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Social media overtakes paid search as world’s largest advertising channel

Inside Retail

Social media is now the world’s largest channel for advertising investment, with Western platforms growing the fastest driven by Chinese brands targeting US and European audiences. WARC Media said that social media has overtaken paid search in advertising investment and is forecasted to reach $247.3 billion this year, up 14.3

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5 Ways Retailtainment is Reshaping OOH Advertising

Retail TouchPoints

Out-of-home (OOH) advertising has played an integral role in the media mix for decades due to its influence and impact. adults have noticed an OOH ad within a one-month period and 78% of these consumers took some sort of action after, according to research from Morning Consult and the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA).

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Meta Preps to Bring Threads to Privacy-Conscious Europe as Musk Tells Fleeing X Advertisers to ‘Go F—’ Themselves

Retail TouchPoints

Separately, Meta’s Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced on Threads that users around the world will finally be able to delete their Threads account without also deleting their Instagram account. Go f— yourself,” and then adding, “What this advertising boycott is going to do is, it’s going to kill the company.”

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Ulta to Pilot In-Store Sampling and Advertising Tech

Retail TouchPoints

Ulta Beauty is testing new smart vending tech from SOS that will expand the beauty retailer’s in-store sampling program and add in-store advertising capabilities to its retail media offerings for the first time. SOS Co-founders showcase the smart vending capability at Ulta.

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Why Google’s Recent Shopping Blitz is as Much About Advertising as Ecommerce Expansion

Retail TouchPoints

Google’s efforts thus far have yielded mixed results, but even if the company never seriously challenges other marketplaces in terms of sales or name recognition, any ground Google can gain in ecommerce is likely to fuel its primary money-maker: advertising. As Amazon has emerged as the third-largest digital advertising platform in the U.S.

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Mmm, it’s the sweet smell of advertising success

Inside Retail

Am I the only one who’s suddenly doing a lot more shopping at 8pm? Twenty-per-cent off at my local Thai restaurant on a Friday night? I’m seeing greater quantities of online advertising and – especially if they’re good ads – feel motivated to purchase. . And I swear I’ve never been more susceptible to a digital promo in my life.

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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