Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2023

Here’s why Google is deprecating these models, how the move affects ecommerce companies and what brands and retailers should do to respond. What Does Google’s Change say About the Future of Attribution? Ironically, by forcing brands to use DDA, Google is also revealing the downside of relying on walled gardens for attribution.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2023

Currently, Amazon dominates the space with almost 78% of retail media ad revenue in 2021, trailed by Walmart at a significantly lower rate of 5.4%. Retail media is a subset of commerce media, a category that includes affiliate marketing, shoppable ads, shoppable TV, in-store retail media and the metaverse. What it takes to compete.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Google is not a retailer or a marketplace, and it doesn’t want to be — the company is very clear about that. But there is one big difference between Google and the leading online marketplaces— Google offers all this to merchants for free. This isn’t altruism on Google’s part though.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 28, 2024

On January 4, while many of us were still recovering from New Year celebrations, 32 million randomly selected Google Chrome users had third-party cookies disabled in their web browsers. Rather, Google had finally begun its long-talked-about phase-out of third-party cookies. It wasn’t a mistake.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

Google has yet to officially do away with third-party cookies after announcing their removal from its Chrome browser in early 2020 , but the clock is ticking toward the final expiration date of tracking codes as a means to target and measure ads online. The Need to Network. increase in cost savings.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

Indeed, consumers are increasingly using TikTok as a search engine — a big reason why the platform recently unveiled Search Ads Toggle , which allows brands to serve ads in TikTok search results. She noted that creator-driven ad creative has been especially impactful when “allowlisting tactics” are used. million impressions. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Note that while an integrated digital marketing campaign provides audiences with familiar content across platforms, it does not use the same ad across all channels. An easy way to start is with the ad manager available through most platforms. For example, Facebook ads will need to be vastly different from TikTok ads.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2023

Forecasts predict retail media ad spend will grow to $61.15 If retailers are to take anything away from these underwhelming partnerships and their shortcomings, it’s that controlling your first-party data sets and investing in your own media networks with new programmatic tech solutions will pay dividends in the long haul.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Recent headlines about Meta ’s Instagram and Facebook doing away with shopping features on their platforms might appear to be a retreat in the social commerce wars. That’s a lot of money to walk away from, and Meta isn’t, especially as it (like everyone else) is being hit hard by declines in digital advertising spend.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

Take for example Google Shopping. and Instacart ’s ChatGPT plug-in will provide a full menu, recipes and links so I can purchase the ingredients right away,” she noted. “A A lot of our shopping experience has been forced upon us,” Grant added. The way SEO has been fine-tuned over the last 10 years will be turned on its head.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 16, 2023

“My advocacy to my team always has been that a lot of these things — 3D, VR, AR — are really cool, but they might die on the vine, and they’re not typically applicable to retailers right away except in small ways,” said Rohan Deuskar, Founder and CEO of the visual merchandising solution Stylitics in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 1, 2023

Forecasts predict retail media ad spend will grow to $61.15 If retailers are to take anything away from these underwhelming partnerships and their shortcomings, it’s that controlling your first-party data sets and investing in your own media networks with new programmatic tech solutions will pay dividends in the long haul.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

When it comes to retail strategies, most brands place an emphasis on the pre-purchase experience, from crafting eye-catching ads to investing in SEO and running smart marketing campaigns. Prior to Rokt he worked at Affirm and Stripe, and spent 15 years at Google growing and scaling the large customer sales teams in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It’s crucial for brands to understand spending on search with retail media networks versus Google or Facebook. No one is shopping for milk on Google — they are on kroger.com or another RMN, but the metrics for each are so different it’s hard for any CMO to compare. You have to use a different lens.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Consumers are only one click away from retailers at all times. To combat this challenge, modern retailers are embracing AI to help improve the customer experience by increasing speed of service and adding a more personalized touch. AI-driven solutions offer businesses a powerful way to personalize customer experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Advertising, and information in general, is so ubiquitous now that people are constantly filing it all away in their head. They might not see an ad and go buy something that minute, but it’s back there in their brain. Shopping in real life will never go away ,” she said. “We We are humans, and as humans we want connection.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But Michael Pachter, a Wedbush Securities analyst, said Amazon would be turning money away if it didn’t ostensibly open Rufus’ results up to advertisers. The company on Thursday reported a 27 per cent jump in ad sales in last year’s fourth quarter to US$14.7 Amazon walked away from the deal last month.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Facebook’s chief scientist said last year the company was five to 10 years away from being able to bring to market “true” AR glasses, which would superimpose virtual objects onto the wearer’s view of the real world.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2023

However, this wasn’t the result of simply handing over the keys to a computer and walking away. Between January 1 and May 29, Home Chef saw an average 7.9% open rate uplift and an average 83% click rate uplift. The company believes wholeheartedly in the importance of testing, whether a human or ChatGPT wrote the email copy.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2022

