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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. In-feed ads are where the real shopping action happens.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

High-profile fashion collaborations are nothing new, but does making luxury accessible and marketing it to a younger audience come at a cost? Bitmoji, is a platform subsidiary of social media platform Snapchat, and there are over 2.7 Over the years Bitmoji has partnered with many fashion brands, including Ralph Lauren and Levis.

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JANUARY 2, 2025

Sydney-based fashion brand One Mile was founded by Sammy Robinson in 2020 after a collaboration with another brand sparked the desire to have her own label. One Mile made its runway debut at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week 2022 with its Resort ’23 collections.

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MARCH 12, 2025

Here, we speak with #4, Princess Polly’s global performance director Kim Zorn, about the challenge of staying relevant in the fashion industry for more than a decade, her proudest accomplishment in the last year and what it will take to grow online in 2025. Social commerce will change the way businesses operate.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2025

The landscape of American retail is changing, with new customer demands, new players, new competition and a growing proportion of sales taking place across new digital channels like social commerce. At the same time, specialty retailers like Party City and Joann faced challenges. retail sales growth.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

ShopStyle launched in 2007 with an innovative idea: creating a search engine focused solely on fashion. ShopStyle’s continuing dominance in the fashion realm demonstrates its ability to evolve with the needs of its clients. I’d say we’re more of a social commerce platform than a marketplace.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Fashion tech start-up Mys Tyler has secured more than $1 million in its seed funding round, with Mirvac Ventures, Antler Global and angel investor Brian Hartzer, former CEO of Westpac, backing the business. Stylists in Residence at Toombul Shopping Centre, QLD. Image: Supplied. Image: Supplied.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As a result, brands are now using Roblox to create incremental revenue opportunities via “twinned” items for users’ physical and avatar selves: 43% of respondents to Roblox’s Digital Expression, Fashion & Beauty Trends report said they want brands to provide such “twinning” items.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

QVC has launched an accessible fashion collection, designed by Isaac Mizrahi, inspired by QVC Brand Ambassador for Accessibility Selma Blair and developed via collaborative efforts with the disability community. 6, 2023 at 1 p.m. The collection’s first assortment, which debuts on QVC on Oct.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

At the same time, global consumption of fashion has increased by 400%, while overall usage of products has dropped by about 40%. These are all realities that Coach has had to face head on as one of the top fashion and leather goods brands in the world. In the U.S.

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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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AUGUST 20, 2024

To become a household name, Temple & Webster is focussing its social commerce efforts on Instagram while keeping an eye on the up-and-coming markets that TikTok could help it unlock. Currently, the brand’s main social media channel is Instagram, but it does have a TikTok account. “I’m

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 7, 2022

Social commerce. Some fashion retailers today use visual outfitting to help them carve out fresh brand positioning and show product versatility. One leading example: Express , which is transforming from “a store at the mall” to a brand with purpose powered by a styling community. Livestreaming. Augmented reality.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Social commerce company Replika Software has closed its Series A financing round with an undisclosed amount of funding from the investment arms of luxury house LVMH and beauty brand L’Oréal. The company was then invited to participate in LVMH’s accelerator, La Maison des Startups, at startup campus Station F in Paris.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Leveraging Creators to Connect with Sneakerheads In partnership with Impact.com , Foot Locker has launched Foot Locker Storefronts , a platform that helps connect qualified creators with the retailer in order to engage with new and existing sneaker fanatics across social media. ”

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APRIL 14, 2023

Countless companies both big and small — including Meta , Pinterest and Google — are trying to tackle the challenge of making shopping online more like shopping IRL, where inspiration can strike at any moment and from any direction. One of the newest entrants in the space is Shoptrue , which launched in open beta in November 2022.

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APRIL 6, 2021

Social commerce is poised to be the focus of the next retail revolution: two-thirds of consumers say that social media has become as important as their other sources of information when making purchase decisions, according to data from Facebook. Betabrand’s Shows Are Live — and the Retailer Wants You To Know It.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

For all customers, it will be critical to double down on personalisation, leveraging technology to achieve it at scale. Meanwhile, Europe will also maintain a sizable share of the global luxury market, at around 25 per cent, although this will likely decline over the coming years, Coresight theorised.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2024

Enabled through shoppable ads — and therefore only available to subscribers of the streamers’ ad-supported tier — viewers will be able to purchase some of Emily’s enviable fashions and other products using Google’s visual search tool, Google Lens.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

As a brand, True Religion is at the intersection of culture, commerce and fashion. 1-14, members with top-tier “Icon” status who spend $150 or more will receive an exclusive trucker hat gift with purchase. This is why the brand is leaning heavily into experiential moments that money can’t buy.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

