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Meta, Amex and TikTok Offer Holiday Help to Small Businesses

Retail TouchPoints

Meta also will highlight businesses from its Meta Business Leaders Network in the new 2022 Smalliday Showcase gift guide, and provide small businesses with advice on advertising effectively with its SMB Holiday Marketing Guide. Square plans to announce additional details about the card in 2023. Multiple Meta Resources.

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PayPal preparing US$45 billion bid for Pinterest

Inside Retail

Acquiring Pinterest would allow PayPal to capture more of that e-commerce growth and diversify its income though advertising revenue. The online payments provider hopes to successfully negotiate and announce a deal by the time it reports quarterly earnings on Nov. Pinterest was valued at about $13 billion when it went public in 2019.

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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

Retail TouchPoints

The Mastercard SpendingPulse measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment, providing a wealth of insights to help merchants refine and optimize their holiday strategies. In fact, McNamara noted that Mastercard predicts a comeback for Black Friday 2022, with total sales exceeding 2019 results.

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Back-To-School Spending Poised To Top $100 Billion Even Amid Disruption

Retail TouchPoints

Households with children in elementary and high school are set to spend an average of $789.49 , far exceeding the 2019 record of $696.70. The most notable shift between the 2019 back-to-school season and today is the strong consumer preference for technology over traditional items like apparel and even school supplies.

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11 Things to Know About China’s eCommerce Market

Indigo 9 Digital

trillion in sales, China has the largest eCommerce market in the world, by a large margin. If you are curious about the eCommerce market in China then consider these 11 facts about its size, competition and trends. The Chinese eCommerce market is dominated by several eCommerce giants, the largest of which is Alibaba.

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5 Trends Driving the Future of Ecommerce Innovation

Retail TouchPoints

Two years ago, online retail’s market share was sitting at 13.6% , according to eMarketer. The pandemic has made omnichannel a business imperative for merchants of all sizes. We’re in a world where if merchants aren’t considering how to turn on an omni strategy, there’s going to be downstream problems later.” Access Now.

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Social Selling: Need to Know Data for Small and Medium Businesses Amid the E-Commerce Explosion

Retail Minded

The following guest article has been written by Mark Hook , VP, Global Brand, Communications and PR at Brightpearl, a retail-tailored operating system for omnichannel merchants. The impact and growth of social media brands now play a huge part in what we see on our newsfeeds — and with that, social commerce has flourished.