Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

We’re seeing vision AI support across all parts of the retail business, including back of house, in-store advertising and media, store checkout and curbside pickup. What’s Catching a Shoppers Eye In-store advertisements and displays are a prime example of how vision AI can be used in stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Ringing in a Changing Digital Landscape D2C brands have historically relied heavily on search and social media, which have devoured a significant chunk of their marketing budgets. Nearly 70% of marketing spend has gone to these channels. Search engine marketing Search is still a critical tool driving traffic to online stores.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A recent advertisement made by burger chain Grill’d has been slammed by the Ad Standards board for suggesting sexual violence to its audience, after it showcased a Ronald McDonald-like clown seemingly exposing himself to children in an alley. In both cases, the Standards Board were alerted to Grill’d advertising through customer complaints.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2024

PayPal is entering the media business with plans for a new advertising platform that will draw on its relationships with millions of consumers and merchants to help the latter “sell more products and services effectively,” according to a company statement. I’m thrilled to have Mark join our team and lead this important work.”

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Heavy online marketing spending by Temu and Shein is making it more costly for other retailers and brands to reach shoppers on Black Friday, marketing and industry experts say, with both platforms bidding heavily on search keywords used by competitors.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2024

Meta has introduced a series of new generative AI tools to help advertisers automate and scale the “diversification of their creative,” which company executives said is key to seeing success from advertising campaigns on its platforms, including Instagram and Facebook.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2025

According to a report by iResearch, the market size of micro-dramas in China last year reached US$6.85 The offbeat premise was a viral hit and a rare example of the F&B and home renovation sectors taking a narrative-forward marketing approach. In China alone, these ultra-short episodic series have become a cultural juggernaut.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

We live in an attention economy, said Justin Breton, Head of Brand Marketing Innovation at Walmart in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Its an anomaly thats hard to account for given the level of interactivity and engagement built into these environments. Sometimes when we see advertising, its just copy and the ad treatment.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

When Threads initially launched in July 2023 it was available in most global markets, but Meta held off on launching in Europe because of that region’s strict regulations around online services and data privacy. 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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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2022

I’m seeing greater quantities of online advertising and – especially if they’re good ads – feel motivated to purchase. . Annalect’s latest Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM) analysis 1 took a deep dive into the world of Aussie retail and it’s borne out a lot of the behaviour I describe above. What is Marketing Mix Modelling anyway?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2021

The Channel grants retailers that advertise on Pinterest through Shopify access to Dynamic Retargeting, which enables them to re-engage with Pinners who have already expressed interest in their products on Pinterest. The Shopify Pinterest Channel is now home to more than 1.7 million merchants.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Online shopping has become a way of life in China, accounting for over 36% of total retail sales. While it’s not a new concept to Western apps and brands, the level of sophistication in China is apparent to anyone who knows or invests in the market. Maybe the most lucrative aspect of KOL marketing is livestreaming.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

After retailers finalize all inventory shipments and secure holiday storage, it’s time to implement a strong integrated digital marketing strategy. Focusing on an integrated digital marketing campaign can be the factor this year to a successful holiday season. What is an integrated digital marketing campaign?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Its an ever-present internal conflict for many ecommerce and marketing teams that are striving to maximize both time-on-site and conversion rate metrics and its one that standing desk and office furniture manufacturer Uplift Desk has evidently addressed since implementing BigCommerce s Catalyst storefront technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2024

Full-fledged fingerprinting around the internet is depreciating, and marketers and customers alike will soon notice, particularly in the retail and ecommerce space. With today’s emphasis on privacy, third-party cookie deprecation will inevitably impact your brand, marketing strategy and customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Good product and stellar customer service are a big part of the recipe, but the secret sauce has been the brand’s social marketing strategy , according to Ben Yahalom, who joined the company from Meta in March 2022 as Chief Business Officer and was promoted to President in October. Step Three: Trust the Machine. Yahalom said.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 14, 2025

Key Takeaways Streamlined Marketing Management: The Surefire Local Marketing Platform simplifies the management of your online presence, local SEO, and customer engagement, allowing small businesses to focus on growth. That’s where a surefire local marketing platform comes into play.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2024

