Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

I wanted to actually create products that supported hair the way it grew out of its head not to straighten it or anything, Ross said during a conversation with Business of Fashion s Sheena Butler-Young at a keynote presentation during this years NRF. The textured-hair masses that exist in the world just didnt have a lot of products.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon’s summer Prime Day sales event now serves to kickstart many retailers’ summertime sales and back-to-school marketing efforts, and is generally pivoting marketers’ planning calendars. And now, brand marketing teams wonder if the holiday marketing calendar has been elongated too.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 12, 2025

With these new tools, advertisers will gain access to campaign pacing and reporting by time period, providing them with deeper performance insights. Marketing teams can update products, keywords and bidding, and the platform’s bulk management UI capabilities allow advertisers to bulk pause, archive and activate campaigns. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Uncertainty about the ultimate fate of TikTok has been somewhat lost among the clouds surrounding other T things (tariffs and trade deals), but a lot of retail marketers will be very unhappy if some kind of solution isnt eventually found. Now, TikTok is showing that it can support both ends of the marketing funnel, he noted.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2025

Lets start at the beginning by establishing a definition of retail media. Retail media allows brands to target shoppers at or near the point of purchase, leveraging a retailers first-party data to deliver relevant, conversion-focused marketing. So what are the opportunities and challenges you need to consider?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

At their very core, brick-and-mortar stores are meant to be the physical manifestation of a brand a distillation of its promise and the experience it aims to create for shoppers and associates alike. As a result, they are collaborating with different teams and functions, especially operations ( 72% ), marketing ( 65% ) and IT ( 57% ).

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

With that success comes a highly competitive market filled with brands fighting to claim – and retain – market share. With advertising costs constantly climbing, we dont want to just drive short-term sales. With advertising costs constantly climbing, we dont want to just drive short-term sales.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

The digitalisation of media has seen advertising budgets diverted towards social media campaigns and search engine marketing in Australia, 70 per cent of digital advertising spend goes to Meta and Google. However, the increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) in advertising could have a negative effect.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

To capitalize on the nearly $1 billion USD spend predicted by the National Retail Federation , with nearly one-fifth of annual retail sales occurring between November and December, brands need to break through the clutter with the right message, for the right customer, at the right time.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It’s hard to find a topic that all marketers agree on, but if there is one, it’s likely that programmatic ad buying continues to be a dominant channel for advertisers looking to scale. digital advertising spend in 2024, according to eMarketer. In fact, it will make up the vast majority — over 91% — of the current U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Now, brand and advertising partners — even those not sold by Ulta Beauty — will be able to deliver relevant offers and messages to customers at the bottom of the marketing funnel. Key non-endemic advertising partners include DoorDash , Hulu and PayPal.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2025

Since Google introduced the Privacy Sandbox initiative in 2019, the digital marketing landscape has undergone a significant transformation. The Privacy Sandbox was designed to balance user privacy with the future of digital marketing. For marketers, this means adapting to a new, more balanced approach to reaching audiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2025

Employee-centric communications were relegated to the scrap heap of advertising. By giving your employees a platform in advertising, you’re empowering them alongside boosting their confidence. Highlighting employees in your advertising can reinforce a positive company culture. The result? Empowering employees.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

Instacart is scaling the reach of its retail media technology, Carrot Ads , to give advertisers access to the multibillion-dollar foodservice industry through a new partnership with the B2B ecommerce ordering platform Cut+Dry. Meanwhile, foodservice distributors have been left out of the rapidly growing digital advertising space.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2025

Our community is at the heart of everything we do. IR : What role does user-generated content play in your advertising strategy, and how is the community incentivised to create and share it? From improving existing products to designing gear that didnt previously exist, their feedback is at the core of our development process.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2025

AD Retail Media , the retail media arm of East Coast grocery retail group Ahold Delhaize USA , is enhancing the way shoppers engage with products at the point of purchase through a range of new in-store advertising solutions. Ahold retail banners include Food Lion, Hannaford, Giant Food, The Giant Company and Stop & Shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

