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Deep dive: What social commerce looks like around the world

Inside Retail

Social commerce – shopping on social media platforms – is expected to reach US$1.2 It is growing three times faster than traditional e-commerce. McKinsey & Co stated in mid-2022 that social commerce comprised more than 13 per cent of China’s total e-commerce sales. trillion ($1.9

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Retail Media: Everything You Need to Know

Retail TouchPoints

Retail media is when a retailer offers advertising capabilities and services, similar to what media outlets such as publishers and television networks have done for years. Off-site advertising is typically more complex than on-site and is therefore something that only the more mature retail media networks offer at this stage.

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3 Immersive Customer Experiences Using Augmented Reality

Retail TouchPoints

From a marketer’s perspective, this gives you the opportunity to blur the lines between native content and branded advertisements. These experiences are the newest flavor of social commerce that is redefining the retail shopping experience — both online and in-person. Face Effects: Digital Fitting Rooms. What does that mean?

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How the Explosive Growth of Shoppable Ads will Impact Pricing and Spending

Retail TouchPoints

Social shopping is becoming more and more popular given the surge in social media usage and the ease of completing a transaction without ever leaving the app. It’s no surprise that social commerce sales are expected to reach $45.74 billion in 2022. What should advertisers be aware of when investing in this format?

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Pinterest Solidifies Commerce Ambitions with Series of Executive Moves

Retail TouchPoints

A series of executive shifts at Pinterest in the span of one week indicate that the social platform is gearing up for the next stage of its push into social commerce. Bornstein joined the company through the acqui s ition of her AI-powered shopping platform The YES in June 2022.

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Livestreaming in the U.S. isn’t Dead, it’s Just Happening in the Wrong Place 

Retail TouchPoints

Unfortunately that ancient (1989) bit of cinematic wisdom hasn’t exactly held true in the modern field of social media, where platforms including TikTok , Facebook and Instagram are increasingly pulling back on social commerce initiatives that have failed to attract enough of the right players. is livestream shopping.

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3 Predictions for the Future of Omnichannel 

Retail TouchPoints

The latest report, which was released in December 2021, found that not only are retailers selling through branded ecommerce sites ( 76% ) and stores ( 65% ), they also are using other channels including social commerce ( 43% ), mobile websites/apps ( 36% ) and marketplaces ( 35% ).