The transaction aims to create a global player in online fashion recommerce by combining Poshmark’s discovery-based social shopping platform and engaged community with Naver’s technological prowess in creating ecommerce experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2021

American Eagle (AE) kicked off its spring 2021 Jeans Are Forever campaign with the debut of its AE x Snapchat AR Jeans Guide, featuring a range of fashion denim for men and women. As social commerce adoption continues to pick up its pace, more retailers are offering shoppable content on platforms like Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Pinterest is launching into livestreaming with the debut of Pinterest TV — a series of in-app, live, shoppable video content that zeroes in on the platform’s social commerce potential. 8 with new episodes of Pinterest TV airing every weekday at 3 p.m. 8 with new episodes of Pinterest TV airing every weekday at 3 p.m.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 26, 2020

Iconic fashion designers Jason Wu, Rebecca Minkoff and Christian Siriano might seen an odd fit for a retailer that sells circular saws and plumbing supplies. But Lowe’s also features a wide range of home décor items, and that’s its connection with the designers and New York Fashion Week, which will take place Sept.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

John Ferdinand, who heads the anti-counterfeiting team at intellectual property (IP) management firm Marks & Clerk , said that in the European Union (EU) alone, the apparel industry loses approximately 12 billion ( $12.48 RTP: Overall, how should brands look at fighting counterfeits on a strategic level?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

14, for an inside look at one brand that has found the secret to livestream success.]. “If The vast array of social commerce products available across the major sites is dizzying, not least because it changes almost daily, but one thing is becoming clear — social media platforms in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But if you have never heard of social commerce, now is the time to stand up and pay attention. Statista has reported that the global value of social commerce will grow from US$1.3 In late 2023, Salesforce reported that 59 per cent of consumers had shopped on social media, a massive jump from 15 per cent in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And when you go to the Jersey Shore, it’s an all-day affair: you pack up at 7 a.m., Vaccarella: We started selling them at a local store in my town, and then we brought in 600 additional bags, and then a whole 45-foot container. This was the only bright spot at an otherwise dismal time. so we spend every summer there.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

The Flipkart Group — India’s homegrown digital commerce conglomerate that is majority-owned by Walmart — has raised U.S. billion in fresh funding and is now valued at $37.6 Over the last few years, Flipkart has been investing in key categories including fashion, travel, grocery and strategic warehouse infrastructure.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

By the close of its ninth edition in June, the New York Fashion Tech Lab (NYFTLab) and its largest-ever group of partner retailers and brands from major corporations had provided support to five women-led emerging business-to-business fashion technology companies. Photo courtesy of NYFTLab. “

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2022

Pinterest is the place to go if you need inspiration for décor, cooking, home improvement projects, summer fashion…the list goes on. Pinners) are auto enthusiasts and 18 million Pinners have at one time or another been in the market for a new vehicle. Healey, who started his career at General Motors.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Zara and eBay are advancing resale in the UK with two new initiatives: the launch of Zara Pre-Owned, and partnership with the British Fashion Council to launch the Circular Fashion Innovator’s Fund, respectively. Investments will focus on areas including the customer experience, circular inventory and services, and social commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Last year, Bondi Sands, a self-tanning brand, bundled complementary products to make holiday shopping more convenient and simpler; and Fashion brand Ruby emphasized sustainability and community-building through their TAKE B_ACK FRIDAY initiative. Customers were invited to resell past purchases, creating a circular shopping experience.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

“People on Pinterest aren’t here to passively scroll, they’re here to plan,” said Sydney Stanback, Global Trends and Insights Lead at Pinterest in a recent briefing on the 2024 trends. It’s this planning mindset that gives us such a unique window into the future at Pinterest. It really captures the future.”

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Both are approved by the FAA to fly drones without a dedicated observer being able to see the drone at all times, known as Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS). This expansion will bring the ultimate convenience of drone delivery to communities across the DFW area,” said Prathibha Rajashekhar, SVP, Innovation and Automation at Walmart U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

But following a series of major strategic moves, the role Pinterest hopes to play in the burgeoning realm of social commerce is crystal clear. The company clearly plans to exploit these advantages as it pushes full steam ahead with a slate of new shopping features and new leadership at the helm. Spoiler alert — she got the job.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

A 45-year-old family-owned luxury business might not be the kind of company one expects to be at the cutting edge of digital commerce, but thanks to President Ken Natori, the company’s second-generation leader, Natori is just that. And earn his stripes he has. I Would Always Rather Over-explore than Under-explore’.

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