At its annual advertiser summit this week, Pinterest presented a pin-worthy pitch to marketers — that the platform has grown its audience and improved advertising performance without sacrificing its feel-good vibe. Economies thrive on competition, and right now our industry needs more challengers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Best Buy Ads , the retail media network operated by the electronics retailer, has unveiled a new solution for social advertising partners. Currently, Social+ is available exclusively through Best Buy Ads and will include Meta s Facebook and Instagram at launch. The RMN plans to expand to other platforms in the future.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

WHSmith North America (WHSNA) has partnered with commerce media solution SMG to launch a travel-focused in-store retail media network (RMN) that will connect brands with shoppers at the retailers more than 347 airport, rail station and resort-based locations across the U.S. We have a unique position in the market versus other retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2025

Moreover, what they find valuable from a retail or product perspective can depend both on the product category or their mindset at a specific point of time. Combining dopamine-driven marketing tactics like games and giveaways, coupled with vast assortments, theyre creating addictive spaces that inspire people to shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Reaching the Polychannel Shopper Despite the market changes and resulting challenges in marketing to the polychannel shopper, there are opportunities available to fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) marketers. But will creators be impactful in marketing an FMCG product purchased weekly at the supermarket?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2024

(From left to right) Palmar Haasch of Business Insider moderates a session with Webtoon Entertainment’s Alessandra Ferreri, Chris Mathieu and Megan Weales at Advertising Week NY. At AWNY, Webtoon executives shared tips for brands looking to create meaningful connections with young, passionate consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2024

Ebay is working to better support its sellers with a revamped advertising experience as well as a new Business Cash Advance offering that gives sellers quick access to revenue-based loans. New Ebay Advertising Experience Leverages AI to Help Sellers Boost Sales The new Ebay advertising hub.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2024

You can’t advertise your way out of a pricing problem. They were pouring dollars into advertising on Amazon but, despite their influx of ad dollars, topline sales didn’t seem to budge. Their advertising just wasn’t moving the needle on Amazon and they were struggling to understand why their success in DTC wasn’t translating to Amazon.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Techniques like modeling persist because, when it comes to marketing datasets, a simple axiom still holds sway: bigger is better. The superior performance of commerce media inventory has propelled it into the fastest-growing advertising segment, with McKinsey predicting it will surpass $100 billion in revenue as soon as 2026.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2025

While marketers can breathe easy now, the industry still has every reason to limit their reliance on third-party cookies and prioritize efforts to adapt to new ways of tracking and measuring user behavior. After years of teasing out the impending deprecation of third-party cookies, it turns out Google is keeping cookies after all.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A number of local and independent grocers — including Bowman’s Market , Maurer’s Market IGA , Neiman’s Family Market , Queen’s Price Chopper and Soelbergs Market — are adopting Instacart ‘s AI-powered smart Caper Carts. At the end of their trip, customers check out directly from the cart.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Building Flexibility in Forecasting for Variable Advertising Costs TV advertising is still the most common form of advertising in the U.S., For example, let’s look at NBC’s Sunday Night Football, the top-ranked show in primetime for 13 years straight. Advertising was already likely to be up 5.6% The list continues.

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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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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 15, 2025

Key Takeaways Understanding Marketing Channels: Knowledge of both online and offline marketing channels is essential for effective customer engagement and business success. Combining Strategies: A blended approach utilizing both online and offline marketing channels can enhance overall customer retention and drive better results.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2025

Each new media network comes to the table with a ready-made slate of advertising customers in the form of the companies they already serve through their core business, but each is also challenged to make the case for what differentiates them from the growing commerce media crowd brands only have so many ad dollars to go around, after all.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2025

According to Elina Vilk, Chief Business Officer of Davids Bridal, the retailer has effectively 90% of the entire market of brides , she shared in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. But coming in, the thing that I saw right away which as a media person had me salivating at the mouth was the audience that they have.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The holidays at NBCUniversal are one of the most highly anticipated times of year for fans and brands with iconic programming that engages viewers of all ages,” said Karen Kovacs, President of Advertising and Partnership at NBCUniversal in a statement.

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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 Theyre easy, snackable content, Olivia Plotnick, founder at Wai Social, told Inside Retail. The product might only be mentioned subtly or not at all. billion and is expected to grow beyond $14.12 The formula? With more than 9.6

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