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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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Just in the time for the holiday shopping season, Google is debuting new features to help merchants capture consumers’ attention in search results, including a small business “tag,” generative AI tools for product imagery and a more detailed business information module in search results. The tools will be available first to U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2023

Merchants on the WooCommerce platform will be among the first to integrate directly with TikTok ’s new Shop feature, which allows brands to sell directly on the social media platform. The integration is an expansion of an ongoing partnership between WooCommerce and TikTok that also includes a number of advertising integrations.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2021

Walmart is commercializing its delivery platform with a new white label service — Walmart GoLocal — that will allow other merchants to tap into the delivery capabilities and nationwide coverage of the largest brick-and-mortar retailer in the U.S. in a statement. “In in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Retailers will now be able to plug into Walmart Commerce Technologies’ Store Assist local fulfillment services and the Walmart GoLocal delivery solution through the Salesforce AppExchange. The same technology that powers Store Assist has enabled Walmart to fulfill over 830 million orders across over 4,700 Walmart stores.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 23, 2023

Google unveiled a series of new tools for merchants and advertisers at its annual Google Marketing Live event on May 23, 2023. This will of course be equally useful for merchants’ advertising campaigns.) Merchants in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2024

Regardless of the measurement methodology, we are seeing a return for retail advertisers that’s 1.6X As a result, TikTok Shop merchants can promote products directly within the Shop Tab using an image from their product catalog. to 2X better than other media channels.”

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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). This latest update simply clarifies that newer services like Bard are also included. What content is being used to train these gen AI models (and where did it come from)?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As economic pressures and living costs surge, more people than ever are considering using point-of-service (POS) finance — such as buy now, pay later and installment loans — to manage their cashflow. It is in nobody’s interest to onboard financially delinquent customers or customers with affordability problems.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2021

The pandemic accelerated not just ecommerce but also digital payment methods: digital wallets reached 29.3% The wallets are expected to unseat credit cards as the preferred online payment method in the coming years, according to the FIS Global Payments Report 2021. share of ecommerce payments. of ecommerce spend.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

based online sellers” are reportedly participating in the beta test of Buy Direct, but a source told Business Insider that Microsoft hopes the service will drive $25 million in gross merchandising value (GMV) by fiscal 2023, which ends June 30, 2023. At the moment a “ couple hundred U.S.-based Bing’s goal might be similar.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2025

The whole process of planning, optimizing, activating and measuring all these retail media networks is very cumbersome, so that was another topic how do we make these workflows easier? The more creative I can create and cut up into the different sizes that I need, the more advertising I can do. They’re not tech companies.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

AI can generate data that retailers can use to negotiate the terms when third parties want to display products or advertise in the store. Tailoring Hospitality Guest Experiences Hotels, resorts and bed-and-breakfasts can increase revenues by successfully selling additional services during a guest’s stay.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2022

Now it has expanded the program to protect Australians from many overseas retailers targeting Australians with false advertising for popular products like diet pills, supplements, dating subscriptions and business services. If a customer believes they have been the victim of a scam they should call us as soon as possible.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

Beginning on June 5, 2023, onboarding of any new Shops in the U.S. On August 10, 2023, this restriction will be extended to newly onboarded shops from all other platform partners. During that time Meta said it will focus on helping those merchants add checkout to their Shops. The change will first be tested in the U.S.,

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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2022

The industry’s latest move: accepting cryptocurrency as a form of payment. In countries where crypto is more regulated, retailers have opted to join forces with licensed payment platforms that are registered with local finance institutions to process transactions. Beyond payment.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

TikTok Shop will now bring shoppable videos and livestreams directly to For You feeds across the country, and give brands, merchants and creators the tools to sell directly through shoppable content on the TikTok app.” Digital Service (USDS). reads the company announcement. The company also reiterated that all TikTok-protected U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Some of the latest include a price optimization tool for online sellers, AR try-on for beauty products and advanced data insights for merchants. But there is one big difference between Google and the leading online marketplaces— Google offers all this to merchants for free. Bottom line: more traffic = better results for advertisers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We’re indifferent on where the shopping journey ends, where that transaction takes place ,” said Matt Madrigal, VP and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “It The result is a much lower barrier of entry for merchants looking to capitalize on Google’s massive reach.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2021

