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Amazon Expands Advertising Options in CTV, Fresh Stores and Twitch

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon unveiled a slate of new advertising products and capabilities at its unBoxed conference, touting its ongoing mission to “make marketers’ lives easier” and help them adapt to the changes taking place in digital marketing (read: deprecation of the cookie and ongoing privacy regulation). . “We

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Google Agrees to Pay Record $391.5 Million, Adjust Data Collection Policies in 40-State Privacy Settlement

Retail TouchPoints

The article reportedly found that while Location History is off unless a user turns on the setting, Web & App Activity is automatically on when users set up a Google account, including any Android phone. Make key information about location tracking unavoidable for users (i.e., not hidden); and. Indiana and Texas.

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Cooler Screens Sues Walgreens for Ending Smart Door Agreement

Retail TouchPoints

In-store digital media startup Cooler Screens is suing Walgreens , previously one of the highest-profile adopters of its technology, which integrates smart screens onto cooler doors to power in-store advertising. Lipsman is a major proponent of in-store retail media and also worked briefly at Cooler Screens in 2021.

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New Zealand case against Bunnings’ pricing dismissed

Inside Retail

“This case stemmed from Mitre 10 filing a complaint with the NZCC and relates to advertising in the market in 2014 to 2016. Bunnings Managing Director Mike Schneider said the business welcomes the decision, and that providing its New Zealand customers with value is at the heart of what it does.

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Analysis: Why Abercrombie & Fitch’s turnaround has not been cancelled

Inside Retail

Other flagships followed as far afield as Tokyo, Milan, Paris, Madrid and Singapore – although advertising in the latter market quickly fell foul of guidelines on decency. A turnaround program was set in motion in 2014, focused on cost-cutting and trendier merchandise that abandoned its logo-centric designs to a certain extent.

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How Hue’s Nicole Clay is making the beauty industry more inclusive

Inside Retail

For example, according to data collected by management consulting company McKinsey & Company, while 11 per cent of all beauty consumers in the US are Black, Black-owned brands account for only 2.5 For consumers, this lack of diversity can often be seen in the people advertising products through traditional channels.

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Amazon Ends Alexa.com Site

Small Biz Trends

Besides website owners being able to stack their properties up against competitors, they could also raise their advertising rates if their rankings were high enough. Amazon first announced that it would cease Alexa.com services in December last year when it would no longer be possible to create accounts or buy subscriptions on the service.