Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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. billion views and counting.

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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. Social Advertising: Annoying but Effective.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

At its annual advertiser summit this week, Pinterest presented a pin-worthy pitch to marketers — that the platform has grown its audience and improved advertising performance without sacrificing its feel-good vibe. And at the same time, we’ve turned Pinterest into a competitive performance player for our advertisers.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

TikTok has launched Attribution Analytics , a first-party measurement solution designed to help marketing teams understand the bottom-line impact of the social network’s advertising solutions. TikTok will continue to add new features to Attribution Analytics over time to give advertisers more insight into how their campaigns perform.

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Wiser

APRIL 3, 2023

Think about it, when was the last time you were scrolling through your social media and came across an ad for a product? It usually goes something like this: you’re scrolling through your feed looking at normal posts when you come across an advertisement for a product. This is social commerce. billion dollars.

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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. Millennials’ and Gen Z’s reliance on social media and willingness to make in-app purchases are fuelling wider adoption – and a sort of transformation.

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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). 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.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 16, 2024

Modern consumers, especially those within the Gen Z age bracket, are becoming increasingly interested in shopping methods that differ from the traditional e-commerce model of a direct-to-consumer website or shopping online via big-box retailers. To put that into perspective, social commerce sales were barely US$27 billion in 2020.

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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. Face Effects: Digital Fitting Rooms. What does that mean?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

There are two primary areas of marketing innovation underway: shopping rewards and social commerce. Social commerce is another area of opportunity for authentic engagements. Truthfully, social commerce is neither of these. Shopping Rewards Drive Sales Conversion and Increase Order Value.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2021

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. How will Splintered Viewership Impact Advertising Efforts?

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

In the day, we called it direct advertising; mailers then became email, and email turned into SMS, and short messages a decade ago were replaced with WeChat notification. Some of the world’s largest advertising companies were built in the 70s and 80s on their ability to covert demand through direct advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2022

Both Pinterest and Healey are pushing the boundaries of social commerce in their own ways — Healey is working to catch up to consumers in an industry that has been slow off the starting line when it comes to ecommerce. The Convergence of Car Sales and Social Commerce.

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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

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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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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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2023

million in the form of grants, digital skills training and advertising credits to help as many as 120,000 small and medium-sized businesses in Southeast Asia sell online through its platform. Social commerce is indeed a thriving reality, and we are here to support businesses navigating this exciting frontier.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

RECOMMENDED LISTENING: Riding the Social Commerce Wave. In the Direct-to-Community era, content is core in the DTC flywheel, especially as social commerce continues to mature. The new DTC model is the Community Economy plus Content-Driven Commerce,” Hamilton said.

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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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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2022

Singles’ Day, also known as Double 11, is now the world’s largest shopping holiday, with advertisers seeing incredible returns. As social commerce becomes increasingly entrenched in mainland China, livestreaming has become a backbone to the influencer and ecommerce economy. Now that this trend is finally reaching the U.S.,

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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

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. billion in advertising during the first year of its U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The numbers from our latest guide to omnichannel commerce speak for themselves, showing that marketing across three or more channels earns brands 250% higher engagement. Social commerce metrics are up in 2023 , with a 9% increase in gross merchandise value and a 63% increase in average order value across BigCommerce’s merchants.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2023

But that’s been one of the goals of the Walmart web3 project The Cultureverse , Justin Breton, Director of Brand Experiences and Strategic Partnerships at Walmart, shared with attendees at Advertising Week New York last week. “We Breton advised other brands considering a metaverse presence to “lean in, test and learn.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2022

This generation of “Super Creatives” are more likely to engage in social commerce than older generations. But the businesses that took the risk to advertise on the social media platform achieved impressive gains in new customers and revenue in a short time period. Marketing is Always Evolving.

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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 Rethink Spaces, Blurring the Line Between Shopping and Advertising Studies show that U.S. in-store retail media advertising spending will increase more than 30%.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Walmart is expanding the reach of its retail media offerings through a series of new partnerships with TikTok , Snap , Roku and livestreaming platforms Firework and TalkShopLive to enable new off-site and video-based advertising capabilities. The experience will be funded by advertisers through Walmart Connect and Roku Advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2022

The latest report, which was released in December 2021, found that not only are retailers selling through branded ecommerce sites ( 76% ) and stores ( 65% ), they also are using other channels including social commerce ( 43% ), mobile websites/apps ( 36% ) and marketplaces ( 35% ).

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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. On the advertiser side, 48% of influencer marketing budgets were spent on Instagram in 2021. Instagram, TikTok and YouTube are Where it’s At.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2023

A series of executive shifts at Pinterest in the span of one week indicate that the social platform is gearing up for the next stage of its push into social commerce. Every major social platform and other tech players besides — Google included — are battling to become the place for online shoppers to both discover and buy.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 28, 2023

Additionally, Pinterest hopes the partnership with Amazon will help it scale efforts to connect advertisers with the high-intent consumers that use its platform, something the company has been working on for several years now. This is a very natural and welcoming environment for retailers and brands based on how people use our platform.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2023

The power lies in creating a content and advertising ecosystem that helps consumers instantly turn their inspiration into action — something that very few platforms have been able to monetize successfully. As a result, while many advertising platforms have seen their performance shrink, Pinterest’s ad business has grown.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2023

Online fashion retailer ASOS has named Criteo as its exclusive partner for endemic brands’ advertising across its app and web experiences. Advertisers will be able to take advantage of improved targeting and measurement capabilities, and Criteo also will support AMG sales efforts to brands and agencies in key markets. “The

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