Originally developed by Google in 2015, accelerated mobile pages (AMP) is open source technology designed specifically to boost how fast pages load on smartphones and tablets. Three years later, Google introduced AMP for email, which enables senders to include AMP components to create interactive email experiences for recipients.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 14, 2022

? Soon, Google Analytics 4, or GA4, for short will be replacing the previous three versions of Google Analytics. Anil: GA4 is the free and latest version of Google Analytics. It’s called GA4, which is short for Google Analytics 4. Google Analytics 4 vs Universal Analytics and Previous Versions. What is GA4?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

While Wish reported declining revenue and widening losses in the quarter ended June 30 compared to the previous quarter, many analysts remain optimistic about the company’s long-term growth prospects, especially as it shifts its product mix away from cheap products out of China towards branded merchandise from sellers around the world.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 15, 2023

By the end of this year, more than 200 million smart speakers are expected to be sold globally, led by the Amazon Echo and Google Nest devices, and that number will grow in the years ahead. The app taps into usage rates and purchase history with a tailored offer, such as adding coffee to a shopping list. Personalized usage.

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Store Growers

MARCH 7, 2024

Last Updated on March 7, 2024 Recommendations play a key role in Google Ads. They’re a way for Google to flag potential improvements to advertisers. And while a lot of them are solid “improvements” some are very harmful to the profitability of your Google Ads campaigns.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2022

The other day I saw a screenshot of a Zoomer’s phone and was kind of blown away. And what happened to the audio renaissance that happened years ago, when Amazon, Google and Apple introduced voice-enabled assistants and deployed them everywhere? Snap, Insta, iMessage, even WhatsApp. Is this yet another audio renaissance? So what’s next?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

But these days they have a new tool to rely on that takes away the guesswork: Experimentation shortens the time it takes to go to market and speeds the improvement process. Not that long ago, online retailers would have had a website designed and built, then launched and prayed. As an agency, Niteco uses multiple tools.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Black Friday is still several weeks away but the annual event is marked firmly in the calendar of savvy shoppers, who are increasingly using the day – and the period leading up to it – to research and purchase Christmas gifts and big-ticket items. The early bird catches the worm.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

On digital, wherever you are, you’re essentially always just a tap or two away from buying something ,” said Maher. Take for example a customer who puts an item in a cart on a retailer’s page within Facebook, steps away, but then expects the item to be in their cart when they later go to the retailer’s dot.com to checkout.

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Wiser

MARCH 20, 2023

Pricing data can be gathered from a multitude of different web locations—competitor websites, social media, Google ads, etc. Wiser Solutions offers a product called Price Intelligence that has similar capabilities to scrapers, but there are added features that can help your business flourish even more.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The idea behind commercials ( or ads ) is to pique your viewer’s interest and draw them in so they want to know more about what you offer. So much so, in fact, that searches beginning with “how to” are among the most popular queries on Google!

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2022

AR is changing that, and as a result retailers and other commerce-focused platforms are rolling out new AR tools left and right — Amazon , IKEA , Google , Snap , Savage X FENTY , Pinterest and Chewy , to name just a few. Now, that’s great for us, but it also means competition is one step away. But Wait, There’s More.

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Shopper Motion

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In 2020, Google announced the end of third-party cookies over the course of two years. Digital marketers and advertisers have long depended on third-party cookies and tags to deliver personalized and targeted ads. Safari and Firefox were the first to do it, and Google is planning to join them next year.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 10, 2024

I think a lot of people, especially younger people, would willingly still give away their data; it just needs to be a choice. RTP: The film focuses primarily on the central actors in all this — Google, Meta and the like — but thousands of companies have benefited immensely from this surveillance ecosystem.

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Store Growers

MAY 15, 2023

Well, Google is known for introducing updates to its Ads platform every 18 months or so. In this piece, we’ll review the latest upgrade to Google Ads audience manager. What Is the Google Ads Audience Manager Audience manager helps you stay on top of the audience segments in your Google Ads account.

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Rain Pros

AUGUST 29, 2023

When consumers Google your business, what comes up? Will they see a nice display with your location, address, hours of operation, phone number, a link to your website, and customer reviews in your Google business listing? And for brick-and-mortar storefronts, being found on Google Maps is key to driving traffic to the business.”

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Independent Retailer

AUGUST 25, 2022

Google is calling their solution Enhanced Conversions, and for Facebook, they call it their Conversions API, according to Kroll. We are telling brands right now that you need to start dual-deploying and having both analytics set because it is going to happen in May or June of next year when Google stops recording data on their UA platforms.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2021

More than half of Americans want to continue working remotely, which has encouraged 21 major companies, including Google, Uber, American Express and Airbnb to extend their work-from-home policies , according to Business Insider. However, low price points and even lower quality mean these pieces are largely abandoned or thrown away, adding 9.8

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