Wiser

APRIL 3, 2023

The online shopping experience has grown exponentially in recent years and has changed to encompass much more than just a website with an online storefront. Think about it, when was the last time you were scrolling through your social media and came across an ad for a product? This is social commerce. billion dollars.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Shopping has been happening organically on TikTok for a while. This week, the social media platform introduced a sweeping set of new tools and advertising products — including product links , live shopping and even a full-service commerce solution — all aimed at expanding TikTok’s reach from culture and creation into commerce.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Social commerce, or purchasing products and services within social platforms, represented just 4 per cent of the US retail e-commerce market in 2021. Live shopping, or purchasing products during a livestream, was a small part of that. Here’s who we expect to dominate live shopping and social commerce in 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2022

Recognizing the similarities with earlier adoption patterns for tech like smartphones and social commerce can help retailers design their initial metaverse offerings. These eager users are going to be the trendsetters that set expectations for wider acceptance of metaverse commerce.

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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. Social commerce value will keep on growing. The value of social commerce continues to grow rapidly and is shaping the future of online retail. trillion by 2026, more than doubling its current value.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2021

The increase in social media usage, combined with a tandem increase in online purchasing, proved to be the push both consumers and brands needed to move into the burgeoning realm of social commerce. Facebook and Instagram Lead the Way in Social Conversion.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With the growth of buy online, pick up in-store and expedited shipping options, consumers experienced firsthand the ease of digital shopping versus going to the store to make a purchase. This, coupled with the rise of social commerce, has indicated major potential for retailers to adopt social advertising into their marketing mix.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Pinterest has unveiled its most extensive holiday shopping experience yet this year, with more than 1,000 shoppable gift guides from celebrities, brands and publishers as well as a range of new shopping tools.

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Retail Assist

MARCH 1, 2023

Social commerce has revolutionised the way retailers interact with their customers. Creating direct connections, building relationships, increasing engagement, and ultimately facilitating sales, social media is the place that many consumers are choosing to place their transactions. Why should retailers embrace TikTok Shop?

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Star Miconics

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Part of this shift is the emergence of social commerce, a trend that’s setting the stage for this next retail revolution. Combining mobile shopping and social media, two of the most popular contemporary pastimes, retailers are finding more creative ways to engage consumers, drive sales, and enhance the shopping experience.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

Followers also benefit with push notifications for airport pick-up – a little service that ensures their flights are not missed and they have given themselves enough time to queue and collect their shopping. China apparel brand Peacebird has mobilized employees to push out promotions to their social circles.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2023

The new partnership will help “drive growth” and “enable merchants and small businesses to offer their customers a convenient and flexible payment option,” said Jonathan Low, Ecommerce Lead for Strategy and Special Projects at TikTok Shop in a statement to CNBC. TikTok Shop has now quietly begun to roll out in the 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 1, 2022

From a marketer’s perspective, this gives you the opportunity to blur the lines between native content and branded advertisements. These experiences are the newest flavor of social commerce that is redefining the retail shopping experience — both online and in-person. The best part about in-person shopping?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meta and Amazon have quietly debuted a new closed-loop social commerce experience that allows Facebook and Instagram users to link their social media accounts to Amazon so they can make purchases directly in-platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Shein and Temu have launched massive advertising campaigns paired with optimized sales tactics to carve out a new niche and redefine the standards of ecommerce success. ecommerce market with TikTok Shops, delivering the most complete social commerce experience to date. Finally, TikTok has rapidly entered the U.S.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

This means that users are more likely to see highly specialised content from smaller influencers and advertisers, creating niche communities that can have significant influence over consumer spending. Social commerce Social media platforms are becoming ecommerce marketplaces. With over 4.95

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Unfortunately that ancient (1989) bit of cinematic wisdom hasn’t exactly held true in the modern field of social media, where platforms including TikTok , Facebook and Instagram are increasingly pulling back on social commerce initiatives that have failed to attract enough of the right players. is livestream shopping.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Online grocery shopping has become routine in many countries, but in the future you should expect every kind of purchase to become faster and even more convenient. Social commerce. The idea was to make online shopping more of a social, interactive experience. Celebrity live-stream selling.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This could be a billboard or advertisement on the street, the look and feel of a storefront design, or the physical and digital displays within a shop. Retailers must understand, design and build experiences to meet customers where they are and engage them throughout the shopping experience. So the stage is set.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

There are two primary areas of marketing innovation underway: shopping rewards and social commerce. Shopping Rewards Drive Sales Conversion and Increase Order Value. Next-gen loyalty programs offer cashback rewards for shopping. when the customer is actually shopping a given store).

