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Declining returns push brands to diversify advertising channels

Inside Retail

Privacy and data regulations – such as Apple’s App Tracking Transparency Framework – have severely limited the data that brands and advertisers can collect on users of these channels. Over time, that’s seen the return on investment come down significantly.

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Why contextual targeting is the future of digital advertising

Inside Retail

As demand for online advertising increased, algorithms were developed to match ads with relevant website content. As author Cory Doctorow observes, platforms often shift over time, prioritising their interests over users and advertisers. As marketers, we need to find customers, but platforms increasingly control that access.

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What comes after performance marketing?

Inside Retail

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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Sam’s Club Adds More Robust Performance Dashboard for RMN Advertisers

Retail TouchPoints

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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Digital Marketing Tactics for Uncertain Times

Retail TouchPoints

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.

Marketing 300
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2021: The Year of Social Advertising

Retail TouchPoints

This, coupled with the rise of social commerce, has indicated major potential for retailers to adopt social advertising into their marketing mix. found that 32% of global retail marketers are spending nearly half of their marketing budget on social media advertising. In fact, Smartly.io

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eBay Ads Holiday Report Reveals Keys to Advertising Success During an Elongated Season

Retail TouchPoints

“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