They provide the venue that connects merchants with customers and offer services and experiences that a single retailer cannot. While retailers can target and engage with customers online, it’s been a long-time struggle for merchants to convert foot traffic into intelligent data. Post-COVID: Shopping = Buying + Experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

Now, at BigCommerce, she helps merchants grow via integrations to channels such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay and Walmart , a task she says is “like walking among giants.”. Gee: Omnichannel for me means a merchant can sell anywhere their shoppers are and fulfill anywhere they place that order.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2023

TikTok has teamed up with buy now, pay later service Atome to offer installment payments on its ecommerce marketplace in Malaysia, CNBC reports. TikTok Shop has now quietly begun to roll out in the U.S. as well, while at the same time the company continues to trial new ecommerce offerings in Southeast Asia.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2022

Twitter Lets Merchants Create In-App ‘Shops’. Twitter is testing a new free feature called “Shops” that allows merchants to showcase up to 50 products on their own in-app shop. The offering expands on Twitter’s existing Shop Module , which lets merchants display up to five products directly on their profile. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Darveau-Garneau: It was a really fun role, but about two years ago, the conversation started shifting away from digital advertising. Instead, the CEOs and CMOs I was talking to started saying: “I know we need to get more digital, do less TV advertising, so on and so forth, but it’s not my biggest issue. What’s the shipping cost?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2021

Amazon has introduced two new Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) programs to help merchants selling on Amazon resell customer-returned or overstocked items. Merchants can then set the price for items based on their condition and manage pricing, advertising and sales using their existing processes. by the end of 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 20, 2024

For example, some retailers are decreasing their affiliate commission payments in Q3 in order to “save” budget for the holiday shopping season; Shifting consumer behavior : Consumer preferences and shopping habits have evolved, requiring retailers to follow suit and shift strategies. Reassessing Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

However, what was interesting is the amount of money that’s going to be spent on things like subscriptions for educational services. As in previous years, mass merchants are poised to take the largest share of back-to-school and back-to-college sales, according to the Deloitte surveys.

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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

MAY 28, 2024

Google is no longer the world’s default search platform, and it’s no wonder this fact has raised Google’s competitive hackles, since as go users, so go advertisers. Google sees its role as a matchmaker between customers and advertisers, and a large part of that process involves content. New AI Overviews results page.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2022

Today just about every brand has an audio strategy, whether that’s advertising on a relevant podcast or offering voice-based customer care via a chat agent. While Bill Gates and other charitable trusts continue to underwrite audio journalism, a new breed of advertiser is helping pump cash into independent podcasts.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The new offering is powered by Bolt’s Checkout Everywhere solution (originally called Tipser until it was acquired by Bolt in late 2021), which allows websites of all kinds to add transaction capabilities and sell products from participating merchants. “We’re Then the merchant takes over for fulfillment, logistics and so on.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Amazon’s Prime Video was one of the last streamers to announce the addition of advertising. This shift will make Prime Video “the largest premium ad-supported service, reaching an estimated 115 million viewers in the U.S. What TV Advertising Could Mean to the Amazon Business As UnBoxed closed out on Thursday, Oct.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2022

Catalogs allows merchants of all kinds to upload their active inventory directly to Pinterest and turn those ecommerce listings into dynamic Product Pins, making them more shoppable. It makes sense that these same people would have an intent mindset even for vehicles.”. Over the course of three months, Healey Bros.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Same goes for the services Alibaba is building to stay competitive: financing solutions, fulfillment services, AI tools to make the process of using the platform easier, localized warehousing to speed up delivery. Sounds familiar, right? That’s because Amazon, and now Walmart, have all done the same.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The UK’s largest independent builder’s merchant, MKM Building Supplies , recognized that the building supplies industry was changing, with 45% of its current customer base set to retire within the next five years. Having grown up as internet natives, Gen Z is said to be more desensitized to traditional advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Meta also will highlight businesses from its Meta Business Leaders Network in the new 2022 Smalliday Showcase gift guide, and provide small businesses with advice on advertising effectively with its SMB Holiday Marketing Guide. Additionally, eligible SMBs will be able to earn a $100 TikTok advertising credit.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

That, of course, is the key to Wish’s business model — by connecting international consumers directly with manufacturers (most of them Chinese, although diversifying the company’s merchant base is one of the company’s key turnaround pillars), customers can get products for dirt cheap. Doubling down on merchants outside of China.

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