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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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

MAY 12, 2022

Tech giants like Facebook and Microsoft have gone all-in on the metaverse, based on the idea that it’s the future of digital experiences like gaming, collaboration and marketing. The metaverse is the next frontier for marketers, offering them the opportunity to blend physical and digital marketing tactics.

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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

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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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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There are implications for the advertising industry as it navigates new data privacy and compliance rules: Reliance on third-party cookies has been estimated to lead to a 36-per-cent decrease in measured and reported ROAS. The digital advertising industry is defined by change. Change brings new opportunities.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Her business plan, which centered around creating products for people with curly, coily, tight and textured hair, was decades in the making ( 20 of dreaming, 10 years in development and five years in-market, according to the Pattern Beauty website ), but now Ross and her Co-CEO Christiane Pendarvis are setting their sights on growing the brand.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

Microsoft is gearing up to take a bigger piece of the growing retail media pie with the debut of a suite of new capabilities through its PromoteIQ marketing platform, which the company acquired in 2019. Retail media spend is projected to reach more than $61 billion in the U.S.

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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.

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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 17, 2023

Over the course of her expansive career in marketing, Kristen D’Arcy has worked for household names like American Eagle , PacSun , Ralph Lauren and Oscar de la Renta. But she believes that successful marketing revolves around one key thing: understanding your customer and creating the value they expect.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

The lottery is like a black box, leaving both players and advertisers in awe. For brands and advertisers in this space, the mystery is deeper. Players dream of that jackpot lifestyle while advertisers seek to comprehend the minds of those captivated by the various games that could get them there. What fuels their curiosity?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2022

A Metaverse Preparedness Action Plan. My recommendation is to get this plan done this year. According to a new article by CNBC , “Some experts say it may only take one or two killer apps for the metaverse to boost VR use from a mere 5% of teens to a big market.”. Craft your data plan. Have a measurement plan.

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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. And it’s never too early to start planning for Q4 2024. In the martech ecosystem, publishers continued to feel the pains after the COVID-19 bump.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2022

If you spend any time at all on social media it’s hard to escape influencers, and there’s a good reason for that — they are incredibly compelling, both to consumers and advertisers. While influencer marketing clearly isn’t going anywhere, it might soon have a new name: the “creator” appellation is increasingly taking precedence.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

That includes advertising content — 86% of consumers say they’d like to see more videos from brands. Thus, most brands don’t believe they can afford video, or continue to carve out only a bite-sized portion of their marketing plans for video. Here’s a look at the hard facts and myths that exist about video marketing.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

Executive Chairman Marcus Lemonis said the acquisition is aimed at strengthening Beyond’s position in the off-price market. This acquisition doubles down on our belief in the off-price market, and its importance to building our business, improving our margin profile and growing our customer file,” said Lemonis in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2022

You can do everything right in your advertising plan — target the right users, deep-link to the ideal product pages and create great ads — and still see users clicking on your ads only to quickly leave your site. Improving Your UX to Boost Advertising ROI. But AI isn’t just reserved for certain companies.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2024

In January, Google Chrome restricted third-party cookies for 1% of users and plans to ramp up restrictions to 100% of users by 2025. Full-fledged fingerprinting around the internet is depreciating, and marketers and customers alike will soon notice, particularly in the retail and ecommerce space. Next, inventory your marketing tactics.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2023

Through the Sam’s Club MAP Partners Club, brand advertisers can now easily connect with agencies and technologies to plan and execute their marketing campaigns. “We know that our advertisers often work with multiple partners for media planning and execution across multiple networks and ad tech providers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2024

Within the larger global market, McKinsey estimates that the retail and CPG sectors have the most to gain from AI , with potential to harness the tech and drive huge improvements in operational efficiency as well as the customer and employee experience. But many of these tasks may just represent the low-hanging AI fruit.

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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

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.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 27, 2023

“The debate is over — retail media is now almost universally recognized as one of the most effective methods of commerce marketing,” declared The Mars Agency in its third annual Retail Media Report Card. retail media market in 2023 , nearly 12X more than its nearest competitor, Walmart.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Macy’s has named Sharon Otterman as its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), effective Dec. Otterman, a 25- year marketing veteran who was most recently CMO at Caesars Entertainment , will report to Macy’s President and CEO-elect Tony Spring.

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Inside Retail

JULY 22, 2024

Google is planning to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser, it said on Monday, after years of pledging to phase out the tiny packets of code meant to track users on the internet. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority had also scrutinised Google’s plan over concerns it would impede competition in digital advertising.

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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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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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

By using future-focused insights, retailing marketers can evolve their strategies to stay abreast of change. A marketer’s crystal ball? For example, weighing up trends such as the super-inclusivity ushered in by the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements, and what this means for brands and how they advertise.

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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.

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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. Here’s how Davids plans to do it. In fact, I’m tapping into them to do a lot of the planning work for our apps.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2021

Verizon Media — a division of Verizon Communications that includes AOL and Yahoo — will launch Yahoo Shops , a combination marketplace and advertising solution. As a result, brands and advertisers have access to both commerce and advertising solutions within the same platform.

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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.

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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. Now advertisers will be able to drive those users to their mobile app to make purchases and connect with them more frequently.

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