And they’re great at spotting inauthentic marketing – which can turn them off to a brand immediately. Gen Zers also place a high value on community and peer recommendations, often trusting influencers, reviews, and other forms of user-generated content (UGC) over traditional advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Microsoft is gearing up to take a bigger piece of the growing retail media pie with the debut of a suite of new capabilities through its PromoteIQ marketing platform, which the company acquired in 2019. alone by 2024, accounting for 20% of total digital ad spend, according to Insider Intelligence.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2022

Prior to her current role as VP of Data Analytics & Customer Insights at Amyris , a biology company in the clean beauty, health and wellness and flavors/fragrances markets, she held ecommerce and digital marketing roles at brands like Coca-Cola and Unilever. How Unilever Harnessed the Power of Microsegments.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2022

With heady revenue predictions for retail media north of $100 billion and with equally impressive growth rates, it’s not surprising to see a surge of retailers opening advertising shops in attempts to capture share. Segment brands by their familiarity with retail media, sales rank, advertising budget and potential to grow sales.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Right now, we’re seeing a once-in-a-generation shift that is opening the doors to a major new advertising opportunity for retailers and brands,” explains Troy Townsend, co-founder and chief innovation officer at The Pistol , a leader in marketing technologies and services.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2023

Some people check their email accounts hourly while others always have thousands of unread emails in their inbox. Yet despite the complexities, an effective personalized approach to marketing is critical to success. According to The Small Business Blog , emails are an effective marketing channel because most U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2021

These have made it generally legal to sell CBD nationally while simultaneously making it difficult to advertise , especially since major platforms like Facebook, Google and Amazon currently ban the promotion of CBD products. It is a great tool to use on our site and in advertising. Using Interactive Quizzes to Engage and Inform.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2025

Much of this language boils down to marketing speech, and often, true industry disruption fails to materialize. A movement is growing among food retailers that is not only disrupting how they go to market but is rewriting shopper expectations altogether. As such, traditional grocers are losing market share. But thats changing.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The partnership includes an integration with Walmart’s Connect retail media platform, which will provide advertisers with more in-depth campaign reporting. Through the new media experience, viewers will be able to shop exclusive holiday deals and more from brands sold at Walmart through an on-screen QR code. ”

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2024

Retailers, marketers and agency folks: Think about that one new product innovation that, regardless of the blood, sweat and tears, somehow didn’t make it onto your resume. This means demanding greater accountability from their partners. This scenario outlined above is a bit overdramatic (for effect), but hopefully it’s also relatable.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

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

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Quartile , which provides advertising optimization services to ecommerce marketplace sellers, has purchased performance marketing solution provider Sidecar. Quartile expects that the acquisition will double its amount of advertising spend under management to $2 billion in 2021. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Google does have a direct-purchase feature, Buy on Google, which is similar to what Bing has rolled out, but it accounts for only a fraction of the more than 1 billion shopping sessions Google sees every day, according to Madrigal. Bing accounts for approximately 25% of total monthly search volume in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2020

The third quarter, under normal circumstances, is predictable for most digital marketers at large retail organizations. The good news is that many digital retail marketers are successfully operating with agility. We’re seeing successful advertising tactics arise in many retail verticals for different reasons.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

But amidst the traditional marketing blitzes and seasonal promotions, a new force is opening doors to partnerships that wouldnt have been imaginable even a few years ago and quietly reshaping the retail landscape in the process: commerce media.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Retailers are feeling the pinch as shoppers spend less because of the cost-of-living crisis, so now is the time to hone their marketing strategy and make sure they’re accurately measuring its effects. But cutting marketing budgets, as suggested by the new cost-of-living tsar David Buttress, is short-sighted. decrease in food sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The acquisition is designed to support Walmart Connect , the company’s retail media business, by combining Vizio’s advertising solutions with Walmart’s reach and capabilities. “We We also believe it enables a profitable advertising business that is rapidly scaling. in a statement. “We

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