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WhatsApp launches test of in-app business directory

Inside Retail

The test in São Paulo, Brazil, which allows WhatsApp users to find shops and services through a directory in the app, is the latest feature in Facebook’s drive to bolster ecommerce on its services. As online retail has continued to boom during the Covid-19 pandemic, Facebook has pushed in-app shopping features across its apps.

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Don’t be Fooled, Meta isn’t Abandoning Social Commerce — and Here’s Why

Retail TouchPoints

Recent headlines about Meta ’s Instagram and Facebook doing away with shopping features on their platforms might appear to be a retreat in the social commerce wars. That’s a lot of money to walk away from, and Meta isn’t, especially as it (like everyone else) is being hit hard by declines in digital advertising spend.

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B2B, Marketplaces Become Core to Brooklinen’s Blossoming Omnichannel Strategy

Retail TouchPoints

Kelly Hallinan: After launching Brooklinen in 2014 and starting to grow our product assortment, we were hearing anecdotally that many of our customers were struggling to understand the pillow market. How are you investing in your Amazon presence via advertising and the shopping experience?

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6 hugely popular fashion retailers that fell out of favour

Retail Gazette

Hollister A decade ago, you couldn’t walk into a shopping centre without seeing rafts of teenagers clutching Hollister shopping bags with shirtless men plastered on the fronts. The alleged misconduct , coupled with questions surrounding its advertising methods, sent sales at American Apparel spiralling.

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Best of 2023: The 13 new female CEOs leading UK retailers

Retail Gazette

Maddie Smith, managing director, The Body Shop UK and Ireland Last January, The Body Shop hired Estée Lauder’s US retail boss Maddie Smith to lead its UK operation. She is currently helping to give The Body Shop a makeover, which involves upgrading and improving its product range and a introducing swathe of new store formats.

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How to utilize Marketing Automation to generate more leads for your business

I Love Fashion

The inclusion of the internet in human lives has transformed the way people live, work, and shop. The contemporary mode of advertisement for the brands, however, is not an exception though! Hence it promotes the profit scale of the business. Fashion Digital Marketing Agency. Have the numbers grown? Higher revenues.

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Brands Pop into the Surreal as 3D Billboards Surge

Retail TouchPoints

Many brands, including Coach, Louis Vuitton, Samsung, WhatsApp and BMW have caught on to the benefits of this surreal and sensory approach to advertising. Part of successful advertising is understanding how people engage with their environments. The benefits of this new sensory approach to advertising include: 1.