Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Her business plan, which centered around creating products for people with curly, coily, tight and textured hair, was decades in the making ( 20 of dreaming, 10 years in development and five years in-market, according to the Pattern Beauty website ), but now Ross and her Co-CEO Christiane Pendarvis are setting their sights on growing the brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Gen Z is undoubtedly revolutionizing the consumer landscape. How can brands develop successful consumer promotions that actually draw in the often-elusive Gen Z shopper? And they’re great at spotting inauthentic marketing – which can turn them off to a brand immediately. Mondelez International, Nestle, Unilever and more.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2025

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. It uses advertising inventory, including a retailers owned channels, such as online and in-store. But the first step is putting the right infrastructure in place.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2025

The ecommerce industry is undoubtedly booming in the United States despite predictions that economic uncertainty would hinder consumer spending. With that success comes a highly competitive market filled with brands fighting to claim – and retain – market share. How they do that is becoming increasingly important.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For mid-market companies that may not have the budgets and resources to compete with larger, multinational brands, data is the key to success. Heres how RMNs are helping mid-market brands stand out, inspire shoppers and, ultimately, get in the basket during the busy holiday shopping season and beyond.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2025

As online purchases increased and face-to-face consumer engagement with staff reduced, more and more retail brands leaned into communications that reflected this new reality. Employee-centric communications were relegated to the scrap heap of advertising. Authenticity in advertising is key to resonating with todays consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As The Wall Street Journal noted, consumers are making 8% more trips to different retailers as inflation impacts household budgets. The Journal also reported that consumers are traveling to cheaper zip codes to shop and are joining loyalty programs to take advantage of promotions in greater numbers, according to retail analysts.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2025

If the events of 2024 taught us anything, its that value can mean many different things depending on a consumers demographics, psychographics and cultural context. Holiday sales data from Mastercard, Visa and Salesforce pointed to improving consumer confidence. Question 1: What does my target consumer value?

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2025

The ways consumers discover products and develop loyalty to a brand has changed dramatically. Advertisers need to rethink the entire marketing funnel. Personalization is widely perceived as the foundation for attracting clear engagement from consumers, but too many brands view personalization too widely as opposed to literally.

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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 11, 2024

This has never been more apparent than now, as consumers look to elevate their in-store shopping experiences and expect the same versatility and ease that they have obtained with modern omnichannel retail. Consumers want to be part of an in-store experience that allows them a personalized, agile and enjoyable shopping experience in store.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Rather than actively seeking out products, younger consumers more frequently discover them through engaging, immersive content on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram. How do you create experiences that spark consumer interest before they know they want (or need) your product?

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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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With retail sales bouncing around as the UK economy chugs along, marketers in the sector are seeking the best way to keep their customers happy and prevent them from spending their money in another store. But consumers are demanding in other ways, too. But consumers are demanding in other ways, too.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2024

As social media and digital connectivity continue to shape consumer behavior, especially among younger generations, brands are increasingly focusing on how to leverage fandoms and community to connect with young shoppers. Combined, the two sites have more than 170 million monthly active users, primarily Gen Z females.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These new second-screen shopping experiences will be powered by Shopsense AI, which offers an AI-driven retail media platform that allows consumers to shop while consuming content. The partnership also will help Bell Media diversify its advertising offerings.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In addition to the compressed retail rush, Salesforce reports that 43% of consumers are carrying more debt than last year, making the fight for attention even more intense. 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

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. And it’s first party; [advertisers arent] rebuying this audience from a Meta, they’re coming directly to us. What car are we going to buy?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Webjet is facing legal proceedings for allegedly misrepresenting the minimum price of airfares on its app, email marketing, and social media posts. The ACCC also alleges that Webjet breached consumer law by sending a booking confirmation message after taking payment from customers, but the company failed to book the flight with the airline.

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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

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.

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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

MAY 9, 2024

Disney Advertising and Walmart ’s retail media division Walmart Connect are teaming up to bring retail media insights to Disney’s streaming TV platforms, including Hulu and Disney+ , for programmatic advertising campaigns and measurement. Approximately 145 million customers shop with us online and in stores weekly.

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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., Advertising was already likely to be up 5.6% this year (excluding political advertising) to $360 billion – and those high prices could spell disaster. The list continues.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

The launch of WHSmith North America Media Network represents an exciting new chapter for WHSmith North America on our ongoing journey to create more exciting and engaging retail experiences for consumers in travel , said Toby Keir, CEO of WHSmith North America in a statement. We have a unique position in the market versus other retailers.

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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

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 Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The influencer marketing industry was priced at £21 billion in 2024 and is projected to rise to £25 billion pounds by the close of 2024. Consumers commonly invest in the product recommendations of their chosen influencer; others are turned away by what they deem inauthentic content. When every post is an ad, consumer trust takes a hit.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 25, 2025

Inflation has an impact on nearly every aspect of the economy, including raw material costs, wages, transportation, and, ultimately, the prices consumers pay for goods and services. Rising costs and shifts in consumer behaviors have a significant impact on the retail industry.

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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 They demand little from viewers, each episode lasts a minute or two, easily consumed between subway stops or during lunch breaks. In China alone, these ultra-short episodic series have become a cultural juggernaut. With more than 9.6

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But even now, with the platform’s existence more precarious than ever, it continues to expand its user base, cultural influence and status as a marketing and commerce powerhouse. Retail TouchPoints: What makes TikTok such a powerful platform, both for consumers and marketers? has hung in the balance. based owner.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2024

Advertisers already have a healthy appetite for games advertising: IAB’s latest study on games advertising found that 40% of advertisers plan to boost spending in this area over the coming year, making it the third-most popular channel for increased investment, after social media ( 47% ) and digital video ( 40% ).

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This lengthened proposal and wedding planning lifecycle has brides spending more time researching, planning and curating their dream day, creating a prime audience for advertisers that Davids Bridal is now uniquely positioned to serve.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Exclusive: Google Debuts New Retail Media Solution with Lowes as First Beta Tester (March 18, 2024) Retail media was THE growth story in 2024, fueled by these networks ability to target consumers at key decision points in the shopper journey. consumers wallet.

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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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