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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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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Inside Retail

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

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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The dashboard integrates with the point-of-sale platform (also known as MADRID) that Sam’s Club advertisers and merchants already use to track sales — and combines Sam’s Club MAP campaign metrics with Sam’s Club sales performance in one place so that advertisers can track media impact on business outcomes.

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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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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2022

I’m seeing greater quantities of online advertising and – especially if they’re good ads – feel motivated to purchase. . Annalect’s latest Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM) analysis 1 took a deep dive into the world of Aussie retail and it’s borne out a lot of the behaviour I describe above. What is Marketing Mix Modelling anyway?

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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

JANUARY 2, 2025

Retailers including Walmart are stretching the boundaries of retail media by providing access to non-endemic advertisers and additional in-store opportunities. Walgreens Agrees to $192.5M Settlement with Shareholders Over Failed Rite Aid Merger (Oct. consumers wallet.

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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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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2024

Since the advent of paid ads on social media, performance marketing has reigned supreme, offering brands direct access to consumers and the ability to convert sales. There has long been speculation around the law of diminishing returns in performance marketing and brands’ decreasing conversion rates are starting to suggest the same.

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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

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. In fact, most ecommerce brands are barely getting 2X-3X gross profit return on ad spend in 2022. What needs to change?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Right now, we’re seeing a once-in-a-generation shift that is opening the doors to a major new advertising opportunity for retailers and brands,” explains Troy Townsend, co-founder and chief innovation officer at The Pistol , a leader in marketing technologies and services. Embrace the opportunity.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2023

Mobile Media Labs solutions are designed to help retail marketers connect with publishers looking to monetize their traffic in order to help retailers acquire new customers despite strained budgets.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2025

And some seven years on, much to the dismay of retailers, it is now starting to shake the tree and become a real force in the market , as Australian shoppers increasingly turn to alternatives to manage the cost-of-living crisis. billion in sales revenue (across cloud, advertising and marketplace sales) in calendar year 2023, up from $2.63

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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

JULY 21, 2022

And for the most part they didn’t mind — if they were offered personalized experience across channels in return. And this disruption has implications across so many different touch points for marketers, from your advertising to your data platform stack , right to your martech and adtech. adults and 125 marketers.

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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.

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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% In 2021, 20.8%

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

EMarketer predicts digital retail advertising spending will reach a staggering US$166 billion in 2025, a dramatic leap from the $46.4 This collaborative approach allows smaller and regional retailers to expand their reach, attract more advertisers, and boost their competitiveness in the retail media market.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Wunderkind leverages first-party data and its proprietary means of identifying anonymous website traffic, then works alongside brands, using its marketing engine to convert leads into sales through owned channels, including email and text. You want to do everything you can to capture their data because they might not return for a long time.

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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 25, 2024

It was around the time Hurricane Sandy hit the Jersey Shore, so we decided to donate the bags to people as they returned to their homes on the island and get groups involved for donations. I visit them, and we text about what’s hot in the market, what new colorways they’re seeing. This is just the beginning!

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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

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

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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 Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Numerous conferences and sessions held over the first two days provided a comprehensive overview of market trends, featuring many exclusive international speakers. Retail investment has been especially driven by the strong performance of the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish markets, alongside robust results in the UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Food delivery platform Grubhub is expanding its advertising capabilities to create a full-fledged commerce media network in partnership with Koddi. We’re excited to expand the services we provide our partners to include greater advertising capabilities.

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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. Brands need return on ad spend (ROAS) reporting linked to sales data to justify their investment. Drive repeat purchase.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Brand advertisers will be able to tap into digital and in-store advertising as well as off-site advertising on brand-safe sites. Retail media is outpacing traditional marketing and will be a game-changer in consumer marketing,” said Jason Farver, President of Hy-Vee RedMedia in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2023

Execs can evaluate the business impact of Meta marketing investments for a given brand, uncover new insights and study quantifiable metrics, including return on ad spend. We look forward to extending the reach of DGMN through the world’s largest social platform to deliver even more effective media for our advertisers.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2024

But this is only one side of the story; the ecommerce boom also led to a significant increase in return rates, which adds considerable logistical and cost implications, and eats into the bottom line. Marketing is rarely held accountable beyond the initial purchase and many advertisers are still optimising for revenue.

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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. You can even incentivize consumers to return to the same retailer where they made the original purchase and tell them exactly which aisle they can find the new product.

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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

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.

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