Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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. Social commerce sales in the U.S. Social commerce sales in the U.S. social network ad spending forecast by $16.21 billion.

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Social Commerce Advertising Merchant Services Shopping 223

Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2022

During periods of lockdown, social media emerged as a key form of communication, opening an opportunity for retailers to accelerate the development of social commerce in the APAC region. China continues to lead the world in social commerce. Live shopping emerges.

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Social Commerce Beauty and Health Payment Services Accounting 130

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. While influencer marketing clearly isn’t going anywhere, it might soon have a new name: the “creator” appellation is increasingly taking precedence.

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Marketing Advertising Consumer Marketing Spend 277

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

The new funding is a major vote of confidence in the potential of digital commerce in India, still a relatively nascent market. Flipkart plans to use the new funding to make investments across people, technology, supply chain and infrastructure to address the requirements of the rapidly growing consumer base in India.

Wholesale 250

Wholesale Social Commerce Fashion Consumer 250

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The social-commerce app matches women with a contributor sharing a similar body type who can guide them on the best styles to suit their physical characteristics. Neill’s background is telecommunications but she said the idea for Mys Tyler had been brewing since 2014, when she was living in New York.

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Fashion Social Commerce Telecommunications Returns 246

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 8, 2023

for Q1 2023 — the first period with no online sales growth since the Index debuted in 2014. pullback in online spending contributed to a 2% year-over-year drop globally, although growth rates remained higher in smaller markets like the Middle East and Africa, at 21% , and in Latin America, which saw 7% growth. “If

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Merchant Services Payment Services Consumer Outdoor 237

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2021

The number of active users on Alibaba Group ’s ecommerce platforms topped 1 billion for the first time in fiscal year 2021, but this milestone was tainted by the company’s first quarterly operating loss since it went public in 2014 — a result of the historic antitrust penalty levied against the company earlier this year. billion yuan ($1.2

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Home Furnishings Merchant Services Supermarket Social Commerce 182