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2024

Amazon is expanding the reach of its Amazon Live shopping content with the debut of a new interactive shoppable channel on the Prime Video and Freevee streaming TV services. However, Amazon’s move from a social media-style setting back into television is a sign of the preferences of U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It might have been the worst-kept secret in retail, but after months of unconfirmed reports , behind-the-scenes testing and tales from the front lines , TikTok has finally, formally launched its new ecommerce offering — TikTok Shop. in November 2022. reads the company announcement. The company also reiterated that all TikTok-protected U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Twitter is quietly testing a new shopping feature that will allow brands to showcase products and link out to their ecommerce site directly from within the social platform. The move follows other social platforms like Facebook and Pinterest that have also recently rolled out embedded shopping features.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Whether it was inspiration from this “summer of sport” or keeping up with the ever-changing weather, the increasing unpredictability of consumers’ shopping habits was on display this summer. Having grown up as internet natives, Gen Z is said to be more desensitized to traditional advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

Now the company has become the first toy brand to test out the hottest new arena in digital selling — TikTok Shop. Brands have been clamoring to sell on TikTok almost from the moment the platform began its meteoric rise and the #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt hashtag proved its commerce potential. in November 2022. in November 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2021

Social commerce and livestream shopping in particular continues to pick up steam in the U.S., With its increased customer engagement, partnership opportunities and ample “social proof,” livestream shopping offers an attractive new strategy for today’s retailers.

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Rangeme

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Meanwhile, social media platforms want in on the e-commerce action. These platforms are growing as destinations for social shopping, which marries social media and online shopping, due to their tech prowess and massive user bases. Online shopping gets social. social commerce sales rose 35.8%

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2022

People come to Pinterest with a shopping mindset,” said Kim Blommer, Automotive Industry Lead at Pinterest in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “In We also consistently tweak our advertising to match our processes, being as seamless and transparent as possible ,” added Healey, and that’s where Pinterest comes in.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

“Lightspeed acquired Ecwid in 2021 as part of a vision for a powerful single platform for headless, omnichannel commerce,” said Lightspeed eCommerce GM Ruslan Fazlyev. Social commerce is a key element of that, and TikTok is the hottest platform for social selling. and the UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2021

Will a digital Olympics be the nudge the West needs to make live shopping mainstream ? How will the splintering of viewership across media channels impact the resonance of advertising campaigns? Trusted platforms like Facebook are already pushing social commerce and running livestreams — it’s just a matter of expanding their appeal.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Shoppers can visit the store and stay connected through social commerce, shoppable livestreams and exclusive offers, delivered via digital out of home advertising and augmented reality pop-up installations.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In another example, social media platforms are typically thought of as top-of-funnel: they have a wide reach, but not everyone using them is in a purchasing mindset. The rise of social commerce , however, disrupts that notion entirely. Diversify your approach so you don’t wear out your audience with ad fatigue.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2022

Since the infamous shopping holiday was created and marketed by Alibaba in 2009, there has been no slowing down. Singles’ Day, also known as Double 11, is now the world’s largest shopping holiday, with advertisers seeing incredible returns. Social commerce generated approximately $ 475 billion (U.S.)

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Its cash cow of discovering new products and services has served it well, but it has long looked at getting closer to the transaction in its platform – either by actually completing the transaction or building a social shop. It started with Facebook Shop, which was launched in 2015. Asian model hasn’t soared in the West.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 15, 2024

Using Expedia’s first-party traveler intent and purchase data, the media network can help advertising partners reach consumers via contextual and timely ads. Advertising partners will have access to onsite and offsite advertising capabilities, as well as an in-house creative team to support campaign development across platforms.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

The rise of online shopping scams presents significant reputational risks for e-commerce businesses of all sizes if they don’t take proactive measures to help protect consumers. Last year, Aussie online shoppers lost more money than ever to scams, including various ‘trojan horse’ methods that imitate e-commerce retailers.

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