ecommerce World According to eMarketer , this year’s global ecommerce market is expected to total $6.3 In order to thrive in this economic market, it is critical for retailers to dive into consumer data and apply their learnings strategically.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2022

With heady revenue predictions for retail media north of $100 billion and with equally impressive growth rates, it’s not surprising to see a surge of retailers opening advertising shops in attempts to capture share. Segment brands by their familiarity with retail media, sales rank, advertising budget and potential to grow sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The partnership includes an integration with Walmart’s Connect retail media platform, which will provide advertisers with more in-depth campaign reporting. Walmart customers love professional football — 86% of surveyed customers told us they watch the games,” said Rich Lehrfeld, General Manager and SVP of Walmart Connect in a statement.

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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. Recent data shows that online retailers are increasingly relying on social media advertising platforms to reach and engage with their target customers, while search-based channels such as Google Shopping and Bing are becoming less popular.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The new advertising solution builds on TikTok’s previously released Search Ads Toggle offering, but it gives brands more control and advanced targeting capabilities. Search Ads campaigns support both traffic and web conversion objectives, allowing advertisers to optimize their campaigns for both scale and performance.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2024

Achieving this level of personalization and marketing effectiveness is difficult given the range of Fender’s channels and customer touch points. Evolving from Channel-Specific to Customer-First Marketing Fender has the advantage of being a well-known, respected and trusted brand; that itself is a powerful marketing lever.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

The biggest player, with 60% of the $45 billion market, is Amazon, followed by the likes of Walmart and Target, which, combined with a few other large players, are expected to take a combined 25% of the space, according to Boston Consulting Group. retailers all offer.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

Google wants a bigger piece of the traffic driven by retail media advertising. Offsite retail media allows brands to engage with a retailer’s audience in third-party channels not owned by the retailer (like Google Search) and then connect those advertising campaigns back to product sales at the retailer.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There’s been a great deal of hand-wringing around the advertising industry lately as brands deal with rising marketing costs. Marketing budgets are 9.5% Direct-to-consumer brands in particular have been hit hard, with many reporting huge increases in marketing spend in Q1. . of total company revenue so far this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2023

Yet despite the complexities, an effective personalized approach to marketing is critical to success. Opportunities and Challenges Across Marketing Touch Points Email marketing: Perhaps the most popular example is the email campaign. of these emails being spam, 36% of which are from marketing and advertising initiatives.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2022

Add the increasing CPC costs at all sorts of paid advertisement channels and harsher competition to that, and you get a not-so-rosy outlook for the market altogether. Advertising. Advertising automation is vital if you want to maximize ROAS and stay competitive. Email marketing. in 2019 to 14.9%

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Inside Retail

MAY 4, 2022

It is the new search, the new storefront and the new helpdesk,” observes Etienne Mérineau, senior director of marketing at Hootsuite. Customers want to have meaningful conversations, not be advertised to. Customers want personal advisors, not advertisers. Advertisers, stop interrupting, start inspiring. Make TikToks.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2022

Leaders from TikTok , Snapchat and Pinterest spoke at the 2022 Sofa Summit , hosted by Smartly.io , to discuss how marketers can better utilize the unique options that set each platform apart. Retail marketers should create posts that look to the future, rather than the past or present, in order to make the most of this.

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