Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Ringing in a Changing Digital Landscape D2C brands have historically relied heavily on search and social media, which have devoured a significant chunk of their marketing budgets. 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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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released a preliminary framework to standardize retail media measurement. Criteo , Best Buy Ads , Kroger Precision Marketing , Target , Vibenomics and Colgate-Palmolive. Criteo , Best Buy Ads , Kroger Precision Marketing , Target , Vibenomics and Colgate-Palmolive.

Advertising 292

Advertising Marketing Planning Promotions 292

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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Marketing Advertising Target Market Consumer 329

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2024

Elevating First-Party Data Amidst the Decline of Cookies Begin your retail advertising endeavors by embracing first-party data. In today’s dynamic marketing landscape, leveraging first-party data is paramount to success. Once harnessed, advertisers can deploy various strategic tactics to effectively utilize this data.

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Advertising Apparel Consumer Marketing 259

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% ).

Advertising 273

Advertising Consumer Fashion Customer Experience 273

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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Advertising Marketing Location Planning 256

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.

Advertising 247

Advertising Planning Marketing Management 247

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2024

Members who opt in will see display ads on the cart page that dynamically refresh after each new product scan, giving advertisers a new way to reach Sam’s Club members at the point of conversion and giving members new opportunities for product discovery. To learn more about retail media, check out our full guide here.

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Checkout Advertising Returns Shopping 261

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. AI, Algorithms, and New Risks Google’s AI-based Performance Max (PMax) campaigns are capable of increasing marketing efficiency, but there are flaws with the AI that threat actors can exploit.

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Advertising Marketing Finance Consumer 322

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%

Advertising 261

Advertising Consumer Marketing 261

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.

Marketing 256

Marketing Advertising Grocer Consumer 256

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon’s summer Prime Day sales event now serves to kickstart many retailers’ summertime sales and back-to-school marketing efforts, and is generally pivoting marketers’ planning calendars. And now, brand marketing teams wonder if the holiday marketing calendar has been elongated too.

Marketing 273

Marketing Promotions Consumer Advertising 273

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.

Marketing 273

Marketing Marketing Spend Advertising Management 273

Inside Retail

MAY 13, 2024

Competition in digital marketing is fierce: 81 per cent of retail marketing executives expect it to increase even further this year, and 69 per cent plan to raise their spending accordingly. The report was commissioned by Klaviyo – an intelligent marketing automation platform – in partnership with Inside Retail.

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Marketing Marketing Spend Customer Retention Advertising 287

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 20, 2024

These factors have made it challenging for retailers to plan and execute effective marketing strategies. As a result, many retailers are adopting a more conservative approach to their marketing spend, focusing on efficiency and return on investment (ROI). Reassessing Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising.

Marketing 251

Marketing Merchant Services Payment Services Advertising 251

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 4, 2024

Last month, Google , Meta and TikTok all debuted more AI-based capabilities for their customers (that is, advertisers, creators and merchants). Because if you are using AI-generated content from these platforms for your advertising and brand assets, then you could unknowingly be drawing on copyrighted material.

Advertising 239

Advertising Merchant Services Social Commerce ATS 239

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. Video has indeed evolved.

Marketing 358

Marketing Shopping Consumer Target Market 358

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2024

Full-fledged fingerprinting around the internet is depreciating, and marketers and customers alike will soon notice, particularly in the retail and ecommerce space. With today’s emphasis on privacy, third-party cookie deprecation will inevitably impact your brand, marketing strategy and customers.

Marketing 293

Marketing Accounting Customer Experience Point of Sale 293

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.

Advertising 209

Advertising Shopping Consumer ATS 209

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For mid-market companies that may not have the budgets and resources to compete with larger, multinational brands, data is the key to success. Heres how RMNs are helping mid-market brands stand out, inspire shoppers and, ultimately, get in the basket during the busy holiday shopping season and beyond.

Advertising 281

Advertising Sporting Goods Marketing Accounting 281

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.

Social Commerce 312

Social Commerce Beauty and Health Advertising Merchant Services 312

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.

Marketing 261

Marketing Advertising Management Consumer 261

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.

Marketing 273

Marketing Consumer Wholesale Accessories 273

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Thanks to its versatility and appeal, video content lies at the core of most inbound marketing campaigns nowadays. From boosting sales to increasing brand awareness and educating audiences about your app, video allows you to accomplish most marketing goals like no other type of media. Where to even begin?

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Marketing Promotions Advertising Planning 301

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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Advertising Marketing Social Commerce Consumer 291

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

Advertising 273

Advertising Returns Marketing Consumer 273

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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Advertising Location Marketing Consumer 281

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. In the face of this, the practice of Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO) can offer a transformative way to navigate the complexities of marketing in 2024.

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Advertising Location Marketing Consumer 278

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.

Advertising 280

Advertising Jewelry Shopping Returns 280

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It’s hard to find a topic that all marketers agree on, but if there is one, it’s likely that programmatic ad buying continues to be a dominant channel for advertisers looking to scale. digital advertising spend in 2024, according to eMarketer. In fact, it will make up the vast majority — over 91% — of the current U.S.

Advertising 266

Advertising Marketing Accounting Consumer 266

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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Advertising Marketing Consumer Returns 278

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Now, brand and advertising partners — even those not sold by Ulta Beauty — will be able to deliver relevant offers and messages to customers at the bottom of the marketing funnel. Key non-endemic advertising partners include DoorDash , Hulu and PayPal.

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Beauty and Health Advertising Marketing ATS 272

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. Collaboration with advertisers is important in order to forge mutually beneficial partnerships.

Advertising 304

Advertising Consumer Marketing Management 304

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.

Consumer 284

Consumer Advertising Management Marketing 284

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Through a partnership with Swiftly , the discount grocery chain will be able to expand its digital footprint while giving its retailers access to robust digital advertising services. In today’s competitive landscape, delivering value extends beyond pricing.

Advertising 261

Advertising Promotions Marketing Consumer 261

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2024

MNTN has fully integrated with Rockerbox , allowing marketers to more accurately measure the influence of their connected TV (CTV) advertising on conversions and revenue alongside other marketing channels directly within the Rockerbox platform.

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Advertising Marketing ATS 260

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2024

Retailers, marketers and agency folks: Think about that one new product innovation that, regardless of the blood, sweat and tears, somehow didn’t make it onto your resume. This scenario outlined above is a bit overdramatic (for effect), but hopefully it’s also relatable. Yep, we all have one.

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